By Alison Ladman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s holiday entertaining season, so we say bring on the fat and carbs! After all, navigating the minefield of office parties and in-laws and dinner parties and cookie swaps (when you’d rather be on the couch with Netflix and a pint of ice cream) […]
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By Bree Fowler And Tami Abdollah The Associated Press NEW YORK Your phone is getting better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn’t totally comfortable with that, because it’s also complicating the work of tracking criminals and potential national-security threats. For decades, tech companies have steadily expanded […]
By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY Two Italian journalists who wrote books detailing Vatican mismanagement faced trial Tuesday in a Vatican courtroom along with three people accused of leaking them the information, in a case that has drawn scorn from media watchdogs. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters […]
By Suzan Fraser And Nataliya Vasilyeva The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey Turkey shot down a Russian warplane Tuesday, claiming it had violated Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings. Russia denied that the plane crossed the Syrian border into Turkish skies. “We are looking into the circumstances of the crash of […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press I am an unabashed fan of refrigerated pie crusts. I am certain that the number of pies I would make if I was only allowed to make crust from scratch would be about 15 per cent of my current pie output. And I know […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press If you’ve ever spent any winter time in France, you’ve undoubtedly indulged in what I consider the ultimate comfort food of the French cassoulet. For those of you who haven’t had cassoulet, I hesitate to describe it as a baked white bean dish. Yes, […]
By Jon Gambrell The Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates As skyscrapers and gleaming towers rose with lightning speed across the United Arab Emirates over the past two decades, the Gulf nation’s thirst for water grew at an enormous rate so much so that today, it threatens to dry […]
By Christopher Torchia The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG Pope Paul VI became the first modern pope to visit Africa in 1969 and declared the continent a “new homeland” for Jesus Christ. During the quarter century of his papacy, St. John Paul II travelled to 42 African countries and earned the nickname […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia The deep sea hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner has shifted to a remote part of the Indian Ocean where a British pilot has calculated that the Boeing 777 made a controlled ditching last year with 239 people aboard, officials said Monday. […]
The Associated Press EUREKA, Calif. A red panda that went missing three days ago from a zoo on California’s far north coast has been safely located and returned to her home in Eureka. The Eureka Times Standard reports Sunday that the tiny creature named Masala was found safe and sound […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press When I was a kid, my parents sometimes brought home tins of deliriously delicious cheese crackers. I can’t remember the brand I think it was a British import but I do remember that my sister and brother and I would inhale them as soon […]
By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press The U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution Thursday urging all countries especially the United States, Britain and South Africa to release all information on the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. An independent panel reviewing new information about […]
