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A big bowl of steamed clams and juicy-crisp corn is summer eating at its finest. The combination is fresh, sweet and briny, almost like a chowder made for eating with your fingers.In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” we finish the clams and corn with a small measure of crème fraîche (or whole-milk yogurt); the briny-sweet liquid released by the clams becomes a subtly creamy broth that’s as delicious as the clams themselves. Fennel perfumes the broth with anise-like notes.Scrub the clams well before cooking and be sure…

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 3-9:Aug. 3: Actor Martin Sheen is 85. Singer Beverly Lee of The Shirelles is 84. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 84. Movie director John Landis is 75. Actor Jo Marie Payton (“Family Matters”) is 75. Actor Philip Casnoff (“Oz,” “Strong Medicine”) is 71. Actor John C. McGinley (“Scrubs”) is 66. Bassist Lee Rocker (Stray Cats) is 64. Actor Lisa Ann Walter (“Abbott Elementary”) is 64. Singer-guitarist James Hetfield of Metallica is 62. Singer Ed Roland of Collective Soul is 62. Actor Isaiah Washington (“Grey’s Anatomy,” ″Soul Food”) is 62. Keyboardist Dean Sams of…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Kyiv  —  Russian soldiers call the practice a sacrifice to Baba Yaga, a fearsome witch from Slavic folklore who feasts on her victims. A Russian serviceman is seen on video being tied up to a tree and abandoned to his fate – possibly death – at the hands of one of Ukraine’s large attack drones. Why this is happening is clear from a radio intercept about a similar incident, shared with CNN, in which a Russian commander can clearly be heard ordering a subordinate be tied up in this way as punishment for desertion. The instruction…

Marco Pistoia, Global Technology’s Head of Applied Research and Engineering at JP Morgan.Source: JP MorganIonQ has hired the former head of applied research at JPMorgan Chase to help corporate clients of the quantum firm adopt next-generation hardware, algorithms and security, CNBC has learned.Marco Pistoia, who was head of JPMorgan’s internal research group from 2020 to this year, will join IonQ as senior vice president of industry relations, the quantum computing firm is expected to announce on Monday.JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank by assets, recently overhauled the leadership of its research group, which worked on quantum computing and other advanced technologies.…

Tyson Wharton. (Source: Tyson Wharton)Travel Advisor Success Stories focus on veteran advisors and how they achieved success. Here’s a look at Tyson Wharton, owner of Sioux Empire Travel. How did you get your start as a travel advisor?My wife was a travel advisor at a storefront agency for five years. I saw firsthand the highs and lows of the travel industry. Coming from a business background, I felt there had to be a better, more service-driven way to approach it. When my wife and her boss parted ways – that’s when the idea sparked: What if we started something of…

Children and elders scavenge trash bins for food. Exhaustion sends people to hospital. Friends waste away to the point of being unrecognizable. This is the reality confronting aid workers in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, a UN spokesperson on the ground told CNN on Monday. “I have seen this with my own eyes… children and adults dying of hunger and infants literally dying in their mothers’ arms,” said Olga Cherevko, from the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Beyond the front door of her guest house, Cherevko said she witnesses people of all ages rummaging through the trash…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Amrita Bhasin, 24, learned that products from South Korea might be subject to a new tax when they entered the United States, she decided to stock up on the sheet masks from Korean brands like U-Need and MediHeal she uses a few times a week.“I did a recent haul to stockpile,” she said. “I bought 50 in bulk, which should last me a few months.”South Korea is one of the countries that hopes to secure a trade deal before the Aug. 1 date President Donald Trump set for enforcing nation-specific tariffs. A not-insignificant slice of…

Facebook Tweet Email Link If you needed another reason to get your daily steps in, science just handed you one. A new study shows that walking daily can reduce the risk of cognitive decline — especially among those with a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s disease. Almost 3,000 participants between the ages of 70 and 79 reported their daily walking habits over the course of 10 years, according to research that will be presented Tuesday at the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. Those who reported maintaining or increasing their walking habits over the years showed greater improvements in processing speed and…

Southwest Flight 1496 had a close encounter with a fighter jet shortly after takeoff from Hollywood Burbank Airport, triggering cockpit alarms and forcing the crew to take evasive action.The Southwest Boeing 737 departed just before noon local time on Friday for a scheduled flight to Las Vegas. Six minutes after takeoff, a privately owned Hawker Hunter fighter jet crossed less than two miles in front of the Southwest plane, passing within a few hundred feet of the same altitude, according to flight tracking site Flightradar24. When the collision avoidance system activated, the Southwest aircraft dropped approximately 475 feet before climbing…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to an “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” beginning at midnight local time (12 p.m. ET Monday), following days of clashes across the two countries’ disputed border. The nations will convene a meeting of regional commanders from the Cambodian and Thai sides on Tuesday, July 29, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who mediated peace talks as the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the regional bloc. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and acting Thai Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai met at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Putrajaya,…