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WASHINGTON – The Education Department violated a ban on covert propaganda when it paid a columnist to tout government policies and produced a video that seemed like a news story, congressional investigators said Friday. The public relations efforts violated the government’s “publicity or propaganda prohibition” because the Education Department contracts …

VATICAN CITY – Struggling to breathe, Pope John Paul II (search) mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: “Let me go to the house of the Father.” Six hours later, the comatose pontiff died, the Vatican (search) says. The account of John Paul’s final hours appears in a meticulously detailed …

GALVESTON, Texas – Taking a cue from the suffering in New Orleans, officials called for a voluntary evacuation of this island city as Hurricane Rita (search) threatened to blow across the Gulf of Mexico and slam into the Texas coast by this weekend. This month marks the 105th anniversary of …