By Jonathan Landrum Jr. The Associated Press ATLANTA — Minutes after its midnight deadline to get the electricity back on at the world’s busiest airport, Georgia Power announced early Monday that power had been fully restored to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, where more than 1,000 flights were grounded just days before […]
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The Canadian Press LONDON–Kensington Palace says the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be held on May 19. The palace announced the date toay and confirmed the ceremony will take place in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. The couple announced their engagement last month after an 18-month […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian inquiry into child abuse recommended Friday that the Catholic Church lift its demand of celibacy from clergy and that priests be prosecuted for failing to report evidence of pedophilia heard in the confessional. Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses […]
The Associated Press LONDON — Oxford Dictionaries recognized the power of the millennial generation Friday with its 2017 word of the year : youthquake. Oxford lexicographers say there was a fivefold increase in use of the term between 2016 and 2017. It is defined as “a significant cultural, political, or […]
The Associated Press CAIRO — Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says archaeologists have uncovered four intact burial sites, part of a cemetery and an incomplete statue in different areas in the southern city of Aswan. Thursday’s statement by the ministry says the new discoveries span different eras of Egypt’s ancient history. The […]
The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — A cow that escaped twice from a nativity scene in Philadelphia is back in place. The cow, nicknamed “Stormy,” wandered away from the nativity scene at Old First Reformed Church of Christ Thursday and ended up on Interstate 95. Philadelphia police eventually boxed in the […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press I first tasted harissa when I was 19, and I travelled on a lone adventure to Tunisia after spending a semester abroad in France. I browsed the open markets, with their appealing drapey white cotton clothing – I wore billowy pants from that trip […]
By Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press WASHINGTON — As the nation’s economy was still reeling from the body blow of the Great Recession, Seattle’s was about to take off. In 2010, Amazon opened a headquarters in the little-known South Lake Union district ‚Äî and then expanded eight-fold over the next […]
By Kyle Potter The Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton was set to reveal his choice Wednesday to replace Al Franken in the U.S. Senate, with the top contender seen as his longtime adviser Lt. Gov. Tina Smith. Dayton has declined to answer questions about the […]
By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has softened America’s stance on possible talks with North Korea, calling it “unrealistic” to expect the nuclear-armed country to come to the table ready to give up a weapons of mass destruction program that it invested so […]
By Richard Lardner The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand got a fight she wants after President Donald Trump lashed out at the New York Democrat in a provocative tweet that claimed she’d begged him for campaign contributions and would “do anything” for them. Gillibrand, who’s up for re-election […]
By Vladimir Isachenkov And Zeina Karam The Associated Press MOSCOW — When Russia launched a military campaign in Syria two years ago, President Vladimir Putin sought to save his ally from imminent collapse and break Russia’s international isolation over a crisis in Ukraine. He achieved that and more, emerging as […]
