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Australia joins G7-backed ‘climate club’ and promises to drive down greenhouse gas emissions

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Australia is joining the “climate club” backed by the Group of Seven major economies to take more ambitious action in tackling global warming, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday.The club was first proposed by Nobel Prize winner William Nordhaus as a way of getting countries to voluntarily set high targets for curbing climate change and then require trading partners to meet those same standards. Such moves are opposed by major emerging economies like China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gas.“We’re very pleased to join the climate club because we are ambitious and we also see that this isn’t just the right thing to do by the environment, but this is also the right thing to do by jobs and by our economy,” Albanese said at a news conference in Berlin after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who made the idea a key pillar of his G7 presidency last year.“One thing we can do is to cooperate and learn off each other, because you can’t addre...

Hill Harper, an actor on ‘CSI: NY’ and ‘The Good Doctor,’ is running for the US Senate in Michigan

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Hill Harper, an actor known for his roles on “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor,” announced on Monday that he is running for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat and challenging U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic nomination.Harper is the sixth Democratic candidate to enter the race for retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s seat. Stabenow announced in January that she would not be seeking a fifth term in 2024 in the battleground state.Born in Iowa, Harper owns a house in Detroit and bought a coffee shop, Roasting Plant Coffee, in the city in 2017. He attended Brown University and Harvard Law School before becoming an actor. He starred on the CBS show “CSI: NY” for nine seasons and currently appears on ABC’s “The Good Doctor.”Harper was appointed to President Barack Obama’s cancer panel in 2012 as a survivor of the disease himself.In an interview with The Associated Press before his announcement, Harper described himself as a small-b...

Northwestern officials considering heavier punishments for coach Pat Fitzgerald following hazing investigation

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

EVANSTON, Ill. — In the days ahead, Northwestern fans and alumni, Chicagoans, and the greater sports world alike will learn whether or not Northwestern head football coach Pat Fitzgerald will face further punishment in the aftermath of an investigation into hazing allegations made against the university’s football program.Lawyer Michael Levine, who has represented victims of hazing across the United States, told WGN News that more actions may be in store."If the coaching staff and others in the athletic department, if they were doing their job, they would have known about this," Levine said. "What the university is doing in response to this, it's too little, too late, a shockingly small slap on the wrist in light of what the allegations are." PREVIOUS COVERAGE: NU football players release statement, student newspaper details hazing allegations made against team Hazing allegations arose against the Northwestern football program last November, prompting the university to task a law ...

Motorcyclist critical after accident in Algonquin

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

ALGONQUIN, Ill. — A motorcyclist is in critical condition after he lost control Sunday evening in Algonquin.At around 5:30 p.m., officers responded to the area of Route 62 and Sandbloom Road on the report of a motorcycle accident.Witnesses told police a 51-year-old Burlington Man struck a curb on Route 62. The motorcycle then bounced off the curb and began to “fishtail” as he continued westbound.The man was then thrown from the motorcycle. He was transported to Northwestern Hospital in Huntley and then air lifted to Condell Medical Center in critical condition. Body recovered from vehicle in Calumet River, CPD says Westbound lanes of Route 62 between Sandbloom Road and Longwood Drive were closed for an hour and 45 minutes.

Actor Hill Harper, of 'CSI: NY' and 'The Good Doctor,' plans US Senate run in Michigan

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Hill Harper, an actor known for his roles on “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor,” announced Monday that he is running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat and challenging U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic nomination.Harper is the sixth Democratic candidate to enter the race for retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow's seat. Stabenow announced in January that she would not be seeking a fifth term in 2024 in the battleground state.Born in Iowa, Harper owns a house in Detroit and bought a coffee shop, Roasting Plant Coffee, in the city in 2017. He attended Brown University and Harvard Law School before becoming an actor. He starred on the CBS show “CSI: NY” for nine seasons and currently appears on ABC's “The Good Doctor.”Harper was appointed to President Barack Obama's cancer panel in 2012 as a survivor of the disease himself.In an interview with The Associated Press before his announcement, Harper described himself as a small-business owner, a union memb...

Dean's A-List Interviews: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in 'Barbie'

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

Check out Dean's A-List Interviews with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and other stars in the new movie "Barbie" expected to hit theaters next week. Get Dean's reviews and A-List interviews delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for Dean's Downloads weekly newsletter. You'll also get his Dean Cooks recipes too!

How to survive excessive heat: 5 scientific findings 

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

(The Hill) -- Last week marked a grim record for Earth's climate, as temperatures repeatedly hit — and passed — levels not seen in 125,000 years, according to government scientists.For context, the last time things were this hot, the first modern humans were just beginning to leave Africa, and chips of sharpened flint represented the bleeding edge of high technology.Science moves slowly, and it will be years before we learn the impacts of this new era of heat on urban infrastructure, public health, and the natural world.But as temperatures have consistently climbed over the past decade in a punctuated procession of once-anomalous heat waves, scientists worldwide have worked in tandem to figure out ways to mitigate its impacts.One overall conclusion of their work is that while heat waves are now inevitable — thanks to decades of human failure to slow the burning of fossil fuels — deaths from heat are not.And the dramatic — and often tragic — impacts that extreme heat can inflict on t...

Ex-gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times during Florida prison altercation: AP sources

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida.Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. The people said he was in stable condition Monday.One of the people said he had been stabbed in the back and in the chest.The people were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack or the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.Nassar was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including Olympic medalists.Nassar is serving decades in prison for convictions in state and federal courts. He admitted sexually assaulting athletes when he worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians. Separately, Nassar pleaded guilty to possessi...

Relentless rain floods roads in Northeast, leads to evacuations, rescues

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Heavy rain washed out roads and forced evacuations in the Northeast on Monday as more downpours were forecast throughout the day. One person in New York drowned as she was trying to leave her home. The slow-moving storm reached New England in the morning after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut. Heavy downpours with possible flash flooding were forecast in parts of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. One of the worst hit places was New York's Hudson Valley, where rescuers found the body of a woman in her 30s whose home was surrounded by water. The force of the flash flooding dislodged boulders, which rammed the woman’s house and damaged part of its wall, Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus told The Associated Press. Two other people escaped.“She was trying to get through (the flooding) with her dog,” Neuhaus said, “and she was overwhelmed by tidal-wave type waves.”He said many roads and bridges were washed out. Officials ...

Gov. Hochul updates New Yorkers on floods and rain

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 07:08:50 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Gov. Kathy Hochul will hold a press conference with updates on extreme flooding in Highland Falls. She's scheduled to start at 10:15 a.m. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox!