By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press I recently had the pleasure of meeting Fred Noe, the seventh-generation master distiller who literally grew up at the Jim Beam distillery in the middle of Kentucky. We met over a tasting of country ham and bourbon during which I discovered some new hams […]
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By Brandon Bailey The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Apple staked a new claim to the living room on Wednesday, as the maker of iPhones and other hand-held gadgets unveiled an Internet TV system that’s designed as a beachhead for the tech giant’s broader ambitions to deliver a wide range of […]
By Amy Taxin The Associated Press LOS ANGELES ‚An American man was told he could make $18,000 for marrying a Chinese woman who needed a green card, so he agreed to get hitched at a California wedding studio and then took an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas where he posed […]
By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure. Francis issued a new law regulating how bishops around the world determine […]
The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of North and South Korea agreed Tuesday to hold reunions next month of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, a small but important bit of progress for rivals that just last month were threatening each other with war. One hundred […]
The Associated Press HILO, Hawaii: Part of King Kamehameha’s (cah-MEH’-ha-MEH’-ha) spear is missing. Police on Hawaii’s Big Island are asking the public for help locating the top section of the spear that’s part of the statue of the Hawaiian warrior in Hilo (HEE’-loh). Police say the spear was last seen […]
The Associated Press RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.: A boat off the coast of Mexico apparently spotted the blue whale Monday that rescuers first saw several days ago entangled in hundreds of feet of fishing line near Los Angeles. A blue whale trailing line and a red buoy was seen around […]
By Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW: Signs of an ongoing Russian military buildup in Syria have drawn U.S. concerns and raised questions of whether Moscow plans to enter the conflict. President Vladimir Putin has been coy on the subject, saying Russia is weighing various options, a statement that has […]
By Jesse J. Holland The Associated Press WASHINGTON Even millennials don’t think much of their generation, according to a new poll Thursday. A Pew Research Center study showed that millennials ‚Äî generally defined as those ages 18-34 ‚Äî had far more negative views of their generation compared to Generation Xers, […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press I have such nostalgia for noodle kugel, specifically the one my father’s mother used to make it. This is particularly notable because she wasn’t much of a cook, though her kugel was really quite good. My grandfather loved to ask us about the kugel. […]
By Michelle R. Smith THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PROVIDENCE, R.I. Scientists are using submersibles to try to explore a sunken German U-boat 7 miles off the Rhode Island coast. They’re streaming the attempts online as they work to learn more about how shipwrecks affect the environment. U-853 was sunk in May […]
By Michael Liedtke The Associated Press EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. Toyota is investing $50 million with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in hopes of gaining an edge in an accelerating race to phase out human drivers. The financial commitment announced Friday by the Japanese automaker will be […]
