• Pope Francis: Teaching Children Gender Theory is 'Indoctrination'

  Pope Francis said on Sunday that homosexuals and transsexuals should be treated with respect but that teaching gender theory is unacceptable "indoctrination" of young people.

  

• Oklahoma Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Imposing Restrictions on Abortion Providers

  Oklahoma's highest court on Tuesday struck down a law imposing restrictions on abortion providers, including a requirement that they take samples of fetal tissue from patients younger than 14 and preserve them for state investigators.

  

• Pope Francis, in Surprise Visit, Comforts Survivors of Italian Earthquake

  Pope Francis made a surprise visit on Tuesday to towns and villages devastated by an earthquake that killed nearly 300 people in central Italy in August, comforting residents who lost everything and praying together for the dead.

  

• Ohio To Resume Executions in January After Three-Year Pause

  The state of Ohio plans to resume the execution of condemned inmates in January, ending a three-year pause in carrying out death sentences, under a new lethal-injection protocol designed to meet U.S. Supreme Court approval, prison officials said on Monday.

  

• Hurricane Matthew Update: Storm Slams into Western Haiti with Deadly Waves

  The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade ripped into Haiti's southwestern peninsula early on Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and storm surges that killed at least one person and damaged homes.