WHITE HOUSE — The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump’s transition team was aware before January’s inauguration that Michael Flynn, Trump’s choice to be national security adviser, might be required to inform authorities he was acting as an agent on behalf of a foreign government. Trump’s spokesman, Sean Spicer, said the president had not […]
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim confirmed Tuesday authorities arrested the suspected gunman who killed 39 people during a New Year’s attack on a nightclub in Istanbul. Yildirim called the alleged attacker a “vile terrorist” and said the important thing now is to reveal those behind the attack. Turkish media had earlier identified Abdulkadir Masharipov as […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – While the popular notion of the American Thanksgiving is less than 400 years old, the turkey has been part of American lives for more than 2,000 years. But for much of that time, the bird was more revered than eaten. Washington State University archaeologists over the years have repeatedly seen evidence, from […]
The turkeys we’ll be sitting down to eat on Thursday have a history that goes way back. Archaeologists have unearthed a clutch of domesticated turkey eggs used as a ritual offering 1,500 years ago in Oaxaca, Mexico—some of the earliest evidence of turkey domestication. “Our research tells us that turkeys had been domesticated by […]