Pro-Palestinian protesters made their voices heard during a Senate hearing. Things are heating up for Maine's iconic lobsters, in a bad way. And a vampire with a day job? Here's how she does it. |
👻 Trick or treat! Laura Davis here. It's Halloween, and it's time for Tuesday's news. |
Protesters interrupt Senate hearing |
Amid repeated interruptions from pro-Palestinian protesters, Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered testimony on Tuesday to a Senate committee on the administration's emergency funding request for Israel and Ukraine. As Blinken sought to give opening remarks, more than a dozen demonstrators called for a "cease-fire now" and accused the U.S. of supporting a "massacre" in Gaza, which has been under bombardment from Israel since Hamas launched a surprise attack in early October in which approximately 1,400 Israelis were killed and more than 200 people were kidnapped. Israel responded with airstrikes that the Health Ministry in Gaza says have claimed the lives of more than 8,000 Palestinians. 👉 Here's everything that happened. | Protesters interrupt a hearing as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY |
More news: A flurry of Israeli airstrikes on the largest refugee camp in Gaza caused dozens of casualties, flattened apartment buildings and killed what the Israeli military said were numerous Hamas militants. Meanwhile, nearly 672,000 Palestinians sheltering in 149 U.N. refugee locations across the Gaza Strip are "facing increasingly desperate conditions," the U.N. Reliefs and Works Agency said. 👉 Follow our live coverage. | A bulldozer clears the rubble at the site of a home in the West Bank village of Arura. The Israeli army demolished the family home of Saleh al-Arouri, a senior Hamas official exiled over a decade ago. Nasser Nasser, AP |
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🦞 Maine's lobster industry is in hot water. Literally. |
Lobsterwoman Krista Tripp doesn't need a scientist to tell her the normally cold waters off the coast of Maine are warming. She's got a submersible thermometer that proves it. But it's not just the warmer water that's changing fishing on the coast of northern New England. Heavy rains are lowering the ocean's salinity. And warm water fish that don't belong here keep showing up. "People are posting fish they catch on Facebook and asking 'what's this?' And they're tropical fish," Tripp said. In Maine, the intense focus on a single species of lobster – homarus americanus – helped build a generations-old culture of coastal fishing done in small boats close to shore. But as the waters get warmer, that way of life is in danger of disappearing. 🔎 Take a closer look at the future of Maine's lobsters. |
A vampire with a day job? |
Halloween means something more to Hellen Schweizer than it does to others who merely carve pumpkins or go trick-or-treating. This Halloween, it's the second anniversary of an epiphany for Schweizer. In 2021, the 28-year-old Ohio woman was struck by her connection to vampirism – and there's been no turning back. Schweizer identifies as a vampire. Ever since she was young, she said she's "always been all about vampires," loved Anne Rice books and Dracula. There are different kinds of vampires, Schweizer says – and they don't all want to drink your blood. 🖤 Here's what to know. |
🧛♀️ Her go-to look: She wears fangs and a makeup palette of dark red lipstick with a "Phoenix eye," a white shirt with "flowy sleeves" and a black cape. |
🦇 Sink your fangs into this: A 2015 survey by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance said 5,000 people in the U.S. identify as real vampires, and some of them do drink blood from willing donors. Others consider themselves psychic or energy vampires. | Hellen "Hellie" Schweizer talks about her life as a vampire. MIKE SCHENK/THE DAILY RECORD` |
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