The Associated Press LEXINGTON, S.C. — A South Carolina couple is looking for some bigger baby clothes after their son was born at a whopping 14.4 pounds. WLTX-TV reports (http://on.wltx.com/2sXwYoQ ) that Colin Austin Keisler was born by cesarean section at a hospital in Lexington. The baby is healthy, but […]
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By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Growing up in the Southwest, a tortilla was a thin flatbread used to wrap around grilled meat and make tacos. I was in my 30s before I visited Barcelona, Spain, and was served a Spanish tortilla a completely different dish and I fell in […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press One of the great, great, great (three times, that’s how great it is) pleasures of summer is figuring out what to do with all that fruit that floods the markets. Stone fruits like plums, peaches, nectarines, cherries; melons of all stripes; and berries. Oh, […]
By John Flesher The Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Michigan’s attorney general on Thursday called for shutting down twin oil pipelines beneath the waterway where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet, as the state released a consultant’s report outlining alternative scenarios for the future of oil transport in the ecologically […]
By Raphael SatterFrank Bajak And Jan M. Olsen The Associated Press PARIS — A cyberattack that caused indiscriminate economic damage around the world was apparently designed to create maximum havoc in Russia’s neighbour and adversary Ukraine, security researchers said. While the rogue software used in the attack was configured as […]
The Canadian PressDavid Friend TORONTO–Peter Mansbridge doesn’t want to make a fuss about leaving the anchor’s chair at CBC’s “The National.” Nearly a year after telling viewers he planned to retire from the public broadcaster’s flagship program, the 68-year-old newsman who defined an era at CBC News plans to sign-off […]
By David Bauder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ww NEW YORK–The reporter who accused White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders of inflaming the public against the media at a press briefing says he did it because he’s tired of being bullied by the administration. Brian Karem, an editor at the Washington-area Sentinel […]
The Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb.–A Lincoln mail carrier faced a difficult task earlier this month when he found a letter sent more than 100 years ago in his pile. The letter, with a two-cent stamp, showed up in the pile of mail Larry Schultz was sorting for his route in […]
The Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — A Lincoln mail carrier faced a difficult task earlier this month when he found a letter sent more than 100 years ago in his pile. The letter with a 2-cent stamp showed up in the pile of mail Larry Schultz was sorting for his […]
The Associated Press TOKYO — A 14-year-old boy is taking his country by storm with a record-breaking start to his pro career in the Japanese version of chess. Sota Fujii broke a 30-year-old record with his 29th win in a row. His face was plastered across front pages of major […]
The Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch appeals court has ruled that the government was partially liable in the deaths of some 300 Muslim men murdered by Bosnian Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The ruling Tuesday largely upheld a civil court’s 2014 judgment that said the […]
By Alicia A. Caldwell The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision to partially reinstate President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban has left the effort to keep some foreigners out of the United States in a murky middle ground, with unanswered questions and possibly more litigation ahead. The justices […]
