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HAVANA — A carload of burly nephews and grandsons greeted Martha and Alfredo Gonzalez when they stepped out of Havana's international airport into the blazing heat of an August afternoon. A round of embraces and the young men got down to business, hefting the retired couple's seven massive duffel...
Dorian Johnson had just moved from his mother's house in St Louis to a two-bedroom spot in the Canfield Green Apartments that he was sharing with his then-pregnant girlfriend and another roommate. Sometime in March, a buddy stopped by with a stranger. "Wow," Johnson said, "that's a...
A California high school has retired a controversial Arab mascot. The bearded, snarling mascot with a large hooked nose who wears a head scarf did not appear at Coachella Valley High School's season opening football game on Friday. A belly-dancing genie that often appears with the mascot during...
All five people aboard a small plane that crashed near an airport north of Denver have died, according to a spokesman for the National...
Cuba is bringing in new rules limiting personal imports of foreign goods into the country, where locally-made items are scarce and expensive. Some $2bn (£1.2bn) in goods have been flown into Cuba in travellers' baggage each year since air travel restrictions were lifted in 2009. Many ordinary...
Four months after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, lawmakers banned at least 115 types of semiautomatic firearms. Four months after the shooting of a congresswoman and a federal judge in Arizona, lawmakers there named the Colt Army Action Revolver the official state gun. The...
Lizbet Martínez, the Cuban rafter girl who warmed the hearts of U.S. Coast Guard officers and many others across the nation 20 years ago with her rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner, still has the violin that made her famous. Martínez, then 12 years old, became the endearing face of a...
