October 18, 2022 5:51 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – If mosquitoes love you, new research suggests it may be because of how you smell. A study published Tuesday finds that people who are “mosquito magnets” have high levels of certain chemicals on the skin that are tied to odor. Scientists pitted people’s smells against each other in the lab and saw that the bugs swarmed to the same hosts over time. Bad news for the mosquito magnets: It’s hard to change your skin acid levels. But some scientists hope the new research can help think up new ways to fight off bites.
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October 18, 2022 5:49 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is promising that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade – if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion protections into law. In a speech designed to energize his party’s voters just three weeks before the November midterms, Biden said, “If you care about the right to choose, then you gotta vote.” Democrats tried repeatedly in this Congress to enshrine abortion rights into law, only to be thwarted by GOP filibusters and the unwillingness of their own members to change the Senate’s rules. That dynamic is likely to persist no matter what happens in the November elections.
October 18, 2022 11:49 am
MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) – A small plane has crashed into a car dealership parking lot near the border of Ohio and West Virginia, killing two people on board and sparking a large fire. The crash of the the 1974 Beechcraft Air King E90 in Marietta, Ohio, was reported about 7:15 a.m. Tuesday. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says the pilot and another person on board were killed, but no one on the ground was injured. The plane had apparently departed about 30 minutes earlier from John Glenn International Airport in Ohio, but it wasn’t immediately clear where it was headed. Authorities say the two victims – a West Virginia man and an Ohio man – were the only people in the plane.
October 18, 2022 4:43 am
The Peters Township School Board met Monday night. The agenda was light on action items but policy changes from an earlier policy committee meeting were released. Director Lisa Anderson recommends nine policy changes in categories relating to pupils, employees, operations and community. Student discipline, student expression and dissemination of materials along with employee conduct and disciplinary procedures are a few of the details that are under review. A second reading of the policy changes and vote is scheduled for the next regular meeting of the school board on November 21.
October 18, 2022 4:19 am
As the value of the U.S. dollar soars, other currencies around the world are sinking by comparison. This is contributing to skyrocketing prices for everyday goods and services and compounding financial distress, especially in poor countries. The reasons for the dollar’s rise are no mystery. To combat U.S. inflation, the Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark short-term interest rate five times this year. That has led to higher rates on a wide range of U.S. government and corporate bonds, luring investors and driving up the U.S. currency. The dollar is up 18% this year against a basket of key currencies around the globe.
October 18, 2022 4:18 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has officially kicked off the application process for his student debt cancellation program. He announced Monday that 8 million borrowers had already applied for loan relief during the federal government’s soft launch period over the weekend. Biden is encouraging the tens of millions eligible for potential relief to visit studentaid.gov and touting the application form, which he says will take less than five minutes to complete. He says an early, “beta launch” version of the online form released late Friday handled the early stream of applications “without a glitch or any difficulty.”
October 18, 2022 4:16 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) – As migrants, especially Venezuelans, struggle to come to terms with a new U.S. policy discouraging border crossings, one small town in southern Mexico is unexpectedly playing host to thousands of migrants camped far from the U.S. border. San Pedro Tapanatepec had 7,000 migrants, about 75% Venezuelans, when The Associated Press visited at the beginning of October. By Monday, Mayor Humberto Parrazales estimated the number had grown to 14,000. While many Venezuelans had planned to make their way to the U.S. border, the new U.S. policy says border crossers will simply be expelled. That leaves many camped out in the temporary tent shelters wondering what they’ll do next.
October 18, 2022 4:15 am
MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian warplane has crashed into a residential area in a Russian city on the Sea of Azov, killing 13 people. Three of those who died Monday had jumped from upper floors of a nine-story apartment building to escape a massive blaze. The Su-34 bomber came down in the port city of Yeysk after one of its engines caught fire during takeoff for a training mission. The Russian Defense Ministry said both crew members bailed out safely. After hours of combing through the debris, authorities said 13 people died and 19 were hospitalized with injuries.
October 18, 2022 4:14 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Air strikes cut power and water supplies in a repeatedly bombed Ukrainian city and pounded energy and infrastructure facilities elsewhere in the country on Tuesday, part of an apparent quickening effort by Russia to drive Ukrainians into the cold and dark as winter bites. All of Zhytomyr, a city with military bases 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of the capital, was without electricity and water after a double missile strike on an energy facility, said Mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn. Hospitals were left running on backup power, he said. Missile strikes also hit an energy facility in Kyiv and severely damaged another in the south-central city of Dnipro, authorities said. The governor of the partly Russian-occupied southern Zaporizhzhia region also reported a fire at an infrastructure facility caused by suicide drones – so called because they slam into targets and explode.
October 18, 2022 4:10 am
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – Two men were arrested after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers found loaded handguns in their carry-on bags at a checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport. According to a press release, a Pittsburgh man was arrested on Friday, Oct. 14 and a Colorado man was arrested on Saturday, Oct. 15. The Pittsburgh man had a loaded .380 caliber handgun and the Colorado man had a 9mm gun that was loaded with seven bullets, including one in the chamber. Both of the men were arrested on weapons charges. “Responsible gun owners know where their guns are at all times and they know that they are not permitted to carry them onto a flight,” said TSA’s Federal Security Director for the airport Karen Keys-Turner in a press release. “If you want to travel with your firearm all someone has to do is pack it properly and be sure to bring along your carry permit, if you have one. Now these travelers face a stiff financial civil penalty in addition to having to deal with their arrest.”
