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Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan

Baseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa,...

Lady Gaga Creates Prayer Bracelet to Benefit Disaster Relief in Japan

Hours after the world learned the shocking news about Japan's 8.9 quake and 10-meter tsunami, Lady Gaga launched a movement on Twitter to raise relief funds. The singer has designed a white and red wristband for fans to purchase in her official online store, according to MTV News, and she says all sales proceeds will...

Mysterious Recipient of World War II-Era Letter Found Back East

Last week we told a tale of two letters, World War II-era epistles that were lost in the mail for nearly seven decades. One letter, sent by a young Army lieutenant from California's Camp Roberts in 1943, arrived last month in Iowa at the home of the deceased writer's 85-year-old brother. The other letter, mailed from an...

Red Cross' Rogue Beer Tweet Brings in Donations

When an American Red Cross employee accidentally tweeted a beer-related post to the charity's Twitter account, rather than to her personal account, the Red Cross responded with humor. The casual, positive handling of the incident has inspired a slew of Web donations. "Ryan found two more 4 bottle packs of Dogfish Head's...

Another Blizzard Blitzes Middle of the Nation

Another winter storm has swept across the nation's midsection, dumping more than a foot of snow on states still struggling to recover from last week's knock-out blow. The snow continued to fall in Oklahoma this morning amid subzero wind chills and high winds that created near-blizzard conditions across the winter-weary...

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The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, race, sex, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.

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