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The former wife of Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, has called on the Israeli government to pay for an attorney to facilitate his freedom amid international speculation he could be released soon.

A small Wisconsin town said goodbye on Saturday to a Marine killed in the recent attack on a Navy-Marine reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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The act is monumental in scope, intended to protect people with disabilities from discrimination and enable them to participate fully in the workforce and their communities. Its protections, which now cover an estimated 55 million Americans, extend to five key areas: employment, state and local government facilities and services, public accommodations, telecommunications, and transportation.

The French are hosting a reenactment of the clash with England this weekend. More than 800 people in Medieval garb are gathering at the site to commemorate the battle, which was a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.

The leader of the Hezbollah militant group says he is "proud" of U.S. sanctions targeting three members of the group.

An Iranian corporation admitted Friday in federal court that it conspired with an Orwigsburg company to help smuggle a machine to Iran that has military as well as civilian uses.

Members of Detachment 957, Marine Corps League based in Mercer County gathered at the flag in front of the Mercer County Courthouse Annex Friday morning to show their support for military families everywhere and to pay their respects to the families and comrades of the four Marines and the sailor who were gunned down last week at a Chattanooga, Tenn. recruiting station.

More than 40 local airmen were recently deployed to provide medical care at a U.S. military hospital in Germany that serves as an evacuation and treatment center for injured U.S. service members in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe and Africa.

On the heels of the shooting in Chattanooga, state Sen. Rob Ortt, R-North Tonawanda, has announced proposed legislation that he believes would provide better protection for personnel working at National Guard and ROTC recruiting centers across New York.

Tunisia's parliament voted overwhelmingly to pass the country's new anti-terror law after a pair of devastating attacks against tourists, but critics fear the new legislation may endanger this North African nation's hard won freedoms.

Gov. Christie's presidential campaign hit the airwaves with its second television ad Friday, in which the Republican accuses President Obama of "lying to the American people" about how the accord limiting Iran's nuclear program would work.

Hillary Rodham Clinton will testify Oct. 22 before the House committee investigating the deaths of four Americans in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, her presidential campaign said Saturday.

After a gunman shot and killed four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tenn., Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback ordered a review of security measures at all Kansas National Guard facilities and is asking if more armed guards are needed. Brownback asked Adjutant General Lee Tafanelli to identify any additional actions that might be needed to keep National Guard members safe, which could include more armed guards.

The message was clear Friday from the retired soldiers guarding Lima's federal building with its military recruiting offices inside: No terrorists were going to strike here and get away with it.

The "Confederate Memorial Carving" in a state park outside of Atlanta is once again stirring controversy, as Georgia officials try to decide what, if anything, to do about a huge sculpture that memorializes three of the South's Civil War heroes but causes offense to blacks and others.

Russia's human rights commissioner says the Ukrainian servicewoman charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists is being sent to a detention facility in western Russia as her trial looms closer.

It's been more than a year since his hearing for Social Security disability benefits, but Gulf War veteran Shawn McMurray still can't get the judge's words out of his mind. "It's tormented me since that day. He took my dignity away. I wasn't proud to be a veteran."

A Buddhist monk and a Thai policeman were killed and six other people wounded in a bomb attack Saturday by suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand, police said.

The Saudi-led coalition says it will start a five-day humanitarian pause in Yemen on Sunday at one minute before midnight.

Two stealthily recorded videos show Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they provide aborted fetal organs for research. The videos have put the group and its Democratic allies on the defensive.

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice's current system of detaining children with their mothers after they've crossed the U.S.-Mexico border violates an 18-year-old court settlement.

Authorities in Larimer County are scratching their heads over the case of a man who bought an antique toy decorated with a Confederate flag, then shot it nine times in the street with a handgun.

Federal grand jury has charged Kristian Saucier, 28, of Arlington, Vt., with unlawfully retaining photos taken inside restricted areas of a nuclear attack submarine, and obstructing an investigation.