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Organizers exhort women to vote for change at US rallies

Thousands of mostly young women in masks rallied Saturday in the nation's capital and other U.S. cities, exhorting voters to oppose President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican candidates in the N...

Oct 17, 2020

Organizers exhort women to vote for change at US rallies

Thousands of mostly young women in masks rallied Saturday in the nation's capital and other U.S. cities, exhorting voters to oppose President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican candidates in the N...

Oct 17, 2020

Conservatives staging free speech rally attacked by critics

SAN FRANCISCO - A free speech demonstration staged by conservative activists quickly fell apart in downtown San Francisco on Saturday after several hundred counterprotestors surged the area, outnumber...

Oct 17, 2020

'Home Improvement' actor Zachery Ty Bryan arrested in Oregon

EUGENE, Ore. - Zachery Ty Bryan, the actor who played the oldest son on the long-running 1990s sit-com "Home Improvement" was arrested in Oregon and faces charges of strangulation and assault. The Eug...

Oct 17, 2020

Suspect in teacher's beheading in France was Chechen teen

PARIS - A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibilit...

Oct 17, 2020

Transit shutdowns fail to deter Thai pro-democracy protests

BANGKOK - Pro-democracy activists in Thailand staged a fourth straight day of high-profile protests in the capital on Saturday, thwarting efforts by the authorities to stop them, including a shutdown ...

Oct 17, 2020

New virus restrictions in Europe; Merkel warns of hard days

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new cases Saturday. "Di...

Oct 17, 2020

New Zealand's Ardern wins 2nd term in election landslide

AUCKLAND, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office Saturday in an election landslide of historic proportions. With most votes counted, Ardern's liberal Labou...

Oct 17, 2020

Azerbaijan: Armenian missile killed 13, wounded over 50

BAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan on Saturday accused Armenia of striking its second-largest city with a ballistic missile that killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 50 others in a new escalation of th...

Oct 17, 2020

'There's a lemur!' 5-year-old helps crack SF Zoo theft case

SAN FRANCISCO - Police said Friday they arrested a man suspected of stealing a ring-tailed lemur from the San Francisco Zoo, where officials rewarded a 5-year-old boy who helped recapture the endanger...

Oct 17, 2020