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The best ways to cook asparagus, including roasting and broilingApr 08, 2025 5:02 am - There’s no wrong way to cook asparagus, other than maybe boiling it beyond recognition. Raw, it’s crisp and refreshing. Cooking — briefly! — brings out depth. Because of that quick-cooking nature, you have plenty of options to choose from that require little in the way of effort.
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Chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s miso butter pasta is all about comfortApr 08, 2025 5:00 am - This pasta recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi features shiitake mushrooms and spinach tossed in a miso butter sauce. It makes for a lovely weeknight meal that’s full of comfort and savory flavor, thanks to the combination of miso and mushrooms.
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A few countries offer to drop all tariffs on U.S. in response to TrumpApr 07, 2025 1:10 pm - Amid the global market chaos sparked by the Trump administration’s announcement of tariffs on the vast majority of trading partners, a handful of countries have responded by proposing an immediate, drastic concession: giving in to President Donald Trump’s trade war demands by dropping tariffs on U.S. goods.
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DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrantsApr 05, 2025 4:49 pm - Federal immigration officials are seeking to locate up to 7 million people suspected of being in the United States unlawfully by accessing confidential tax data at the In...
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An Addison man had short-term health insurance. His colonoscopy bill: more than $7,000.Apr 05, 2025 12:00 pm - An Addison man had short-term health insurance when he got a colonoscopy early last year at Elmhurst Hospital. Then the bill came. He owed more than $7,200.
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Pardoned by Trump, Rod Blagojevich has new job: Lobbying for Bosnian SerbsApr 05, 2025 4:00 am - Less than two months after President Donald Trump pardoned Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who served prison time on corruption charges has be...
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Here’s how countries have retaliated to Trump’s tariffsApr 04, 2025 7:28 pm - The barrage of tariffs President Donald Trump levied this week, which sent shock waves through global markets, sparked pledges to retaliate from key U.S. trading partners...
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Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspinApr 04, 2025 6:35 pm - The Social Security Administration — already reeling from plunging customer service following a rapid downsizing under the Trump administration — is drafting plans to beg...
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Three’s a crowd in the wistful ‘Ballad of Wallis Island’Apr 04, 2025 8:23 am - If you crossed the lovely indie musical “Once” (2007) with the charming Scottish comedy classic “Local Hero” (1983), and subtracted half of the loveliness and charm, you might end up with “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a sweet little British comedy that tickles the senses as you watch it, then immediately evaporates.
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Carolyn Hax: Ex-hippie is ‘insulted’ by fancy expectations for relative’s weddingApr 04, 2025 6:00 am - Former hippie doesn’t want to indulge in relative’s black-tie, over-the-top wedding expectations. Carolyn Hax says call a culture truce and go have a ball.