By Sara Moulton The Associated Press A larger-than-usual crowd meeting up at your house for dinner? This Onion Beer Bread would add a lot to the menu. It’s delicious, of course, but it’s also very easy to whip up. Unlike more conventional breads, this one doesn’t involve yeast or require […]
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By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The B-52, which people have called “aging” seemingly for ages, is now likely to outlive its younger, snazzier brother bombers, the swing-wing B-1 and the stealthy B-2. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced Monday that her service will begin retiring the B-1 […]
By Dylan Lovan The Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Dallas Brown can still see the bullets coming for him 50 years later, smacking into the dirt at his feet as north Vietnamese soldiers fired on his platoon during an ambush deep in the jungle. Minutes later, as the deadly […]
By Morgan Lowrie The Canadian Press MONTREAL — If you think achieving the yogi’s perfect balance and inner peace is already hard enough hard, just try it with frozen toes. But on Saturday morning, when people were more likely to be waking up over a leisurely cup of coffee, dozens […]
The Associated Press LONDON — All flights in and out of London City Airport were cancelled Monday after a 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) unexploded World War II-era bomb was found nearby in the River Thames. The Metropolitan Police service cleared an area within 214 metres (700 feet) of the bomb, including several […]
By Eric Talmadge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s younger sister arrived in South Korea on Friday to begin an unprecedented three-day visit in which she will attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and then sit down with South […]
The Associated PressSamuel McNeil DHOFAR DESERT, Oman–Dressed in stark white spacesuits against the backdrop of a desolate, auburn terrain of stony plains and sand dunes, two scientists test a geo-radar by dragging the flat box across the rocky sand. Communication from mission command in the Alps is delayed 10 minutes […]
By Jon Gambrell The Associated Press MARIB, Yemen — Along a narrow road in Yemen choked by natural gas tankers and heavily armed soldiers lies an ancient temple neglected and threatened in a nation now at war. The Awwam Temple links a region now on the front lines of the […]
By Kim Tong-Hyung The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korean President Moon Jae-in plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister and other senior North Korean officials who are coming to the South on Friday for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Moon’s spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom […]
The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Ahead of Valentine’s Day, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has unveiled an orange and vermilion rose named after the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president. The foundation, which promotes Mandela’s legacy, showed off the rose at its headquarters on Thursday. The Mandela rose […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Is there anything dreamier than the tender crumb of a light-as-air angel food cake? I’ve loved angel food cake ever since I first tasted it as a child. It reminded me of cotton candy. No wonder: angel food cake is essentially a fluffy blend […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world’s first space sports car is cruising toward the asteroid belt, well beyond Mars. SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed the new, more distant route for his rocketing Tesla Roadster. The red electric convertible was the unorthodox cargo aboard his […]
