By Renee Graham The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Outside an old house in a battered Johannesburg neighbourhood, a hatch door slams shut and an alarm signals the arrival of an abandoned baby. A new infant is joining the ranks of toddlers being raised in the centre. In this periodic ritual, […]
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By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station on Thursday, after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment a day. Everything went smoothly the second time around as the station astronauts captured the SpaceX […]
By Sadie Gurman And Maria Danilova The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Conservatives are praising the Trump administration’s rollback of public school bathroom requirements for transgender students, saying the move corrects a legal overreach by the Obama administration that is best left for states to decide. Transgender rights advocates, meanwhile, are […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Bacteria live on everyone’s skin, and new research shows some friendly germs produce natural antibiotics that ward off their disease-causing cousins. Now scientists are mixing the good bugs into lotions in hopes of spreading protection. In one early test, those customized creams […]
By Philip Marcelo The Associated Press BOSTON — Long before they were called selfies, Karl Baden snapped a simple black and white photo of himself. Then he repeated it, every day, for the next three decades. Baden’s “Every Day” project officially turns 30 on Thursday and he says he has […]
The Canadian Press Blessed with rain after a drought of several years, California fig farmers are optimistic this will be an even better year than last for their crop, says Karla Stockli of the California Fig Advisory Board. Figs complement many cuisines, whether Indian, Persian, Italian, Greek or Middle Eastern. […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Like many families, we try to minimize the amount of processed sugar we eat. But, it is lurking everywhere, and we are eating far more processed sugar than our grandparents did. How to combat this trend that seems to have sneaked up on us? […]
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Michael Schwarz is a self-employed business owner who buys his own health insurance. Subsidized coverage through “Obamacare” offers protection from life’s unpredictable changes and freedom to pursue his vocation, he says. Brett Dorsch is also self-employed and buys his own health insurance. […]
By Mark Stevenson The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Mexicans fear deportee and refugee camps could be popping up along their northern border under the Trump administration’s plan to start deporting to Mexico all Latin Americans and others who entered the U.S. illegally through this country. Previous U.S. policy called […]
By Colleen Barry And Maria Grazia Murru The Associated Press ROME — From specialty shops in Rome to supermarkets around the world, lovers of Italian olive oil are in for some sticker shock this year, with prices due to jump by as much as 20 per cent. The combination of […]
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON — While most people born in rich countries will live longer by 2030 ‚Äî with women in South Korea projected to reach nearly 91 Americans will continue to have one of the lowest life expectancies of any developed country, a new study predicts. […]
