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  • Venus Williams of the U.S. misses a return against Poland's Urszula Radwanska in their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday, May 26, 2013. Venus Williams lost in the French Open's first round for the first time since 2001, beaten 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-4 Sunday by 40th-ranked Urszula Radwanska of Poland. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

    Venus Williams out of Wimbledon with back problems

    Williams, who turned 33 Monday, was eliminated in the first round of the French Open by Urszula Radwanska; her younger sister Serena went on to win the singles title. Venus Williams hasn't made it as far as the quarterfinals in a grand slam event since she made the U.S. Open semis in 2010.

  • In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minn. prior to a visit to Minnesota from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in early June of 1990. Karkoc a top commander whose Nazi SS-led unit is blamed for burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

    Nazi commander discovered living in Minnesota

    A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.

  • Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu (left) of Israel and Donald Tusk of Poland talk before a meeting between members of their governments in Warsaw on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Mr. Netanyahu was in Poland for a two-day visit for talks with Mr. Tusk and the opening of a Holocaust exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns of another Holocaust from Iran

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off a two-day visit to Poland, which Germany's Nazis occupied during World War II and in which they committed the worst crimes ever against the Jewish people, with a stern warning about a potential Holocaust from Iran.

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    RAHN: From captive nations to free markets

    Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Keith Birlem is pictured during his time as a quarterback at San Jose State in 1938. He was named a "Little All-American" that year and went on to play in the NFL for the Chicago Cardinals and Washington Redskins. Birlem was killed in an airplane accident May 7, 1943 near Polebrook, England. (San Jose State University)

    Remembering the untimely death of former Redskin Keith Birlem

    A quarterback of a different era who made it from little San Jose State to the NFL, Birlem had only a taste of life as a combat pilot before his time ran out.

  • Venus Williams of the U.S. screams after missing a return a return against Poland's Urszula Radwanska in their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

    French Open 2013: Venus Williams bounced in first-round marathon

    The quick exit for Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam champion, came a year after her younger sister Serena was upset in the first round at Roland Garros.

  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    ERICKSON: Missiles to meet the new threat curve

    When President Obama abandoned the Bush administration's negotiated missile and radar deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic, he doubled down on what has become known as the European Phased Adaptive Approach - a series of missile defense deployment strategies staggered over the next decade throughout the European continent designed to adapt to the changing threats facing the American homeland, our allies and interests abroad.

  • A moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing is observed at 2:50 p.m. Monday on Boylston Street near the race finish line, exactly one week after the tragedy. (Associated Press)

    LIPIEN: Hushing America's message in terrorism's redoubt

    In President Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request to Congress that never passed, officials proposed to end U.S.-funded radio broadcasts to Chechnya. The violent enclave in the Russian Federation is the ancestral home of the Boston bombing suspects.

  • The Polish ambassador in Washington, Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf, is angered over plans by a Chicago-based film distributor to market a German movie that portrays Polish resistance fighters in World War II as greedy anti-Semites.

    Embassy Row: Poland protests film

    The Polish ambassador in Washington is angered over plans by a Chicago-based film distributor to market a German movie that portrays Polish resistance fighters in World War II as greedy anti-Semites.

  • A children's choir takes part in the unveiling ceremony of the statue of the late Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa, Poland, on Saturday, April 13, 2013. Archbishop Waclaw Depo unveiled the 13.8-meter (45.3-foot) white fiberglass figure that was funded by a businessman, Leszek Lyson, in gratitude for what he believes was an intervention by the late pontiff in saving his drowning son. At front is a small replica statue. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    Mega Pope: Poland unveils giant statue of John Paul II

    A giant statue of the late Pope John Paul II billed as the world's tallest has been unveiled in southern Poland.

  • ** FILE ** In this April 3, 2013, photo, a worker pushes a cart as live pigeons are sold at a cage at a poultry wholesale market in Shanghai China. China announced a sixth death from the new bird flu H7N9 strain Friday, while authorities in Shanghai halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered all poultry at a market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat. The first cases were announced Sunday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

    U.S. watchful, wary as China fights new bird flu strain

    As the bird flu death toll continues to rise in China, there's no panic in the American medical community — yet. There is, however, much caution and uncertainty as doctors from around the world monitor the unique and deadly H7N9 virus that claimed its sixth Chinese death on Friday.

  • Rep. Michael R. Turner

    EDITORIAL: Shoot, look, shoot

    The White House can put aside global warming hysteria. Nuclear proliferation among rogue nations is the real worry, but President Obama isn't persuaded. He has been making sleepy-time choices.

  • Justin Bieber performs during the halftime show at the CFL Grey Cup championship football game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Calgary Stampeders on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, in Toronto. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

    Justin Bieber: Neighbor claims singer attacked him, authorities say

    Deputies were investigating claims made Tuesday by a neighbor that singer Justin Bieber attacked and threatened him during an argument in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said.

  • Ronson on producing for McCartney: 'It's insane'

    Mark Ronson went from being the DJ at Paul McCartney's wedding to producing for the icon in the studio.

  • Illustration Natural Gas by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    PORTER: The earth-shaking promise of shale

    The rapid development of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to produce domestic shale gas and oil should make America a much stronger player on the global energy scene. Our shale revolution has made us the world's largest natural-gas producer, and we'll soon pass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the foremost oil-producing country.

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