By Darlene Superville The Associated Press LONDON — Most people send a card, call, or post on Facebook for someone’s birthday, but President Barack Obama went the extra mile on Friday thousands of miles, actually to deliver 90th birthday greetings to Queen Elizabeth II over lunch at Windsor Castle. Britain’s […]
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By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Here in America we think of white asparagus as the pink elephant of the vegetable world not even a rumour so much as a hallucination. It actually has been a staple in Europe for centuries. These days, happily enough, I’ve been spotting white asparagus […]
By James Nord The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. — Organizers of a federal effort to assess whether nuclear waste can be stored in 3-mile-deep holes are trying to better explain their intentions to South Dakota residents after getting rebuffed in North Dakota over concerns that waste might eventually be stored […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. Comey was asked during a question-and-answer session at an Aspen Security […]
By Stephen Braun The Associated Press WASHINGTON — It’s not just Wall Street banks. Most companies and groups that paid Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to speak between 2013 and 2015 have lobbied federal agencies in recent years, and more than one-third are government contractors, an Associated Press review has […]
By Elliot Spagat The Associated Press SAN DIEGO — U.S. authorities said Wednesday that they discovered a cross-border tunnel that ran a half-mile from a Tijuana house equipped with a large elevator to a lot in San Diego that was advertised as a wooden pallet business, resulting in seizures of […]
By Daniel Estrin The Associated Press JERUSALEM — The grandchildren of one of the earliest Jewish victims of the Nazis are laying claim to a jewel of Israel’s top museum: the world’s oldest illustrated Passover manuscript. The descendants of a German Jewish lawmaker say the famed Birds’ Head Haggadah, a […]
By Eric Tucker The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has signalled that it won’t try to block a lawsuit arising from the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques, leaving the door open for a court challenge over tactics that have since been discontinued and widely discredited. Lawyers call the government’s […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press For some reason, Mother’s Day has become synonymous with breakfast in bed. Maybe it is because it is the easiest meal of the day and even folks who can’t cook can make toast. And that’s not so bad. If the bread is good, there […]
The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of people are expected to descend on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to smoke pot for the annual 4/20 celebration, the unofficial marijuana holiday that some say has its roots in the Bay Area. There will be more police, park rangers, fire and […]
By Omer Farooq And Nirmala George The Associated Press HYDERABAD, India — Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said Tuesday, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still likely weeks away. Most of the heat-wave victims were labourers and […]
By Julie Pace And Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press NEW YORK — Front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton swept to resounding victories in the New York primary election, with Trump bouncing back from a difficult stretch in his Republican campaign and Clinton pushing tantalizingly close to locking up the Democratic […]
