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State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications

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State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered some public libraries across the country to stop processing passport applications, disrupting a longstanding service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years. The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease-and-desist orders to nonprofit libraries … Read more

Correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and the Gulf War, has died

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Correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and the Gulf War, has died

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at the age of 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War … Read more