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Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney dies at age 85

LOS ANGELES - Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on "Sesame Street," died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to ...

Dec 08, 2019

N. Korea conducts 'important test' at once-dismantled site

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea said Sunday that it carried out a "very important test" at its long-range rocket launch site that it reportedly rebuilt after having partially dismantled it at ...

Dec 08, 2019

Idris Elba DJs, banana art sells for $120k at Art Basel

MIAMI - 3D-printed cocktails, a traffic jam sculpture made of hundreds of tons of sand and more celebrity sightings than a Kardashian Christmas party were all part of over-the-top festivities during t...

Dec 08, 2019

Rapper Juice WRLD dies after medical emergency in Chicago

CHICAGO - Rapper Juice WRLD, who launched his career on SoundCloud before becoming a streaming juggernaut and rose to the top of the charts with the Sting-sampled hit "Lucid Dreams," died early Sunday...

Dec 08, 2019

'Devastated': 3 crew killed in Black Hawk crash in Minnesota

ST. CLOUD, Minn. - Three soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard were killed Thursday when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding in for a routine maintenance test flight crashed in a farm fiel...

Dec 07, 2019

San Francisco Opera names its first female music director

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Opera has named conductor Eun Sun Kim its new music director, ushering the first woman into the job in the company's history. The 39-year-old Kim will become the comp...

Dec 07, 2019

Pensacola naval base shooting tests US relations with Saudi

WASHINGTON - Just months after senior U.S. officials delivered substantial military aid to Saudi Arabia to counter threats from Iran, America's relationship with the kingdom is being tested by a Saudi...

Dec 07, 2019

Saudi Aramco plans $25.6B share sale in biggest ever IPO

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco on Thursday set a share price for its IPO - expected to be the biggest ever - that puts the value of the company at $1.7 tri...

Dec 07, 2019

SpaceX launches beer malt, caring robot and 'mighty mice'

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX launched a 3-ton shipment to the International Space Station on Thursday, including "mighty mice" for a muscle study, a robot sensitive to astronauts' emotions and a mini...

Dec 07, 2019

House Speaker Pelosi rebukes reporter: 'Don't mess with me'

WASHINGTON - Finger pointing and voice hoarse, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday delivered a broadside to a reporter that might well apply to all of impeachment-era Washington: "Don't mess with m...

Dec 07, 2019