By Garance Burke And Martha Mendoza The Associated Press As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: “They want to steal my daughter!” It had been 10 weeks since Ramos had […]
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By Maggie Michael The Associated Press ABS, Yemen – Sometimes, the raw material of Ali Ghomari’s work comes screaming from the skies over Yemen. Missiles fired by Saudi-led coalition jets rain down on militiamen and civilians alike, killing and maiming thousands. Children, farmers and others collect shrapnel from their farmlands, […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press We had our hearts set on a one-pot pasta loaded with tender bites of browned sausage, hearty kale, and creamy cannellini beans. To streamline the recipe, rather than boil the pasta separately or remove the sausage from the pot once it had browned, […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press What the Brits call a “pudding” is not pudding by American standards. Rather, it’s a rich, spongy date cake that’s steamed to give it a dense, moist texture. What makes these individual-size cakes special is the sauce that they get smothered in after […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press This velvety pumpkin soup is surprisingly easy and fast thanks to canned pumpkin. The trick is getting rich, balanced pumpkin flavour out of a can. We started by creating a deeply flavourful base for our soup by softening onion and then adding cumin, […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press There is no question that cauliflower has been having a long, popular moment. I was already a cauliflower fan, even a cauliflower lover, mostly favouring sliced and broken chunks of cauliflower tossed with a generous amount of olive oil, sprinkled with a liberal amount […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press The essence of crumb cake is the balance between the buttery cake and the thick, lightly spiced topping. Starting with our favourite yellow cake recipe, we realized we needed to reduce the amount of butter or the richness would be overwhelming. We also […]
By America’S Test Kitchen The Associated Press In our opinion, gingerbread is only worth eating if its flavour is unmistakably bold and spicy. For our gingerbread bundt cake, the standard liquid combination of mild molasses and water seemed lacklustre. Robust molasses had more presence in our scaled-up cake, and we […]
By Mark Lewis And Jim Heintz The Associated Press OSLO — The Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was awarded to a Congolese doctor and an Iraqi woman who was held captive by the Islamic State group for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a […]
The Associated PressRonald Blum NEW YORK–Fans have been waiting for another one of these rumbles: baseball’s most-bitter rivals set to tangle again–this time as 100-win heavyweights in the playoffs. Munson vs. Fisk, Pedro vs. Popeye , ‘A-Rod’ vs. Varitek, and earlier this year, Brock Holt vs. Tyler Austin. The Boston […]
The Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. — A Louisiana library says a book borrowed 84 years ago has been returned by the son of the woman who checked it out as an 11-year-old girl. A librarian’s note on the Shreve Memorial Library’s Facebook page says the son found the “Spoon River […]
By Michael Liedtke The Associated Press SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He’s heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he’s strong enough to hoist 800-pound pallets of maturing vegetables and […]
