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Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, has spent much of his decade in power preaching about giving more to the poor and raging about the graft of the country's previous leaders. But critics say corruption is flourishing once again nd one former Chavez supporter says the president's family is benefitting.

Pope Benedict XVI has begun his first visit to the U.S. as pontiff. Many American Catholics are looking to the pope for guidance, following years of child abuse scandals and a recent spate of parish closings. Monsignor Kevin Irwin discusses the pope's visit.

From the moment Sen. Barack Obama rocked the 2004 Democratic National Convention by talking of the "awesome God" in the blue states, he has been recognized for his artful use of theological language. In the past, Democrats have shied away from talking about personal faith, but Obama has put his faith front and center.

Omar Giron lived in the United States for so long that when he returned to El Salvador — the country he left 20 years ago — it was anything but a homecoming. And perhaps nothing marks him more as an outsider than his daily battle against dust.

UC San Diego aims to become one of the “greenest” universities in the country. The school is known for its global warming research. Now the campus is taking steps to practice what it preaches. KPBS

The U.S. economy is unlikely to grow in the first half of this year, says Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Testifying before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, Bernanke didn't use the word "recession." But it's the closest he has come to date to suggesting that possibility, given a trio of financial crises.

California is facing a massive $16-billion budget deficit. To fix the problem, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed across-the-board budget cuts. But Democrats in the state Legislature are unlikely to go along with his plan.

On Easter Sunday, the new pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ delivered a sermon titled "How to Handle a Public Lynching." The controversy stemming from the sermons of Trinity's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and the speech on race by one of the church's members, Barack Obama, was a major topic at many other churches.

The Illinois Democrat reiterates his denunciation of remarks by his former pastor but says of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community."

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