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Things can go sideways trying a new recipe, ingredients

If you’ve ever tried to cook a new recipe you know nothing about with ingredients you virtually never use, you know that it’s not exactly easy. This was the case when my mom, sibling and I embarked on a journey to make an Indian rice dish called biryani. We got the recipe from “One ...

Summer solstice marks longest day of year, at least around here

This is the sun's time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Sunday is the solstice, marking the start of astronomical summer north of the equator. It's the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year and winter will ...

FDA backs new kind of flu vaccine

WASHINGTON — A new kind of flu vaccine moved a step closer to the U.S. market Thursday as federal health advisers recommended approval of the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The Food and Drug Administration is evaluating Moderna's new ...

‘Ponies’ merges comedy with a gritty spy story in TV dramedy

LOS ANGELES — "Ponies" is a bit of a unicorn. The Peacock series that stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as widows of CIA operatives who become intelligence assets in the 1970s Soviet Union has real stakes, and real blood. But its tone is comic first and foremost. And it has been ...

Fox to buy streaming pioneer Roku in a $22 billion deal

Fox Corp. has agreed to buy the streaming pioneer Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion, including debt. Roku will continue to be run as an open, partner-friendly platform, the companies said Monday, and there appears to be no immediate changes that customers will ...