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Pope to visit in April
Pope Benedict XVI will visit Washington and New York next April, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said on Monday. Benedict plans to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, celebrate Mass at Yankee Stadium and address the UN on April 18, officials said. He is also scheduled to meet with President George W. Bush on April 16 at the White House, meet with US bishops at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington and celebrate Mass at the Nationals Park stadium.
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Winds pound northwest
Winds gusting at hurricane force in some places on Monday left more than 125,000 customers without electricity across the Pacific Northwest and blew the roof off an Oregon firehouse, authorities said. Winds higher than 113kph blew trees and branches onto power lines and cut electricity to roughly 85,000 Washington customers, mostly in the western part of the state. Puget Sound Energy had about 37,000 customers in the dark in nine counties in Washington, a spokeswoman said. In Oregon, more than 43,000 customers lost power, utilities reported.
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Protesters clash at border
Border Patrol agents clashed with demonstrators at a boundary fence in California, resulting in three arrests. Agents fired tear gas and hit protesters with batons during the demonstration on Monday, said Rich Macgurn, of the No Borders Camp, a group that organized the demonstration. "They were indiscriminately firing pepper spray and charging the crowd," he said. "It's really outrageous the way they behaved." No Borders Camp posted a video of the clash on its Web site. The fence separates Calexico and Mexicali, Mexico. Border Patrol and Calexico police did not return phone messages on Monday.
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