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35+ min ago (1090+ words) By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and RIO YAMAT, Associated Press After spending two college semesters in northern Thailand, Sarah Jongsma found herself back home in the rural Nevada town where she grew up, surrounded by everything familiar yet feeling strangely out of place. "It caught me off guard," she said. "I didn't know what was going on." Only later, after a summer studying in India and while preparing to go to France for another semester abroad, did Jongsma understand what she had been feeling: reverse culture shock. The 22-year-old's experience shows that studying abroad can be challenging in unexpected ways. Experts say that's why students need to study up on not only safety precautions and cultural differences, but also the emotional shifts that may come with leaving home " and returning to it. Planning for low points and potential disappointments, experts say, can…...

40+ min ago (43+ words) Wisconsin authorities have asked a state court to revoke the conditional release of Morgan Geyser, the woman who in 2014 almost killed her sixth grade classmate in the name of horror villain Slender Man and escaped from a group home earlier this week....

44+ min ago (340+ words) Ayo Edebiri, left, and Julia Roberts in "After the Hunt." (Yannis Drakoulidis/AMAZON/TNS) By Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service While November is typically a month for going out to the movies, with new releases and awards season movies filling theater screens, there are also plenty of opportunities now to catch up with awards season movies at home. Here are several high-profile titles now available to stream or purchase that are worth your time. Joel Edgerton stars in "Train Dreams." (Netflix/Netflix/TNS) Jacob Elordi as the Creature in "Frankenstein." (Ken Woroner/Netflix/TNS) Also on Netflix, if you haven't yet caught up with Guillermo del Toro's ravishing adaptation of "Frankenstein," it's worth the watch just for the costumes, sets and cinematography, but Jacob Elordi's emotional performance as the Creature really is the beating heart of the film. Del Toro…...

54+ min ago (407+ words) If you are looking for a quick and easy way to use leftover turkey, this may well be the ticket. The original recipe was nabbed from cookbook author Mark Bittman's book, "Eat Vegan Before 6:00." A couple of years ago I started adding leftover Thanksgiving turkey to the mix. Of course, that changes the vegan status, but it is a darn tasty soup. When I first saw the recipe I questioned the addition of a quarter-cup tomato paste. It seemed like it was too much. But guess what? I made it and loved it. The soup is as delicious as it is simple to prepare. 1 large yellow onion, chopped 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1/4 cup tomato paste Salt and ground black pepper, to taste 6 cups vegetable broth or water, plus more if needed in step 4 3 cups chopped firm vegetables, such as carrots, winter squash,…...

1+ hour ago (44+ words) Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away. At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago....

1+ hour, 11+ min ago (448+ words) The Hunt for " By Joyce CohenNov. 27, 2025 When their Ditmas Park apartment became too cramped, a young family looked for a house in central Brooklyn where they could spread out. Here's what they found. When Crissy Spivey bought herself a large one-bedroom, one-bath co-op in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park neighborhood in 2018, she had all the space she needed. Shortly before she closed, she met John Richie, who had just moved to New York from New Orleans. Before long, he joined her in the apartment. The following year, the couple's daughter was born and they transformed the place into a two-bedroom with a small office. During the winters, they were joined by Ms. Spivey's mother, Annie Spivey, who lives most of the year in Syracuse, N.Y. Having tripled, and sometimes quadrupled, the population in the apartment, Ms. Spivey and Mr. Richie felt increasingly cramped....

1+ hour, 14+ min ago (446+ words) By NICK KURCZEWSKI, Edmunds SUVs deliver many attributes that car shoppers love in a vehicle. Thanks to their elevated height, they provide a commanding view of the road. They also deliver lots of passenger space, roomy cargo holds, and often have strong safety ratings. Less appealing are higher fuel bills and the expense of buying an SUV that's showroom-fresh. The experts at Edmunds have found five solutions on the used market to keep costs in line. Choosing a used hybrid SUV saves money at the point of purchase, and the hybrid engine helps lower the cost of refueling for many miles down the road. Using a price cap of $25,000, Edmunds' team has compiled five used hybrid-powered SUVs that are practical and kind to a car shopping budget. Look for:Arriving for the 2020 model year, the fourth-generation Escape Hybrid is a…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago (1137+ words) DETROIT LAKES, Minn " From potatoes to peppers to tomatoes, the food grown by farmers near the western Minnesota town of Detroit Lakes will soon be put to more and better use. Potatoes grown in the Red River Valley could be mashed and diced for school lunches. Peppers could become salsa and hot sauce. Tomato seeds could be harvested for the future. Such are the possibilities are envisioned by members of Manna Food Co-op " which like other cooperative grocery stores is independently owned by local residents who run it and shop there " with the help of a new commercial kitchen. Funded by a federal grant, the kitchen will strengthen Manna's connection to local food producers, a core principle for co-ops. "Farmers can come and process food for themselves and their own separate business, or process something for the co-op," said Zachary…...

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1+ hour, 55+ min ago (30+ words) Two West Virginia National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., remain in critical condition after being shot while on patrol just blocks from the White House on Wednesday afternoon....