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How to make the best doughnuts you’ll ever eat It’s easy to wax poetic about doughnuts . Whether they’re light as air and melt in your mouth or caky and sugarcoated, ready to dunk, who can pass up a fresh one? The best are made by hand with wholesome ingredients. Even the ones that start with a mix — and those include your Krispy Kreme s and Dunkin’ Donuts — still taste pretty good, to be honest. It’s fried dough. For me, the perfect yeasted doughnut has been freshly fried, its brioche crumb offering the gentlest chew. It is completely coated with a glaze that is just set, and flecked with vanilla bean. The problem is getting to the bakery at exactly the right moment to snag it. So, here’s the plan: DIY doughnuts . As Tiffany MacIsaac, chef-owner of Buttercream Bakeshop in Shaw, says of tackling DIY doughnuts , “If a freshly fried, hot doughnut isn’t something you consider a bonus, I don’t even know what to say.” All right then. Let’s make doughnuts . We think we’ve cracked ...

An Alaska man tried to take his life. But the bullet passed through him and killed his girlfriend. Victor Sibson does not remember what happened the night he put a gun to his head, he told police. Shortly after 2 a.m. April 19, the 21 year-old Anchorage man held a handgun to his left temple as he stood in the apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Brittany-Mae Haag. She attempted to grab the gun and stop him from taking his own life, prosecutors believe. Police would later find both Sibson and Haag lying on the floor with gunshot wounds, and only one shell casing on the ground, Assistant District Attorney James Fayette said so. Prosecutors believe the bullet that struck Sibson in the head — just behind his left eye — then hit Haag in the chest as she reached over to him. Fayette, who has been a prosecutor in Anchorage since 1993, said he has never seen a “one-shot” case such as this one. “It’s just compelling and tragic all the way around,” he ...

Neil Armstrong’s storied lunar bag could fetch $4 million at auction Neil Armstrong’s lunar sample bag has had a long and complicated joIt started in 1969, when the off-white, purse-sized pouch flew to the moon and back with the legendary astronaut, who used it to collect the first lunar rock specimens during the Apollo 11 mission. When the bag returned to Earth, the U.S. government emptied it of its contents and dubbed it a national treasure. The bag, which still contained traces of moon dust, became a priceless museum artifact. Through a series of mix-ups, however, the government lost track of it until a few years ago, when it was accidentally put up for auction and nabbed by an Illinois woman for less than $1,000. Now, after a high-stakes legal battle over the bag’s rightful ownership, it will again be auctioned off — only this time it’s expected to sell for exponentially more. Sotheby’s New York announced over the weekend that the bag will be offered in the auction house’...

Paid leave proposal a test of Trump's populism President Trump’s proposed federal budget bears little resemblance to the economic populist vision he outlined as a candidate with a notable exception: a paid family leave proposal. It’s one area where the president is showing a potential willingness to buck his party. The United States is the only industrialized nation without a paid leave policy, and polls show the idea enjoys broad support among the public. Yet, even before the scheduled release Tuesday of Trump’s budget, opponents were lining up on all sides of the issue. The proposal, championed by Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, would grant mothers and fathers six weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child. How Trump navigates the issue could be an initial test of whether he’ll hold firm on any populist economic pledges that won him the hearts of so many working-class voters. "The White House has proven to be pliant in its early legislative negotiati...

 I was a Republican until Donald Trump won Until last year, I was as Republican as you could get. My family had belonged to the GOP since the 1850s, and both my grandfathers labored in local Republican politics. I started volunteering for the party nearly a half century ago, handing out Nixon pamphlets in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at the age of 13. I went on to work for Republican politicians in the New York State Legislature and both houses of Congress. And for a couple of years, I served in the research department of the Republican National Committee. But early in the morning of Nov. 9, shortly after Trump claimed victory in the presidential election, I took out my laptop and changed my registration to independent. From the start of the campaign, I knew that I could never vote for such a person. Trump is a mashup of all the sorriest parts of Republican history: Herbert Hoover’s trade policy, Warren Harding’s incompetence, Charles Lindbergh’s dictator worship, and Joseph McCarth...

World's first robot police officer makes its debut From fast food cooks to concierges at restaurants and hotels, robots are slowly infiltrating the workforce in nearly every industry. Most recently, the world welcomed its first operational robot policeman. “Robocop,” the newest member of the Dubai police force, debuted on Sunday at the Fourth Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference, where it greeted guests. At about 70 inches tall and weighing nearly 220 pounds, Robocop seeks to engage with residents and tourists. Featuring an “emotion detector,” the robot can recognize a person’s gestures and body language from nearly 5 feet away. Robocop’s skills don’t stop there -- the emotionally intelligent bot can detect if a person is happy, sad and even angry by studying his or her facial expression. And just like your human friends would do, if Robocop sees you’re unhappy, it will try to lift your spirits. More importantly, when it comes to fighting crime, the robot uses the inte...