NEW YORK (AP) — A deal to reduce the number of horse-drawn carriages in New York City and permanently move stables to Central Park will now go to the City Council for approval in a compromise between the drivers and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had pledged to end the popular rides. The mayor, the […]

WASHINGTON — On a late December morning at Reagan National Airport, a traveler dressed casually in jeans, a striped shirt and winter boots passed a black dog sniffing a rack of potato chips. Seconds later, she heard the sound of toenails clicking against the hard floor. The noise grew closer and faster. She felt a […]

Over the past few weeks and months (and years, really) there have been a series of essays/think pieces about the growing irrelevance or uselessness of Twitter. Google “quitting Twitter” and you’ll find stories about intellectual luminaries as varied as Salman Rushdie and Lena Dunham either quitting Twitter or thinking about quitting Twitter or quitting Twitter […]

Southeast Asia’s Sumatra and Borneo islands are the orangutans’ last homes on Earth. SUNGAI MANGKUTUB, Indonesia (AP) — In a dense strip of peat swamp jungle along the banks of Mangkutub River in the heart of Borneo, a conservationist aims his tranquilizer rifle at an orangutan high in a tree and fires two darts. The […]

Cauliflower had become Lauren Hetrick’s go-to vegetable. “We have it as often as possible,” says the Rockville, Maryland, mother of three. “Once we roasted it, my kids really liked it – and they’ll eat anything if you put cheese on it.” But for weeks, Hetrick was unable to find any cauliflower, anywhere. Her quest for […]

Yoga classes and craft breweries are teaming up around the country MIAMI (AP) — Call it detox and retox: Around the country, yogis are jumping up from savasana and hopping onto a barstool as yoga classes are making their way into breweries. While the teaching is traditional, the classes tend to attract newbies, especially men, […]

On the wall in our living room hangs a painting my husband, Steve, and I brought home from Ireland six months ago. It’s a picture of flowers and the ocean and would be lovely to look at if the picture hanger didn’t show above the top. I could ask Steve to fix it, but I’m […]

Novelist Isabel Allende is 73 years old and newly single. Allende – author of “The House of the Spirits” and 20 other books that often explore love, family and history – wrote her latest novel, “The Japanese Lover,” while her 27-year marriage was ending. “I was in the process of deciding if I should stay […]