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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 counterprotesters surged the area, outnumbering and attacking those gathered, including knocki

Oct 17, 2020 7:53 PM Read more >

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 Nov. 3 elections.

Oct 17, 2020 7:22 PM Read more >

At least 5 injured in blast, fire at Virginia strip mall

HARRISONBURG, Va. — An investigation was underway into the cause of an explosion and large fire at a shopping centre in Harrisonburg, Virginia, that injured at least five people Saturday morning.

Oct 17, 2020 5:29 PM Read more >

'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.

Oct 17, 2020 4:27 PM Read more >

Armenia, Azerbaijan announce new attempt at cease-fire

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Armenia and Azerbaijan on Saturday announced a new attempt to establish a cease-fire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh starting from midnight, a move that comes a week after a Russia-brokered truce frayed immediately after it

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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.

Oct 17, 2020 2:55 PM Read more >

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 responsibility on social media minutes after the attack, offici

Oct 17, 2020 12:48 PM Read more >

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 of the city's mass transit systems.

Oct 17, 2020 11:24 AM Read more >

Missouri woman whose arrest sparked outrage gives birth

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Black woman whose arrest when she was nine-months pregnant sparked outrage has given birth to a girl, her attorney says.

Oct 17, 2020 11:20 AM Read more >

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.

Oct 17, 2020 11:15 AM Read more >