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Article80 years later, Dutch still tend soldiers’ graves

By 1947, some 18,000 American soldiers had been buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten. At the end of World War II, the Dutch shared a simple message: “Leave your boys with us. We will watch over them like our own, forever.” •...

Frank Lennon

ArticleShe’s 72, a grandmother of 8 and just reached a milestone

Irma Garcia, 72, didn’t always have a lot of time to herself as a single mother of three daughters. But whenever she did have time, she used it to follow her dream of earning a bachelor’s degree. She moved from Puerto Rico to the Washington,...

Madeline Mitchell

ArticleTrump: Escalation in Cuba not likely

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t anticipate further “escalation” between the United States and Cuba after the Department of Justice indicted the country’s former President Raúl Castro and five other Cuban nationals in connection...

Aysha Bagchi, Francesca Chambers, Nick Penzenstadler and Natalie Neysa Alund

ArticleRaúl Castro: From Fidel’s shadow to DOJ’s crosshairs

When Cuban leader Raúl Castro welcomed President Barack Obama to Havana in 2016, it marked a historic reopening of diplomatic relations announced a year earlier between longtime Cold War adversaries – and a rare window for change. Castro,...