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American tourist dies, U.S. Marine missing in separate incidents off Puerto Rico coast

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[ad_1] Dangerous rip currents cause Gulf Coast drownings Dangerous rip currents responsible for several drownings at Gulf Coast beaches 02:05 The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it is searching for a U.S. Marine who went swimming in high surf off Puerto Rico’s northeast coast while on vacation, while another American tourist died in a separate incident in the dangerous surf. Officials identified the missing Marine as 26-year-old Samuel Wanjiru from Massachusetts and said he was visiting the island with his family. He went missing Wednesday afternoon after going into the…

Ben Stern, Who Opposed a Nazi Rally in Illinois, Dies at 102

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[ad_1] When a band of Nazis proposed to exercise their right to free speech by staging a rally in Skokie, Ill., in 1977, Ben Stern was incensed. A survivor of nine concentration camps, he did not understand why acolytes of Hitler could demonstrate in the United States, let alone in his predominantly Jewish adopted hometown, where many Holocaust survivors lived. The idea of a Nazi gathering in Skokie, a suburb of Chicago, was like “being put back into the concentration camp,” Mr. Stern told a local television station at the…