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Trio wins Nobel Prize in physics for split-second glimpse of superfast spinning world of electrons

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

By DAVID KEYTON, SETH BORENSTEIN and JOHN LEICESTER (Associated Press)STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for giving us the first split-second glimpse into the superfast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses.The award went to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz for their work with the tiny part of each atom that races around the center and that is fundamental to virtually everything: chemistry, physics, our bodies and our gadgets. Electrons move so fast that they have been out of reach of human efforts to isolate them, but by looking at the tiniest fraction of a second possible, scientists now have a “blurry” glimpse of them and that opens up whole new sciences, experts said.“The electrons are very fast, and the electrons are really the workforce in everywhere,” Nobe...

Foo Fighters coming to Petco Park

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The Foo Fighters will be making a stop in San Diego next year.The 15-time Grammy Award winners will perform at Petco Park on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. They'll be joined by special guests The Hives and Alex G.Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. Presales will start as early as Tuesday at 10 a.m.The band will then head north to play two shows at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 9 and 11. Check out all of the tour dates on the Foo Fighters' website. Foo Fighters confirms band will be ‘different’ after Taylor Hawkins death, but vows to see fans ‘soon’ In May, the band named Josh Freese as their new drummer after longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins died in Colombia in March of 2022. Hawkins was 50 years old.

I-805 north connector to SR-15 reopens after fatal crash

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The northbound Interstate 805 connector to northbound state Route 15 was closed for several hours Tuesday morning due to a fatal crash.Traffic was backed up to state Route 54.By 8 a.m., all lanes on the connector had reopened, Caltrans San Diego said. Campland on the Bay storage facility erupts in flames The crash was first reported around 4:38 a.m., according to California Highway Patrol's online incident log.

San Diego Gun Show to return, but at a new venue

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Gun Show is coming back to town after being turned away at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Gov. Gavin Newsom prohibited all gun shows on state property, sending gun show organizers searching for alternative venues. “The fairgrounds were the perfect venue for a gun show, it is exactly the type of venue we needed,” said Michael Schwartz from the San Diego County Gun Owners Pac. Now, the San Diego Gun Show has headed off the coast. “We are having to be creative and improvise. We are out at a Masonic Temple out in the east side of the city of San Diego, they’ve been very welcoming,” Schwartz said. Campland on the Bay storage facility erupts in flames Gun control activists are unhappy with the new announcement. “It’s hard to negotiate with someone who doesn’t recognize the problem,” said Max Coston from the Safer California Pac. Activists believe if gun owners bought into safer storage, universal background checks and more gun training shootings could be curta...

Atlanta will pay $3.75M to family of Nebraska man who died after being handcuffed and held face down

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — The city of Atlanta will pay $3.75 million to the family of a Nebraska man who died after police handcuffed him face down.The City Council approved the settlement Monday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, after the Fulton County medical examiner determined that Ricardo Dorado Jr.’s death on Aug. 21, 2022 was a homicide.The medical examiner ruled that the death of the Lexington, Nebraska, resident was caused by prone restraint cardiac arrest. Complicating factors included Dorado having methamphetamine in his system, getting hit in the head by officers’ batons during his arrest and heart disease, according to the medical examiner’s report.“A review of the bodycam footage in this case clearly reflects that the egregious misconduct of several officers employed by the City of Atlanta Police Department caused Ricky’s untimely death,” Gabe Banks, an attorney for Dorado’s family, said in a statement. “Ricky was unarmed, and his death was completely preven...

2 Army soldiers killed, 12 injured in crash of military transport vehicle in Alaska

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two U.S. Army soldiers were killed and 12 others injured after a military transport vehicle flipped on a dirt road leading to a training area in Alaska, officials said.The single-vehicle accident happened Monday as the soldiers headed to the Yukon Training Area near Salcha, or about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Fairbanks, the 11th Airborne Division said in a statement late Monday.Army spokesperson John Pennell told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the driver lost control of the vehicle on a dirt road going into the training area, causing the large transport vehicle to flip.There were 17 soldiers in the vehicle at the time.First responders extracted soldiers from the vehicle and provided on-scene treatment. The 12 injured soldiers were taken by ground ambulances and air to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.Of those, the two with the most severe injuries were taken in air ambulances to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, Pennell said. Their c...

Canada offers to help UN military intervention in Haiti led by Kenya

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is determining how it can best help with an international military intervention in Haiti, leaving it unclear whether this will involve a military role for Canada.The United Nations Security Council approved a multinational force Monday to help combat violent gangs in Haiti, which Kenya has offered to lead.Joly says she’s spoken with her counterpart from Kenya as well as Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, on how Canada can be of help.Haiti’s unelected prime minister asked for an international intervention last year, and the idea has been divisive among Haitians though it is supported by the UN and Washington. Joly notes that Ottawa has always been involved in issues pertaining to Haiti, and says she expects Canada will do more, but isn’t specifying what kind of Canadian help has been offered.Haiti has faced a profound security crisis exacerbated by brazen criminal gangs since mid-2021,...

Donald Trump wants future Republican debates to be canceled after refusing to participate in them

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

Donald Trump ‘s campaign is calling on the Republican National Committee to cancel all remaining presidential primary debates, saying the RNC must instead “refocus its manpower” on defeating Joe Biden next year. In a statement late Monday, top Trump advisers also repeated debunked falsehoods about election fraud, claiming without evidence that Democrats are working to steal the 2024 election. Trump has maintained that the 2020 election was stolen, despite multiple legal cases, investigations and his own attorney general finding no fraud.In their statement, senior campaign advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita say the November debate in Miami and all future debates should be canceled.“Anything less, along with other reasons not to cancel, are an admission to the grassroots that their concerns about voter integrity are not taken seriously and national Republicans are more concerned about helping Joe Biden than ensuring a safe and secure election,” they said. The former preside...

Serbian authorities have detained the alleged organizer behind a recent shootout with Kosovo police

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police on Tuesday detained an ethnic Serb leader from Kosovo who was the alleged organizer behind a recent shootout with Kosovo police that left four people dead and sent tensions soaring in the region.Police said they also searched the apartment and other property in Serbia belonging to Milan Radoicic, a politician and wealthy businessman with close ties to Serbia’s ruling populist party and President Aleksandar Vucic. Police gave no other details. A statement said Radoicic was ordered to remain in custody for 48 hours.Later on Tuesday, prosecutors said Radoicic was questioned under suspicion of a criminal conspiracy, unlawful possession of weapons and explosives and grave acts against public safety. Radoicic allegedly got weapons delivered from Bosnia to Belgrade before stashing them in “abandoned objects and forests” in Kosovo, prosecutors said. The statement said that Radoicic and others in his group on Sept. 24 allegedly endangered the live...

Spain’s king asks Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez to try to form a government

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:25:56 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s King Felipe VI asked Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday to try to form a new coalition government following talks with political party leaders to determine which of them had the best chance of securing majority support in parliament. Spain’s equivalent of House speaker, Congress of Deputies President Francina Armengol, announced the decision after the king concluded his two days of talks and then summoned her. Sánchez’s Socialist party finished second behind the conservative Popular Party in Spain’s July 23 election. The monarch first asked Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to try to form a government, but Feijóo failed to win sufficient parliamentary support last week.“I have accepted the king’s petition,” Sánchez said during a Tuesday news conference in which he promised to work for a progressive government. Sánchez, 51, has been Spain’s prime minister in a minority leftist coalition for the past five years and is the country’s actin...