History’s first American pope didn’t mention the meeting Friday in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian ...

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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, who now works with human rights group The Elders, about her upcoming visit to Egypt's border with Gaza.

John Wardell doesn't have the hole in the top of his head anymore from German shrapnel, but the Point Pleasant Army Ranger has his WWII memories.

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Count Folke Bernadotte, the nephew of Sweden's King Gustav V and a colleague of Herman Allen, helped arrange a ceremony for ...