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Bye-bye buoy: Large beacon removed from Florida beach

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. - A large red navigation buoy that bobbed around the Atlantic Ocean for two years was removed Thursday from a Florida beach where it had become something of a tourist attraction...

Jan 02, 2020

Sour notes for Macron from striking Paris Opera musicians

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a compromise between his government and unions over plans to change the pension system that have led to sustained strikes - including from Paris...

Jan 02, 2020

Castro drops out of 2020 presidential race

AUSTIN, Texas - Former Obama housing secretary Julin Castro is ending his run for president. His announcement Thursday comes as Castro failed to garner enough support or donations to make the recent D...

Jan 02, 2020

Golden Globes will serve plant-based meal at awards ceremony

LOS ANGELES - The Golden Globes, known as the "party of the year," is going with a meatless menu for its 77th annual awards show. Guests will be served a 100% plant-based meal just ahead of showtime S...

Jan 02, 2020

Correction: Libya-Migrant Business-Sketches story

CAIRO - In a story December 31, 2019, about an Eritrean migrant making sketches about detention centres in Libya, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he escaped forced military conscription...

Jan 02, 2020

Japanese prosecutors raid Nissan ex-chair Ghosn's Tokyo home

TOKYO - Japanese prosecutors raided the Tokyo home of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn after he skipped bail before a trial on financial misconduct charges and left for Lebanon. Tokyo prosecutors a...

Jan 02, 2020

Security tight, Jews gather at stadium for religious event

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Tens of thousands of Jewish people congregated Wednesday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to celebrate the reading of the entire Talmud in an event called Siyum HaShas - and dr...

Jan 02, 2020

Santa Fe Chicano mural slated for destruction for new museum

An iconic Chicano mural in Santa Fe painted by Mexican American artists is scheduled for destruction to make way for a new contemporary museum, generating a debate about gentrification and whose cultu...

Jan 02, 2020

Fleeing war, poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt

CAIRO - Two Sudanese sisters, Seham and Ekhlas Bashir, were walking their children home from elementary school in a Cairo neighbourhood when a group of Egyptian teenagers crowded around them. The boys...

Jan 02, 2020

Funeral set for mother, son killed in Louisiana plane crash

LAFAYETTE, La. - A Louisiana mom and son who were devoted fans of Louisiana State University and were on their way to see the school's football team in the Peach Bowl when they died in a plane crash, ...

Jan 02, 2020