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Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this wins Ig Nobel prize
September 18, 2025 - 4:30 PM

BOSTON (AP) — A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza lizards preferred to eat.
3 members of federal control board in Puerto Rico sue Trump and others for illegal firings
September 18, 2025 - 4:26 PM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances, who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday alleging their firings were illegal.
Prosecutor says stalking suspect ambushed Pennsylvania police officers, killing 3
September 18, 2025 - 4:23 PM

NORTH CODORUS, Pa. (AP) — A suspected stalker armed with a rifle hid inside his ex-girlfriend's home in the rolling farmland of southern Pennsylvania and ambushed police officers who came to arrest him, killing three of them in a shootout, a prosecutor said Thursday.
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire and hostage release
September 18, 2025 - 4:08 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States once again vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Thursday that had demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages, saying that the effort did not go far enough in condemning Hamas.
14 former NC State athletes have filed a lawsuit alleging abuse by ex-head trainer
September 18, 2025 - 4:03 PM

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Fourteen former N.C. State male athletes have filed a lawsuit in state court alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack’s former director of sports medicine, expanding a case that began with a federal lawsuit from a single athlete three years ago.
As immigration arrests spike in Chicago, activists escalate tactics to fight back
September 18, 2025 - 4:02 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — As encounters with federal immigration agents around Chicago increase, tactics used by activists and immigrant leaders to fight back are also escalating.
Elected officials and dozens of protesters are arrested at Manhattan immigration holding facility
September 18, 2025 - 3:55 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees.
Kentucky's highest court strikes down a city's ban on no-knock warrants
September 18, 2025 - 3:52 PM

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky city's ban on no-knock warrants was struck down Thursday by the state's highest court, which said it conflicted with a state law that limits but doesn't prohibit such warrants during police raids.
Autopsy finds hanged Mississippi student died by suicide, police say
September 18, 2025 - 3:37 PM

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — An autopsy by the office of Mississippi's state medical examiner concluded that a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University died by suicide, police said Thursday.
Assault charges dismissed against NYC man who said he was beaten by Egyptian officials
September 18, 2025 - 3:33 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against a protester who said he was dragged off a Manhattan street by Egyptian government officials, beaten and whipped with a metal chain and then wrongly arrested by New York City police.
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New $1.2M renovation lets beverage makers experiment in Penticton
Drink makers are going to be able to head to the newly renovated lab at Okanagan College's Penticton campus to work on innovative beverages. Okanagan College has spent $1.2 million to renovate its Beverage Technology Access Centre with

Penticton 'potio' weed lounge going strong despite stifling regulations
A cozy, clean patio with picnic tables where Penticton’s potheads can gather outside a dispensary to get stoned is a surprisingly rare space. As of February 2024 cannabis shops in BC could have outdoor lounges for people to smoke, but

Rent slowly getting cheaper in Kelowna as condo stock increases
Rent prices are slowly but steadily trending downwards in Kelowna, and the huge volume of condos might help speed up that descent into affordability. Kelowna’s average asking price to rent a one-bedroom apartment is $1,953, down 1.3 p

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Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this wins Ig Nobel prize

3 members of federal control board in Puerto Rico sue Trump and others for illegal firings

Prosecutor says stalking suspect ambushed Pennsylvania police officers, killing 3

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire and hostage release

14 former NC State athletes have filed a lawsuit alleging abuse by ex-head trainer

As immigration arrests spike in Chicago, activists escalate tactics to fight back

Elected officials and dozens of protesters are arrested at Manhattan immigration holding facility

Kentucky's highest court strikes down a city's ban on no-knock warrants

Autopsy finds hanged Mississippi student died by suicide, police say

Assault charges dismissed against NYC man who said he was beaten by Egyptian officials

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