By Jill Colvin And Bill Barrow The Associated Press GREER, S.C. Tracy Hooker isn’t interested in debating the merits of Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily block Muslims from coming into the United States. She knows some people think it’s bigoted. That others argue it’s impractical, legally dubious or both. And […]
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By Aya Batrawy The Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Saudi voters elected 20 women for local government seats, according to results released to The Associated Press on Sunday, a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country’s history. The women who won hail […]
By Dan Joling The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska Arctic offshore drilling by Royal Dutch Shell PLC drew protests on two continents this year, but a more modest proposal for extracting petroleum where polar bears roam has moved forward with much less attention. While Shell proposed exploratory wells in the Chukchi […]
By Nick Perry The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand New Zealanders have chosen a design for a possible new national flag that features the country’s iconic silver fern sitting next to the four stars that make up the Southern Cross constellation. Preliminary results from a postal ballot were announced Friday […]
By Michael Hill The Associated Press RHINEBECK, N.Y. Charles Lindbergh would instantly recognize the plane with “Spirit of St. Louis” painted on its nose rumbling above treetops in New York’s Hudson Valley. There’s a 9-cylinder engine similar to the one used in his historic flight, an identical cockpit under a […]
By Ula Ilnytzky THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK A 1956 Ferrari sold for $28 million at an auction that also featured top bidding for Janis Joplin’s psychedelic Porsche, a 1963 Pontiac owned by Roy Rogers decorated with silver dollars and guns and a kid-sized Ferrari. RM Sotheby’s offered the vintage […]
By Cara Anna The Associated Press NEW YORK Activists who are determined to give North Koreans a glimpse of the outside world have started using drones to smuggle banned information past the country’s tightly controlled borders. North Korean defector Jung Gwang Il says his organization No Chain began the deliveries […]
By Jovana Gec And Dusan Stojanovic The Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia One of the guns linked to Islamic militants in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people was exported to the United States in 2013, the head of a Serbian arms factory said Thursday. Milojko Brzakovic of the Zastava arms […]
By Bradley Klapper The Associated Press WASHINGTON U.S.-Russians tensions broke out in undiplomatic fashion in an unlikely place Thursday: The State Department briefing room. What began with a series of tough, if suggestive, questions from a correspondent for Russian government-funded news, ended with department spokesman John Kirby delivering an uncharacteristically […]
The Canadian Press Dorian Burns-Coyne enjoys cooking, but he was frustrated by trying to find meal inspiration when he got home from a long day at his job in advertising. The single man scoured websites, but “a lot of times the recipes would call for types of equipment or processes […]
By Daniella Cheslow The Associated Press HAIFA, Israel Palestinian chef Johnny Goric has cooked for President Barack Obama and served as a judge on the Palestinian version of Masterchef, a reality TV cooking show. In July, he put out his first cookbook ‚Äî but rather than publish in his native […]
The Associated Press OSLO The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which helped build democracy in the country after the 2011 revolution, has received the Nobel Peace Prize. This year’s award was collected at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital by members of four organizations, representing unions, industry, trade and human rights. […]
