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Firefighters rescue cat trapped in chimney for two days
(UPI) The London Fire Brigade came to the rescue of a cat who fled from his owner's vacuum and spent two days trapped in the chimney.
The brigade said its Bexley and Greenwich Red Watch crews responded to the Erith-area ...Read more
Rick Steves’ Europe: Ravenna, Italy gets better with age
Ravenna is on Italy's tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics. While locals go about their business, busloads of tourists slip in and out of this town near ...Read more
Celebrity Travel: Go away with CIX
After debuting in 2019, the K-pop quintet CIX has had the opportunity to travel around the world, which the group acknowledges as a fun perk of their job. “I try to explore each city as our schedule allows,” group ...Read more
Everyday Cheapskate: Tough Love for Financially Irresponsible Parents of Adult Children
Dear Cheapskate: I read stories about parents with grown children who constantly need bailouts. What do you do when it's your 62-year-old mother who has the money problem? My mom has a job and makes enough money to support...Read more
EatingWell: Rhubarb sauce adds bold flavor to chicken cutlets
Sweet white balsamic vinegar balances tart rhubarb in a simple pan sauce for this quick chicken cutlets recipe. The main difference between white balsamic vinegar and the darker version is simply color — the former is ...Read more
Hong Kong vies with US in Bitcoin ETF market after crypto's revival
A batch of exchange-traded funds investing directly in crypto will debut in Hong Kong on Tuesday, heralding potential competition for US Bitcoin products whose popularity stoked a record rally in the digital asset.
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Tesla soars on tentative China approval for driving system
Elon Musk’s quick visit to China paid immediate dividends, with Tesla Inc. receiving in-principle approval from government officials to deploy its driver-assistance system in the world’s biggest auto market.
The U.S. ...Read more
May Fed meeting preview: Are rate cuts canceled or just delayed? Watch for these 3 key themes as inflation stays hot
At the start of the year, the nation’s top economists thought the Federal Reserve would be using its May rate announcement to tee up the first cut of its fiercest inflation-fighting regime in 40 years.
Now, as inflation...Read more
Friends split a mortgage, share a home to beat high housing costs
Sara Kemper and Betsy Ohrn have been besties since first grade, so they've shared a lot through the years: even the mortgage on a St. Paul house that's much larger and grander than anything they could have afforded ...Read more
Erin Lowry: Your retirement anxiety can't be cured online
The often-cited goal of having a $1 million retirement nest egg needs to be retired itself. Adjusted for inflation, it would take nearly $1.9 million to have the same purchasing power today as in 1999, when the oldest of ...Read more
Rivian: 'We are not abandoning Georgia'
Executives for electric vehicle maker Rivian said Saturday the company remains committed to building a massive manufacturing plant 60 miles east of Atlanta despite a recent pause on construction.
The company recently ...Read more
First they're sour, then they're sweet: New cookie from Oreo, Sour Patch
Oreo isn’t shy when it comes to experimenting with flavors.
The cookie conglomerate has released products with churro, waffles and syrup, and even a brookie, which was infused with brownies. It also had some ...Read more
Beyond Erewhon: Inside the LA grocery store where all the cool vegans are flocking
LOS ANGELES -- On a rainy Saturday afternoon in late March, a block of East Hollywood is unusually quiet but for the corner of Fountain Avenue and North Edgemont Street. There, a line snakes halfway around the perimeter of...Read more
Your fridge is a place where fresh food goes to die. That doesn't have to happen
MINNEAPOLIS -- Do you feel ashamed when you toss out rotting food? Maybe it's a produce bag of slimy green onions decomposing in the bowels of your fridge. Or a forgotten bin of leftovers that would have made a terrific ...Read more
New Eckert's cookbook makes the most of spring and summer produce
ST. LOUIS -- The newest cookbook from Eckert’s, the family-owned group of farms in Illinois and Kentucky, isn’t exactly a cookbook.
“The publisher calls it a bookazine, because it is a magazine-book hybrid,” says ...Read more
Have toast for dinner, but make it fancy
"It's impossible not to love someone who made toast for you," Nigel Slater, in "Toast"
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Bruschetta is toast with a fancy Italian name. A wonderful appetizer at cocktail gatherings and backyard barbecues, in our home,...Read more
Motormouth: Can I use flex fuel?
Q: What's with this new eco-friendly gas blend with the yellow handle? Will it harm a non-flex fuel engine? It's 50 cents cheaper.
R.M., Elbert, Colorado
A: According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency ...Read more
Author offers lessons in cooking, writing and adventure
MINNEAPOLIS -- Experiences, like fine wine, can get better with age.
That's why it took author George Sorensen decades before he wrote his fifth book, "Hot Dish Confidential: That Year My Friends Taught Me to Cook," which...Read more
How to make Chinese dumplings at home
When it comes to Chinese comfort food, nothing beats a really good bowl of hand-pulled noodles or a steaming, silky bowl of mapo tofu. Yet our love affair with Chinese food often centers around dumplings.
Whether they're ...Read more