The Associated Press WASHINGTON–Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says. Climate change, a global major extinction of animals and plants, a human population soaring toward 10 billion, degraded land, polluted air, and plastics, pesticides, and hormone-changing chemicals in […]
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The Associated Press FAIR HAVEN, Vt.–The new honourary mayor of Fair Haven, Vt.–a three-year-old goat named “Lincoln”–officially was sworn into office this week. Lincoln was dressed in a sash reading “Mayor” for the Tuesday ceremony at the Fair Haven town offices. Town clerk Suzanne Dechame and the select board were […]
The Associated Press FAIR HAVEN, Vt. — The new honorary mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont ‚Äî a 3-year-old goat named Lincoln ‚Äî was officially sworn into office this week. Lincoln was dressed in a sash reading “Mayor” for the Tuesday ceremony at the Fair Haven town offices. Town Clerk Suzanne […]
By Elias Meseret And Yidnek Kirubel The Associated Press HEJERE, Ethiopia — Flight data recorders from a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight arrived in France for analysis Thursday as frustrated relatives of the 157 people killed stormed out of a meeting with airline officials in Addis Ababa. Sunday’s crash was the […]
By Candice Choi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That’s according to the company making the oil, which says it’s the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S. Calyxt said it can’t […]
By David Keyton And Jerry Harmer The Associated Press ALPHONSE ISLAND, Seychelles — A British-led scientific mission to document changes taking place beneath the Indian Ocean has broadcast its first live, television-quality video transmission from a two-person submersible. Monsoon storms and fierce underwater currents continued to present a challenge at […]
By Kevin Freking The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lamented the complexity of modern airplanes Tuesday in the wake of two deadly crashes in the past five months, appearing to speculate on the cause of the disasters before aviation experts from the United States and elsewhere complete their […]
By Tom Krisher The Associated Press DETROIT — A type of Takata air bag inflator once thought to be safe has now come under scrutiny after a crash and explosion in Maryland injured the driver of an older Honda minivan. The incident forced Honda on Tuesday to recall about 1.2 […]
By Krista Larson The Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal — Intercommunal violence that left at 535 people dead in western Congo may amount to crimes against humanity, according to a report by United Nations investigators released on Tuesday that cited witnesses saying village chiefs helped plan the violence. The massacre took […]
By Krista Larson The Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal — Intercommunal violence that left at 535 people dead in western Congo may amount to crimes against humanity, according to a report by United Nations investigators released on Tuesday that cited witnesses saying village chiefs helped plan the violence. The massacre took […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press We wanted to create a pasta dish that brought out the delicate, earthy flavour hiding in supermarket mushrooms. We selected cremini mushrooms, which have a meatier texture and a more intense, woodsy flavour than button mushrooms but are still readily available. Butternut squash […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press We wanted to pair earthy, hearty mushrooms with equally hearty farro. To start, we used the pasta method (an abundance of water) to boil our farro, which ensured the grains cooked evenly and required only half an hour. We then moved on to […]
