By Ali Akbar Dareini And Jon Gambrell The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom’s lead and on Monday began scaling down their diplomatic ties to Iran in the wake of the ransacking of Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic Republic, violence that was sparked by […]
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By Lauren La Rose The Canadian Press TORONTO For a second year in a row, Canadian fitness experts are touting functional fitness and high-intensity interval training as top workout trends. Functional fitness, which was second in Canfitpro’s annual trends survey last year and No. 1 this year, involves exercises that […]
By Rachel Zoll And Emily Swanson The Associated Press WASHINGTON Americans place a higher priority on preserving the religious freedom of Christians than for other faith groups, ranking Muslims as the least deserving of the protections, according to a new survey. Solid majorities said it was extremely or very important […]
By Jim Salter And Alan Scher Zagier The Associated Press ST. LOUIS Federal officials were monitoring 19 vulnerable levees on the rising Mississippi River and its tributaries, warning that hundreds of homes in Illinois and Missouri could be threatened by a rare winter flood that already forced the partial closure […]
By Boubacar Diallo And Carley Petesch The Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak over in Guinea Tuesday, a huge step in the fight against the world’s largest epidemic and the first time there are no known cases anywhere since the virus emerged in Guinea […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press We’ve all suffered through cardboard-dry chicken breasts. We do it because periodically we commit (or recommit or re-recommit) to healthy eating. And boneless, skinless chicken breasts are a fine and filling lean protein well suited to the job. Except for one thing… Because boneless, […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press I love every bite of the holidays. I loved the mashed potatoes and the pies and the cornbread stuffing and everything else. And I’m not going to look back with regret. I am, however, not going to continue eating this way indefinitely. And this […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press The French love to cook fish by poaching it in a flavoured liquid, usually a combination of white wine and water, leeks or onions, and some herbs. It’s a notably lean way to roll because there’s no fat involved. And the finished product is […]
The Associated Press DALLAS Authorities said a Texas teenager serving probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck after invoking an “affluenza” defence was in custody in Mexico, weeks after he and his mother disappeared. The public affairs department of the prosecutors’ office in Mexico’s Jalisco state confirmed that […]
The Associated Press WEST MILFORD, N.J. New Jersey wildlife officials said there’s been a sighting of a bear that walks upright on its two hind legs, and has become a social media darling. Fans of the bipedal bear nicknamed Pedals had grown concerned when the animal had not been seen […]
The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Wildlife experts and law enforcement officials on Monday worked to keep a determined elephant seal off a Northern California highway that it has repeatedly tried to cross, snarling traffic in the area. California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Andrew Barclay said callers first reported the 500-pound […]
By Hyung-Jin Kim And Foster Klug The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of An apology from Japan’s prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday in a decades-long impasse with South Korea over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War […]
