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Chokehold hero thwarts bank gunman. He sure didn't bank on this. An armed thug's robbery of a Wisconsin bank was foiled in a matter of seconds by a hulking good Samaritan who sprang into action and put him in a sleeper hold. The heroic customer, and apparent WWE fan, was so tenacious that he hopped onto the punk's back as he tried to run away. "He just reacted. He didn't even realize he reacted until it was all over," St. Francis Police Detective Kevin Weins told The Post. "He did what he thought was right. He said he didn't even...

New York, NY, October 7, 2008 … On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII and due to renewed efforts by some to use incomplete historical evidence and testimony as the basis to reach definitive conclusions asserting that he did all he could to save Jews during the Holocaust, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is again calling on the Vatican to fully open its wartime archives. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: The need is greater than ever for the Vatican to fully open its wartime archives. It is essential that...

Separated by several states and an obvious cultural gap, two recent stories about crime - one from Ohio and the other from Oregon - perhaps best illustrate why a growing number of American citizens have concluded that the police can't protect us, and neither can gun control laws or anti-gun corporate policies. Police were quick to apprehend a suspect in the May 4 armed robbery of a Dairy Mart convenience store in Akron; perhaps much quicker than many Ohioans were able to grasp why so many of their neighbors are arming themselves, getting licenses to carry concealed handguns, and choosing...