By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Big provisions are required to watch the big game, and nothing’s more substantial than a burger, even in its mini form ‚Äî the slider. Indeed, if you plan to serve a variety of dishes for the Super Bowl, sliders are more sensible than the […]
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The Associated Press The brutal 1820s frontier saga “The Revenant” landed a leading 12 nominations for the 88th-annual Academy Awards while the acting categories again were filled entirely by white performers. The strong showing today for “The Revenant,” including a best actor nod for Leonardo DiCaprio and best supporting actor […]
By Andrew Dalton The Associated Press LOS ANGELES An eye-popping and unprecedented Powerball jackpot whose rise to $1.6 billion became a national fascination will be split three ways. The winners’ identities remain a mystery, but they bought their tickets in Florida, Tennessee and a Los Angeles suburb where even lottery […]
By Niniek Karmini The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a bustling shopping area in Indonesia’s capital and waged gunbattles with police Thursday, leaving bodies in the streets as office workers watched in terror from high-rise buildings. Police said five attackers and two […]
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES A winning ticket in Wednesday night’s record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot was sold in suburban Los Angeles, a spokesman for the California lottery says. It could take several hours before officials know whether any winning tickets were sold elsewhere. The winning numbers were 4-8-19-27-34 and […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia Australia said Thursday that it was among 40 countries urged by the United States to increase their military contributions in Iraq and Syria following the Paris attacks in November. But Australia told the U.S. that its commitment would remain largely unchanged. The […]
By Astrid Galvan The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. A mother and her young child were reunited by U.S. Border Patrol agents after they were separated by a smuggler while trying to cross into the United States illegally, officials said Wednesday. The reunion occurred after agents near Douglas apprehended a Guatemalan […]
By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press North Korea’s U.N. mission claimed Wednesday that its successful nuclear bomb test showed that it could now “wipe out” the United States, as the U.N. Security Council grappled with a response to the underground blast. North Korea called it a hydrogen bomb and […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK The average age of first-time mothers is at an all-time high in the U.S ‚Äî over 26. The change is largely due to a big drop in teen moms. But more first births to older women also are tugging the number up, […]
The Canadian Press In her most recent cookbook, “The New Easy,” Donna Hay offers ways to make life easier for home cooks. She thinks there are two separate agendas weeknights and weekends. “The weeknights, there’s a lot of time constraints as well as availability of ingredients ‚Äî hopefully you already […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia The undersea search for the Malaysian airliner that vanished almost two years ago has found a second 19th century shipwreck deep in the Indian Ocean off the west Australian coast, officials said Wednesday. A sonar search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines […]
By Jill Lawless The Associated Press LONDON Will England bid goodbye to “God Save the Queen”? British lawmakers agreed Wednesday to consider replacing the royalist song that serves as England’s anthem at sporting events. “God Save the Queen” is the national anthem of the United Kingdom ‚Äî made up of […]
