There’s always one in a crowd, a sort of harbinger of the oncoming mosquito onslaught: a person mosquitoes seem to target more than others. What is it about these unlucky chosen few that makes them mosquito magnets? There are hundreds of mosquito species and they all have slightly different preferences when it comes to what or who they bite. But …

Yale University has responded to an incident in which a campus police officer held a black male student at gunpoint after thinking the student matched the description of a burglary suspect. The student is the son of New York Times columnist Charles Blow. After tweeting that he was “fuming” over the incident, Blow wrote an article about his son’s encounter …

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Obamacare will cost 7 percent less than expected over the next decade for federal subsidies to help lower-income people pay for private health insurance, congressional researchers said on Monday. A report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said insurance coverage would cost $964 billion from 2015 to 2024, $68 billion below its April 2014 …

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, whose speech to activists in Iowa last weekend drew strong reviews, has taken the first formal step toward a presidential candidacy in 2016, establishing a committee that will help spread his message and underwrite his activities as he seeks to build his political and fundraising networks in the months ahead. Walker filed papers to set up …

The process of taking out student loans can be nerve-racking, but the reality of paying those loans back can be downright sobering—especially when a looming, large number suddenly becomes very real during the repayment period. Between 2003 and 2013, the share of 25-year-olds with government and/or private-student-loans climbed from 25 percent to 45 percent. In the 2011-2012 academic year, 10 …

When aroused, some women may experience squirting, or a rather noticeable discharge of fluid. What it is exactly and where it comes from has been hotly debated: female ejaculation or adult bedwetting? Researchers are now saying that squirting is essentially involuntary urination. Female ejaculate is technically the small amount of milky white fluid that’s expressed when climaxing, New Scientist explains. …

Sometimes you’re baking cupcakes or something and drinking, and you run out of alcohol. So you think to yourself, “I wonder if I could get a drunk with vanilla extract?” The answer, apparently, is yes. On Saturday night, police in Macedon, New York arrested a woman for driving erratically in the parking lot of the local Wal-Mart. The police said …