The Associated Press LOS ALAMOS, N.M. A New Mexico bear hitched a ride on top of a garbage truck, travelling at least 5 miles on the vehicle before it was able to make its escape up a tree. Santa Fe National Forest spokeswoman Julie Anne Overton says the driver was […]
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By Eric Talmadge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — North Korean space officials are hard at work on a five-year plan to put more advanced satellites into orbit by 2020, and don’t intend to stop there: They’re also aiming for the moon, and beyond. In an […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Doughnuts are my kryptonite. Fried sweet dough dipped in glaze, and then dunked into a cup of steaming-hot coffee? Yes, please. And I will give this to you straight: once or twice a year, I’m all in. I load up the car and take […]
The Associated Press BERLIN — Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler’s day planner reinforces historians’ views of how mass murder was institutionalized and routine in Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Bild newspaper this week has been publishing excerpts from the calendar, which was found in a Russian archive in 2013 and is being […]
By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) and landed near Japan’s territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by a North Korean missile. The U.S. Strategic […]
By Adam Schreck The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai’s main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East’s busiest airport. Authorities said all passengers […]
By Frances D’Emilio THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has lamented that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice, adding that his predecessor, Benedict XVI has labeled current times “the epoch of sin against God the Creator.” Francis weighed in with his view […]
The Canadian Press A favourite appetizer found in Rio de Janeiro is bolinhos de bacalhau, or codfish cakes, with bars, street stalls and markets all offering their version. The lightly fried cakes or croquettes are typically made from a mixture of bacalhau (the Portuguese word for dried salted codfish), potatoes, […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press As the world turns its attention to the host country of the Olympic Games, I’m reminded of a trip I took to Brazil 20 years ago with my friend, chef and cookbook author Christopher Idone. He was so enamoured of Brazilian food that he […]
By Tom Hays The Associated Press NEW YORK — An FBI electronics technician with a top security clearance pleaded guilty on Monday to funneling photographs of FBI documents and other sensitive information to China. Prosecutors in federal court in Manhattan charged Kun Shan Chun ‚Äî a naturalized U.S. citizen who […]
By Andrew Selsky The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — Jewett Williams served in the 20th Maine Regiment in the Civil War. When he died in 1922 at an Oregon insane asylum, he was cremated and his ashes were stored and forgotten along with the remains of thousands of other patients. […]
By Muneeza Naqvi The Associated Press MUMBAI, India — When Bilqis talks about having circumcised her daughter, she goes back and forth on how she feels sometimes within the same sentence. The 50-year-old doctor defends what is widely known as female genital mutilation within her small, prosperous Shia Muslim sect […]
