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Guggenheim Museum among NYC buildings that tested positive for Legionnaires’ amid disease outbreak
New York City’s famed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease amid the city’s latest outbreak. The city health department on Friday released a list of 31 buildings on the Upper East Side that have been ordered to clean and […]
People have been fermenting food for millennia. Here’s why more people are focused on gut health now
More people are focusing on their gut health, as fibermaxxing goes mainstream, colorectal cancer rises among young adults and personalized gut microbiome treatments become increasingly popular. Now, a generation- and culture-spanning way of preserving food is in the spotlight: fermentation. The federal government’s latest dietary guidelines specifically encourage Americans to eat more fermented food. The […]
What to Stream: ‘Heartstopper Forever,’ ‘Lucky’ and Steve Lacy
A new album from Steve Lacy and the conclusion of the “Heartstopper” series are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: “Lucky,” which stars Anya Taylor-Joy, the game “D-topia” […]
Sam Neill, New Zealand actor who starred in ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘The Piano,’ dies at 78
WELLINGTON, New Zealand | Sam Neill, the smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose prolific career moved from art films to blockbusters as he dodged velociraptors in “Jurassic Park” and played Holly Hunter’s husband in “The Piano,” has died. He was 78. In 2023, Neill disclosed he had been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare […]
Keystone Pipeline system’s operator agrees to pay a $26.9M penalty over a major Kansas oil spill
TOPEKA, Kan. | A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40 million more to prevent future accidents. The agreement would resolve allegations from the U.S. Environmental Protection […]
Trump suggests a standing order to attack Iran if it assassinates him. But Vance would make the call
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran ” at levels they’ve never seen before ” if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him. But the U.S. government has no way to create an automatic, preauthorized “dead man’s switch” that would […]
Zelenskyy seeks more European air defense support for Ukraine at Paris meeting
PARIS | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to Paris on Monday to ask two dozen European leaders for help developing measures against Russia’s ballistic missiles, which have pummeled his country’s power grid in the more than four years since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion. European foreign ministers were also meeting separately in Brussels where they […]
The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum after a secret journey from France
LONDON | After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil. In scenes like a heist movie in reverse, the priceless medieval artwork was spirited into the British Museum on Friday in the dead of night, after a high-tech, tight-security operation where any slip-up could have spelled disaster. On loan from its […]
Movie Review: ‘Evil Dead Burn’ goes full brutality, without humor, artistry or verve
French filmmaker Sébastien Vaniček vowed when he took charge of the sixth installment in the “Evil Dead” film series that it would be the most brutal. Mission accomplished, mon ami. Not the most artful or clever or scariest. Brutal. Vaniček has certainly delivered — a relentlessly violent, overlong, one-note, meandering grindhouse that lacks its predecessors’ […]
Kia launches new recall for 463,000 Telluride SUVs due to fire risk, urges owners to park outside
NEW YORK | Kia America has issued a new recall for nearly 463,000 of its Telluride SUVs, urging owners to again park their vehicles outside and away from buildings after several customers reported fires following previous repairs. The recall, announced this week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, replaces a prior one Kia initiated […]