The Associated Press OMENA, Mich.–Politics in a small northern Michigan village have gone to the cats and dogs and goats and even chickens. Omena’s newly-elected mayor is a feline named Sweet Tart. Dogs Diablo Shapiro and Punkin Anderson Harder are vice-mayor and second vice-mayor. An election committee named Harley the […]
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The Associated PressDarlene SupervilleSusannah George WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump says the United States will impose sanctions on NATO ally Turkey over a detained American pastor held on terror and espionage charges. Shortly after the possibility of sanctions was first announced by Vice-President Mike Pence today, Trump wrote on Twitter that the […]
The Associated PressIlan Ben Zion JERUSALEM–A Jerusalem-based magazine has laid off a cartoonist for rendering an image of Israel’s prime minister and Likud lawmakers as pig characters from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” Israel’s journalists union said today. The cartoon was meant to criticize the Israeli government’s passage of a controversial […]
The Canadian PressCassandra Szklarski TORONTO–Research for the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program found 81 percent of Lyme disease cases involving kids and youth over a three-year study period were in Nova Scotia and Ontario. Principal investigator and Halifax-based infectious disease specialist Joanne Langley says the number of incidents in general will […]
The Associated PressEmiliano Rodriguez Mega NEW YORK–Talk about a paleo diet. Scientists have uncovered the last meal of a frozen hunter who died 5,300 years ago in the Alps. The stomach contents of the corpse, widely known as “Oetzi the Iceman,” offer a snapshot of what ancient Europeans ate more […]
The Associated PressChad Day WASHINGTON–A 29-year-old gun-rights activist served as a covert Russian agent while living in Washington, gathering intelligence on American officials and political organizations and working to establish back-channel lines of communications for the Kremlin, federal prosecutors charged yesterday. The announcement of the arrest of Maria Butina came […]
The Associated PressDavid Ginsburg WASHINGTON–The ball cleared the centre field wall, and the sellout crowd roared. Bryce Harper threw his bat in the air, thrust both index fingers skyward and yelled with delight as a shower of streamers rained upon the crowd of 43,698. It could have been a scene […]
The Associated PressVirginia MayoRaf Casert ORLEANS, Mass.–Over 3,000 miles from the trenches and battlefields of the Western Front, where many hundreds of thousands had already died, residents of Orleans, Massachusetts, were enjoying a typical summer morning on July 21, 1918, waiting for the fog to lift off the shore. Then […]
The Canadian PressCamille Bains VANCOUVER–Conditions such as sleep problems, irritable bowel syndrome and depression are more common among multiple sclerosis patients five years before they develop medically recognized signs of the disease, a new study from the University of British Columbia suggests. Prof. Helen Tremlett at UBC’s division of neurology […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON–Exactly seven months before the 2016 presidential election, Russian government hackers made it onto a Democratic committee’s network. One of their carefully crafted fraudulent emails had hit pay dirt, enticing an employee to click a link and enter her password. That breach of the Democratic Congressional Campaign […]
By Tami Abdollah The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Exactly seven months before the 2016 presidential election, Russian government hackers made it onto a Democratic committee’s network. One of their carefully crafted fraudulent emails had hit pay dirt, enticing an employee to click a link and enter her password. That breach […]
By Virginia Mayo And Raf Casert The Associated Press ORLEANS, Mass. — Over 3,000 miles from the trenches and battlefields of the Western Front, where many hundreds of thousands had already died, residents of Orleans, Massachusetts, were enjoying a typical summer morning on July 21, 1918, waiting for the fog […]
