By Julie Pace And Jill Colvin The Associated Press HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Donald Trump aggressively tried to pin the nation’s economic and national security problems on Hillary Clinton in the first presidential debate, belittling the former senator and secretary of state as a “typical politician” incapable of delivering the change […]
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By Alison Mutler The Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania — A district of the Romanian capital on Monday celebrated hundreds of couples who have been married for at least half a century by handing out cash awards and inviting them to a joint lunch. Bucharest’s fifth district town hall says it […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press If you have kids, then you know that thinking about dinner on Halloween is not easy. Getting the kids out the door with a little something in their stomachs besides candy is one of the few things you can do to wrangle a bit […]
By James MacPherson The Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota state inspection of an oil pipeline site has found no sign of the Native American artifacts or human remains that an American Indian Tribe says are present, the state’s chief archaeologist said in a draft memo. The Standing […]
By Tim Reynolds And Steven Wine The Associated Press MIAMI — Jose Fernandez escaped from Cuba by boat on his fourth try as a teenager, and when his mother fell into the Yucatan Channel during the journey, he jumped in and pulled her out. Fernandez’s heroic backstory made his death […]
By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON — As defence secretary to a president who famously envisioned “a world without nuclear weapons,” Ash Carter has said remarkably little about them. He has been quiet on a range of nuclear issues, including the Pentagon’s $8 billion effort to correct an array […]
By Christopher Torchia The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Some call it “ivory on wings,” part of the bill of a critically endangered bird in Southeast Asia that is sought by poachers and carved into ornaments for illegal sale to Chinese buyers. The helmeted hornbill isn’t getting as much attention as […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — An ultrasound showed one of Sarah Gray’s unborn twins was missing part of his brain, a fatal birth defect. His brother was born healthy but Thomas lived just six days. Latching onto hope for something positive to come from heartache, Gray donated […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press This time of year, with the weather getting colder, I love to serve soup for supper. It’s an easy sell at my house, where The Husband is a soup-aholic. But with a soup this good, I firmly believe you can sell it to anyone. […]
By Mark Pratt The Associated Press BOSTON — A Swede who wrote a trilogy about collecting bugs, an Egyptian doctor who put pants on rats to study their sex lives and a British researcher who lived like an animal have been named winners of the Ig Nobels, the annual spoof […]
By William J. Kole The Associated Press BOSTON — Did notorious gangster Al Capone have a soft spot? An intimate letter he penned from prison suggests the ruthless racketeer could handle tenderness almost as skillfully as his Tommy Gun. The three-page letter which is being auctioned off next week is […]
By Tim Sullivan The Associated Press Officially, the United States and North Korea barely speak to each other, their communications often limited to public exchanges of insults. The U.S. ambassador in Seoul is “a villain, a crazy person,” a North Korean diplomat says. North Korea is a “wasteland” compared to […]
