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Autoridades: las temperaturas alcanzarán niveles que son “potencialmente mortales”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

Se pronostica que los récords de temperatura se romperán este domingo, ya que una peligrosa ola de calor amenaza grandes franjas del país con temperaturas máximas potencialmente mortales de tres dígitos.“Tómese el calor en serio y evite el tiempo al aire libre”, advirtió el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional en un boletín este domingo temprano. “Las temperaturas alcanzarán niveles que representan un riesgo para la salud y son potencialmente mortales para cualquier persona sin un enfriamiento efectivo y/o una hidratación adecuada. El calor es la principal causa de muerte relacionada con el clima en Estados Unidos”.Se han implementado advertencias y avisos de calor excesivo “desde el noroeste del Pacífico, California y la Gran Cuenca hasta partes de las llanuras del sur, la costa central del golfo y el extremo sur de Florida”, dijo el boletín. Récord de calor e inundaciones: el mal tiempo afecta a millones de personas en EEUU Personas ...

Carlos Alcaraz gana Wimbledon 2023 tras vencer a Novak Djokovic en emocionante final a 5 sets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

(CNN) — El tenista español Carlos Alcaraz logró la hazaña: derrotó este domingo al favorito Novak Djokovic y con ello ganó el primer título de Wimbledon de su carrera.Alcaraz se impuso al serbio Djokovic en una emocionante final que se fue hasta el quinto y último set. El título de Wimbledon significó, además, su segundo título de Grand Slam, luego de que en 2022 consiguiera el US Open.Alcaraz, el número 1 del mundo con solo 20 años, remontó un set en contra para ponerse 2-1 por delante antes de que Djokovic igualara el partido ganando un tenso cuarto set. Sin embargo, el serbio ya no logró otra épica remontada y, de momento, su título 24 de Gran Slam tendrá que esperar.Novak Djokovic y Carlos Alcaraz con sus trofeos de segundo y primer lugar de Wimbledon 2023, respectivamente. (Foto: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)El español se impuso después de casi cinco horas en la cancha central por 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, 3-6 y 6-4, y se tiró al suelo para celebrarlo antes de lanzar una pelot...

Algunos estados aprueban leyes que permitirían a beneficiarios de DACA convertirse en policías

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

A medida que los departamentos de policía se esfuerzan por reclutar y retener a los oficiales, algunos buscan un grupo de solicitantes previamente sin explotar para cubrir las vacantes de trabajo.Los estados, incluidos California y Colorado, han comenzado a aprobar leyes que permitirían que los no ciudadanos que están autorizados a trabajar en EEUU se conviertan en agentes de policía, mientras que otros, como Nueva Jersey, consideran una legislación similar. Las medidas hacen que los beneficiarios del programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia, o DACA, sean elegibles para el trabajo de aplicación de la ley.Históricamente, a los beneficiarios del programa DACA se les ha prohibido tener trabajos en la aplicación de la ley debido a varias disposiciones en las leyes estatales. “Sufres mucho”: beneficiario de DACA viaja a México y termina arrestado DACA cumple 11 años con mucha incertidumbre sobre su futuro El program...

El telescopio Webb detecta un agujero negro supermasivo formado hace más de 13.000 millones de años

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

(CNN) — El telescopio espacial James Webb realizó otro descubrimiento asombroso: detectó un agujero negro supermasivo activo a una profundidad nunca antes registrada en el universo.El agujero negro se encuentra en CEERS 1019, una galaxia muy antigua que se formó probablemente 570 millones de años después del Big Bang, lo que la convierte en una galaxia de más de 13.000 millones de años. Los científicos se quedaron perplejos al comprobar lo pequeño que es el agujero negro central de este objeto celeste.“Este agujero negro mide unas 9 millones de masas solares”, según un comunicado de prensa de la NASA. Una masa solar es una unidad equivalente a la masa del Sol de nuestro sistema solar, que es unas 333.000 veces mayor que la Tierra.Eso es “mucho menos que otros agujeros negros que también existieron en el universo primitivo y que fueron detectados por otros telescopios”, según la NASA. “Esos colosos suelen contener más de mil millones de veces la ma...

Orioles to call up Grayson Rodriguez, club’s top pitching prospect, to start Monday vs. Dodgers: ‘Hopefully he sticks in the rotation’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

Grayson Rodriguez is back.The Orioles’ top pitching prospect will be recalled from Triple-A to start Monday’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, manager Brandon Hyde said Sunday. The corresponding move will be announced at a later time.Hyde said he was “very pleased” with the progress Rodriguez made in the minors after he was demoted in late May. The 23-year-old struggled with a 7.35 ERA in his first 10 big league starts, but he returned to dominant form with Triple-A Norfolk.In seven starts with the Tides since his demotion, Rodriguez posted a 1.69 ERA with 54 strikeouts in 37 1/3 innings — similarly impressive numbers to the ones he put up throughout his minor league career.His marching orders when he was sent down were to improve the command on his mid-to-high 90s mph fastball. Hyde said he’s achieved that.“The reports have been awesome with how the command has improved,” Hyde said before Sunday’s game versus the Miami Marl...

‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ nets $80M in opening

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

NEW YORK — After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend, according to studio estimates.The Paramount Pictures debut was boosted by strong overseas sales of $155 million from 70 markets. But while a $235 million worldwide launch marked one of the best global openings of the year, “Dead Reckoning” couldn’t approach the high-speed velocity of last summer’s top film, “Top Gun: Maverick.”“Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh film in the 27-year-old series, had been forecast to better the franchise high of the previous installment, “Fallout,” which opened with $61 million domestically in 2018. Instead, it also fell short of the $57.8 million “Mission: Impossible II” debuted with in 2000.T...

Ticker: Advertising on Twitter has dropped, Musk; UPS  training managers in case of strike

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

Elon Musk says Twitter is still losing cash because advertising has dropped by half.In a reply to a tweet offering business advice, Musk tweeted, “We’re still negative cash flow, due to (about a) 50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load.”“Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” he concluded over the weekend.Ever since he took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal last fall, Musk has tried to reassure advertisers who were concerned about the ouster of top executives, widespread layoffs and a different approach to content moderation. Some high-profile users who had been banned were allowed back on the site.Twitter got a new competitor this month when Facebook owner Meta launched a text-focused app, Threads, and gained tens of millions of sign-ups in a few days. Twitter responded by threatening legal action.UPS  training managers in case of strikeUPS said it has started “business continuity“ training for manag...

Tornado watch issued for most of Massachusetts, flash-flood warning until 5:30

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

Keep your eyes to the sky today!An “atmospheric river” first brought the state a tornado warning today — one at 9:15 a.m. again at 10:30 a.m. — and a tornado watch for most of Massachusetts until 3 p.m. and a flash-flood warning until 5:30 p.m.Today’s tornado watch (NWS)According to the National Weather Service, all of Connecticut and sections of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and southern Maine fall under that watch. The rain has now moved into Suffolk County.The rest of Massachusetts and Vermont — basically the whole northeast — is under a thunderstorm and flood watch on and off into tomorrow. That’s a mix of “torrential rainfall,” hail, wind suddenly gusting and driving that could be perilous.That unyielding atmospheric river is moving northeast with western Mass, Vermont and New Hampshire in for more misery. (Now it has triggered another tornado warning for the Fitchburg area until 10:30 a.m.)Related ArticlesCrime & P...

CP NewsAlert: 17th victim dies from June bus crash in Manitoba

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

RCMP in Manitoba say a 17th victim, a 79-year-old woman, has died in hospital from injuries sustained in a bus crash last month in Manitoba.Seniors were on a minibus taking a trip to a casino in Carberry in southwestern Manitoba on June 15 when the bus drove into the path of a semi-trailer truck on the Trans-Canada Highway.More coming.The Canadian Press

California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:20 GMT

Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said.Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, were forecast to reach 128 degrees (53.33 degrees Celsius) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said. The hottest temperature ever record was 134 degrees (56.67 degrees Celsius) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, said Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records. Temperatures at or above 130 degrees (54.44 degrees Celsius) have only been recorded on Earth a handful of times, mostly in Death Valley.“With global warming, such temperatures are becoming more and more likely to occur,” Ceverny, the World Meteorological Organization’s records coordinator, said in an emai...