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Special mosquitoes are being bred to fight dengue. How the old enemies are now becoming allies 09/13/2023 02:57pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease — and it goes against everything they’ve learned. Wh Special mosquitoes are being bred to fight dengue. How the old enemies are now becoming allies 09/13/2023 02:17pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease — and it goes against everything they’ve learned. Wh Law Roach, the image architect, rethinks his own image with a New York Fashion Week show 09/13/2023 02:11pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrity stylist Law Roach has refilled his cup, emerging out of retirement this week for a New York Fashion Week collaboration with luxury Indian fashion brand Falguni Shane Peacock. The New York It Girl-meets-Mumbai collection shown Monday blended Falguni Shane Peacock’s opule NATO member Romania finds fragments of drones near its border with Ukraine for the third time 09/13/2023 02:04pm • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO member Romania found new fragments of a drone deemed similar to those used by the Russian army near its border with Ukraine on Wednesday, in the third such finding in a week, defense officials said. Two helicopters from the Romanian Air Force were deployed with speci Why coin and button batteries can be so dangerous in the hands of your kids 09/13/2023 01:03pm • Doctors are warning parents about how dangerous certain batteries can be for your kids. It comes as new standards and regulations go into effect in the U.S. “It is round, it is shiny, it is nice and slick in their hands and can easily slip into the mouth,” Dr. Sarah Combs described the typica Body found by divers in Greece raises death toll from recent storm to 16 09/13/2023 12:45pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Coast guard divers in central Greece have recovered the body of an unidentified man in an area where authorities are searching for a missing Austrian couple in the wake of a massive storm, officials said. The discovery raises the death toll attributed to flooding from the sto 'Invisible Beauty' offers a unique take on fashion through eyes of trailblazer Bethann Hardison 09/13/2023 12:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — “I always know, because I've lived life long enough, you can change things," Bethann Hardison said at the start of "Invisible Beauty,” a new documentary focused on her more than five decades in fashion. "You might need to be your foot against the pedal, but you can change thing Palestinian man who fled Lebanon seeking safety in Libya was killed with his family by floods 09/13/2023 11:45am • BEIRUT (AP) — A At the height of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in the late 1980s, Saleh Ali Sariyeh decided to leave the Palestinian refugee camp where he had been living and move to Libya in search of safety and a better future. On Monday, the 62-year-old architect was killed along with his wife Fire in Vietnam's capital kills at least 56 when it engulfs an apartment building 09/13/2023 10:42am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A fire in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital killed at least 56 people, including at least four children, and injured at least 37, authorities said Wednesday The fire started just before midnight Tuesday in a building housing about 150 residents. Firefight Income too high for Medicaid? ‘Spend down’ to qualify 09/13/2023 09:03am • More than 1.4 million people have lost Medicaid coverage in 2023 because they no longer meet the eligibility requirements, according to August tracking data from KFF, a health policy nonprofit. After a pause on disenrollments during the COVID-19 public health emergency, beneficiaries now must prove Simanic returns to Serbia with World Cup silver medal winners hoping to play basketball again 09/13/2023 07:46am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Borisa Simanic, the Serbian player who needed a kidney removed during the Basketball World Cup, has been discharged from a Philippines hospital and was able to join his team for its silver-medal celebration in Belgrade. Simanic told Radio Belgrade that he must rest for thre Montgomery Co. police makes case for drone first responders to Wheaton residents 09/13/2023 07:23am • An example of the drones that would be used in the Montgomery County Police Department's "Drone as First Responder" program. (WTOP/Mike Murillo) The police department in Montgomery County, Maryland, hopes it will be able to use drones to respond to some 911 calls starting this fall. It is ca 5 former officers charged with federal civil rights violations in Tyre Nichols beating death 09/13/2023 06:26am • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers were charged Tuesday with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols as they continue to fight second-degree murder charges in state courts arising from the killing. Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills, Demetrius Hale Indonesian leader takes a test ride on Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway 09/13/2023 06:03am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo took a test ride Wednesday on Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. The $7.3 billion rail project, funded largely by China, connects the capital, Jakarta, and Ba 'Forced to show up the day after I give birth': Prince George's Co. Council debates virtual voting, member ethics 09/13/2023 03:57am • The pandemic has brought about lots of changes in the ways we live and work, with more and more jobs allowing for remote work than before. In some cases, employers can find it hard to attract talent by having a rigid “no virtual work” policy. That’s not the case in electoral politics. And w