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Pope Francis met with Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, Thursday after her surprise release from her home country and a flight to Rome with her husband and two children. Ms. Ibrahim, whose estranged father was Muslim but whose mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was sentenced to death over charges of apostasy and was being held in U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, until she was unexpectedly allowed to leave the country by Sudanese officials.

EDITORIAL: Meriam Ibrahim’s happy immigrant story

The news is not always bad, though it sometimes seems that way. But Meriam Ibrahim, 27, her husband Daniel Wani and their son, Martin, age 18 months, and Maya, age one month, are free at last.

July 30, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Temple Mount is still Judaism’s holiest site

In "Under Jerusalem, the search for Solomon's Temple" (Web, July 25), Robert Knight writes, in part: "Part of the Temple Mount structure constitutes the Wailing Wall, which Jews believe is the sole remaining section of Herod's Temple and which is the holiest site in Judaism."

July 30, 2014
Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio, flanked by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., left, and incoming Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 29, 2014, following a Republican strategy session. Boehner discussed various topics including that he dismisses suggestions that Republicans are planning to impeach President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: The impeachment trap

House Speaker John A. Boehner made exactly the right call Tuesday, rejecting impeachment talk and dismissing the Democratic fundraising scheme based on impeachment talk.

July 29, 2014
Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference on health care reform hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

EDITORIAL: In Congress, big spenders all

Politicians just can't give up their free-spending ways, and it's not difficult to find a Republican who wants to expand the government just like a Democrat.

July 29, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Gazans should help defeat Hamas

As long as the United Nations is counting the dead, here are some tallies: In Libya, more than 30,000 have been killed; in Egypt, more than 1,000; in Iraq over the past 15 months, there have been 10,500 killed; and in Syria, the granddaddy of them all, 160,000 have been killed.

July 29, 2014
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2013 file photo, Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Police officials in the nations capital have been facing recent questions about headline-making arrests _ not of hardened street criminals but of their own officers. In a single month, one District of Columbia police officer was accused of taking semi-nude pictures of a 15-year-old runaway and another was charged with running a prostitution operation involving teenage girls. A third was indicted on an attempted murder charge, accused of striking his wife in the head with a light fixture. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

EDITORIAL: A Second Amendment right recognized for D.C.

Thugs in the nation's capital might think twice now before preying on a nighttime stroller — or a stroller in midafternoon, for that matter — in the belief that the prey won't shoot back. The good guys can now defend themselves.

July 28, 2014
Republican Ed Gillespie, left, and Sen. Mark Warner, right, laugh after a debate at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Saturday, July 26, 2014.  (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)

EDITORIAL: The two faces of Mark Warner

"Governor Warner wouldn't recognize Senator Warner today." That was the memorable line from the weekend debate between Virginia's Sen. Mark R. Warner, the Democratic senior senator, and his challenger in November, Ed Gillespie.

July 28, 2014