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Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn waits to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, before the House subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing on Advocating for American Jacob Ostreichers Freedom after two years in Bolivian detention. Ostreicher was arrested in June 2011 by Bolivian police after it was alleged that he did business with “people wanted in their countries because of links with drug trafficking and money laundering.”  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Penn urges US to pressure Bolivia to free US man

Actor Sean Penn on Monday urged the U.S. government to pressure Bolivia to free an American businessman detained without charge since 2011 in a case that has drawn accusations he was the victim of corrupt local prosecutors. Penn said international pressure on Bolivian President Evo Morales could help free Jacob ...

White House says more farm subsidy cuts needed

The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week. The bill would cost almost $100 billion a year over five years and would set policy for farm programs and food aid. The legislation would ...

Gold breaks a losing streak; other metals rise

The price of gold rose Monday for the first time in nearly two weeks. Gold for June delivery rose $19.40 to settle at $1,384.10 an ounce Monday, an increase of 1.4 percent. It was the first gain since May 8. The price of gold has been falling since last autumn. ...

Gold breaks a losing streak; other metals rise

The price of gold rose Monday for the first time in nearly two weeks. Gold for June delivery rose $19.40 to settle at $1,384.10 an ounce Monday, an increase of 1.4 percent. It was the first gain since May 8. The price of gold has been falling since last autumn. ...

Number of people sickened by raw cheese up to 25

Minnesota health officials say more than two-dozen people have been sickened by eating raw Mexican-style cheese. The Minnesota Department of Health said Monday at least 25 Minnesotans became sick with salmonella linked to eating queso fresco made with unpasteurized cheese. The state health department, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and ...

Drought accelerates use of drugs to beef up cattle

Cattle feeders in the U.S. are coping with reduced herds and high corn costs in part by increasing their use of growth-inducing drugs designed to bulk up animals, get more pounds of beef from each carcass and circumvent the drought's withering effects on the food cycle. Accelerated use of the ...

4 ND cases tied to multistate salmonella outbreak

North Dakota officials have linked four cases of salmonella infection to a multistate outbreak associated with baby chicks. North Dakota's cases all were found in children under the age of 10, state Health Department epidemiologist Alicia Lepp said Monday. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the ...

In this undated photo provided by the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Carl Laemmle is shown with his children, Rosabelle and Carl Jr. Laemmle was the founder of Universal Pictures and used his connections and resources to help bring Jews over from Europe after the rise of the Nazis. An exhibition opening at the museum on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 called “Against All Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe’s Refugees, 1933-1941,” documents efforts by Laemmle and others to get Jews out of Nazi-era Europe despite strict immigration quotas in the U.S. (AP Photo/Museum of Jewish Heritage/George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress)

Exhibit on US Jews who helped refugees from Nazis

An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era. The exhibition, "Against All Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe's Refugees, 1933-41" will be on view for a year at the ...

PERSONAL HEALTH: MANY FRONTS IN THE OBESITY WAR

c.2013 New York Times News Service Sugar, and especially the high-fructose corn syrup that sweetens many processed foods and nearly all soft drinks, has been justly demonized for adding nutritionally empty calories to our diet and causing metabolic disruptions linked to a variety of diseases. But a closer look at ...

Mohammad Rahro, 91, left, laughs with childhood pal Ali Ameri, 96 at Loving Care Adult Day Care in Gaithersburg, Md. on May 8, 2013.  The pair knew each other as boys growing up in Tehran, Iran only to reconnect at an adult day care center in Gaithersburg. (AP Photo/The Washington Post, Linda Davidson) WIRES OUT MAGS OUT TV OUT NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON TIMES OUT NO TRADES NO SALES MANDATORY CREDIT

More centers in DC area speak seniors' language

If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey. Instead, on his first day at the Loving Care Adult Medical ...

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