FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio (AP) — The fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Amish girl who was driving a horse-drawn buggy in northeast Ohio has been ruled a homicide, a medical examiner said Tuesday. Rachel Yoder was shot in the head Thursday night while traveling from a party to her home in Wayne County, between Columbus and Akron. She died Friday from the wound, Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler said. Wayne County sheriff’s Capt. Douglas Hunter said Tuesday that there had been... Read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — A special lighting ceremony is planned for the National Hanukkah Menorah near the White House on the first night of the eight-day Jewish holiday. Tuesday’s lighting is scheduled for 4 p.m. Organizers say thousands of people are scheduled to attend. “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band will perform. The national menorah lighting dates to 1979 when Jimmy Carter was president. Those who attend get hot Hanukkah latkes and doughnuts. ___ Online: Read more

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Sunni vice president denies accusations he ran hit teams against government officials. Read more

CAIRO (AP) — Around 10,000 women marched through central Cairo demanding Egypt’s ruling military step down Tuesday in an unprecedented show of outrage over soldiers who dragged women by the hair and stomped on them, and stripped one half-naked in the street during a fierce crackdown on activists the past week. The dramatic protest, which grew as the women marched from Tahrir Square through downtown, was fueled by the widely circulated images of abuses of women. Many of the marchers... Read more

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution Monday denouncing serious human rights violations in Iran ranging from flogging and amputations to torture and “a dramatic increase” in executions. Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee tried to prevent a vote on the nonbinding resolution Monday but the attempt was soundly defeated. The 193-member world body then adopted the resolution by a vote of 89-30 with 64 abstentions. The resolution, sponsored by Canada and co-sponsored by 42 other countries,... Read more

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone. As authorities investigate them for bigamy, the TLC “Sister Wives” family is asking a federal judge to overturn part of Utah’s bigamy law because it bans them from living together and criminalizes sexual relationships between unmarried consenting adults. “What they are asking for is the right to structure their own lives, their own family, according to... Read more

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone. As authorities investigate them for bigamy, the TLC “Sister Wives” family is asking a federal judge to overturn part of Utah’s bigamy law because it bans them from living together and criminalizes sexual relationships between unmarried consenting adults. “What they are asking for is the right to structure their own lives, their own family, according to... Read more

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s newly elected president has called for the country’s Jewish population to return. The state news agency reported Monday that President Moncef Marzouk had told the country’s Grand Rabbi Haim Bittan that Tunisia’s Jews are full citizens. Tunisia presently has a Jewish population of 1,500, but in the 1960s there were 100,000. Most left following the 1967 war between Israel and Arab countries and also due to government policy. Marzouki also met with the top Christian... Read more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Two Muslim men who say they were kicked off an airplane in May after the pilot objected to their presence are suing Delta Air Lines Inc. and a regional carrier that operated the Delta Connection flight from Memphis to Charlotte, North Carolina. According to a suit filed Monday in federal court in Memphis, Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul were traveling to Charlotte to attend a conference on anti-Muslim discrimination at the time. Rahman, who is an... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) — A new analysis spells out how the Christian population is shrinking in Europe, while growing dramatically in Africa and elsewhere. Europe is now home to about a quarter of the world’s Christians, compared to two-thirds a century ago. About one-quarter of the Christian population is now found in sub-Saharan Africa. More than a third is in the Americas. Overall, Christians remain the largest religious group in the world, with nearly 2.2 billion people. Muslims are the... Read more