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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — It’s time to peek at the peak peonies.Visitors are making the annual pilgrimage to the University of Michigan this week to see — and smell — one of the world’s premier collections of the garden plant, featuring showy red, white and pink blooms of countless shades and varieties.Melanie Millar and her friends visited the Ann Arbor school’s Nichols Arboretum on Monday to take some graduation photos.The 18-year-old Millar is set to graduate from a Detroit-area high school in a matter of days.“I’m here with my best friends — a bunch of girls. … We just…

After selling her health care company, the billionaire is out to prove her three teams can compete with the men’s game as a real business—and she’s willing to spend whatever it takes. Settling into a gray upholstered chair in her living room in central London, beneath an enormous chandelier that makes even the nearby grand piano look compact, Michele Kang finds her mind drifting to the PBS home improvement series This Old House. She is fresh off a meeting with architects—down a glass-encased elevator to the conference room below her five-bedroom Knightsbridge apartment—and she has buildings on the brain. She…

Courtesy Act III Ron Shaich opened his first bakery at 26 years old. In the decades since, he’s made a killing as a food fortune teller, discovering and bringing to market some of America’s biggest restaurant brands. Here’s what he thinks is next. Ron Shaich looks relaxed. It’s partly due to his surroundings—the billionaire restaurateur is reclining in the home office of his vacation pad in Jumby Bay, a private island off the coast of Antigua. The 71-year-old Shaich is also in his element because he’s discussing his favorite subject: the “winner takes all” world of American dining. “The restaurant…

The doctor is in — the mailbox, that is.You can now do self-administered tests for everything from thyroid function to HIV in the privacy of your own home — and that list continues to grow, as the Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first at-home cervical cancer test.While the tests can make it easier for people to access health care and can be helpful for those who have extreme anxiety about sensitive or invasive medical exams, experts warn that most of the tests cannot replace an actual in-person visit. Here’s what doctors say you can test for at home,…

Straccetti di manzo, which translates roughly from the Italian to “little rags of beef,” is a trattoria staple. The cooking is minimal and quick, making this ideal for a weeknight dinner, but the beef must be thinly sliced.In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street Backroads Italy,” we freeze the meat for about 20 minutes to firm it a bit, which allows a knife to glide through the grain. After a quick sear in a hot skillet, the steak slices go directly onto a bed of peppery arugula and sweet-tart tomatoes. We prefer tri-tip steak for this recipe, as…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China blasted the U.S. on Monday over moves it alleged harmed Chinese interests, including issuing AI chip export control guidelines, stopping the sale of chip design software to China, and planning to revoke Chinese student visas. “These practices seriously violate the consensus” reached during trade discussions in Geneva last month, the Commerce Ministry said in a statement. That referred to a China-U.S. joint statement in which the United States and China agreed to slash their massive recent tariffs, restarting stalled trade between the world’s two biggest economies.But last month’s de-escalation in President Donald Trump’s trade wars…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Shaquille O’Neal docuseries about his time at Reebok’s basketball division and Mario Kart World on Nintendo’s Switch 2 are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Ariana Madix returns to Fiji as host of a new season of “Love Island USA.,” TikTok star Addison Rae offers her debut album “Addison” and then there’s “Presence,” Steven Soderbergh’s movie entirely from the perspective a ghost.New movies to stream from June 2-8 — “Presence,” one…

LONDON (AP) — For soccer-loving transgender women in England, it’s been a tough day, as the ban on their participation in women’s teams came into force.To show its solidarity with the community and against the decision by the governing body of English soccer (football), Goal Diggers Football Club, a London-based trans-inclusive women’s team, held a tournament Sunday.The message was clear. Yes, it’s a sad day, but no one will stop us playing the sport we love.Around 100 people — women, trans women, non-binary and gender non-conforming players —took part in the “Let The Dolls Play Tournament” in Islington, north London.…

A three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed.With the benefits rivaling some drugs, experts said cancer centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors. Until then, patients can increase their physical activity after treatment, knowing they are doing their part to prevent cancer from coming back.“It’s an extremely exciting study,” said Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who wasn’t involved in the research. It’s the first randomized controlled trial to show a reduction in cancer recurrences and…

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — While other students might be in class or socializing at lunch, a group of young Catholics attends Mass every weekday at noon at the Princeton University Chapel.They sing Gregorian chants in Latin, pray and receive Communion at a side chapel — inside the huge, nondenominational Princeton Chapel — that young, devoted Catholics see as a sacred refuge in a mostly liberal and secular Ivy League environment. “I feel that people’s faith is so strong here,” student Logan Nelson said of the dedicated Catholic space where he attends daily Mass. “It feels like a home — even…