UN REFUGEE HEAD: SYRIA ON ‘VERGE OF THE ABYSS’
By ADAM SCHRECK AP10ThingsToSee – FILE – Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20,…
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EX-SALVADORAN MILITARY LEADER GETS 21 MONTHS IN US
Former El Salvadoran military Col. Inocente Orlando Montano departs federal court, in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, following the first day of a sentencing hearing on immigration charges. Montano was…
REPORT: UNDERAGE TOBACCO SALES AT RECORD LOWS
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM FILE – In this Friday, Feb. 28, 1997 file photo, a sign warns minors tobacco will not be sold to them at Montgomery Grocery, in Little Hickman,…
UN RIGHTS CHIEF MEETS SRI LANKAN WAR SURVIVORS
Family members of disappeared Tamil people holding pictures of their relatives protest during the visit of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug.…
NM COUNTY TOLD TO ISSUE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LICENSES
JERI CLAUSING Angelique Neuman, left, and Jen Roper, right, celebrate their wedding at Christus St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center, where Roper is undergoing treatment, Friday Aug. 23, 2013 in Santa…
NEWTOWN SHOOTER IS DESCRIBED AS ISOLATED IN YOUTH
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN FILE – This undated identification file photo provided Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn., shows former student Adam Lanza, who authorities…
GUARDS HELP ESCORT CHICAGO KIDS TO NEW SCHOOLS
By DON BABWIN Safety Guard Renee Green high-fives Demari Hill, 5, as she heads to Gresham Elementary School with her parents Destiny and Anthony Hill on her first day of…
CIVIL RIGHTS AND IMMIGRATION HISTORY CONNECTED
By DEEPTI HAJELA FILE – In this Oct. 3, 1965, file photo U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson sits at his desk on Liberty Island in New York Harbor as he signs…