By Kim Tong-Hyung The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korean President Moon Jae-in plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister and other senior North Korean officials who are coming to the South on Friday for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Moon’s spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom […]
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By Samuel McNeil The Associated Press DHOFAR DESERT, Oman — Dressed in stark white spacesuits against the backdrop of a desolate, auburn terrain of stony plains and sand dunes, two scientists test a geo-radar by dragging the flat box across the rocky sand. Communication from mission command in the Alps […]
By Kareem Copeland The Associated Press In Jim Crow America, it’s no wonder that Jack Johnson was the most despised African-American of his generation. The first black boxing heavyweight champion of the world, Johnson humiliated white fighters and flaunted his affection for white women, even fleeing the country after an […]
The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Ahead of Valentine’s Day, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has unveiled an orange and vermilion rose named after the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president. The foundation, which promotes Mandela’s legacy, showed off the rose at its headquarters on Thursday. The Mandela rose […]
The Associated Press BOSTON — The highest court in Massachusetts is turning to the public to solve a judicial mystery. For years, a portrait of a former justice has hung outside the chambers of the chief justice of the state Supreme Judicial Court, which traces its roots to 1692. The […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Is there anything dreamier than the tender crumb of a light-as-air angel food cake? I’ve loved angel food cake ever since I first tasted it as a child. It reminded me of cotton candy. No wonder: angel food cake is essentially a fluffy blend […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world’s first space sports car is cruising toward the asteroid belt, well beyond Mars. SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed the new, more distant route for his rocketing Tesla Roadster. The red electric convertible was the unorthodox cargo aboard his […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Slowly cooking a big hunk of tough, inexpensive meat isn’t just the best way to cook this cut of meat. It’s really the only way. Most tough cuts of meat come from the hardest working parts of the animal, and therefore have a lot […]
By By Jeff DonnDesmond Butler And Raphael Satter The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Russian hackers exploited a key vulnerability in U.S. cyber defences to come within reach of stealing some of the nation’s most secret and advanced defence technology, an Associated Press investigation has found. What may have been stolen […]
