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JOSH LEDERMAN,
JULIE PACE,
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama says the White House's disagreements with congressional Republicans should not stand in the way of agreement on issues including trade and cybersecurity.
LORI HINNANT, Associated Press
SYLVIE CORBET, Associated Press
PARIS (AP) —
France ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Monday to protect sensitive sites — nearly half of them to guard Jewish schools — as it hunted for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorized the nation.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the search is urgent because "the threat is still present" after the attacks that began Wednesday with a massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and ended when three attackers were killed Friday in two nearly simultaneous clashes with security forces around Paris.
By midday Monday, Paris' Marais — one of the country's oldest Jewish neighborhoods — was filled with police and soldiers. Some 4,700 of the security forces would be assigned to protect France's 717 Jewish schools, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
"A little girl was telling me earlier that she wanted to live in peace and learn in peace in her school," Cazeneuve as on a visit to a Paris Jewish classroom, where the walls were covered with children's drawings of smiling faces.
"That's what the government, that's what the Republic, owes to all the children in France: security in all schools, especially in the schools that could be threatened," he added.
The children listened and waved both Israeli and French flags.
TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) —
Five-year-old Phoebe Jonchuck was likely alive when her father dropped her over a bridge railing, sending her into the waters of Tampa Bay, police said Friday.
Detectives said they had "preliminary evidence" indicating Phoebe was alive, but they wouldn't say specifically what it was. Police previously said an officer who saw John Jonchuck drop Phoebe from the bridge may have heard her scream.
Her body was found in the water a couple of hours later. An autopsy is pending.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for Jonchuck's car and found a pink booster seat, cellphone and religious items they would not describe. Hours before Phoebe's death, Jonchuck called his attorney "God" and asked her to translate a Bible, police said.
The comments prompted his attorney to call police and a child welfare abuse hotline. But when police interviewed Jonchuck in person, he appeared fine and Phoebe was smiling and holding his hand. He said he didn't want to hurt himself or his little girl and had "new clarity in his life."
Jonchuck was charged with murder. It's not clear if he has an attorney. At a court hearing Thursday, a judge asked him if he wanted an attorney and he said: "I want to leave it in the hands of God."