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AP PHOTOS: Mongolia’s herders fight climate change with their own adaptability and new technology

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — For millennia, herders in Mongolia and their animals have lived and died together in the country’s vast grasslands, slowly shaping one of the last uninterrupted ecosystems of its kind. And at first glance, everything appears the way it may have looked all those years back. A herder watches attentively as a horse gave birth on a cold spring morning. Families look for pastures for their animals to graze. Gers — traditional insulated tents made with wooden frames — still face east and the rising sun, as they have for nomads since the days of Genghis Khan.But climate change is altering everything: Since 1940, the country’s government says, average temperatures have risen 2.2 degrees Celsius (nearly 4 degrees Fahrenheit). With the increase comes the threat of pastures being eaten away by an encroaching desert and water sources drying out. And dzuds — natural disasters unique to Mongolia caused by droughts and severe, snowy winters — have grown harsher an...

Correction: Bus Crash-Ohio story

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

Signs in support of the Tusky Valley Schools community can be seen in front of the elementary school shortly before a community prayer vigil, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, at the Tuscarawas Valley Schools football stadium in Zoarville, Ohio. A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruck on an Ohio highway earlier in the day, leaving several people dead and multiple others injured. (Andrew Dolph/Times Reporter via AP)(AP/Andrew Dolph) Signs in support of the Tusky Valley Schools community can be seen in front of the elementary school shortly before a community prayer vigil, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, at the Tuscarawas Valley Schools football stadium in Zoarville, Ohio. A charter bus filled with high school students was rear-ended by a semitruc...

LSU QB Jayden Daniels brings burgeoning Heisman hopes into Georgia State clash

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels has two chances left to show why a quarterback on a team with three losses and virtually no hope of challenging for a national title deserves the Heisman Trophy. The first of those comes Saturday night in Death Valley when the 15th-ranked Tigers (7-3, No. 15 CFP) host Georgia State (6-4).Second-year LSU coach Brian Kelly this week called Daniels “clearly a frontrunner for the Heisman Trophy,” adding, “He’s the most exciting football player individually in the country.”Daniels not only has gaudy statistics, but has accumulated them in spectacular fashion, be it with deep throws down field or long, weaving scoring runs.In a 52-35 victory over Florida last week, Daniels posted an SEC-record 606 total yards (234 rushing, 372 passing), highlighted by his touchdown runs of 85 and 51 yards and his 37-yard scoring pass to Brian Thomas. That performance made Daniels the first player in Football Bowl Subdivision history with at leas...

City to sweep camp at 24th and Arapahoe streets

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — On Thursday, Denver city officials plan to clean up a homeless camp at 24th and Arapahoe streets.City officials said the cleanup is part of Mayor Mike Johnston’s House1000 initiative to move 1,000 people into housing by the end of 2023.According to the city dashboard, the goal is 27% completed with just 46 days left in the year. This is up 9% from late October. So far, 274 people have been moved into homes. After harrowing journey to Denver, Venezuelan family helps others City officials said people living at the camp off of 24th and Arapahoe will be offered housing, assistance by outreach teams and trash services to clear out waste and debris. The city will also remove “all items encumbering or obstructing” the area, which will include both sides of Arapahoe Street, along with 24th Street to the northeast and Broadway to the southwest.This will be the third cleanup under the House1000 initiative. The Common Sense Institute reported earlier...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of rape and abuse in lawsuit filed by former girlfriend Cassie Ventura

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

Producer and musician Sean Combs was sued in federal court in New York City on Thursday by his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, who alleges she was raped and subjected to years of physical and other abuse by Combs.“After years in silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story, and to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships,” Ventura – an R&B singer who goes by the stage name Cassie – said in a statement to CNN. “With the expiration of New York’s Adult Survivors Act fast approaching, it became clear that this was an opportunity to speak up about the trauma I have experienced and that I will be recovering from for the rest of my life.”“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” Ben Brafman, attorney for Combs, said in a statement emailed to CNN via Combs’ publicist. “For the past 6 months, Mr. Combs, has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s per...

Florida man who survived gruesome shark attack shares ordeal, thanks good Samaritan who rendered aid

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) – A Florida man is all stitched up after he came face to face with a shark, an encounter that nearly cost him his arm. Now, he is telling his survival story.Steven Reinhardt said he was in the water near Juno Beach when he had a frightening encounter with a shark.“And I just felt something hit my arm and thrash it, and I was like, ‘What the?’ You know, yeah, and I lift my arm up, and it looked like a Halloween prop,” he said. “I could see the muscles hanging and the blood and the bone.”The realization hit the 60-year-old swimmer immediately.“I kind of knew it was a shark when it hit me,” he said.Then, against all odds, and with a mangled and bloody arm, Reinhardt swam 100 yards back to shore. He said his mind was focused more on staying alive than the pain he was enduring.“Just get in before I bleed out, yeah, before I pass out,” he said.Once he was back on shore, Reinhardt said, another miracle happ...

Texas jury convicts woman of fatally shooting cyclist Anna ‘Mo’ Wilson in jealous rage

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Thursday convicted a woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer.Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, faces up to life in prison when she is sentenced later Thursday. Prosecutors said Armstrong gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage. Wilson, who was also known as “Mo,” had briefly dated Armstrong’s boyfriend several months earlier. Wilson had gone swimming and to a meal with him the day she was killed.Jurors deliberated for about two hours after two weeks of testimony. Wilson family and friends — including the friend who found her body the night she was killed — hugged and cried in the courtroom after the verdict was read.Kaitlin Armstrong’s sister sat next to their mother crying. Armstrong’s father stood silently for several minutes after the verdict.A Vermont native and former a...

Good Samaritan describes rescuing woman from SUV stranded in Bridgewater lake

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

A man is being credited with helping rescue a woman after her SUV ended up in a lake in Bridgewater on Thursday.Speaking with 7NEWS, Nick Guerrero described how he made his way into Lake Nippenicket after seeing the vehicle dozens of feet out in the water.People living nearby said it was around 7:45 a.m. when the SUV appeared to go down a boat ramp and into the lake.“I just kind of saw something going down and I said ‘That’s not a boat going into the lake – that’s a car,” said Frances Dion, who lives near the lake. “It just kind of rolled slowly into the lake and drifted off.”Meanwhile, Guerrero was birdwatching nearby. He said he had seen a woman driving the Jeep and had to make sure she was okay.“The nose of the Jeep was going down and that’s when I kind of walked into the water,” he said.According to Guerrero, the woman inside of the car was more concerned with him getting wet than her own safety. But he said despi...

Enrique Pepén broke state law by promoting fundraiser on personal social media account: OCPF

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

Incoming Boston City Councilor Enrique Pepén cited a “lapse of judgement” Thursday as the reason for violating state law by using a personal social media account to advertise a campaign fundraiser and solicit donations while he was still a public employee.Pepén, who served as a City Hall employee until this summer and was endorsed by Mayor Michelle Wu, claimed victory last week in a competitive race for the District 5 seat that also featured outgoing Councilor Ricardo Arroyo as a candidate.Campaign finance officials said Pepén used his personal social media account in the two weeks leading up to a June 22 campaign kickoff fundraiser to publish six posts advertising the event, inviting people to attend, and soliciting contributions all while he was still a city employee.“Based upon our review, we have concluded that your distribution via social media of a fundraising invitation did not comply with (campaign finance law). To resolve this matter, you have purged contributio...

Mistrial declared after federal jury deadlocks in trial of ex-officer in deadly Breonna Taylor raid

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:14:51 GMT

By DYLAN LOVAN (Associated Press)LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on federal civil rights charges Thursday in the trial of a former Louisville police officer charged in Breonna Taylor’s death, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial.Brett Hankison was charged with using excessive force that violated the rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and her next-door neighbors. Hankison fired 10 shots into Taylor’s window and a glass door after officers came under fire during a flawed drug warrant search on March 13, 2020. Some of his shots flew into a neighboring apartment, but none of them struck anyone.The 12-member, mostly white jury struggled to reach a verdict over several days. On Thursday afternoon, they sent a note to the judge saying they were at an impasse. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings urged them to keep trying, and they returned to deliberations.The judge reported that there were “elevated voices” co...