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I’ve loved chicken wings since long before they were ever a cute little bar menu item, looking more like tiny drumsticks than an actual Z-shaped wing. My mom, a savvy penny-pinching college student when I was born, included chicken wings on our weekly dinner menu rotation throughout my childhood; fried chicken skin was practically a

A British TV network has offered the first glimpse of actor Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson in an upcoming comedy series. Sky Arts has released a trailer for its upcoming “Urban Myths” series, which it says looks at “remarkable stories from well-known historical, artistic and cultural figures, which may or may not have happened in

MOSCOW — A Libyan military chief has visited a Russian aircraft carrier off the coast of the troubled North African country. The Russian Defense Ministry says Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter visited the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier Wednesday. The carrier and accompanying ships are coming home from a mission off Syria’s coast. The ministry said Hifter was

TALLINN, Estonia — Lithuania’s public television apologized Wednesday for a live show in which a popular actress made gestures to represent Adolf Hitler’s moustache while raising her arm in a Nazi-style salute. Virginija Buneviciute, a spokeswoman for Lithuanian National Radio and Television LRT, told The Associated Press the contract with the production company behind the

IRVING, Texas — Bill Hancock, the executive director of the College Football Playoff, has been given a three-year contract extension through June 2020. The playoff’s Board of Managers announced the move Wednesday, citing his oversight of the popular event. The playoff was announced in 2012, replacing the BCS, and began after the 2014-15 season. It

LONDON — Technology has made stopping terrorist attacks harder, and it is legal to kill militants overseas if they pose an immediate or otherwise unstoppable threat, Britain’s top law officer said Wednesday. Attorney General Jeremy Wright used a speech at a London think tank to give a rare public account of the legal basis for

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police in West Virginia say a homeless man seen attacking another homeless man with a machete will be charged with murder now that the victim’s body has been pulled from the Kanawha River. Charleston Police Lt. Steve Cooper says witnesses reported seeing 23-year-old Brian Thompson repeatedly hitting 19-year-old Brandon Robinson with a

REAGAN, Tenn. — Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents are investigating the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old black man that involved two sheriff’s deputies. The shooting happened late Tuesday in Henderson County after Darrion M. Barnhill attacked the deputies, slamming one of them to the ground, a TBI statement says. The struggle escalated, leading at least

NEW YORK — Traffic deaths in New York City have declined for the third straight year, dropping to a record low of 229 in 2016. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that the downward trend in traffic deaths shows his Vision Zero traffic-safety campaign is working. The 229 traffic fatalities were pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and

OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway’s Vice Chairman Charlie Munger has donated company stock worth $5.2 million to a private school in southern California he has long supported. Munger disclosed the Dec. 23 donation to Harvard-Westlake School in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. The college prep school received 21 Class A

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Carl Edwards listed reason after reason for stepping away from full-time NASCAR competition this season, less than two months removed from nearly winning his first Cup title. He’s content with his career accomplishments. He wants to spend more time on his outside interests. He’s healthy and doesn’t want that to change. Edwards,

CARSON, Calif. — D.C. United goalkeeper Bill Hamid will miss the U.S. January camp for the second straight year because of a knee injury. Hamid was dropped Tuesday, a day ahead of the team’s first training session since Bruce Arena replaced Jurgen Klinsmann as coach in November. Hamid had surgery last year after tearing the

VALLETTA, Malta — The leader of the European Union’s smallest nation warned Britain on Wednesday that it can only lose by leaving the EU and that no member state is likely to break ranks and negotiate with London until it has departed. “We want a fair deal for the UK, but that fair deal needs

FORT WORTH, Texas — The parents of a Texas baby hospitalized with a congenital heart defect are turning to an unlikely source to soothe her: the Dallas Cowboys. WFAA-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2jj3AnR ) 3-month-old Lola Catron has already undergone heart surgery twice since her Oct. 4 birth. While sitting with Lola at Fort Worth’s Cook Children’s

SAO PAULO — For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985, saw an

The major U.S. stock indexes veered slightly higher in late-afternoon trading after spending much of the day wavering between small gains and losses. Energy stocks led the gainers as crude oil prices closed higher. Health care stocks were down the most after President-elect Donald Trump said the government needs to overhaul how it buys drugs

NEWARK, Del. — Police in Delaware say three children and a school bus driver were injured when the bus slid off an icy road in Newark and hit a tree. Newark police said in a statement Wednesday that the Christina School District bus was making a slow speed turn onto another street when the rear

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s auditor is again finding fault with the state Unemployment Insurance Agency, finding that it has only partially complied with a past audit that criticized efforts to collect delinquent taxes employers pay into the system. The audit released Wednesday is a follow-up to an audit done five years ago. It also comes

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A contestant on the TV reality show “American Ninja Warrior” put some different skills to use when he rescued a motorist who was choking alongside a New York street. Exterminator Pavel Fesyuk (PAY’-vehl feh-SHOOK’) says he was driving a Town and Country Pest Solutions vehicle with his cellphone camera recording video from

TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military on Wednesday said it had uncovered a plot by the Hamas militant group to spy on soldiers by hacking their mobile phones after posing as women and befriending them on social media. A senior intelligence official said Wednesday that Hamas tracked down soldiers through Facebook, and then, posing

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Latest on the formal sentencing of Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof to death (all times local): 2:50 p.m. A judge has formally sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black worshippers in a racist massacre at a Charleston church. U.S. Judge Richard Gergel handed down the sentence Wednesday at a

ZURICH — As the soccer world digests FIFA’s decision to expand the World Cup, a look at the some of the benefits and pitfalls of a 48-team tournament in 2026: PROS — With 16 more teams joining the World Cup party, feel-good stories should keep flowing in soccer. Just look at Costa Rica’s run to

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan needs a stable security environment to prevent it from again becoming a safe haven for al-Qaida and other militants, but Afghan security forces have not yet become capable of securing all of the country by themselves, a U.S. report said Wednesday. The report, by the U.S. government’s Special Inspector General for

EDENTON, N.C. — A North Carolina father faces a prison term after being convicted in the death of his 9-year-old son in a drunken driving wreck. Robert Altman, 47, was sentenced to between roughly 5½ and 7½ years behind bars for felony death by motor vehicle in the death of his son, Briar, multiple media

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida State assistant coach who was knocked over the Seminoles’ bench following a collision with Grayson Allen said he’s certain there was no malice in the Duke guard’s efforts. Assistant Dennis Gates posted on Twitter Wednesday that “I know what a dirty play is and I was not the victim of