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Melanie Boschaert has one goal for Christmas: “I want my children to be special and feel special.” So Ms. Boschaert, who works for an insurance company and lives in East Bethel, Minn.,...

Few things delight quite like sitting down on the couch with a newly purchased cookbook, giving the spine a good crack and thumbing through those glossy, yet-to-be-sauce-splattered pages. But when hundreds of...

Known for his signature flat-cap and gameshow-host smile, Mr. Ani deserves a lot of the credit, from his Chinese-influenced Shanghai Me to Gaia, his modern Greek taverna, which placed 10th on the...

Set to a loop of “Hello Operator” by The White Stripes, the show featured pin-thin models parading in skinny jeans tucked into leather boots (some fringed), slinky tops, scarves tied loosely around...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block a California law banning flavored tobacco, clearing the way for the ban to take effect next week.As is the court’s practice when...

Plenty of big news happened in 2022. Frightening, fascinating, devastating and inspiring news with global implications. You can almost certainly, off the top of your head, name something that fits these descriptions....

I won’t sugarcoat it: Making candy is tricky.Of all the pastry arts, confectionery, the art of making sugar-based sweets, is an especially finicky category. But if you have the will and the...

MILWAUKEE — Glenda O. Hampton doesn’t need to look far to witness the devastation of the fentanyl epidemic in her neighborhood on Milwaukee’s north side.She has found men lying on the curb,...

Conversations with Ashley often veered into humor. “I need levity. If you ask me my politics I wouldn’t say Democrat, I’d say George Carlin.” As his caregiver fed him French fries he...

When the real-estate firm Tishman Speyer was trying to persuade chefs to join what was turning into a murderers’ row of restaurants at Rockefeller Center, it used many of the deal-sweeteners that...