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New strikes, protests as France unveils retirement bill
PARIS - French unions are holding last-ditch strikes and protests around the country Friday as the government unveils a divisive bill redesigning the national retirement system. Travellers faced renew...
Jan 24, 2020
Auschwitz survivor who was just 2 at liberation nurses scars
MUNICH - Only 2 years old and so ill she had to stay on for weeks after liberation, Eva Umlauf was one of the youngest prisoners to be freed from Auschwitz. Although she has no conscious memories stre...
Jan 24, 2020
Russian Auschwitz survivor: Only coincidence that I lived
MOSCOW - The 75 years since Yevgeny Kovalev was a teenage prisoner in Auschwitz have been marked by tormented memories and a wonder that he's still alive. "Remembering all that is always like torture ...
Jan 24, 2020
Early voting means 2020 primary is already here for millions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Iowa caucuses are more than a week away, but millions of Americans are already free to vote. Early voting in the crush of Super Tuesday states that hold primaries on March 3 a...
Jan 24, 2020
Germany's Merkel in Turkey for talks with Erdogan
ISTANBUL - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Friday for talks that are expected to focus on the future of a migration deal between Turkey...
Jan 24, 2020
Democrats struggle to build broad support on eve of voting
OSAGE, Iowa - As Joe Biden wrapped a bus tour of Iowa this week, the elderly crowd gathered at VFW Hall 7920 was a stark reminder of the former vice-president's struggle to attract young people. Berni...
Jan 24, 2020
Trump, a late convert to cause, to join anti-abortion rally
WASHINGTON - It was just four years ago that a political committee supporting one of Donald Trump's Republican rivals unveiled an ad slamming his views on abortion, complete with footage from a 1999 i...
Jan 24, 2020
Now on Trump's team, Dershowitz says, 'I haven't changed'
WASHINGTON - Alan Dershowitz was in line at Mar-a-Lago's lavish Christmas Eve buffet last month when President Donald Trump stopped to chat. The retired Harvard law professor had already been asked by...
Jan 24, 2020
Australia works to recover bodies of 3 from air tanker crash
SYDNEY, Australia - The American tanker plane that crashed while fighting Australian wildfires had just dropped a load of retardant on a fire before it went down in New South Wales state, investigator...
Jan 23, 2020
Democrats swarm industrial Iowa to prove they can beat Trump
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa - Since their surprise loss to Donald Trump in 2016, Democrats have struggled with how to regain territory that long supported the party before suddenly flipping to Republicans. T...
Jan 23, 2020
