By Ben Nuckols The Associated Press ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — On a cool and rainy afternoon during the first week of classes at Centennial High School in this well-to-do Baltimore suburb, about 50 members of the boys’ cross-country team sauntered across the parking lot for their after-school run. Meanwhile, about […]
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The Associated Press COPENHAGEN — Norwegian authorities are trying to provoke a landslide by pumping water onto a mountain where a major shift in the rock has appeared threatening. Lars Harald Blikra of Norway’s Water Resources and Energy Directorate says 75,000 litres (19,500 gallons) of water had been pumped up […]
By Ted Anthony The Associated Press BANGKOK — They couldn’t award it to Kim Jong Un or Donald Trump; that much was certain. But the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons opened itself to a clear interpretation across Asia: When it comes […]
By Mark Lewis The Associated Press OSLO — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a group of mostly young activists pushing for a global treaty to ban the cataclysmic bombs. The award of the $1.1-million prize comes amid heightened tensions over […]
By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON — When Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court earlier this year he got Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, his office and his elk, Leroy. In recent appearances, Gorsuch has been telling the story of how the elk actually just its mounted head ‚Äî […]
By Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON — News bulletin in 1957: Sputnik stuns the world. CIA in 2017: Not really. The CIA released newly declassified documents on Wednesday revealing that while the American public was surprised when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite 60 years ago, […]
By Tim SullivanHyung-Jin Kim And Martha Mendoza The Associated Press HUNCHUN, China — The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in American stores and homes. Privacy is forbidden. They cannot leave […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts worked at giving the International Space Station’s big robot arm a new hand Thursday. Commander Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei tackled the job on the first of three NASA spacewalks planned over the next two weeks. The […]
By Jim Heintz And David Keyton The Associated Press STOCKHOLM — Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist best known for “The Remains of the Day,” won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The selection of the 62-year-old Ishiguro marked a return to traditional literature following two years of unconventional choices […]
The Associated Press HICKSVILLE, N.Y. — A burglar made a clean getaway from a Long Island restaurant after emptying the cash register, cooking a meal and washing the dishes. Will Colon tells Newsday (https://nwsdy.li/2z059ig ) he found bent burglar bars when he arrived Tuesday at Nelly’s Taqueria in Hicksville, New […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK — The paint experts at Sherwin-Williams have chosen a deep sea-blue hue called Oceanside as their 2018 colour of the year. The company described the pick Tuesday as evoking a wanderlust in an “opulent and mysterious” shade that serves as counterpart to a range of […]
By John Marshall The Associated Press VANCOUVER — Hockey is woven into the fabric of life in Canada and parts of the northern United States. When it gets cold, players young and old hit the ice, whenever and wherever they can find it. Sometimes, finding the ice at least enough […]
