By Sara Moulton The Associated Press This recipe celebrates one of the first and sweetest harbingers of spring: local strawberries. Sure, the supermarket offers strawberries all year ‘round, but the gems that are grown locally and show up in season boast way more flavour than their cousins from the other […]
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By Melissa Daniels The Associated Press PHOENIX — Bringing five babies into the world has left Jamie Scott feeling tired, excited and ultimately blessed. She delivered quintuplets by Caesarean section after 29 weeks of pregnancy on March 21 at Dignity Health St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. “I […]
By Rob Gillies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Kinder Morgan said Sunday it is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Canada’s oil sands to the Pacific Coast. The company said its decision […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The centre of our galaxy is teeming with black holes, sort of like a Times Square for strange super gravity objects, astronomers discovered. For decades, scientists theorized that circling in the centre of galaxies, including ours, were lots of stellar black holes […]
By Armina Ligaya The Canadian Press TORONTO — Canadians rushing to file their taxes before the looming April 30 deadline should stop to check the changes the Canada Revenue Agency has made since last season. Whether you’re a parent, a student, a commuter or a caregiver, these changes may have […]
By Leanne Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Meghan Markle is about to join more than one select group. In addition to her May 19 wedding to Prince Harry, she’ll become one of just a handful of Americans to become a senior royal around the globe. Here’s a look […]
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press There may be a critical window for overweight kids to get to a healthy level. Those who shed their extra pounds by age 13 had the same risk of developing diabetes in adulthood as others who had never weighed too much, a large study […]
By Hyung-Jin Kim And Gerry Shih The Associated Press SOUTHERN JILIN PROVINCE, China — To the North Koreans gathered beneath a crucifix in an apartment in this northeastern Chinese border region, she is known as “mom.” She feeds them, gives them a place to stay and, on occasion, money. In […]
By Lori Hinnant The Associated Press PARIS — France has flagged more than 78,000 people as security threats in a database intended to let European police share information on the continent’s most dangerous residents more than all other European countries put together ‚Äî according to an analysis by The Associated […]
