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Caitlin Clark wins Collegiate Women’s Athlete of the Year

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark was honored as the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year on Monday night.She received the Honda Cup in a ceremony at UCLA. It’s the second consecutive year that a women’s basketball player won the award as South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston was the recipient in 2022. Overall, 17 basketball players have won the Honda Cup — the most of any sport.Clark, the AP women’s basketball Player of the Year, helped Iowa reach the national championship game for the first time in school history this past April before the team lost to LSU. The junior became the first Division I women’s basketball player to have over 1,000 points and 300 assists in the same season. Other finalists for the award were Texas senior volleyball player Logan Eggleston and Stanford sophomore golfer Rose Zhang.“It’s so cool, different from other awards shows,” Clark said. “You meet people that play every other sport and see how amazing they...

Colombia extiende permanencia de Armando Benedetti como embajador en Venezuela hasta el 19 de julio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

(CNN) — La Cancillería de Colombia publicó un decreto que extiende hasta el 19 de julio de 2023 la permanencia de Armando Benedetti como embajador en Venezuela.El funcionario presentó su renuncia al cargo el pasado 6 de junio, y esta fue aceptada a partir del 23 de junio. Sin embargo, de acuerdo con el decreto con fecha de 20 de junio, Benedetti “manifestó que no le es posible hacer entrega efectiva del cargo dentro del plazo inicialmente previsto, debido a la multiplicidad de asuntos pendientes que incluyen temas administrativos, presupuestales, de organización e implementación relacionados con la reapertura de la embajada y todos aquellos que se relacionen con cargo diplomático”.El embajador renunció al cargo días después de una publicación de la revista Semana sobre unos audios atribuidos a él, en los cuales supuestamente amenaza con revelar detalles de la financiación de la campaña política que llevó al poder al presidente Gustavo Petro.Sin dar detalles, Armando Benedetti, exemb...

LaSalle police officer fired after murder indictment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A LaSalle police officer who shot a person during a suspicious vehicle call has been indicted by a grand jury.Officer Erik Hernandez was working on an investigation after a suspicious vehicle call on May 3 when he and another officer encountered 31-year-old Juston Reffel at the Family Dollar in LaSalle. Judge sentences Club Q shooter with 5 life terms According to a release from the Weld County District Attorney's Office, Reffel ran from the officers and got in his vehicle.As Reffel was pulling away Hernandez fired four shots and hit him in the "upper torso," according to the DA.Reffel was pronounced dead at the scene.The shooting was investigated and presented to a grand jury, which issued an indictment for one charge of second-degree murder.Hernandez fired after indictmentLaSalle Police Chief Dave Arnold told FOX31 that Hernandez was on his third day of employment with the department and was in field training.Arnold said Hernandez, who had close to six years of ...

Stolen police car from Jackson Memorial Hospital found in police robbery unit is under investigation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

A cruiser crime where someone jumped into a City of Miami Police car and took off.Police said it was stolen from Jackson Memorial Hospital and later was found by their robbery unit left abandoned along Northwest 27th Avenue and 41st Street in Northwest Miami-dade, Monday. Police officials detained a possible subject in the area for questioning and the incident is still under investigation.

From cell to cell: Eliminating HIV in prisons

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher .st0{fill:#EB8A23;} .st1{fill:#FAC617;} .st2{fill:#612368;} .st3{fill:#3792C4;} .st4{fill:#C33727;} Acast In the first episode of our EU Confidential: In Focus mini-series on HIV in Europe, we take you inside a French prison successfully tackling the spread of the disease.POLITICO’s Sarah-Taïssir Benchari...

eBay’s CEO on the regulatory fate of recommerce in the EU

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

Uncommon but impacting millions: The rare disease paradox

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

References1“What is a rare disease?” EURORDIS, www.eurordis.org/information-support/what-is-a-rare-disease/.2Nguengang Wakap S, Lambert DM, Olry A, et al., “Estimating cumulative point prevalence of rare diseases: analysis of the Orphanet database,” Eur J Hum Genet, September 2019, www.nature.com/articles/s41431-019-0508-0.3Tambuyzer E, “Rare diseases, orphan drugs and their regulation: questions and misconceptions,” Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, November 2010, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21060315/.4“Regulation (EC) no 141/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1999 on orphan medicinal products,” European Parliament, December 2019, eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2000:018:0001:0005:en:PDF.5“Orphan Medical Product designation,” European Medicines Agency, 2023, www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/other/orphan-medicines-figures-2000-2022_en.pdf.6“Expanding research into rare diseases,” Horizon, ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magaz...

Why are we waiting? Green energy chiefs frustrated by UK’s slow response to Biden subsidies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

LONDON — U.K. green energy chiefs are running out of patience.Almost a year after U.S. President Joe Biden ushered in a mammoth package of green subsidies in the form of last summer’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), U.K. clean energy bosses are still waiting for a detailed response from the U.K. government.The mammoth package — the most sweeping climate legislation in recent U.S. history — was signed into law in August and will dish out almost $400 billion in tax credits and other incentives to renewable industries, including solar farms and electric car manufacturers.The EU responded in February with a promise to relax state aid rules and make it easier for renewable developers to access tax breaks, in a bid to help the bloc stay competitive with the U.S. Canada announced a package in March offering C$80 billion in tax credits for clean technologies, arguing that, on green investment, “if Canada does not keep pace, we will be left behind.”But the U.K. is biding its time.“I thi...

3 Camp Pendleton Marines among 4 dead in I-5 crash in LA County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

Three of the four victims killed in a fiery single-car crash early Saturday morning on Interstate 5 in Downey have been identified as United States Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton.  According to a release from the California Highway Patrol, the single vehicle crash involving a 2018 Dodge Charger happened around 2:30 a.m. on the southbound span of I-5 south of Lakewood Boulevard.  CHP confirmed that the vehicle was on fire when they arrived and that all four occupants of the vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene.  “Preliminary information indicates that the driver lost control of the vehicle at a high rate of speed causing the vehicle to collide with a guardrail and the bridge abutment of the Lemoran Avenue pedestrian overcrossing,” CHP said in a statement. “The force of the impact caused the vehicle to split in two, subsequently ejecting the two rear passengers onto the right shoulder.” The rear end of the car was found approximately 100 feet south of the fron...

Was that actually a tsunami that hit Florida? Yes, but not the kind you think

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:51:26 GMT

An unexpected culprit toppled beach chairs along the sand at normally calm Clearwater Beach, Florida, last Wednesday. West Coast surfers might snicker at the cause, but the National Weather Service confirms the rare 4-foot (1.2 meter) wave was caused by a kind of tsunami, just not the kind you usually hear about. It was a meteotsunami, a type caused by storms with strong gusting winds, rather than the dramatic tsunamis triggered by earthquakes.WHAT IS A METEOTSUNAMI?According to Paul Close, senior forecaster at the National Weather Service in the Tampa Bay area, when a line of storms tracks over the ocean, there can be 30- to 50-mph (48- 80-kph) winds near the leading edge. The winds push the water, increasing the wave height near the coast before it eventually crashes onto shore. Meteotsunamis only last about an hour because once the leading edge of the storm passes onto land, the action subsides.The meteotsunami was about 2.5 feet (0.8 meters) higher than the forecast wave height ...