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MBTA Police Officer Richard Donahue makes his way on crutches as his wife, Kim, follows him out of the gym at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston's Charlestown section, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Donahue almost lost his life after being shot during the crossfire with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Watertown, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Officer Shot in Marathon Showdown Wants to Return to Work

Monday, May 20, 2013

Boston — With a bullet still in his body, the police officer who survived a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said yesterday he’s determined to return to duty. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Officer Richard Donahue has been recovering alongside victims injured in the April 15 attack by the marathon’s finish line since his transfer to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital …

In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, a scientist inspects bees during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University. Croatian researches, working on a unique method to find unexploded mines that are littering their country and the rest of the Balkans, are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Bees Trained to Hunt Land Mines

Monday, May 20, 2013

Zagreb, Croatia — Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar …

Unfinished Nazi Resort Is Drawing Investors, Vacationers to Baltic Island

Monday, May 20, 2013

Berlin — Vacation homes for sale in the German town of Prora, on the Baltic island of Ruegen, feature private saunas and sea views at a steep discount to similar properties nearby. The catch? They’re part of a dilapidated complex of identical, unadorned blocks built by Adolf Hitler to house 20,000 workers on Nazi party-sponsored vacations. Developers this spring began marketing apartments in …

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Yahoo Makes $1.1 Billion Deal to Buy Blogging Site Tumblr

Monday, May 20, 2013

San Francisco — Yahoo’s board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. It’s the biggest and riskiest deal yet for Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who is trying to make pioneering Internet company relevant to young people who have gravitated to other …

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Nicole Denis, left, and Brennan Thicke, help fill medical marijuana prescriptions at the Venice Beach Care Center medical marijuana dispensary in Venice, Calif. Los Angeles politicians have tried and failed for so long to regulate medical marijuana that it was only a matter of time before voters got a chance to control shops that have proliferated. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Fate of L.A. Pot Shops Left to Voters

Monday, May 20, 2013

Los Angeles — Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. Voters will head to the …

Obama  Is Urged To Push Economy

Monday, May 20, 2013

Washington — Five months into President Obama’s second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him. The former White House insiders, including longtime Obama …

Netanyahu   Threatens Syria Anew

Monday, May 20, 2013

Jerusalem — Fears of an escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew yesterday with renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria’s warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm, some Israeli officials say tensions with Syria are among the highest since the 1973 Yom …

Syrian Troops Attack Rebels’ Homs Stronghold

Monday, May 20, 2013

Beirut — Syrian government forces launched a long-planned offensive early yesterday on the strategic city of Qusair and neighboring rebel-controlled villages near the Lebanese border, with heavy shelling that began shortly after midnight, according to opposition and pro-regime accounts. The attack may be a prelude to a larger …

In this photo taken Wednesday May 8, 2013 Chuda Niroula, a native of Bhutan, poses in his apartment with his country's flag, and the United States flag, in Manchester, N.H. Almost two years ago he arrived in Manchester as one of the 60,000 to 80,000 refugees taken in each year by the U.S. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Refugees Pose Challenge For N.H. City

Monday, May 20, 2013

Manchester — After being exiled from his native Bhutan at age 4, Chuda Niroula spent the next two decades in a Nepali refugee camp with no running water, no electricity and never enough food. Almost two years ago …

In this Thursday, May 16, 2013 photo, A.J. Swan, left, holds a reflector during a video shoot in Randolph, Vt. Failing 9th grade for the second year in row, Swan said he had accepted that he wasn’t going to graduate from high school. That was until the school stepped in and offered him some alternative ways to prove his competencies and a hands-on learning environment at a technical school where he has thrived in video. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Schools Share Innovative Ideas

Monday, May 20, 2013

Williamstown, Vt. — Failing 9th grade for the second year in row, A.J. Swan had accepted that he wasn’t going to graduate from his Vermont high school. He’d barely made it this far, after being held back in …

Small Fla. City Home to Huge Winner

Monday, May 20, 2013

Zephyrhills, Fla. — Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn’t Matthew Bogel. Yesterday, he loaded groceries into his car …

Lenders Slow With Aid  On Mortgages

Monday, May 20, 2013

Washington — Banks have paid less than half the $5.7 billion in cash owed to troubled homeowners under nearly 30 settlements brokered by the government since 2008, delaying help to the millions of victims of discrimination and shoddy lending that epitomized the housing crisis, according to a Washington …

A Rare Glimpse of Leak Probe

Monday, May 20, 2013

Washington — When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material. They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings …