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Strasbourg Remembers Victims Of The Christmas Market Attack

PARIS (AP) — Residents of the eastern French city of Strasbourg filled a city square Sunday for a memorial to the four people shot dead and the dozen wounded by a gunman at their famous Christmas market. The hour-long ceremony took place in Kleber Square by the city's Christmas market, near where the gunman opened…
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Girl Who Died Fled Intensely Poor Guatemalan Village

By SONIA PEREZ D. , Associated Press SAN ANTONIO SECORTEZ, Guatemala (AP) — Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin received her first pair of shoes several weeks ago, when her father said they would set out together for the United States, thousands of miles from this small indigenous community in Guatemala where she spent her days…
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Trump Picks Mulvaney To Be Next Chief Of Staff

By JONATHAN LEMIRE, CATHERINE LUCEY and JILL COLVIN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday picked budget director Mick Mulvaney to be his next chief of staff, ending a chaotic search for a new chief of staff that had been inching forward with the feel of an unfolding reality TV show.…
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Held at US Border Dies in Custody

By COLLEEN LONG and ASTRID GALVAN ,  Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A 7-year-old girl picked up with her father and dozens of other migrants along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border suffered seizures and spiked a high fever in immigration custody and later died, federal officials said. An autopsy was scheduled to try to…
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Trump’s Search For New Chief Of Staff Has Reality TV Feel

By CATHERINE LUCEY and JONATHAN LEMIRE ,  WASHINGTON (AP) — Serious contenders are hiding from view. Celebrity hangers-on are applying via Twitter. Fresh names circulate practically on the hour. And the man in charge is stoking much of the confusion. President Donald Trump's hunt for a new chief of staff has taken on the feel of…
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