By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea on Monday offered talks with North Korea to ease animosities along their tense border and resume reunions of families separated by their war in the 1950s. It was unclear how North Korea will react since it remains […]
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By Blake Nicholson The Associated Press BEULAH, N.D. — Drought in North Dakota is laying waste to fields of normally bountiful food and hay crops and searing pastures that typically would be home to multitudes of grazing cattle. Some longtime farmers and ranchers say it’s the worst conditions they’ve seen […]
By The Culinary Institute Of America The Associated Press Mother Nature has a sixth sense for when we’re reaching our temperature breaking point. At the very same moment your hot oven becomes unwelcome, a tomato is being plucked from the vine and a cucumber is being nestled into its stall […]
The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.–A NASA spacecraft circling Jupiter is revealing the up-close beauty of our solar system’s biggest planetary storm. Juno flew directly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on Monday, passing an amazingly close 9,000 km (5,600 miles) above the monster storm. The images snapped by JunoCam were […]
The Associated PressLynn Elber LOS ANGELES–“Saturday Night Live,” powered by madcap skits skewering the Trump administration, yesterday earned 22 Emmy Award nominations, including bids for Alec Baldwin’s florid portrayal of the president and Melissa McCarthy’s manic, gender-busting take on press secretary Sean Spicer. The long-running NBC variety show tied with […]
The Associated PressDanica Kirka LONDON–A vast iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said yesterday. The iceberg broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf, scientists at the University of Swansea in Britain said. The iceberg is […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK–Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust, plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected, are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million-$4 million. They’re […]
By Frank Bajak And David Koenig The Associated Press HOUSTON — If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. The Department of Homeland Security says it’s the […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK — Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million […]
By Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A group of girls from Afghanistan are finally getting their wish of coming to the United States for a robotics competition. The girls’ applications for U.S. visas had been denied twice, but the White House says President Donald Trump intervened and they […]
By Candice Choi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — McDonald’s is hoping to make a difference in its future seven seconds at a time. The company that helped define fast food is making supersized efforts to reverse its fading popularity and catch up to a landscape that has evolved around […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Sometimes, it’s just too hot to turn on the stove. The key is to stock up your kitchen with “healthy convenience food” that doesn’t require any heat, such as fresh produce, canned beans, canned fish and small boxes of pre-cooked legumes found in the […]
