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Pro-government demonstrators chant slogans as they hold Iranian flags and a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a gathering after announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war with the United States and Israel, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution, Square, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire as Trump pulls back on his threats

Iran, the United States and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war that tore across the Middle East and disrupted the global energy market, with U.S.

Aasya Peera of Pflugerville holds a sign reading "Don't teach our children lies!" during a rally on the Capitol Mall outside the Barbara Jordan State Office Building, where the State Board of Education meets, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Bible stories would be part of a new Texas public schools reading list drawing attention

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Pope Leo XIV delivers his blessing as he recites the Regina Coeli noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope says Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization is ‘truly unacceptable’

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A gunman fires his gun as men carry the coffins with the bodies of Pierre Mouawad, an official with the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces party, and his wife during their funeral in Yahshush, in Lebanon, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Lebanon buries a Christian official killed in an Israeli strike as anti-Hezbollah anger surges

Turkish police and army secure the area after a gunmen attack at a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gunmen attack police near building housing Israeli Consulate in Istanbul

Bystanders try to comfort and assist a woman as she reacts near the site of a strike that, according to a security official at the scene, destroyed half of the Khorasaniha Synagogue and nearby residential buildings in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

US and Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire as Trump pulls back on threats

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Taylor Frankie Paul appears at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 15, 2026. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

‘Mormon Wives’ star Taylor Frankie Paul can’t have unsupervised visits with toddler son, court rules

Traveling exhibit challenges stereotypes about Muslim giving

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is seen before a roundtable discussion on college sports in the East Room of the White House, Friday, March 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

DeSantis signs Florida law to label groups as terrorists and expel student supporters

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Workers remove debris at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology complex that Iranian authorities say was hit early Monday by a U.S.-Israeli strike, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Trump widens threat to all of Iran’s power plants and bridges as his deadline for a deal approaches

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Tommi May wears a costume of balloons as they participate in the Easter Bonnet Parade on Fifth Avenue, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Dazzling outfits and colorful hats shine at New York Easter parade, in photos

A meerkat inspects a basket with Easter egg-themed treats in the Buinzoo in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Step aside, children: A Chilean zoo stages an Easter egg hunt with treats for the animals

This screenshot taken from social media site X shows a post about Easter by the Department of Homeland Security’s official account. (AP Photo)

Trump administration agencies post Easter messages celebrating Christ’s resurrection

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Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers, on March 11, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Pressure mounts on Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a summer festival in London

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People raise their hands to the sky in song during an Easter Sunday sunrise prayer service at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Photos show Christians celebrating Easter around the world

Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful at the end of Easter Mass he presided over in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Photos show Pope Leo’s first Easter Mass as pontiff

Pope Leo XIV addresses the faithful after delivering the Urbi et Orbi blessing - Latin for "to the city of Rome and to the world" - from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the end of Easter Mass he presided over in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo urges peace in first Easter Mass as Christians celebrate in Jerusalem, Gaza and Tehran

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Worshipers pray during Good Friday Mass at St. Anthony Church, which was devoted to expressing solidarity with Christian villagers in southern Lebanon displaced by the war in Jdeideh, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Displaced by war, Lebanon’s Christians mark Easter far from their homes and churches

Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a crowded neighbourhood south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Trump issues an expletive-filled threat against Iran as details of US aviator’s rescue emerge

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Britain Choral Music Choristers sing during Evensong at Rochester Cathedral in Rochester, England, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

English choirs seek to protect a musical tradition little changed since Queen Elizabeth I

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Pope Leo XIV arrives for the Easter Vigil inside St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Easter vigil, calls for harmony and peace in a world torn by war

View at burnt ambulances in a car park at Golders Green in London, Monday, March 23, 2026 after an apparent arson attack on four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service, Hatzola Northwest.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

2 men and a boy ordered to stay in UK custody over Jewish charity ambulance attack

Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simaei Sarraf, center, visits the location that was hit during U.S.-Israeli airstrikes Friday at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump gives Iran 48 hours to open Strait of Hormuz as search continues for missing US pilot

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A hooded penitent of the Nuestro Padre Jesus del Huerto y San Diego brotherhood participates in a Holy Week procession in Baena, southern Spain, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Women take pride in Holy Week roles after a Spanish Catholic brotherhood’s procession excluded them

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A penitent wearing chains and prickly cactus holds a photo on a cross at a Good Friday procession during Holy Week in Atlixco, Mexico, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Good Friday across Latin America brings faith into the streets

Three stained glass windows in Canton Lutheran Church's sanctuary on Mar. 31, 2026, in Canton, S.D. (Molly Wetsch/South Dakota News Watch via AP)

Historic restoration project shines light on Canton Lutheran Church in South Dakota

Pope Leo XIV carries a lightweight, 1.5-meter (5-foot) wooden cross during the Via Crucis, the torchlit Good Friday Stations of the Cross procession at the Colosseum in Rome, Friday, April 3, 2026, which symbolically retraces Jesus Christ's steps to his crucifixion on Calvary in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo XIV carries cross for full Good Friday procession, the first pontiff to do so in decades

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Luiz Henrique, playing the role of Jesus Christ, hangs on a cross during a Way of the Cross reenactment as part of Holy Week celebrations, at the Complexo do Alemao favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Good Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Good Friday around the world, in photos

Taylor Frankie Paul appears at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 15, 2026. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ cast aren’t the only influencers sowing curiosity about the church

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People remove broken glass from their windows after a Russian strike on residential neighbourhood in Kriukivshchyna, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 8 as Kyiv holds door open for Easter truce

File — Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s displaced Shiites face rising hostility as airstrikes fuel fear and evictions

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A boy who fled with his family following Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sits inside the van they are using as shelter in Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

2 US aircraft shot down as war in Iran escalates. At least 1 crew member is missing

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This 2025 photo provided by the Islamic Society of Milwaukee shows Salah Sarsour in Franklin, Wis. (Islamic Society of Milwaukee via AP)

Elected leaders and clergy seek release of Wisconsin mosque president detained by immigration agents

Pope Leo XIV washes and kisses the feet of 12 Roman priests during the Missa in Caena Domini, the Mass of the Lord's Supper, on Catholic Holy Thursday in St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Leo XIV revives the Holy Thursday foot-washing of priests after Francis’s inclusive tradition

Mourners gather during a funeral procession for Alireza Tangsiri, head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, and others killed in Israeli strikes in late March, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

No sign of war winding down in Mideast as Friday dawns with attacks across region

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