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LOS ANGELES – Tibor Rubin (search) kept his promise to join the U.S. Army after American troops freed him from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II (search). A Hungarian Jew, Rubin immigrated to New York after the war, joined the Army and fought as an infantryman …

KEY WEST, Fla. – Residents boarded up windows Monday and evacuated the low-lying Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Rita (search) gathered strength in the Bahamas, threatening to he possibility that oil and gas production would be interrupted once again. The storm had top sustained winds of 70 mph Monday evening, …

NEW YORK – There’s something unusual floating in the waters off Manhattan. (And no, it’s not what you’re thinking, so please, no mob or radioactive fish jokes.) Thirty-five years after it was first conceptualized, artist Robert Smithson’s (search) “Floating Island To Travel Around Manhattan Island” — a flat barge covered …

NEW ORLEANS – A day-by-day look at Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath: Wednesday, Aug. 24: — Tropical Depression 12 strengthens into Tropical Storm Katrina over the Central Bahamas; a hurricane warning is issued for the southeastern Florida coast. Thursday, Aug. 25: — Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida between Hallandale Beach and …

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The Dutch government intends to expand its current euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill newborns with the parents’ consent. A letter outlining the new directives will be submitted to parliament for discussion by mid-October, but the new policy will …

WASHINGTON – Laura Bush (search) described as “disgusting” comments by rapper Kanye West (search) and Democratic chairman Howard Dean (search) blaming her husband for the disproportionate number of black hurricane victims. “I think all of those remarks are disgusting, to be perfectly frank, because of course President Bush (search) cares …

WASHINGTON – Nicole Kidman (search) says she didn’t have to go far to research her role as a psychiatrist for the upcoming movie, “The Visiting.” “I have a father who is a psychologist, so my life has been research,” the Oscar-winning actress told AP Radio in a recent interview. Unlike …

See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… We’re tracking one of the most powerful storms ever to take aim at the United States. Hurricane Rita (search) is closing in and roaring toward the Gulf Coast (search). …

LONDON – Britain’s Prince Harry (search) will spend his 21st birthday Thursday in the sober setting of his military academy but says he has no plans to tone down his wild child image. “I am who I am and I’m not going to change,” Harry said in a round of …

NEW YORK – Defying age and heat, marathon man Andre Agassi (search) outlasted a buffer, younger mirror image of himself in baseliner Robby Ginepri to win a third straight five-setter at the U.S. Open (search) and become the oldest Grand Slam finalist in 31 years. Agassi delivered an exclamation point …