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Rishi Sunak apologizes for skipping a D-Day ceremony to return to the election campaign trail

Jun. 07, 2024 16:17 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Friday for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to return to the election campaign trail — a decision slammed as disgraceful by his political rivals. Sunak, who is fighting to keep his job in Britain’s July 4...

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...

Christian Lamb made maps to guide the crews landing crafts at Normandy on D-Day

May. 31, 2024 01:47 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Working alone in a tiny office in London, Christian Lamb tried to make sure British troops were in exactly the right place when they scrambled onto Normandy's beaches under enemy fire during the D-Day landings. Referring to huge maps of the French coast on the wall in...

Iron Mountain: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

May. 02, 2024 06:57 AM EDT

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Iron Mountain Inc. (IRM) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The real estate investment trust, based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, said it had...

18-year-old turns himself into police for hate-motivated graffiti charges

Apr. 19, 2024 16:14 PM EDT

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — An 18-year-old from Portsmouth, accused of creating hate-motivated graffiti, has turned himself into police on criminal charges, authorities said Friday. Loren Faulkner was arrested on Thursday on 31 counts of criminal mischief and hate-motivated criminal...