By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press The mere mention of cabbage soup in my household makes my husband a little stressed, and with good reason. He remembers all too well the cabbage soup diet fad that I talked him into trying before our wedding. To be fair, I wasn’t alone: […]
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By Armina Ligaya The Canadian Press TORONTO — The Bank of Montreal is taking a first step towards artificial-intelligence powered customer service by launching chatbots that can field questions via Facebook Messenger and Twitter. The deployment of such technology is the latest move by a Canadian bank to beef up […]
By Cassandra Szklarski The Canadian Press TORONTO — When a partial laptop ban at his Halifax cafe led to miffed patrons and headaches for staff, owner Sean Gallagher decided to do something more drastic to enforce his no-screen rule: a restaurant redesign. Gallagher says he shut down Lion & Bright […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Deviled eggs know no single season or demographic. They are blissfully democratic appetizers. In the same category as pigs in a blanket: everyone is happy to see them, sophisticated people shed their cool. You can’t be annoyed when there are deviled eggs around; it […]
The Associated PressJosh LedermanMatthew Lee WASHINGTON–U.S. President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, putting an ardent foe of the Iran nuclear deal in charge of U.S. diplomacy as Trump also dives into high-stakes talks with […]
By Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. military leaders are considering new guidelines for the use of helmet cameras on the battlefield after Islamic State-linked fighters in Niger exploited footage taken by a fallen American soldier to make a propaganda video that highlighted the killing of four […]
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON — The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter makes it “highly likely” that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday. Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed in the Soviet […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press With spring and Easter upon us, I offer a dish guaranteed to spruce up a seasonal brunch. It may look complicated, but it really couldn’t be simpler. The only hump to get over is fear of phyllo (also spelled filo), a pastry dough that […]
The Associated Press BERLIN — Germany’s biggest-selling newspaper says it is ending a decades-long practice of commissioning photos of topless female models. The Bild daily said Monday that “we will show no more topless productions of our own with women.” It said it had increasingly felt that “many women find […]
The Canadian Press QUEBEC — A Canadian company has been chosen by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide special creeper seats designed to help workers inspect its Falcon 9 rockets. Creepex designed the so-called “under rocket mobility seats” after being contacted by a SpaceX engineer. The seats allow engineers to work […]
The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — A new king cheese has been crowned in Wisconsin. The winner of the 2018 World Championship Cheese Contest is a hard sheep’s milk cheese called Esquirrou. The announcement was made Thursday night in Madison. Esquirrou is made in France at Mauleon Fromagerie by Michel […]
By Malcolm Ritter The Associated Press NEW YORK — Bones found in 1940 on a western Pacific Ocean island were quite likely to be remains from famed aviator Amelia Earhart, a new analysis concludes. The study and other evidence “point toward her rather strongly,” University of Tennessee anthropologist Richard Jantz […]
