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2025 Was the Year of the Rotisserie Chicken
As food prices climb, a whole, glistening bird is especially attractive to restaurant owners and diners alike.
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Toast the New Year With These Sparkling Wines
Champagne will always be there, but prices are rising. The quality of American sparklers has soared and even the best are relatively affordable.
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This Easy Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread Recipe Is Spicy-Cheesy Goodness
A riff on an old recipe, Melissa Clark enhances a brown butter-tinged dish by adding jalapeño and Cheddar.
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Fed Minutes Detail Deep Divide on Timing of Further Rate Cuts
Officials at the central bank have splintered over whether rising unemployment or elevated inflation poses the bigger economic risk.
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How to Put a Celebrity at Ease? Make a Pizza.
Times Cooking’s Pizza Interview series introduces a note of nostalgia to encourage stars to open up.
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Judge Rules That Trump Administration Must Continue to Fund CFPB
The Trump administration had tried to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which acts as a guardrail for the safety of the financial system.
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The C.I.A. Strike on Venezuela: What to Know
The drone attack, said to be on a dock where drugs were being prepared for loading on boats, represented a further escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against Nicolás Maduro.
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Federal Judge Blocks Deportations of South Sudanese Migrants
The decision temporarily preserved deportation protections for more than 200 South Sudanese.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, Kennedy Daughter Who Wrote of Her Cancer, Dies at 35
An environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, she recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker, drawing worldwide sympathy.
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Crew Paints Russian Flag on Oil Tanker Pursued by the U.S. Coast Guard
The U.S. military tried to intercept the Bella 1 last week in the Caribbean Sea as it headed to Venezuela to pick up oil.