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Las Vegas forward Candace Parker undergoes surgery for fracture in her foot

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

Las Vegas Aces forward Candace Parker underwent successful surgery on a fracture in her left foot the team announced Monday night.Parker has been playing on a fracture all season, but after consulting with doctors, the only option for her to be healthy again and avoid further injury was to have surgery.“I’ll work my way towards being healthy as soon as possible,” Parker said on social media. “For my teammates, for my circle, for my family, for myself.”The former MVP signed with the Aces in the offseason and helped the team jump out to a 21-2 mark. She has missed the last five games. Parker is averaging 9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists this season.There’s no timetable on Parker’s return.___AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

LA Galaxy’s Leagues Cup match with Club León rescheduled for Wednesday after plane problem

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — The LA Galaxy’s Leagues Cup match with Club León has been pushed back one day to Wednesday night after the Mexican club had mechanical problems with its charter aircraft.The Leagues Cup announced the decision Monday night, saying León’s preparations for the match were “significantly impacted” by the unspecified plane problem.The Galaxy and León were scheduled to meet Tuesday night at the Galaxy’s Dignity Health Sports Park in suburban Los Angeles. The match is the clubs’ opener in the Leagues Cup, a summer tournament featuring every team in Major League Soccer and Liga MX.All ticketholders can attend the match on Wednesday, the Galaxy confirmed.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Colombia 2, South Korea 0

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

South Korea00—0Colombia20—2First Half_1, Colombia, Usme, (penalty kick), 30th minute; 2, Colombia, Caicedo Alegria, 39th.Second Half_None.Goalies_South Korea, Young Geul Yoon, Jung Mi Kim, Jisu Ryu; Colombia, Catalina Perez, Sandra Sepulveda, Natalia Giraldo Alzate.Yellow Cards_Vanegas, Colombia, 10th; Seo Yeon, South Korea, 29th; Arias, Colombia, 45th+6; Seonjoo, South Korea, 45th+7.Referee_Rebecca Welch. Assistant Referees_Natalie Aspinall, Anita Vad, Drew Fischer. 4th Official_Marianela Araya Cruz.___Source

This summer is what climate change looks like, scientists say

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

The blistering heat threatening lives and fueling wildfires across Southern Europe and North America this July would have been “virtually impossible” without man-made global warming, scientists said on Tuesday. Their findings come as the planet’s ocean and land temperatures hit new records in recent weeks, with waters around Florida and the Mediterranean coast surpassing 30 degrees Celsius and parts of the Northern Hemisphere baking in heat of 45C or more. Scientists have long warned climate change would make heat waves hotter, longer and more frequent. Tuesday’s study found that this month’s extreme temperatures are no longer an outlier now that humans have warmed the Earth by about 1.2C above pre-industrial levels.  In fact, “it could well be that this is what will be a cool summer in the future unless we rapidly stop burning fossil fuels,” said study co-author Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London. “This is not the new norm...

Orioles center fielder Aaron Hicks exits win against Phillies: ‘It could be a strain. It could be a cramp.’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

The Orioles were already down one center fielder and, at least for Monday night in Philadelphia, they were down another.Aaron Hicks dove for a line drive hit by Johan Rojas in the third inning of the Orioles’ series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies. He threw the ball back to the infield and sat for a moment before training staff members came out to evaluate him. He eventually left the game with a left hamstring injury and was replaced in center field by rookie Colton Cowser.Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said Hicks would be evaluated Tuesday and that they’re hoping it’s a cramp.“It could be a strain. It could be a cramp,” he said.Hicks ran to his right on the liner from Rojas and fully stretched out. He appeared to make a spectacular catch and — although replay later showed the ball popped out of his glove — Rojas was ruled out.Entering Monday, Hicks is hitting .254 in 41 games for the Orioles this season with a .351 on-base percentage...

Israeli military kills 3 alleged Palestinian gunmen in volatile West Bank

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military said it shot and killed three alleged Palestinian gunmen in the northern occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the latest bloodshed in one of the most violent stretches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years.Israeli security forces said they opened fire at Palestinian militants who had shot at them from a car in the West Bank city of Nablus, the territory’s commercial capital and a major focus of the Israeli military’s recently stepped-up raids. In the hilly neighborhood of al-Tur shortly after the shooting, Israeli forces inspected a shattered black Skoda surrounded by spent bullet casings.Palestinian media described the Israeli killing of the gunmen as an ambush following the militants’ attempted attack on Israeli forces near a Jewish settlement overlooking Nablus. The Israeli military said it confiscated three M-16 rifles and other equipment from their car. Israeli-Palestinian fighting has surged in the territory, which Israel captured...

Maine aims to restore 19th century tribal obligations to its constitution. Voters will make the call

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Voters in Maine will likely be the ones to decide whether to restore long removed language about the state’s obligations to Native American tribes to printed versions of its constitution.The Maine Legislature is poised to give its final approval on Tuesday to a proposal to restore the language that requires Maine to honor treaties the state inherited from Massachusetts when it became its own state more than two centuries ago. The language has always applied, but was removed from printed versions of the constitution in 1876.Statewide voters would have to approve of the change to the constitution for it to take place. The date of the referendum has not yet been set.The restoration of the language to the printed constitution would improve transparency and illuminate Maine’s debts to Native American tribes, said Democratic House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross. The language is not in the official online version of the Maine Constitution either, though it ca...

Permafrost expert and military pilot among 4 killed in a helicopter crash on Alaska’s North Slope

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A helicopter crash in Alaska took the lives of a permafrost expert from the Netherlands, a pilot who recently transitioned from the military to fly charter helicopters and two other scientists conducting field work in the North Slope, one of the remotest regions in the U.S.Ronald Daanen, 51, and Justin Germann, 27, both from Fairbanks; Tori Moore, 26, of South Bend, Indiana; and pilot Bernard “Tony” Higdon, 48, of North Pole, Alaska, all perished last week when the 1996 Bell 206 helicopter they were in crashed into a lake while they were on a scientific mission.The three passengers were employees of Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources, working in the Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys.Alaska search and rescue divers recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three scientists on Sunday from the sunken wreckage of the aircraft, which went down in a shallow lake about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Utqiagvik — the northernmost city in ...

Study finds climate change fingerprints on July heat waves in Europe, China and America

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new study finds. Researchers say the deadly hot spells in the American Southwest and Southern Europe could not have happened without the continuing buildup of warming gases in the air.These unusually strong heat waves are becoming more common, Tuesday’s study said. The same research found the increase in heat-trapping gases, largely from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas has made another heat wave — the one in China — 50 times more likely with the potential to occur every five years or so.A stagnant atmosphere, warmed by carbon dioxide and other gases, also made the European heat wave 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.5 degrees Celsius) hotter, the one in the United States and Mexico 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) warmer and the one in China one 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) toastier, the study found. Several climate scientists, using tree rings and ot...

Proposal before Maine lawmakers would jumpstart offshore wind projects

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:37:17 GMT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is poised to launch an offshore wind program that would meet clean energy goals and produce enough power for about 900,000 homes from floating wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine.The goal calls for requests for proposals to be issued for 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040. That’s enough electricity to power about half of Maine’s electricity load. The bill was revised after a veto by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to ensure non-union companies can get into the business, setting a path to approval by the Maine Senate and House on Tuesday.Approval would put Maine on a path to catch up with other states that already have offshore wind projects. The catch, however, is that the wind turbines would be farther offshore than those projects, and would involve floating turbines. It also includes incentives aimed at ensuring wind power developers steer clear of lucrative lobster fishing grounds.The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mark Lawrence,...