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Sunday is Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2021. There are 334 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, sending it to states for ratification. (The amendment was adopted in December 1865.) On this date: In 1863, during the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-Black Union regiment composed of many escaped slaves, was mustered into federal service at Beaufort, South Carolina. In 1919, baseball Hall-of-Famer Jackie ...

Sun Viking Lodge marks 50 years in Daytona Beach Shores DAYTONA BEACH SHORES — For Gary and Barbara Brown, longtime owners of the Sun Viking Lodge, the hotel’s office is a home away from home. Actually, in the early part of the hotel’s 50 years as a beachfront fixture, the office really was the couple’s home, where they simultaneously raised two children and handled the phone calls, front desk, laundry, leaky faucets, midnight emergencies and other innkeeper duties. “This used to be my kitchen,” Barbara said, ushering a guest past desks where hotel staff members answer phones and...

HOUSTON: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Mitchell and Stuart Roosa entered the final two weeks of preparation today [Jan 17] for a moon flight which they intend will wipe out the stigma of the Apollo 13 failure. … After two expeditions in the lunar module, they will take off homewards at 1.47 p.m. (1847 GMT) on Feb 6 and splashdown in the Pacific south of American Samoa, at 4.01 p.m. (2101 GMT) on Feb 9. The mission was virtually the same for Apollo 13 last April. But Apollo 13 did not make it. An oxygen tank explosion deprived the spacecraft of its main electrical power system as it neared the mo...

do next. all options are on the table including military action. he said they should not block an international peace conference trying to bring together representatives of the a sesean government and opposition forces and likely chemical weapons were used in syria. they cited four attacks between march and april. they did not specify whether it side used them. chemical weapons are banned under international law. vladimir putin met to hash out opposing views. russian leaders are going ahead with a plan to export the s 300 surface to air missile system to syria. they want to support...