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Amount of warming triggering carbon dioxide in air hits new peak, growing at near-record fast rate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP Science Writer)The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak, jumping at one of the fastest rates on record, officials announced Monday.Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now the highest they’ve been in more than 4 million years because of the burning of oil coal and gas. The last time the air had similar amounts was during a less hospitable hothouse Earth before human civilization took root, scientists said.The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration announced that the carbon dioxide level measured in May in Hawaii averaged 424 parts per million. That’s 3 parts per million more than last year’s May average and 51% higher than pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm. It is one of the largest annual May-to-May increases in carbon dioxide levels on record, behind only 2016 and 2019, which had jumps of 3.7 and 3.4 parts per...

Jets tackle Duane Brown: ‘I still got plenty left’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

At age 37 and coming off shoulder surgery, some players might have decided to hang up their cleats and begin a new chapter of their lives.Jets tackle Duane Brown isn’t one of those players, as he didn’t contemplate retirement despite having a 16-year career and being named to multiple All-Pro and Pro Bowl teams.So what is Brown’s motivation during the twilight of his career?“I still got plenty left,” Brown told reporters last week. “I still feel like I can play at a high level. I want to get as healthy as possible.“Last year, I was playing less than 100%. So I want to get healthy and play at the level that I’m accustomed to. Obviously, with the team that we have, it’s a great shot to win.“I’ve done everything you can ask for individually in my career, but I want to win and I want to be the best version of myself to contribute to that.”A week after Mekhi Becton’s season-ending right knee injury during train...

Chicago Bears Q&A: Is it time to add an edge rusher? What young players are standing out at OTAs?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

The Chicago Bears are finishing their second week of organized team activities at Halas Hall. Despite their offseason additions, they still have some roster deficiencies. Brad Biggs addresses concerns in his weekly mailbag.It’s June 1. Do you think the Bears will be active this week or next for edge help? — @just_acyJust because the Bears have not added a defensive end with a track record does not mean general manager Ryan Poles and his staff have not been working on this initiative. I expect the team to add a veteran edge defender at some point.“We’re interested in a lot of free agents,” coach Matt Eberflus said Wednesday when asked if he would like to get some help at the position. “We’re interested in a lot of guys at all positions. We’re just excited about being able to look at those guys and potentially add as we go through camp and getting closer to the season.”Does this mean something will happen this week or next? Maybe. ...

La Jolla restaurant burglarized two days after grand opening

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Just days after the grand opening event, a man broke into the Beeside Balcony La Jolla early Saturday morning and stole the restaurant's cash register.Beeside Balcony chef and owner, Christophe Cevasco, first started serving his specialties at the Del Mar location with La Jolla next in line. After years of hard work, he was excited for the opening of his La Jolla location last Thursday, June 1. But, that excitement quickly turned to frustration just two days later when someone was caught on security camera around 6 a.m. Saturday, stealing the cash register from behind the restaurant's bar after breaking in through the delivery entrance."He walked right in, grabbed the register, pulled the whole set up, ripped everything off the wall," Cevasco told FOX 5.According to the owner, the suspect was in and out of the restaurant within a minute, taking with him about $500 that was inside the register. Cevasco said, "He was on a mission … he was in and out." Man struck by vehi...

One dead after being shot by police at South Bay transit center

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- One person is dead after being shot by a police officer at a South Bay transit center Sunday night, San Diego police said.Around 8:56 p.m., officers were called to the transit center in the 700 block of East San Ysidro Boulevard for an undisclosed reason.One person was confirmed dead by SDPD. Authorities have not disclosed if they were the only individual shot at in the incident.The transit center was closed Sunday night as authorities investigated the incident, but of of 5:39 a.m. normal operations had resumed, according to MTS.Deputies from the San Diego County Sheriff's Office are headed to the scene to investigate the incident, per the countywide memorandum on officer-involved shootings, Lt. Adam Sharki with SDPD said.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Conservatives call on feds to see killer Bernardo returned to maximum-security prison

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to use whatever tools it can to reverse a decision by the Correctional Service of Canada to transfer killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison. Bernardo’s move to a facility in Quebec was made public last week after the correctional service notified the lawyer representing the families of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, whom Bernardo kidnapped, tortured and murdered in the early 1990s.The killer and serial rapist had been serving a life sentence at Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security penitentiary near Kingston, Ont. Tim Danson, a lawyer for the victims’ families, says it was unacceptable that the prison service refused to answer questions about the reason for the Bernardo’s move or details of his custody conditions, citing his privacy rights. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Poilievre called Bernardo a “monster” and said Prime Minis...

A man wants to trademark ‘Trump too small’ for T-shirts. Now the Supreme Court will hear the case.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a case in which a man tried to trademark a phrase mocking former President Donald Trump as “too small.”The Justice Department is supporting President Joe Biden’s once and possibly future rival in urging the court to deny a trademark for the suggestive phrase “Trump too small” that a California man wants to put on T-shirts.The case will be argued in the fall, one of two disputes on the court’s upcoming agenda that involve Trump or one of his businesses. Government officials said the phrase “Trump too small” could still be used, just not trademarked because Trump had not consented to its use. But a federal appeals court said refusing trademark registration violated free speech rights.The high court has considered a raft of Trump-related cases in recent years. The justices have dealt with cases about Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2000 election and with his efforts to shield his tax records from Congress and to keep oth...

U.S. sanctions Russia-backed actors over Moldovan destabilization protests

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. sanctioned a group of Russian-intelligence linked individuals Monday for their role in allegedly helping the Kremlin destabilize Moldova’s democratically-elected government through protests in Moldova’s capitol earlier this year. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated seven members of a group linked to sanctioned Moldovan oligarch, Ilan Shor, currently in exile in Israel, and leader of Moldova’s pro-Russia Shor Party. The Shor Party supports a group calling itself Movement for the People, which organized the anti-government protest in Moldova’s capital earlier this year. The protestors demanded that the country’s pro-Western government fully subsidize citizens’ winter energy bills and to “not involve the country in war.”Moldovan police in March said they foiled a plot by groups of Russia-backed actors who were trained to cause mass unrest during the protest.Brian E. Nelson, Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and fina...

Man charged for sexually assaulting woman multiple times at Vaughan Mills mall

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

York Regional Police have arrested and charged a man in the alleged sexual assault of a woman while she shopped with her children at a mall in Vaughan.Investigators received reports of a sexual assault at Vaughan Mills in the Rutherford Road and Jane Street area just after 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 4.It’s alleged that a 48-year-old woman was shopping with her children when an unknown man sexually touched the victim while she was in a shoe store.Police said she left the store, and the suspect followed her to the food court, where another assault occurred. The victim informed mall security, and the police were called.Responding officers located the man in the mall and arrested him a short time later.The accused was identified as 27-year-old Tyrone Medeiros of Forest, Ont. He’s facing two counts of sexual assault.Police said they released the man’s photo, hoping other victims would come forward.

Wildfire on German military training site contamined with ammunition

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:28 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Strong winds have fanned flames at a wildfire on a German military training site that is known to contain large amounts of ammunition, causing it to double in size, officials said Monday.The fire near Jueterbog, south of Berlin, had been simmering for days as authorities scrambled to prevent it reaching surrounding villages.Firefighters have cleared large strips of land to contain the blaze but are avoiding the training grounds itself, where several explosions were heard Monday, officials said.Weeks of dry weather have increased the risk of wildfires in eastern Germany, with some regions on the second-highest alert level.Meteorologists say rain predicted for the coming days may lower the threat of wildfires again.The Associated Press