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Massachusetts

Moulton raises a storm with Trump, Hitler comments

BOSTON – Seth Moulton, the first-term congressman from the North Shore, dropped a bombshell Wednesday, comparing Donald Trump's rise to Adolf Hitler's early days as a politician during the Weimar Republic era in Germany. "When you're in politics, one of those sort-of like cardinal

Faith

Search for Jewish tombs lost in WWII brings back heritage

PROSTEJOV, Czech Republic (AP) — There was no mistaking what the stone slab was, only the spot where it lay was somehow not fitting. Instead of marking a place of the departed, the tombstone served as a doormat to a henhouse in a small Czech village. Confronting the dark legacy of

Religion News Service

Japanese ‘Schindler’ honored decades after WWII

TOKYO — As world attention is focused on the plight of migrants fleeing conflicts in Syria and Iraq, a Japanese diplomat who risked everything to save thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II is finally getting his due. Chiune Sugihara was Japan's vice consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, when