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Census documenting Great Depression to be released

Cristian Salazar, Randy Herschaft The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 9:38am

Census documenting Great Depression to be released

By CRISTIAN SALAZAR and RANDY HERSCHAFT

The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad.

Now, intimate details of 132 million people who lived through the 1930s will be disclosed as the U.S.

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(The Associated Press) Surveillance photo provided by the New York City Police Dept. shows a suspect wanted in connection with a homicide, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A woman burned to death in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building Saturday afternoon after a man ambushed her, sprayed her with liquid and set her afire with a Molotov cocktail, police said.

Police: NYC woman burned to death owed suspect $2K

Cristian Salazar The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 4:56pm

NEW YORK — A man charged with dousing a woman in flammable liquid and tossing a Molotov cocktail on her in an elevator told police he set her on fire because he was angry that she owed him $2,000, authorities said Sunday.

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Woman doused in gasoline, torched in elevator

Cristian Salazar The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 11:54am

NEW YORK -- A man smelling of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman hosed down with an accelerant and set ablaze in the elevator of her apartment building, police said Sunday.

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(The Associated Press) In this Feb. 7, 1968 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., center, speaks to an audience, while promising a massive demonstration in the spring in Washington and hinting the crusade may be extended to the political party conventions in August. King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said the demonstration in Washington will last for weeks and maybe for months. At left is the Rev. Andrew Young, executive Vice President of the Southern Conference. Veterans of past social movements, such as Young, say the Occupy Wall Street protest has been a welcome response to the abysmal economy and has the potential to galvanize wide support, but whether it will lead to lasting political change remains to be seen. “There’s a difference between an emotional outcry and a movement,” said Young, who worked alongside King as a strategist during the civil rights movement. “This is an emotional outcry. The difference is organization and articulation.”

Seasoned activists critique Wall Street protests

Cristian Salazar The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 5:20pm

NEW YORK — To veterans of past social movements, the Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York and spread nationwide have been a welcome response to corporate greed and the enfeebled economy. But whether the energy of protesters can be tapped to transform the political climate remains to be seen.

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Police officers stand nearby the encampment of participants in the Occupy Wall Street Protest at Zuccotti Park on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 in New York. The protest, which has grown into a nationwide movement, started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) Jordan McCarthy, 22, from Sandwich, N.H., awake from under a makeshift shelter where she is camped out among participants in the Occupy Wall Street Protest at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 in New York. "We have allowed greed to be more important than humans," said McCarthy who joined the camp a week ago. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Obama acknowledges Wall Street protests as a sign

Cristian Salazar, KAREN ZRAICK The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 1:24pm

NEW YORK -- Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House on Thursday, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frustrations of the American public.

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Randy Herschaft/The Associated Press
In this Dec. 2, 2010 photo, William H. Cunliffe, senior archivist at the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Md., displays copies of recently opened Army investigative records released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998. The report draws from an unprecedented trove of records on individuals and clandestine operations that the CIA was persuaded to declassify, and from over a million digitized Army intelligence files that had long been inaccessible.

Report details ties between US and ex-Nazis

Cristian Salazar, Randy Herschaft, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 10, 2010 - 7:01pm

NEW YORK -- Declassified CIA files reveal that U.S. intelligence officials went to great lengths to protect a Ukrainian fascist leader and suspected Nazi collaborator from prosecution after World War II and set him up in a New York office to wage covert war against the Soviet Union, according to a new report to Congress.

Mykola Lebed led an underground movement to undermine the Kremlin and conduct guerrilla operations for the CIA during the Cold War, says the report, prepared by two scholars under the supervision of the National Archives. It was given to Congress on Thursday and posted online.

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(The Associated Press) This aerial photo of April 20, 2010, shows the New York city block (lower right) where a 13-story mosque is planned for construction two blocks north of the World Trade Center site (center left). The plan for the $100 million mosque and cultural center received initial support on Wednesday from community board 1 in Lower Manhattan.

Mosque going up in NYC building damaged on 9/11

Cristian Salazar The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 9:50pm

NEW YORK -- In a 13-story building, damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.

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Officials: Chaplain tried to get razors into jail

Cristian Salazar The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 6:39pm

NEW YORK -- A jails chaplain was arrested Wednesday after he tried to smuggle three razor blades and a pair of scissors into a lockup, authorities said.

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(The Associated Press) Manhattan College center Kevin Laue practices with his team Friday in New York.

Hoopster born without a left hand gets his chance

Cristian Salazar The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 9:34pm

NEW YORK -- Kevin Laue isn't supposed to be here, standing on the court practicing for his first season of Division I basketball.

Born without a left hand, the 6-foot-11 center from Pleasanton, Calif., is now a freshman at Manhattan College, having earned a scholarship to play for the Jaspers and a chance to live out the dream of anyone who has been told they couldn't play a sport they loved because of a physical defect.

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