U.S. animals now have a medal for wartime bravery

WASHINGTON - Capitol Hill is divided these days. Impeachment hearings are leaving public servants cast as spies and saviors, connivers and guardians.
Perhaps that is why applause for a stuffed pigeon in a plexiglass case seemed particularly vigorous in a Senate building on Thursday evening. The bird has been dead for 58 years, but during World War II, he saved more than 100 allied soldiers by flying 20 miles in 20 minutes to deliver a message that aborted an imminent bombing by friendly forces.