High winds blow sea foam onto Jennette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., on Sunday, as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy move into the area.
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A car goes through the high water in Ocean City, Md. The state canceled early voting that had been scheduled for Monday.
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Mary Corrus takes a picture of the rough surf as Hurricane Sandy bears down on Ocean City, Md.
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Bridget Donnelly walks on a sandbag wall outside her home in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a mandatory evacuation of the city's low-lying coastal areas.
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President Obama makes a statement after a briefing on Hurricane Sandy at FEMA headquarters Sunday in Washington. The president and Republican nominee Mitt Romney both canceled East Coast campaign appearances.
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A Home Depot employee helps a customer Sunday in New York.
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Buildings on the Atlantic City boardwalk are braced for Sandy. Gov. Chris Christie's emergency declaration is shutting down the city's casinos, and 30,000 residents are being told to evacuate.
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A construction worker covers air vents that could cause the New York subway system to flood in preparation for Hurricane Sandy on Sunday. The city is closing its transit system, as are Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
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The approaching Hurricane Sandy causes heavy surf in Cape May, N.J., on Sunday. Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the New Jersey coastline sometime Monday, bringing heavy winds and floodwaters.
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This satellite image from the National Hurricane Center in Miami shows Sandy at 10:03 a.m., Sunday.
Originally published on Mon March 25, 2013 2:48 pm
"The time for preparing and talking is about over." That's the message from Craig Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency as Hurricane Sandy, the monstrous superstorm that's churning its way to the U.S. East Coast, threatening millions of people.
Originally published on Wed October 31, 2012 3:10 pm
It was not a good year for people, weather and climate. The winter was strangely warm in many places and the summer ridiculously hot. As a large fraction of the country suffered through extreme or even extraordinary drought many folks naturally wondered, "Is this climate change?" Then along came a presidential election in which the words "climate change" disappeared from the dialogue. Now, just a week or so before voting day, the convergence of westbound Hurricane Sandy with a eastbound cold front is creating a massive storm, a Frankenstorm even, that is threatening millions of Americans.
Originally published on Mon March 25, 2013 2:43 pm
Reporting in Afghanistan isn't just challenging because of the security concerns and the complexity of society and the stories here; it's challenging because "facts" are often in the eye of the beholder. Just last week, an incident that seemed to be factual is now an open question: Was there a deadly firefight or not?
An inspector checks a wheel of Reggiano cheese at the Parmigiano-Reggiano storehouse in Bibbiano, Italy. Earthquakes rocked the region, sending the cheese toppling.
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Chef Massimo Botturo's recipe for Italy's Parmigiano-Reggiano night, Cacio e Pepe — risotto with cheese and pepper.
In this satellite image provided Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hurricane Sandy's huge cloud extent of up to 2,000 miles churns over the Bahamas, as a line of clouds associated with a powerful cold front approaches the East Coast of the U.S.
Originally published on Sat October 27, 2012 7:53 pm
It's still unclear whether Sandy will be a devastating storm or just a bad one.
It is clear, however, that Sandy will be remembered as the storm that broke all the rules and baffled the nation's top weather forecasters.
Early Saturday morning, the National Weather Service downgraded the storm from a hurricane to a tropical storm — only to return it to hurricane status a few hours later. Either way, forecasters warn, "widespread impacts" are expected along the coast.
Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 5:40 pm
In a highly unusual step, the Food and Drug Administration has released a report of inspections it conduct this month of the Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of a national outbreak of fungal infections.
Originally published on Sat October 27, 2012 10:28 am
The suspension of Jae Su Chun, the former head coach of the U.S. Short Track Speedskating Team, hasn't stopped some skating clubs from wanting to hire the embattled coach, even as an investigation expands into the most serious allegation against him.
Five savory cupcakes: Chicken potpie, lasagna, grilled cheese, mac n' cheese and the Thanksgiving leftovers.
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Grilled cheese cupcakes ready for consumption. At our cupcake cook off, we stuffed these minis with Havarti cheese, roasted tomatoes and fresh basil.
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Cupcakes or just mac 'n cheese baked in a muffin tin?
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The Thanksgiving cupcake looks the most like your run-of-the-mill sweet cupcake. The recipe was created on the spot at our cupcake cook off: Biscuit dough is topped with stuffing, turkey and a crown of mashed potatoes.
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Five savory cupcakes: Chicken potpie, lasagna, grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese, and Thanksgiving leftovers.
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Bubbling chicken potpie cupcakes, fresh out of the oven. Crescent roll dough creates a shell for the chicken filling.
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A crown of mashed potatoes makes the Thanksgiving cupcake look like the sweet versions.
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Making savory cupcakes brings creative, fun to the kitchen.
Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 3:04 pm
A few weeks ago, my friend came back from Brooklyn raving about the food served at a baby shower.
"Savory cupcakes!" she exclaimed. Lasagna, grilled cheese, chicken potpies and even a mac n' cheese cupcake — all shaped like the trendy dessert and served on a cupcake tree.
Despite all the enthusiasm, my first response was quite cynical. Isn't that just baked macaroni and cheese in a muffin tin?
Sprouts have taken one step closer to culinary oblivion, with the big grocery chain Kroger saying that as of this week, it's banishing sprouts from its 2,425 stores because they pose too big a food safety risk.
The crunchy green microplants have long been touted as raw food chock full of nutrients. But that very freshness is also why they've caused more than 54 disease outbreaks since 1990, including a mega-outbreak of E. coli in Germany in 2011 that killed 53 people.
Lance Armstrong, in the yellow leader's jersey, during the 2002 Tour de France. Now, there's no winner of that race or the six others in which he finished first.
Health employees protest outside the Health Ministry in Athens against pay and budget cuts. Fewer resources for malaria treatment and mosquito control may be contributing to malaria's comeback in Greece.
Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 1:39 pm
After a 40-year hiatus, malaria is returning to Greece.
Some 70 cases have been reported there this year, and at least 12 people appear to have been infected in the country. (The others picked up the disease elsewhere.)
That's a concern for health workers because it means malaria may now be endemic to Greece — and not just hitching a ride with travelers.
An explosive report from the New York Times today spelled out just how wealthy the relatives of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao are. Try $2.7 billion dollars in assets. This startling news so angered Chinese officials that the Times' website was quickly shut down in China.
It's Halloween — or it will be soon — and that means BOO! We talk about the scariest of holidays (if you don't count Valentine's Day). Not scary at all: with Trey on vacation, we're joined by the charming Tanya Ballard Brown, who kicks off with a delightful tale of a clothes-wearing friend of hers. We get the update on what Stephen's kids are doing this year (the World's Saddest Banana is retiring!) and I once again make the case for my favorite dog photograph of all time.
This terribly sad story from Manhattan is getting national attention this morning:
Marina Krim, a young mother who lives with her family in one of New York City's wealthier neighborhoods on the upper west side of Manhattan, "returned home on Thursday with a third child to find her 2-year-old Leo and 6-year-old Lucia dead in the bathtub." The children's nanny "lay injured nearby with apparently self-inflicted stab wounds." (The Associated Press)
