By Blake Nicholson The Associated Press BEULAH, N.D. — Drought in North Dakota is laying waste to fields of normally bountiful food and hay crops and searing pastures that typically would be home to multitudes of grazing cattle. Some longtime farmers and ranchers say it’s the worst conditions they’ve seen […]
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By The Culinary Institute Of America The Associated Press Mother Nature has a sixth sense for when we’re reaching our temperature breaking point. At the very same moment your hot oven becomes unwelcome, a tomato is being plucked from the vine and a cucumber is being nestled into its stall […]
By Ralph D. Russo The Associated Press NEW YORK — The roar of the engine was replaced by a furious whirring as the future of motorsports came to Brooklyn. Formula E took over part of the waterfront neighbourhood of Red Hook on Sunday, the second of two race days for […]
By Frank Bajak And David Koenig The Associated Press HOUSTON — If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. The Department of Homeland Security says it’s the […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK — Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million […]
By Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A group of girls from Afghanistan are finally getting their wish of coming to the United States for a robotics competition. The girls’ applications for U.S. visas had been denied twice, but the White House says President Donald Trump intervened and they […]
By Candice Choi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — McDonald’s is hoping to make a difference in its future seven seconds at a time. The company that helped define fast food is making supersized efforts to reverse its fading popularity and catch up to a landscape that has evolved around […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Sometimes, it’s just too hot to turn on the stove. The key is to stock up your kitchen with “healthy convenience food” that doesn’t require any heat, such as fresh produce, canned beans, canned fish and small boxes of pre-cooked legumes found in the […]
By Michelle R. Smith THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Where’s the character Rey in the “Star Wars” version of Monopoly? In a land far, far away, apparently. Eighteen months after game-maker Hasbro Inc. promised to add the female character to the game by the fall of 2016, an Illinois […]
VELDHUISEN-Born to Marcus and Jenelle, nee Ferris, of Emo, Ontario, a boy, Eli James, weighing 8 lbs 12 oz on June 18, 2017 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
BIG GEORGE-Born to Heather Big George and Tyler Doerksen, of Fort Frances, Ontario, a girl, Ameliah Jean, weighing 8 lbs 6 oz on June 18, 2017 at La Verendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
