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Officials raise death toll to 5 in Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion; 6 people remain missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — Officials raise death toll to 5 in Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion; 6 people remain missing.Source

Una aterradora enfermedad fúngica está infectando a las ranas en África. Te contamos por qué es importante

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

(CNN) — Las esporas mortales acechan en el agua e infectan la piel de las criaturas que tocan. Al propagarse al contacto y luego invadir el cuerpo, esta enfermedad fúngica causa úlceras y descamación, por lo que la piel severa se desprende en láminas.Las articulaciones de la pierna comienzan a bloquearse y, poco después de que aparecen los síntomas, el trastorno puede provocar un paro cardíaco y la muerte.La quitridiomicosis, la enfermedad más mortal que afecta a los vertebrados en la historia registrada, ha causado estragos en los anfibios durante décadas, incluidas las ranas, los sapos y las salamandras.No se sabe que la enfermedad infecte a los humanos, pero los científicos advierten que estos brotes son cruciales para comprender cómo se propagan los patógenos fúngicos y aprender a comprender un evento de extinción masiva que afecta a nuestros amigos anfibios.La dolencia ya ha diezmado las poblaciones de anfibios en las Américas, Australia y partes de Europa, y las últimas ...

Where’s the warmth in DC? Saturday’s highs to come at unusual time of day

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

The warmest part of the day in the D.C. region likely won’t be when residents would expect on Saturday.Temperatures will warm into the low 50s on Saturday afternoon but jump up into the 60s during the evening.Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM.Weather forecastA modest high pressure pushed from central Canada into the Northeast on Friday. This allowed what meteorologists coin a “backdoor cold front” to ease southeast along Interstate 95 in New England into the D.C. region.It’s called a backdoor front because most fronts approach from the west but this one actually moves south and east.Notice the temperature trends at Reagan National Airport on Friday.Temperature trends at Reagan National Airport over the last few days. The highlighted part shows the non-traditional temperature trend since midnight early on Friday. (Courtesy of NOAA)The highest temperature occurred shortly after midnight and dropped during the day as the front pushed across the ...

Devastadores tornados dejan más de 20 muertos, heridos y desaparecidos en Mississippi

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

Al menos 23 personas murieron cuando un tornado arrasó con varias poblaciones de Mississippi el viernes por la noche, según las autoridades. Entre las víctimas están un padre y su hija.Decenas de personas resultaron heridas y cuatro más están desaparecidas después de la serie de tornados que azotaron varias zonas rurales del estado “tornados de anoche”. Las imágenes captaron poblaciones enteras destruidas, árboles y cables caídos, así como múltiples viviendas y autos en ruinas.Hasta el momento se desconoce cuántos tornados golpearon el estado y la cifra de víctimas mortales y heridos puede aumentar, informaron autoridades. Entre los muertos hay un hombre y su hija que murieron en la casa en la que se refugiaban con su esposa y otros dos hijos, dijo a NBC News el forense del condado de Monroe, Alan Gurley. Su esposa y los otros dos menores fueron trasladados al hospital. El Servicio Nacional de Meteorología confirmó que un tornado causó daños a unas 60 millas al noreste de Jackson, M...

George Mason University students petition against Youngkin as commencement speaker

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

George Mason University students are petitioning against the college’s decision to host Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin as the graduation commencement speaker in May.Senior Alaina Ruffin started the petition Thursday, one day after university president Gregory Washington announced that the Republican governor will speak before “the largest and most diverse class of graduates ever.” The petition has received more than 4,000 signatures since then.More Fairfax County NewsMore Virginia NewsMore Local News“George Mason University prides itself on being one of ‘the most diverse institutions in the Commonwealth.’ Yet by having Governor Youngkin as this year’s Commencement speaker, we believe that the University compromises its supposed values of centering students’ experiences and overall well-being,” Ruffin wrote in the petition.“When satiating its own desire to appease the powerful few, the University, once again, has abandoned the...

Mexico hopes to host Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Mexico has declared its desire to host the Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040 and says it already has most of the sports infrastructure required.Interest in hosting the 2036 Olympics had earlier been expressed by officials in countries including Egypt, England, India, Indonesia, Qatar and South Korea.Mexico City hosted the Summer Games in 1968.Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and Mexican Olympic Committee president María José Alcalá met Friday with IOC president Thomas Bach. Ebrard delivered a letter of intent to Bach.A city or region wasn’t specified but Ebrard and Alcalá said a committee would be formed to support the initiative.Last October, International Olympic Committee director general Christophe De Kepper said they were talking to “10 interested NOCs and regions across four continents” regarding potential candidacies for future Summer Games. The 2036 edition is the next available to be awarded.___More AP coverage of the Paris...

Pennsylvania chocolate factory explodes; 5 dead, 6 missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed five people and left six people missing, authorities said.The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency confirmed the increase in the number of fatalities Saturday morning after the blast just before 5 p.m. Friday at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in the borough of West Reading. Chief of Police Wayne Holben said the blast destroyed one building and damaged a neighboring building. “It’s pretty leveled,” Mayor Samantha Kaag said of the explosion site. “The building in the front, with the church and the apartments, the explosion was so big that it moved that building four feet forward."The cause of the blast in the community about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia was under investigation, Holden told reporters. Authorities are investigating the possibility that a gas leak may have been responsible, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency said.Eight people wer...

Raw Saturday ahead, dry Sunday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

7Weather – Good morning! Here’s what we have going on this weekend. Half of the weekend will be cool and damp. The other half more mild and dry, but windy. That’s thanks to this weak center of low pressure moving through the Great Lakes region. The center of this area of low pressure stays north and west so that’s where the biggest impacts will be. In fact, Maine has Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Warnings in place. For us, this will bring a cold rain for most of us and a mix of sleet and rain for higher elevations.Showers will move in by midday/early afternoon from west to east. We’ll reach our high temperatures by then in the upper 30s/low 40s with a breeze picking up out of the southeast. It’ll be a cold rain for most of us. Temperatures above us are slightly warmer, while it’s cooler closer to the surface, so we’ll get some sleet pellets mixing in mainly for higher elevations. This will not bring impacts to the roads in...

Luis Severino dealing with lat strain and won’t make scheduled first start of season for Yankees

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

Luis Severino is dealing with a right side, low-grade lat strain and won’t be able to make his scheduled first start of the season for the Yankees.Manager Aaron Boone said Severino felt tightness after his last start while he was performing his arm care routine and that tightness remained in the days since.Boone said this does not appear to be a long-term injury — calling it “subtle” — but said it was “probably an IL” situation for the righty.The Yankee skipper said Clarke Schmidt will likely start the second game of the season.Developing story, check back for details. ()

Bill Madden: Buck Showalter on the challenge of managing Mets without Edwin Diaz

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT

PORT ST. LUCIE — Nobody has to tell Buck Showalter he’s going to have to manage his butt off this season if he is to get Steve Cohen’s $336 million Mets back to October and beyond. Quite simply it is going to be an Edwin Diaz-less adventure for 162 games.We were standing on the sidelines watching the Mets going through some pre-game drills at Clover Park the other day and, as it is with every conversation with the Mets manager this spring, it is hard not to bring up the elephant in the room. Showalter is moving on, as he has to, from the devastating turn of events of Diaz tearing the patellar tendon in his knee celebrating at the World Baseball Classic, but the void is immeasurable.“Look,” he said, “in my opinion, Edwin had the greatest season of any closer in the history of baseball last year. I would challenge anyone to come up with a greater one.”Certainly, in terms of dominance and value to the team’s success, Diaz’s 2022, in...