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Quilty looking guilty at Friends for Life Animal Rescue and Adoption Organization in Houston. MUST CREDIT: Friends for Life Animal Rescue and Adoption Organization

A rogue cat who ‘will not be contained’ keeps trying to free his shelter comrades

November 19, 2019 at 12:06 p.m.

Walls and doors can't hold back Quilty, the rogue cat who will not behave. The unruly feline has become famous in recent weeks for sowing chaos at the Houston animal...

Therapy animals are coming to a Portland, Oregon, hotel for the holidays

November 19, 2019 at 11:46 a.m.

The holiday season is fraught with cliches (albeit cliches we love). Everywhere you turn, you see the same lights, hear the same songs and drink the same eggnog. And then...

Airline fares are complicated. Here’s how to know which one you need.

November 19, 2019 at 11:21 a.m.

I first knew something was amiss when I couldn't choose a seat for a work trip to London. I checked around, then discovered the horror: I had unintentionally booked an...

A ram skull in the courtyard of Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiú home, which remains much as she left it.

A pilgrimage to the stark desert landscape that inspired painter Georgia O’Keeffe

November 19, 2019 at 9:40 a.m.

The stretch of desert north of Santa Fe, New Mexico - cut through by the Rio Chama and the Rio Grande - is rich with history. Over centuries, many Native...

At the edge of the Taos Pueblo is the Pueblo cemetery, and in the distance, the ruins of the Spanish colonial Mission San Geronimo, which was destroyed by American cannon fire in the Mexican-American War.

A pilgrimage to the stark desert landscape that inspired painter Georgia O’Keeffe

November 19, 2019 at 9:37 a.m.

Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico appealed to us not for the usual reasons a tourist might seek out O'Keeffe Country, but because in the life she built there and the reasons...

Ham, Thanksgiving’s second fiddle, will cost you this year

November 18, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

Americans planning to splurge on a Thanksgiving or Christmas ham may have to dig deeper into their wallets. Prices have skyrocketed to levels not seen since 2014, when a piglet-killing...

President Donald J. Trump and first lady Melania Trump meet in the Oval Office of the White House to take part in a discussion on the health hazards of vaping, on September 11, 2019.

Trump pulls back from ban on e-cigarette flavors

November 18, 2019 at 1:29 p.m.

Everything seemed ready to go: President Donald Trump's ban on most e-cigarette flavors had been cleared by federal regulators. Officials were poised to announce that they would order candy, fruit...

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden at a rally in Sterling, Va. Unlike many other Democratic candidates, Biden says he would decriminalize, though not legalize, marijuana

Unlike many other Democratic candidates, Biden says he would decriminalize, though not legalize, marijuana

November 18, 2019 at 1:42 p.m.

On the question of marijuana, former vice president Joe Biden might seem out of step with the crowd. There are his competitors in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, many of...

Buttermilk and Scallion Jiffy Cornbread.

Turn back-of-the-package recipes into a memorable Thanksgiving meal with these simple upgrades

November 18, 2019 at 12:25 p.m.

Stroll through just about any grocery store this time of year, and you'll come across aisles and end caps brimming with what marketing, tradition and consumer habits have deemed essential...

Turn back-of-the-package recipes into a memorable Thanksgiving meal with these simple upgrades

November 18, 2019 at 12:24 p.m.

I decided to test package recipes for six staples, and I'm happy to report that all, save one, were pretty good, if not great. That doesn't surprise me, a self-taught...

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