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The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name.
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-- Former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver was in critical condition Monday morning at a hospital in Maryland, a spokeswoman for the family said. The 95-year-old was admitted at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda on Sunday, the family said in an e-mail statement attributed to spokeswoman Kirsten Seckler. No other details about his ailment were released. Shriver announced in 2003 that he had Alzheimer's disease. He served as the first Peace Corps director in the administration of his brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy. He also was Democrat George McGovern's running mate in 1972. Shriver's wife and Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver died in 2009 at age 88. He is also the father of former NBC reporter Maria Shriver, who is married to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The handsome Shriver is often known first as an in-law. But his achievements are historic in their own right and changed millions of lives: the Pea...
Former volunteers testify against organization
It was an extraordinarily dramatic scene, even for Congress: three Peace Corps volunteers raped while serving overseas, along with the mother of a fourth who was mur...
The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Ob...
It was the most touching goodbye of my life. My wife and I had taught English for two weeks at an elementary school in Costa Rica, and on our last day, as we walked ...
Former vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver, who served as the first director of the Peace Corps in the administration of his brother-in-law, President John ...
Libya 's Transitional National Council reported today that the former dictator, Muammar Qaddafi , is dead. This occurred as his final stronghold of Sirte fell to the...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- The U.S. government's decision to pull out all its Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras for safety reasons is yet another blow to a nation s...
The entire Peace Corps delegation in Honduras has left the country weeks after the United States decided to pull them out of for safety reasons.A U.S. Embassy spokes...
A military jury has begun deliberating whether to convict a special warfare sailor accused of raping a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda multiple times.Petty Officer 2...
A former Peace Corps worker who taught at a girl's school in rural Uganda has told a military jury that a sailor who does construction work for Navy SEALs raped her ...
A military jury found a Navy special warfare sailor not guilty late Wednesday of raping a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda multiple times after he refused to wear a c...
WASHINGTON -- Longtime U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan , died Monday after undergoing emergency heart s...
R. Sargent Shriver, the exuberant public servant and Kennedy in-law whose career included directing the Peace Corps, fighting the War on Poverty, ambassador to Franc...
A wake is set in Washington for R. Sargent Shriver, an in-law of the Kennedys and the first director of the Peace Corps.The public wake is Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p....
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt....
BETHESDA , Md. -- A medical center spokeswoman has confirmed that former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver has been hospitalized ...
R. Sargent Shriver, the ever-upbeat Kennedy in-law who served as the nation's first Peace Corps director and later led a national assault on poverty, was remembered ...
Sargent Shriver in critical condition
A former Peace Corps worker who taught at a girl's school in rural Uganda told a military jury in Virginia on Monday that a special warfare sailor who does construct...
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