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Reputed Klansman Nabbed in 1964 Slayings

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the turbulent civil rights era — the “Freedom Summer” slayings of three young civil rights workers — a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested Thursday on murder charges in the case. Sheriff Larry Myers told …

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Single Parents Send Kids to Orphanages

SIKKAL, India – After their mother was washed away by the tsunami (search) that ravaged southern Asia, their father told 10-year-old Devinya and her two brothers to fend for themselves. “My father told me to go,” was all Devinya could say, sitting sadly at a new orphanage that opened Monday …

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Jordan: Plot to Kill U.S. Archaeologists Foiled

AMMAN, Jordan – Prosecutors leveled charges against two suspected Jordanian terrorists after police foiled a plan to kill four American archeologists, security officials said Wednesday. Jamil Mohammed Kutkut, 27, and Ibrahim Mohammed Zein al-Abedeen, better known by Jihad al-Qashah, 36, were charged with plotting to commit terrorist acts, illegal possession …

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