Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’
AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ina Garten is looking back in a new memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” which distills stories…
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Myanmar’s military government begins a census seen as a way to gather information about opponents
Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has begun a census it says will be used to compile voter lists for an election…
Continue Reading US job openings rise to 8 million as labor market remains sturdy
AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in August as the American labor market continued to show resilience. The…
Continue Reading Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett’s revisionist…
Continue Reading Pine martens are returned to southern England for the first time in a century
LONDON (AP) — Conservationists have released 15 pine martens into the wild in southern England in an effort to reestablish the cat-sized mammals in…
Continue Reading Mail delivery suspended in Kansas neighborhood after 2 men attack postal carrier
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Mail delivery has been suspended in a Kansas neighborhood after two men assaulted a postal carrier who used pepper spray to…
Continue Reading A chemical cloud moving around Atlanta’s suburbs prompts a new shelter-in-place alert
Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A chemical plant fire southeast of Atlanta is still causing trouble two days later. Authorities on Tuesday alerted…
Continue Reading Swiss police say a man attacked and injured 3 children in Zurich
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police say a man has attacked and injured three young children as they were heading to a day care center in Zurich. A suspect…
Continue Reading Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay
AP Science Writer ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Beluga whales are called the canaries of the sea because scientists say they are some of the most vocal…
Continue Reading France’s prime minister vows to curb debt as he faced baptism of fire at heckled parliament
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier faced a rough ride at parliament as he laid out his proposed policies in an…
Continue Reading Search crews with cadaver dogs wade through muck of communities ‘wiped off the map’ by Helene
Associated Press SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Cadaver dogs and search crews trudged through knee-deep muck and debris in the mountains of western North…
Continue Reading A Belarusian opposition leader hails Lithuania’s decision to seek ICC investigation into president
Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Belarus’ exiled opposition leader is hailing Lithuania’s move to seek prosecution at the…
Continue Reading What to know about Israel’s ground invasion in southern Lebanon
Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ground invasion in Lebanon stretched into its second week, as the Hezbollah militant group fired…
Continue Reading Nearly $32 million awarded for a large-scale solar project in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A solar project benefitting the University of Arkansas system is receiving nearly $32 million in pre-construction…
Continue Reading Rebel group in Congo generates $300,000 monthly in seized mining area, UN official says
Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A U.N. official says a rebel group in Congo generates around $300,000 a month in revenue through its control…
Continue Reading Nigeria’s independence anniversary is marked by protests and frustration over economic hardship
Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians are protesting against economic hardship as the West African nation marks its 64th independence…
Continue Reading Democratic donors prop up far-right candidates including Wisconsin gun activist in Senate race
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the election cycle enters an urgent, final five weeks, both Democrats and Republicans are engaging in…
Continue Reading Hundreds of firefighters battle a deadly forest fire raging in southern Greece for the third day
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters and volunteers in southern Greece are battling for a third day a large wildfire that has killed two…
Continue Reading Gunmen kill 6 people, including a local chief of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, in Iran towns
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says gunmen have killed six people in two separate attacks in the same province in southern Iran, including a…
Continue Reading Dockworkers may have the negotiating advantage in their strike against US ports
Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The 45,000 dockworkers who went on strike Tuesday for the first time in decades at 36 U.S. ports from Maine to…
Continue Reading Australia’s online dating industry adopts code of conduct to keep users safer
Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users…
Continue Reading A cruise ship bound on a round-the-world voyage leaves Belfast after a 4-month delay
Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A cruise ship taking passengers on a 3 ½-year around-the-world voyage finally sailed from Belfast’s dockside,…
Continue Reading Germany arrests woman who allegedly passed airport details to suspected spy for China
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Chinese national accused of passing information on a major air freight hub to a man who is…
Continue Reading Iran fires at least 180 missiles into Israel as regionwide conflict grows
Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of rapidly escalating attacks…
Continue Reading Sony’s PlayStation Network suffers hourslong outage, irking videogamers
LONDON (AP) — Sony’s PlayStation Network went down, frustrating gamers around the world who complain they weren’t able to sign in to their…
Continue Reading Mysteries of universe revealed? Hardly. But CERN still fascinates, discovers on its 70th anniversary
Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The scientific center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and is billed as the world’s…
Continue Reading Tibetan group in India protests against China and human rights situation in homeland
NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of Tibetans living in India protested outside China’s embassy against the human rights situation in their homeland, which…
Continue Reading Inflation in Europe falls below 2% and opens the way for faster rate cuts
AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro fell to 1.8% in September, below the European Central…
Continue Reading A likely Russian artillery strike kills at least 6 at a Ukrainian market
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An apparent Russian artillery strike has hit a market in the southern Ukraine city of Kherson, killing at…
Continue Reading More than 20 are feared dead after a school bus catches fire in suburban Bangkok
Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday,…
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