By Eileen Sullivan And Richard Lardner The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Brushing aside Donald Trump’s dismissiveness, the nation’s intelligence chief insisted Thursday that U.S. agencies are more confident than ever that Russia interfered in America’s recent presidential election. And he called the former Cold War foe an “existential threat” to […]
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By Denis D. Gray The Associated Press ACH SEH ISLAND, Cambodia — A 7-inch creature with a head resembling a horse and a monkey-like tail glides gracefully out of a dark coral crevice off the Cambodian coast. Master of camouflage, unrivaled as a hunter and a much-loved figure of ancient […]
By Erica Werner And Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that Mexico will reimburse American taxpayers for a new border wall and that U.S. money spent will be for the “sake of speed.” His tweet came as top aides consider a plan to […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts went spacewalking Friday morning to hook up fancy new batteries on the International Space Station’s sprawling power grid. Commander Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson got a hand from a space station robot that took care of most of the […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press These sweet treats are a riff on the very popular summer campfire s’mores. If you love marshmallow and chocolate and get nostalgic when you think of campfire s’mores, these simpler “no-bake” Game Day S’mores will delight you. The s’mores are easy to make, appeal […]
By Caleb Jones The Associated Press HONOLULU — As traditional commercial fishing is threatening fish populations worldwide, U.S. officials are working on a plan to expand fish farming into federal waters around the Pacific Ocean. The government sees the move toward aquaculture as a promising solution to overfishing and feeding […]
Peacefully, on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2016 at the age of 93, our dear mother, Bess McCarthy, left us to join our father, Mervyn, and sisters, Linda and Joan, in Heaven. Mom was a kind and loving person. She always had a smile on her face and a twinkle in her […]
It will be partly cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-27 C (17 below zero F) that will feel more like minus-29 (21 below) due to southwest winds at five-10 m.p.h. Tomorrow will partly sunny and cold, with a high of minus-19 (two below) and low of minus-25 (13 […]
Staff Three days in and it already was an unhappy New Year for the Fort Frances Lakers. Clayton Brown beat Brandon Bodnar to finish an odd-man rush at 2:37 of overtime to give the Minnesota Iron Rangers a 5-4 win in SIJHL action Tuesday night at the Ice For Kids […]
Heather Latter Children of all ages—some getting assistance from adults—participated in a B-I-N-G-O event at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre yesterday afternoon as part of kids’ activities over the holiday break. The library also offered up a Pokémon session on Tuesday while a “Let go my LEGO” event […]
By Carrie Antlfinger The Associated Press MILWAUKEE — The zookeepers at the Milwaukee County Zoo are hand-raising a lone Amur tiger cub an unusual undertaking only done in order to save the cub’s life. Vets and zookeepers had to give special one-on-one care to then-10-pound cub named Kashtan after he […]
The Associated Press STOCKHOLM — Queen Silvia says one of the Swedish royal family’s palaces is haunted ‚Äî but the phantoms are “pretty friendly.” “There are ghosts, many,” Silvia says of the Drottningholm Palace in a documentary to be aired Thursday on public television channel SVT. “You feel you get […]
