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Thursday, October 10, 2024
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
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It’s time to roll up sleeves for new COVID, flu shots
Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines – and a lot of older adults also need protection against another risky ...
Lifestyle
Who’ll be sitting in the Oval Office next year? It could be you.
OK, not THAT Oval Office. We’re talking about a life-size replica where people can take selfies at the pr...
With American kids back in school, they’re likely to return home with an alien language their own parents may find befuddling.
From TikTok to the kitchen table, words lik...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Tourist taxes are increasingly being deployed by authorities around the world as a way to tackle “overtourism.”
New Zealand this week announced ...
Software engineer Kenna Ofoegbu in Houston, Texas tries hard to keep his three kids cool during the summer and that means air conditioning.
Yet their house has lost power...
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A sticker on a wall in Lisbon caught Katya Gratcheva’s attention last fall: “No dating or networking. Just breakfast.”
It led the married 52-year-old, tired of the transa...
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Tim Bushe makes his way around North London with a hedge trimmer in hand, tending and shaping his enormous creations, which include...
Chloe Hurst says she has always been an “emo, dark kid.” So when she and her husband bought a small-town bungalow in 2018, she set about “making it the gothic home of my ...
Years ago at a crafts market in Mexico City, I found a shadowbox of Day of the Dead figurines and immediately started bargaining for it. When the vendor would not go down...
Michael Solender and his wife have been together for 42 years. They slept in the same bed for the first 10, taking to separate rooms after that.
Their sleep separation wa...
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LONDON (AP) — Tequila-based margaritas and palomas have long been cocktail-menu staples, but their base ingredient — agave — is working its way into other cocktails for a...
Joanetes, Spain — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a...
Cynthia Holzapfel, 76, knows what it’s like to share a home with someone else — or even 30 others.
As one of the early residents of the Farm, a 1970s-era commune in Summe...
For kids, summer can revolve around playgrounds, pools, bikes and just being outside. For parents, it can mean a litany of ouchies to take care of — including scrapes, su...
For all the time I spend digging, planting, pulling and weeding, one would think I’d have some poison ivy horror stories to tell, but I do not. I can’t say for sure wheth...
When a heat wave settles in and makes life uncomfortable, it can also complicate air travel.
The effect of high temperatures can force planes to reduce the weight they ar...
NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Lisa Walling’s first house call of the day was with a particularly fluffy hospice patient — a 13-year-old Newfoundland named Rugby.
Rugby happily lick...
For families who want to keep their tween children from spending too much time in front of screens, a new study offers illuminating - and potentially challenging - advice...
United Airlines pilot Carole Hopson spent years honing her craft while taking countless trips aroundthe globe. Eventually, she realized she’d mastered it. Not flying the ...
Summer can be a stressful time for parents and guardians: The kids are out of school, adult children are popping over for an extended visit, and trying to plan the “perfe...
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