By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A record-tying eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in number. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA joined with Google on Thursday to announce the finding. This eighth planet […]
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By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher The Associated Press HONOLULU — National gay rights advocates are watching how a child support fight between a divorced lesbian couple plays out in Hawaii, likely the first such case before a state Supreme Court, experts say. A woman wants to sever her parental rights to […]
The Associated Press CAIRO — Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says archaeologists have uncovered four intact burial sites, part of a cemetery and an incomplete statue in different areas in the southern city of Aswan. Thursday’s statement by the ministry says the new discoveries span different eras of Egypt’s ancient history. The […]
The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — A cow that escaped twice from a nativity scene in Philadelphia is back in place. The cow, nicknamed “Stormy,” wandered away from the nativity scene at Old First Reformed Church of Christ Thursday and ended up on Interstate 95. Philadelphia police eventually boxed in the […]
By Melissa Rayworth The Associated Press For elderly people struggling with memory loss, one of the toughest things can be forgetting the details of their own lives. What must it be like when you struggle to recall something you were sure you’d never forget ‚Äî the name of an old […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press I first tasted harissa when I was 19, and I travelled on a lone adventure to Tunisia after spending a semester abroad in France. I browsed the open markets, with their appealing drapey white cotton clothing – I wore billowy pants from that trip […]
By Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press WASHINGTON — As the nation’s economy was still reeling from the body blow of the Great Recession, Seattle’s was about to take off. In 2010, Amazon opened a headquarters in the little-known South Lake Union district ‚Äî and then expanded eight-fold over the next […]
By Joe McDonald THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — Chinese authorities have commandeered supplies of natural gas to heat homes, forcing chemical plants and factories to shut down, after efforts to clear smog-choked air by banning coal use backfired by causing energy shortages in frigid weather. The disruption highlights the government’s […]
By Kyle Potter The Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton was set to reveal his choice Wednesday to replace Al Franken in the U.S. Senate, with the top contender seen as his longtime adviser Lt. Gov. Tina Smith. Dayton has declined to answer questions about the […]
By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has softened America’s stance on possible talks with North Korea, calling it “unrealistic” to expect the nuclear-armed country to come to the table ready to give up a weapons of mass destruction program that it invested so […]
