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Sasha Obama, the former president's younger daughter, graduated from high school on Sunday with her parents, Barack and Michelle Obama, and her sister Malia in attendance. Her school, Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., posted a picture of her graduating class on Instagram and Facebook, showing Sasha, 18, in the second row from the back, fourth from the left.  The Instagram post featured a quote from the 2019 commencement speaker, Sheila Johnson, plus congratulations. "Life has never been about you or about me. Life and all that matters within it has always been about us.  "Congratulations to the Class of 2019! We can’t wait to see the great things you will do!" The Obamas' post-White House office in Washington did not respond to a message from USA TODAY seeking comment. There were no media pictures of the event although other attendees apparently posted pictures on Instagram, which later disappeared. The Obamas resisted talking ...

A veteran has beaten the odds to enjoy a tender reunion with his war-time lover, 75 years after they last set eyes on each other. Kara Troy (KT) Robbins, stationed with the US army in north-eastern France in 1944, fell in love with local girl Jeannine Pierson, 18. But one morning Robbins, 24, had to leave in a hurry for the eastern front. Later back in the US, he got married to someone else. "When he left in the truck, I cried, of course, I was very sad," said Pierson. "I wish after the war he hadn't returned to America." After the war, she began learning some basic English phrases in the hope Robbins would one day return to France. But, despite marrying, Robbins kept a picture of war-time sweetheart.  When he returned to France for this month's D-Day anniversary commemorations, he was clutching the image, unsure if she was still alive. Robbins met some French journalists who helped track down his war-time lover and organise an emot...