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Agriculture briefs: Grants help Penn State to study mosquitoes

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UNIVERSITY PARK Mosquito-borne pathogens, including zika, yellow fever and other illnesses have serious and worldwide impacts on human health. The World Health Organization warned that half of the global population is at risk of dengue, with 100 million to 400 million infections occurring each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that 2023 saw more than 260 million cases of malaria and almost 600,000 deaths across 83 countries. To improve scientific understanding of the pathogens involved and begin addressing these challenges, the National Institutes of ...

State College man killed in two-vehicle crash in Antis Township

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A 40-year-old State College man was killed in a two-vehicle crash on I-99 in Antis Township shortly after midnight Tuesday. According to state police and the Blair County Coroner’s Office, Joshua Russell Brown was driving a 2020 Toyota Tundra pickup truck north in the left, southbound lane ...

Ticker: Dollar weakens sharply against Japanese yen

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The U.S. dollar has weakened sharply against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan’s finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets. Before late last week, the dollar was trading above 163 yen, touching 40-year highs. It fell below 160 yen after regulators were suspected of stepping in. On Monday after the official announcement of the intervention the dollar dropped to about 155.20 yen before rebounding slightly. That’s a big change for the exchange rate. Trump said the U.S. got “financial benefit” out of the intervention, calling it a ...

Judge rules New York can’t put ban on agents

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NEW YORK — New York can’t ban federal agents from wearing face coverings or require that they wear visible identification, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling comes after a federal judge earlier this year blocked a similar law in California that was enacted after the Trump administration aggressively worked to increase immigration arrests. For the Northern District of New York, U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino wrote that while New York “appears to be well-intentioned in its pursuit of transparent policing,” that’s not what the court is deciding. “The issue now ...

Board of Peace meets with Netanyahu

International News

JERUSALEM, Israel — The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza’s postwar transition met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a statement, in part to discuss a new disarmament deal the board had reached with the militant Hamas group. Nikolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza, held “constructive and detailed” talks with Netanyahu and his team, the Board of Peace said in a statement. “The goal is clear and is not in question: the complete decommissioning of weapons in the Strip and the transition away from rule by the gun to civilian ...

Authorities seek motive for mass shooting

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A driver charging his electric taxi and a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene were among the seven people wounded in a mass shooting at an Idaho fast food restaurant that also left three people dead, according to friends and relatives of the two men. The attack Saturday at a new In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls ended when the gunman, identified by police as 24-year-old Chad Williams, shot and killed himself. On Monday, police were still trying to determine why Williams carried out the attack, which happened early in the afternoon in a busy shopping plaza in the southern ...