By Rachel D’Oro THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska Scientists say they’ve discovered a massive landslide in an uninhabited area of eastern Alaska that’s the largest detected in North America since the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The Oct. 17 slider unleashed 200 million tons of rock down the Taan […]
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By Siobhan Starrs The Associated Press LONDON Lindsay Mattick’s great-grandfather was on his way to fight in World War I when he bought a bear cub he named Winnie, inspiring author A.A. Milne to create the timeless character Winnie-the-Pooh. Now, Mattick has written a new children’s book chronicling the real-life […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Eggs for dinner! Talk about serious comfort food. And one of my favourite weeknight ways to prepare them is as frittatas. A frittata is an Italian omelet, but one in which all of the add-ins (cheese, veggies, meat, rice, what have you) are mixed […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Let’s say that one of your New Year’s resolutions is to eat healthier and lose some weight. Join the crowd, right? In practice, what we probably mean ‚Äî among other things ‚Äî is that we plan to more vegetables and less meat. It’s a […]
By Nick Perry The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand A New Zealand judge ruled Wednesday that colorful Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues can be extradited to the United States to face criminal copyright charges. Dotcom’s lawyers said they have filed an appeal against the decision. Judge […]
By Frank Jordans The Associated Press BERLIN Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time at Landsberg prison in Germany following a coup attempt ten years before he successfully came to power, according to newly published historical documents. Historians have long been fascinated by the […]
By Scott Eisen The Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. X-ray vision, a comic book fantasy for decades, is becoming a reality in a lab at MIT. A group of researchers led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dina Katabi has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human […]
By Scott Eisen The Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. X-ray vision, a comic book fantasy for decades, is becoming a reality in a lab at MIT. A group of researchers led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dina Katabi has developed software that uses variations in radio signals to recognize human […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Like millions of you, I am a home cook. I get dinner on the table for my family day after day. I plan the main dish, the vegetables (I always serve two so any pickier kiddos have a choice) and the sides. And if […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press SpaceX sent a Falcon rocket soaring toward orbit Monday night with 11 small satellites, its first mission since an accident last summer. Then in an even more astounding feat, it landed the 15-story leftover booster back on Earth safely. It was the first time […]
By Mike Schneider The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla.Two Americans floated outside the International Space Station on Monday morning to perform a spacewalk with the primary goal of freeing a rail car that was stalled outside the orbiting lab. NASA’s one-year spaceman, Scott Kelly, and astronaut Timothy Kopra exited the space […]
By Sally Ho And Ken Ritter The Associated Press LAS VEGAS One person was killed and six were in critical condition after a car crashed into pedestrians on a sidewalk Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip, police said. The vehicle was in the northbound lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard […]
