By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING Schools closed and rush-hour roads were much quieter than normal as Beijing’s first-ever red alert for smog took effect Tuesday, closing many factories and invoking restrictions to keep half the city’s vehicles off the roads. The alert in effect through Thursday the most […]
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By Jill Colvin The Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” an idea that prompted one of his rivals to call him “unhinged.” The proposed ban would apply to immigrants and visitors alike, a […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Those of us who celebrate Hanukkah already are in serious prep mode (or realizing we should be). I like the lighting of the candles. I love giving people the perfect gift. But what we all probably love most are the latkes, or potato pancakes. […]
By Alison Ladman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Holiday roasts as delicious as they are often suffer from slab-of-meat syndrome. Which is to say, you plop down a honking hunk of meat and… that’s about it. Not the prettiest or most festive item on the table. So we decided to see what […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Who says a holiday roast has to be red meat or poultry? Take a page from my French husband’s family’s book of traditions and serve salmon! I like to buy one single large fillet if possible, then serve it on the largest platter I […]
The Canadian Press The first rule of thumb when entertaining is keep mum about how the food was supposed to appear or taste. “Don’t come to the table with your food complaining, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, it’s a bit overcooked, it’s undercooked, it was supposed to be…’” says celeb chef […]
By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog on Monday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the roads. The red alert the most serious warning on a four-tier system adopted […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A U.S. shipment of much-needed groceries and other astronaut supplies rocketed toward the International Space Station for the first time in months Sunday, reigniting NASA’s commercial delivery service. If the Orbital ATK capsule arrives at the space station Wednesday as planned, […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Full confession: I’ve never known what Swedish meatballs were. I knew of them, of course. But I never knew what really made them Swedish, or at least “Swedish.” So I did a little research. In Sweden, meatballs are called kottbullar (which is now the […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Those of us who celebrate Hanukkah already are in serious prep mode (or realizing we should be). I like the lighting of the candles. I love giving people the perfect gift. But what we all probably love most are the latkes, or potato pancakes. […]
By Jim Gomez The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines Despite the Fukushima nuclear disaster that devastated northeastern Japan in 2011, interest in nuclear power has increased significantly, mainly in Asia, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said Monday. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said the appetite for nuclear power has […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press PARIS The cold hard numbers of science haven’t spurred the world to curb runaway global warming. So as climate negotiators struggle in Paris, some scientists who appealed to the rational brain are enlisting what many would consider a higher power: the majesty of faith. […]
