Category Archives: Lifestyle
Iranian police find bootleg wine hidden in dry village well
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian police have uncovered bootleg wine hidden in a dry village well in the country's west, state television reported on Thursday.
U.S. Passport Agency ends walk-in service at Vermont office
ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Passport Agency ended its no appointment walk-in service at its Vermont’s office after it was overwhelmed by people seeking the documents amid a backlog of 1.5 million requests nationwide, the State Department said
US to end large, old-growth timber sales in Alaska forest
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales in the country's largest national forest — the Tongass National Forest in Alaska — and will focus on forest restoration, recreation and othe...
What pairs with beetle? Startups seek to make bugs tasty
LONDON (AP) — Tiziana Di Costanzo makes pizza dough from scratch, mixing together flour, yeast, a pinch of salt, a dash of olive oil and something a bit more unusual — ground acheta domesticus, better known as cricket powder.
Biden bids Merkel farewell: Friends – with disagreements
WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcoming Angela Merkel to the White House for a final time, President Joe Biden renewed his concerns to the German chancellor Thursday about a major, nearly complete Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline but said they agreed Russia must not...
WHO chief says it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said Thursday he is asking China to be more transparent
Uncovering boarding school history makes for monumental task
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — They sat inside a dust-covered box that had been stashed away, untouched, for years: black-and-white photographs of Apache students who were among the first sent to a New Mexico boarding school bankrolled by East Coast parishio...
Romania: Former ruling party leader gets early jail release
BUCHAREST (AP) — A former leader of Romania’s Social Democratic Party who was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail for corruption in 2019 will be released early, a court ruled Thursday.
How the expanded child tax credit payments work
The Biden administration is beginning to distribute expanded child tax credit payments, giving parents on average $423 this month, with payments continuing through the end of the year.
Child tax credit starts hitting US families’ bank accounts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The child tax credit had always been an empty gesture to millions of parents like Tamika Daniel. That