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Dog and goat vie for honorary mayor of Vermont town

FAIR HAVEN, Vt. - It's Lincoln the goat versus Sammy the dog in the race for honorary mayor of one Vermont town. The Nubian goat had won the post in Fair Haven, Vermont, last year after the town manag...

Jan 28, 2020

Budget deficit to break $1 trillion despite strong economy

WASHINGTON - An annual congressional report says the U.S. budget deficit is likely to burst through the symbolic $1 trillion barrier this year despite a healthy economy. The Congressional Budget Offic...

Jan 28, 2020

Hamas rejects 'çonspiracies' as Trump unveils Mideast plan

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - A senior Hamas official said Tuesday that the Islamic militant group rejects the "conspiracies" announced by the U.S. and Israel and that "all options are open" in respon...

Jan 28, 2020

Lawsuit: Winter wonderland is neighbour's spring nightmare

NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. - A New Hampshire woman says the operators of a seasonal attraction of ice structures failed to control runoff and flooded her basement with over 15,000 gallons of water - and sh...

Jan 28, 2020

New pressure on Prince Andrew to help Epstein investigation

LONDON - The pressure on Britain's disgraced Prince Andrew increased Tuesday after the revelation by U.S. authorities that he has failed to co-operate with the FBI's investigation into his ties with t...

Jan 28, 2020

'Like I'm trapped': Africans in China lockdown see no escape

JOHANNESBURG - The normally bustling supermarket in Wuhan was deserted, looking more foreign than ever. Khamis Hassan Bakari walked the aisles and saw just two other shoppers, and fear sank in. "Every...

Jan 28, 2020

Nicholas Parsons, host of BBC's 'Just a Minute' dies at 96

LONDON - British broadcaster Nicholas Parsons, who hosted the witty, wordy radio program "Just a Minute" for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 96. Parson's agent, Jean Diamond, said he died T...

Jan 28, 2020

Grandson’s pitch coaxes Redford out of retirement, briefly

PARK CITY, Utah - Midway through the film festival he founded more than four decades ago, Robert Redford hopped out of a car and hollered to his grandson. The 28-year-old Dylan Redford was later that ...

Jan 28, 2020

Trump plan calls for Palestinian state, settlement freeze

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say President Donald Trump's long-awaited Middle East peace plan calls for the creation of a State of Palestine with its capital in portions of east Jerusalem, ending specu...

Jan 28, 2020

Trump team wrapping up trial defence as senators mull Bolton

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's legal team prepared to wrap up arguments in his impeachment trial Tuesday as Senate Republicans wrestled with whether to allow witnesses, including John Bolton wh...

Jan 28, 2020