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By Metro Creative Few dishes match a season better than stew matches winter. Stew is an ideal meal for cold days. Though traditionally served on New Year’s Eve, this recipe for “Oyster Stew” from “The Culinary Institute of America Book of Soups” (Lebhar-Friedman) makes a perfect dish all winter long. Oyster Stew Makes 8 servings

By Associated Press FRISCO, Texas — Dak Prescott has decided on surgery for his torn hamstring, ending the season for the franchise quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys when their playoff hopes were already fading fast. Owner Jerry Jones said Prescott will have the surgery Wednesday in New York. Jones was speaking on his radio show

By Associated Press Undefeated Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while Tuesday’s poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi. Led by the Ducks, then Ohio State, the Big Ten captured four of the top five spots — a string interrupted only

By Associated Press Special teams were chock-full of chokes in the NFL’s wacky Week 10. The 49ers muffed a punt and missed three field goals before Jake Moody’s 44-yarder as time expired beat the Buccaneers 23-20. In between his third miss and his third make, Moody was confronted on the sideline by teammate Deebo Samuel,

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Republicans are “ready to deliver” President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda after his election victory, insisting the GOP won’t make the mistakes of last time and will be much better prepared for a second-term Trump White House. Standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol

By Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot three planes and the United Nations also Tuesday temporarily suspended flights to Port-au-Prince, limiting humanitarian aid coming into the country. Bullets hit a Spirit Airlines plane when it was about to land

By Associated Press ST. LOUIS — The Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who was badly injured during a protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was moved to a rehabilitation hospital Tuesday, still not speaking but showing significant improvement, according to a family friend. More than 100 officers and first responders from several St.

By Associated Press NEW YORK — Wall Street is already making big bets on what take two for a White House led by Donald Trump will mean for the economy. Since Election Day, investors have sent prices zooming for stocks of banks, fossil-fuel producers and other companies expected to benefit from Trump’s preference for lower

By Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Better catch this week’s supermoon. It will be a while until the next one. This will be the year’s fourth and final supermoon, looking bigger and brighter than usual as it comes within about 225,000 miles of Earth on Thursday. It won’t reach its full lunar phase until

By Joelle Rollo-Koster University of Rhode Island The Conversation via AP I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So it was more or less mandatory for me to see the new movie “Conclave.” Based on Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, the film

By Metro Creative The American Heart Association reports that a resting heart rate between 60 and 100 beats per minute is normal for most adults. However, a physically active person or athlete may have a resting heart rate as low as 40 beats per minute. Individuals may recognize resting heart rate or know it from

By Metro Creative Hosting is a big responsibility that only gets bigger when food is being served. Hosts without much time on their hands to prepare foods for cocktail hour need only a few minutes to whip up the following recipe for “Gorgonzola Canapés with Walnuts” from A.J. Rathbun’s “Party Snacks!” (Harvard Common Press). Gorgonzola

By Associated Press MANILA, Philippines | A new typhoon barreled across an agricultural region in the northeastern Philippines on Monday after thousands were evacuated to safety while still struggling to recover from the devastation caused by three successive storms in the last three weeks. Typhoon Toraji slammed into northeastern Aurora province and was forecast to

By Associated Press TUSKEGEE, Ala. | Tuskegee University student Sid Guynn hid under a car when he heard the gunshots that ripped across his Alabama campus amid homecoming celebrations, then ran back to his dorm, frightened by what sounded to him like a machine gun. “It was terrifying; I couldn’t find my phone or my

By Associated Press The election of Republican Kelly Ayotte as New Hampshire’s governor means 13 women will serve as a state’s chief executive next year, breaking the record of 12 set after the 2022 elections. Governors hold powerful sway in American politics, shaping state policy and often using the experience and profile gained to launch

By Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made a “formal and unreserved” apology in Parliament on Tuesday for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in care, many of them Indigenous. “It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong. And

By Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s international airport shut down on Monday after gangs opened fire at a commercial flight landing in Port-Au-Prince, prompting some airlines to temporarily suspend operations as the country swore in a new interim prime minister who promised to restore peace. The Spirit Airlines flight headed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida,

By Associated Press CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday. Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorcester County for a

By Associated Press BANGKOK — China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, in the clearest sign yet Beijing is advancing toward producing its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery and Chinese government documents provided to The Associated Press. China’s navy is already the