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Las 5 cosas que debes saber este 26 de mayo: Así sería la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

DeSantis está bajo presión tras su bochorno. ¿Qué pasará si no se amplía el techo de la deuda en EE.UU.? Un mundo en tres islas del Mediterráneo. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.1. El pronóstico de esta temporada de huracanes en el AtlánticoSe espera que la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico de 2023 se acerque al promedio, dice la Oficina Nacional de Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés). Los meteorólogos de la agencia prevén entre 12 y 17 tormentas tropicales con nombre, de las cuales entre 5 y 9 podrían convertirse en huracanes. Cuatro de ellas podrían convertirse en huracanes de categoría 3 o superior.¿Cómo se seleccionan los nombres de las tormentas y huracanes? 2:002. ¿Qué pasará si no se amplía el techo de la deuda en EE.UU.?Conoce qué puede pasar si el Congreso y la Casa Blanca no logran un acuerdo sobre del techo de la deuda antes del 1 de junio. Algunos analistas anticipan, entre otras cosas, que los bo...

Man killed in shooting involving Boulder Police officers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A man in Boulder is dead following a shooting with police officers after they were called to an alleged domestic violence situation.Just after 10 p.m. Thursday, officers with the Boulder Police Department were called to a home in the 1700 block of Baseline Road in the Lower Chautauqua neighborhood on reports of a domestic violence situation.According to BPD, the suspect in the domestic violence situation told the victim that he was coming to the house and was known to carry a gun. 8 Aurora officers sued in violent arrest caught on body camera video Officers were already at the home when the suspect arrived. Shortly after the suspect's arrival, BPD said there was a confrontation and the man pulled out a gun. Two BPD officers fired their weapons and the suspect was pronounced dead.No officers were injured in the shooting. Per policy, both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave while the Boulder County Investigation Team investigates all the circumsta...

Denver weather: Strong storms Friday, scattered weekend storms

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — After some morning sunshine, storms will pop up over the Interstate 25 corridor in the early afternoon Friday and will push out across the plains, becoming stronger in the Denver weather forecast. This is the most common activity in lightning deaths Denver and the Front Range have a marginal risk for storms, while the northeastern corner of the state has a slight risk.Pinpoint Weather: Storm outlook on May 26. Weather today: Strong stormsSunny skies will be around Friday morning, and they will help highs climb to the upper 70s before storms build in the early afternoon. Storms will form and will push out across the plains into the early evening and increase in strength. These storms can produce small hail, gusty winds, and the possibility of an isolated tornado in the northeastern corner of the state.Pinpoint Weather: Daily forecast on May 26. Weather tonight: Clearing skiesStorms will wrap up and clear to the east as midnight approaches. Skies will clear quickly ...

New Jersey police officer who authorities say shot and killed a 911 caller is charged with manslaughter

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

(CNN) — A grand jury has indicted a New Jersey police officer on a manslaughter charge more than a year after authorities say he fatally shot a homeowner who called 911 to report two burglars, the state attorney general’s office said.Mantua Township police officer Salvatore Oldrati shot Charles Sharp III several times in his Mantua Township front yard, killing him, in the early hours of September 14, 2021, officials said.Sharp, 49, had called 911 about two burglars behind his home, one of whom he reported had a handgun, according to the New Jersey attorney general’s office.A dispatcher shared the information about the armed burglar with responding officers at the time, officials said. The grand jury voted to indict Oldrati on Tuesday.“(Sharp’s) life was cut short seconds after Officer Oldrati arrived at the scene, while (he) was still on the phone with a police dispatcher,” Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a news release Wednesday.The attorney general’s office previously rel...

Carbondale man arrested in Nevada; accused of stealing backhoe, driving to airport to catch flight

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Illinois (KCTV) — A southern Illinois man was arrested in Nevada and is facing charges of theft in Williamson County after he allegedly stole a backhoe and drove it to the airport to catch his flight to the West Coast.According to the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, Timothy J. Baggott, of Carbondale, was arrested in Elko County, Nevada on May 21 for charges related to the possession of a stolen vehicle. He was later released.The sheriff’s office said Baggott was arrested again on May 22 in Wells, Nevada for charges related to the possession of an additional stolen vehicle.He is currently being held in the Elko County Jail on a $40,000 bond.On May 23, the Williamson County state’s attorney formally filed charges against Baggott for theft (over $10,000), a class 2 felony. A warrant for his arrest was issued with a $25,000 bond.Williamson County sheriff’s deputies were called to the Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois in Marion, Illinois on Thursday, May ...

Florida disaster sales tax holiday set to take place ahead of hurricane season

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

Residents of Florida will have the chance to participate in a disaster sales tax holiday in preparation for hurricane season. Starting Saturday, and lasting until June 9, Florida residents will be able to purchase certain items at no extra tax charge. Items include batteries, flashlights, lanterns, tarps, and select portable generators. A second tax break holiday will take place between Aug. 26 to Sept. 8, before the peak of the stormy season.For more information, visit Miamidade.gov.

Eddie George’s prolific post-playing career makes a stop at Chicago Bears OTAs through a diversity coaching fellowship

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

Eddie George had no plans to coach football.The long hours turned off the former Tennessee Titans All-Pro running back. He loved having time to invest in his golf game. He was building his wealth management business and acting in movies, TV and plays, including starring on Broadway as Billy Flynn in “Chicago.”“Trying to win a HEGOT,” George said. “That’s Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, but Heisman’s on the front of it.”The 1995 Heisman Trophy winner at Ohio State laughed after he delivered the line like a pro from his seat in a Halas Hall conference room.George was taking a quick breather during a hectic three-week stretch with the Chicago Bears in the Bill Walsh diversity coaching fellowship, a program designed to give minority coaches experience at the NFL level. Florida State co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Randy Shannon, the former head coach at Miami, is also on hand at Bears organized team activities.Nine days into his ...

British Cycling publishes new transgender policy with ‘open’ and ‘female’ categories

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Riders who were born male will be prevented from racing in British Cycling’s elite female events under a new transgender and non-binary participation policy published by the governing body on Friday.New rules for competitive events, due to be implemented this year, will see racing split into “open” and “female” categories, with transgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals and those whose sex was assigned male at birth eligible to compete in the open category.The female category will remain for those whose sex was assigned female at birth and for transgender men who are yet to begin hormone therapy.The current men’s category will be consolidated into the open category, in which those whose sex was assigned as female at birth can also compete if they so wish.There is still no set date for the new regulations to be implemented, with British Cycling saying only that it will be before the end of the year, allowing time for changes to technic...

99% of Ontario nursing homes now have air conditioning in residents’ rooms: minister

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

Nearly 99 per cent of nursing homes in Ontario now have air conditioning in residents’ rooms, almost a year after the province set a deadline for the requirement.Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra said only nine of the 625 nursing homes in Ontario remain without air conditioning in resident rooms.Three of those are expected to have units installed by the end of May, and three more are on track to have AC this summer. Two homes have electrical capacity issues but are being redeveloped and will eventually have AC. The government has granted exemptions to those eight homes and recently fined a ninth one.The province is now conducting an inspection blitz, as the warm weather arrives, to ensure homes are complying with legislation that mandates air conditioning in resident rooms.“It’s a shame that we actually had to put a program in place that air conditions the homes, but we’re there now, 99 per cent done, and just a couple more left to go,” Calandra tol...

Climate protesters face tear gas at oil major TotalEnergies shareholder meeting in Paris

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:57:14 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French police threw a security cordon around a shareholders’ meeting in Paris of oil major TotalEnergies on Friday, spraying tear gas and pushing back climate protesters who chanted, “Be gentle, police officers, we’re doing this for your kids!” Shareholders, some escorted into the meeting by police, ran a gauntlet of the peaceful, earnest and mostly young demonstrators, who waved signs attacking the climate record of the French energy giant that has reaped colossal profits from price surges that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Their signs declared, “The last pipeline before the end of the world” and “Listen to the scientists: No more fossil projects.”Protesters sat down in surrounding streets and linked arms to block access to the meeting in a famed Paris concert hall. Police officers carried some protesters to move them out of the way. They sprayed tear gas from canisters to force people back.It comes after climate protesters tried to rush...