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MIAMI (AP) — Storm system Hermine continues to spin away from the East Coast, but its winds have increased to near hurricane strength, and it's still stirring up big waves and dangerous currents along Atlantic beaches. It's now centered about 300 miles east of Ocean City, Maryland, moving toward the east-northeast at 10 mph. But forecasters expect it to slow down, turn slightly more to the northwest and meander offshore for the next couple of days.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Mother Teresa has become the Catholic Church's newest saint. Pope Francis bestowed the honor today on the nun known as the "saint of the gutters" in a ceremony attended by an estimated 120,000 people. Francis praised Teresa for her radical dedication to society's outcasts and her courage in shaming world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created."
PARIS (AP) — Crowds are rallying in the French capital to call for an end to violence against Asian immigrants, after the beating death of a Chinese merchant called new attention to ethnic tensions in Paris. Local officials and representatives of the governing Socialist Party joined today's march, organized by anti-racism and Chinese community groups calling for better police protection.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police plan to double the number of officers patrolling a Brooklyn neighborhood when a procession of steel drums and costumed revelers kicks off in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. That's after an aide to New York's governor was killed by a stray bullet last year during the J'ouvert (joo-VAY'), a carnival celebrating Caribbean culture that's held before dawn each Labor Day. Police have also added 42 new security cameras.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri is defending its research practices after a pet-adoption group publicly decried an experiment that led to six female beagles being euthanized. The California-based Beagle Freedom Project says it found out about it from a study about treatment for damaged corneas. A dozen 1-year-old beagles had their left eyes intentionally damaged while they were anesthetized. Half of the dogs then were given a topical acid treatment to determine if that healed the eye damage. It didn't, and the dogs were put to death.
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