The Associated Press EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A 94-year-old Indiana woman is celebrating 44 years of working at McDonald’s. The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/2n9mtLj ) friends and co-workers threw a party for Loraine Maurer, of Evansville, last week. Maurer started working at McDonald’s in 1973 and has been a […]
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By Eric Olson The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Thanks, Michigan. It was fun while it lasted. So who’s going to be the lovable underdog in the NCAA Tournament now? Take your pick: Xavier or South Carolina. The Musketeers are a No. 11 seed after losing their starting point […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts have ventured out on a spacewalk to prep the International Space Station for a new parking spot. NASA’s Shane Kimbrough (KIM-broh) and France’s Thomas Pesquet (pes-KAY) floated out the hatch Friday morning. Their main job 250 miles up involves […]
The Associated Press DUJIANGYAN, China — American-born giant panda Bao Bao made her first appearance Friday before the public in southwestern China following her move there from Washington, D.C. Bao Bao was born at the National Zoo in Washington to pandas on loan from China. Under the standard loan agreement, […]
The Associated Press LONDON — The World Health Organization says it’s aiming to vaccinate more than 115 million children against polio across Africa next week, in its continuing bid to wipe out the crippling disease. In a statement Thursday, the U.N. health agency said all children under five are being […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Cancer patients often wonder “why me?” Does their tumour run in the family? Did they try hard enough to avoid risks like smoking, too much sun or a bad diet? Lifestyle and heredity get the most blame but new research suggests random […]
The Associated Press BOSTON — A diary kept by a young John F. Kennedy during his brief stint as a journalist after World War II is being auctioned. The diary was written in 1945 when the 28-year-old Kennedy was a correspondent for Hearst newspapers, rubbing shoulders with the powerful and […]
By Julie Pace And Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Private communications of Donald Trump and his presidential transition team may have been scooped up by American intelligence officials monitoring other targets and improperly distributed throughout spy agencies, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said Wednesday an extraordinary […]
By Eric Talmadge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — North Korea has a criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump he probably wasn’t expecting: He’s too much like Barack Obama. North Korea’s state media, which regularly vilified Obama in the strongest terms, had been slow to do the same with the Trump […]
By Frank Griffiths And Gregory Katz The Associated Press LONDON — British police raided several properties and arrested seven people in connection with the attack outside Parliament that left four dead, including the man who mowed down pedestrians on a bridge and fatally stabbed an officer, a senior police official […]
By Kevin McGill And Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A judge presided, and the beaming couple embraced teary-eyed well-wishers when it was over. It wasn’t a wedding, but it brought Viet Anh Vo and Heather Pham a bit closer to marriage. Vo is 32. He’s been a […]
By Frank Jordans The Associated Press BERLIN — Scientists in Germany flipped the switch Thursday on what’s being described as “the world’s largest artificial sun” and which they hope will help shed light on new ways of making climate-friendly fuel. The giant honeycomb-like setup of 149 spotlights officially known as […]
