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Editorial Roundup: South Dakota

Jun. 12, 2024 07:11 AM EDT

Yankton Press & Dakotan. June 11, 2024. Editorial: A Nazi March And An Old Reminder On Thursday, June 6, we turned our attentions to Normandy in France as several world leaders honored the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of occupied Europe during World War...

A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor

Jun. 06, 2024 14:01 PM EDT

VER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Eighty years after Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny, French President Emmanuel Macron kissed her on both cheeks and pinned the nation’s highest honor to her lapel. Lamb spent the months before D-Day alone in a tiny room in central...

King Charles III honors a generation that fought, died and waited for freedom

Jun. 06, 2024 13:24 PM EDT

VER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — King Charles III came to northern France on Thursday to honor the 22,442 British troops who died in the Battle of Normandy. He also came to honor a generation. A generation that sacrificed and fought and died and waited through five long...

A US-Russian citizen is convicted in Russia after posts on social media

Jun. 05, 2024 10:51 AM EDT

A dual U.S.-Russian citizen was convicted for “rehabilitating Nazism” by a St. Petersburg court Wednesday over posts on social media. Yuri Malev was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a minimum-security penal colony, a penitentiary facility. Malev was arrested in December...

Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII

May. 31, 2024 01:54 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish refugees to cook and clean at the family home in Lancashire, where the Owtram family raised pedigreed shorthorn cows and Pat rode a pony...

Today in History: May 16, Nazis crush Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

May. 16, 2024 00:01 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Thursday, May 16, the 137th day of 2024. There are 229 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 16, 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish...

Today in History: May 10, Nazis invade Netherlands, Belgium and France

May. 10, 2024 00:03 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Friday, May 10, the 131st day of 2024. There are 235 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 10, 1940, during World War II, German forces began invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France....

Russia puts Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on its wanted list

May. 04, 2024 16:47 PM EDT

Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database. As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry's list of people...

Prominent figure in German far-right party stands trial over alleged use of Nazi slogan

Apr. 18, 2024 09:00 AM EDT

HALLE, Germany (AP) — One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party went on trial Thursday on charges of using a Nazi slogan, months before a regional election in which he plans to run to become his state's governor. Björn Höcke, 52, is the...

Maine governor signs bill restricting paramilitary training in response to neo-Nazi's plan

Apr. 12, 2024 21:39 PM EDT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A bill to restrict paramilitary training in Maine in response to a neo-Nazi who wanted to create a training center for a “blood tribe” was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday. The law, which the governor signed without public comment,...