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Pope Francis, 80, in an interview for a soon-to-be-published book, said that when he was 42, he had weekly sessions with a psychoanalyst who was female and Jewish to "clarify some things" in his role as a Jesuit official in Argentina.

Peggy Whitson, 57, a U.S. astronaut, will head home today after spending 9½ months on the International Space Station, setting an American record by logging 665 days in space over three flights and a record for any woman by performing 10 spacewalks.

Chi Meng Yang and his sister, Gaosheng Laitinen, face bribery charges for offering a sheriff in Siskiyou County, Calif., $1 million to shield 10 large-scale marijuana farms from raids in a county where outdoor pot farms are illegal, federal prosecutors said.

Clorinda Bailey of St. Louis said she was outraged when two school officials arrived at her house to tell her that a middle school teacher, later placed on administrative leave, had duct-taped her 12-year-old daughter to a chair for not listening and moving around during class.

Thomas Payne and Kayla Harris, both of Charleston, S.C., filed a lawsuit against online retailer Amazon claiming they were sent faulty eclipse glasses that led to eye injuries, headaches and blurry vision after they used them to view the Aug. 21 celestial event.

Feliz Nunez said he wouldn't want to hang his hat on Bigfoot's existence but still organized a Bigfoot BBQ & Blues Fest in Jemez Springs, N.M., to celebrate rumors that the apelike creature lives in the forests near Los Alamos, one of the nation's premier nuclear laboratories.

Szuhsiung "Allen" Ho, 67, a Taiwan-born U.S. engineer who pleaded guilty to helping China build nuclear power plants using U.S. technology, has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined $20,000, federal prosecutors in Knoxville, Tenn., said.

David Niose of the American Humanist Association said there is "absolutely no basis" for a decision by Virginia prison officials to withhold from inmates copies of the group's magazine because it contained a picture of a painting of Eve in the Garden of Eden with her breasts exposed.

Virginia Todd, 59, a retired Oregon, Ohio, police officer and attorney with multiple college degrees, has re-enrolled as a freshman at the University of Toledo for the opportunity to take the field with the school's marching band playing the clarinet.

A Section on 09/02/2017

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