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Effort to recognize World War II spies hung up in Congress
MCLEAN, Va. - Spies don’t work for fame or acclaim. But after 75 years, the men and women who served behind the enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Pacific theatre during World War II wouldnR...
Oct 01, 2016

Russia warns against US attack on Syrian forces
BEIRUT - Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured ...
Oct 01, 2016
Jewish-American ex-sailor, 90, recalls Cyprus internment
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Seventy years later, Murray Greenfield can still remember the anger he felt when he was locked up with hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors in a British detention camp on the Medit...
Oct 01, 2016

Floods' pain still felt 1 year later in rural South Carolina
KINGSTREE, S.C. - A world away from South Carolina’s booming coastal resorts, hundreds of homes remain unrepaired in the county hardest hit by last year’s floods. Now they’re getting...
Oct 01, 2016
Scottish boxer dies after being injured in bout
GLASGOW, Scotland - A Scottish boxer has died after suffering severe bleeding and swelling to his brain during a televised fight. Mike Towell, who was 25, had to be carried from the ring on a stretche...
Oct 01, 2016

Angry Brazilian voters looking to upend political order
SAO PAULO - In Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman who once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country’s crown jewe...
Oct 01, 2016
New Jersey coast to get disputed, long-delayed sand dunes
TOMS RIVER, N.J. - Almost four years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled his neighbourhood so badly that Britain’s Prince Harry had to stop by for a look at the damage, Paul Jeffrey is ready to slee...
Oct 01, 2016
March planned in memory of man shot by police in California
EL CAJON, Calif. - Alfred Olango, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in a suburb of San Diego, will be remembered in a demonstration Saturday organized by clergy members and supporters of...
Oct 01, 2016
Tall fish tale: Tourists fooled by octopus ferry disaster
NEW YORK - Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago? A cast bronze monument dedicated to the victims of ...
Oct 01, 2016

Man charged with wearing clear plastic wrap bikini on beach
BEACH HAVEN, N.J. - Police say a 59-year-old man who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge. They say Stephen Wojciehowski spent two ...
Oct 01, 2016