By By John Seewer The Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio Salvage crews have finished pumping hazardous oil-based substances from a sunken barge that apparently had been sitting undiscovered on the bottom of Lake Erie for nearly 80 years, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday. Federal officials overseeing the underwater operation say […]
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By Alan Fram The Associated Press WASHINGTON A polarized Senate voted Thursday against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest U.S. mass shooting left 14 people dead in California. Thursday’s mostly party-line 50-48 vote, which followed the Senate’s defeat of other firearms […]
By Nancy Benac The Associated Press WASHINGTON It’s a natural reaction in times of grief: Politicians from both parties offered supportive thoughts and prayers for those killed in the San Bernardino shootings. But within hours, social media was awash with pushback from gun control advocates calling out those who offer […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press The prospect of roasting a duck strikes many a home cook as a mountain too high, but I’m not sure why. It’s definitely no more complicated than cooking a whole turkey, and I think it tastes far better. Some folks surely suspect that duck […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Wet and cloudy weather prevented NASA from resuming commercial space station deliveries Thursday. The space agency was looking to get back on track with the first U.S. shipment to the International Space station in nearly eight months, but thick clouds and […]
The Canadian Press MONTREAL—Doctors must respect a court ruling suspending Quebec’s assisted-suicide law but the government won’t go on a “witch hunt” against physicians who offer palliative sedation, the province’s health minister said yesterday. Gaetan Barrette said while he recognizes some doctors in Quebec inject morphine into patients during their […]
By Amanda Lee Myers And Justin Pritchard The Associated Press SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault, authorities said. Hours later, […]
By Amanda Lee Myers And Justin Pritchard The Associated Press SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault, authorities said. Hours later, […]
By Amanda Lee Myers And Justin Pritchard The Associated Press SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault, authorities said. Hours later, […]
By Leanne Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Serenity now, people, with some Rose Quartz mixed in. The experts at the Pantone Color Institute have chosen not one but two colours of the year ‚Äî named thusly ‚Äî in a complementary pairing that spans fashion, media, packaging, housewares and a […]
By Danica Kirka The Associated Press LONDON British Tornado jets struck oil fields in eastern Syria on Thursday that help finance the Islamic State group and Germany prepared to send reconnaissance aircraft to the Middle East as coalition forces stepped up efforts to fight the militants. The strikes at the […]
By Bassem Mroue The Associated Press REYHANLI, Turkey Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: They would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of […]
