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Interim coach Giff Smith keeping Chargers focused on final 3 games of the season

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Giff Smith has received plenty of advice since the Los Angeles Chargers hired him as the interim head coach last Friday.The best though might have come from one of Smith’s former bosses.“Chan Gailey (who had Smith on his staffs at Georgia Tech and the Buffalo Bills) said all those suggestions and thoughts you had are now decisions. Good luck,” Smith said on Tuesday as the Chargers began preparations for Saturday night’s game against the Buffalo Bills.Smith takes over for the final three games from Brandon Staley, who was 24-25 in nearly three seasons at the helm. The Bolts are 5-9 with losses in five of their past six, including last Thursday night’s 63-21 drubbing at the hands of the Las Vegas Raiders.The 55-year old Smith is a 32-year coaching veteran. He has been on NFL staffs for 12 years, including the past eight with the Chargers. Coincidentally, Smith’s first NFL job was with the Bills.Smith said there hasn’t been much r...

Jake Paul to train with USA Boxing fighters in Colorado Springs

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jake Paul is teaming up with USA Boxing to put a spotlight on the nation's top competitors at the Paris Olympics.Paul announced the partnership Wednesday with the amateur sport's U.S. governing body. The YouTube star and professional boxer will train with Olympic qualifiers and other fighters at USA Boxing's home base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, next year, and he will amplify their stardom on his social media channels while advising them on how to build their own followings. ‘You are the father’: Maury Povich announces paternity results of Denver Zoo orangutan Paul also plans to accompany the U.S. team to the Olympics in July.“My commitment to boxing is much more than my in-ring accomplishments,” Paul wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I am determined to make my impact outside the ring bigger than anything I do within it. I believe the United States has the best boxers. Let’s put it to the test. Anyone who works hard enough to fight for their country in ...

Immigration fuels uptick in US population growth

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The number of immigrants to the U.S. jumped to the highest level in two decades this year, driving the nation’s overall population growth, according to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.The United States added 1.6 million people, more than two-thirds of which came from international migration, bringing the nation’s population total to 334.9 million. It marks the second year in a row that immigration powered population gains.A decline in the number of deaths since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic also contributed to the U.S. growth rate.Population gains stem from immigration and births outpacing deaths.After immigration declined in the latter half of last decade and dropped even lower amid pandemic-era restrictions, the number of immigrants last year bounced back to almost 1 million people. The trend continued this year as the nation added 1.1 million people.The last time immigration surpassed 1.1 million people was in 2001, according to Cen...

Macron in crisis after immigration showdown

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

PARIS ― French President Emmanuel Macron scored a Pyrrhic victory late Tuesday night after passing a flagship immigration bill in a vote that leaves his parliamentary coalition deeply scarred. The bill imposes a series of measures that have been heavily criticized by the left as pandering to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, while the far-right party claims the Macron government has been inspired by its long-time calls for foreigners to be excluded from state welfare benefits. A key part of the bill would now see social security benefits for foreigners conditional on being in France for at least five years, or 30 months for those who have jobs, echoing some of the National Rally’s longtime campaign lines.In a surprise move, the National Rally on Tuesday announced it would vote in favor of the latest version of the government’s bill, embarrassing the top brass of Macron’s party, who had to choose between passing a bill with far-right support or throwing in the t...

Holiday Helping: Brandon Gunnoe’s Peanut Butter Buckeyes

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

7News Holiday Helping is back! In this edition, Brandon Gunnoe is making a favorite of his family’s – Peanut Butter Buckeyes.Order new 2023 recipes from the 7News team to get all of their favorite holiday recipes! Your donation will help Project Bread feed hungry families right here in Massachusetts.Check out other Holiday Helping recipes from the 7News team.

NASA laser message beams video of a cat named Taters back to Earth, and it’s a big deal

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

(CNN) — A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first time NASA has streamed a video from deep space using a laser.In the ultra-high definition video, the playful orange tabby cat chases, of all things, the elusive red dot from a laser pointer as it moves across a couch.The cat video was transmitted to Earth from a flight laser transceiver as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, or DSOC. The technology could one day be used to quickly transmit data, imagery and videos as humans push the limits of space exploration by venturing to places like Mars.The 15-second video was encoded in a near-infrared laser and beamed from the Psyche spacecraft to the Hale Telescope at the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory. The video was downloaded at the observatory ...

Bruins tie game late, but lose to Wild in OT, 4-3

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

A tremendous night of entertainment at the Garden ended in disappointment again for the Bruins and renewed concern about frittering away leads.The B’s lost a third period lead for third time in four games and, though they tied it late to get a point., Kirill Kaprizov scored with 2:06 left in overtime to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 4-3 win.The B’s coughed up two third period goals but after Alex Goligoski high-sticked Charlie Coyle with 2:31, Brad Marchand tied it up with 1:06 left in the third. In a wild pile-up in front of Marc-Andre Fleury, Marchand pulled it out of the mass of humanity and roofed it over the gallant Fleury.Coyle then hit the post on a backhand attempt in the final minuteOn the winner, Jake DeBrusk missed the net, sending the Wild off on a 3-on-1. Joel Eriksson-Ek set up Kaprizov for his second goal of the game and the win.In their last Garden game before Christmas, the B’s gave their fans a good show in the first period to take a 2-1 lead on a ...

Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from ballot

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

DENVER — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S.Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors marks the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.“A majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,” the court wrote in its 4-3 decision.Colorado’s highest court overturned a ruling from a district court judge who found that Trump incited an insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but said he could not be barred fro...

Homicide victim found dead in 1979 near Las Vegas Strip ID’d as missing 19-year-old from Cincinnati

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A body discovered in an open field in 1979 near what is today a busy intersection of the Las Vegas Strip has been identified as a teenager from Ohio who had left home that year in search of her biological father, authorities announced Tuesday.She was 19-year-old Gwenn Marie Story, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. For 44 years, she was known only as “Sahara Sue Doe,” nicknamed for the intersection where she was found.Police said Tuesday that advancements in DNA testing led to the identification last month.According to police, a man discovered the body on the night of Aug. 14, 1979, while walking through a vacant lot near the northern edge of the Las Vegas Strip. She had wavy hair, and her fingernails and toenails were painted red.Today, the nearby Strat Hotel looms large over that intersection, which features the Sahara hotel-casino.Authorities believe the victim had died within 24 hours prior to the discovery, according to an entry de...

California’s top prosecutor won’t seek charges in 2020 fatal police shooting of Bay Area man

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:48:30 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a police officer who in 2020 fatally shot a man outside a pharmacy in the San Francisco Bay Area amid national protests over the police killing of George Floyd, his office announced Tuesday.A Vallejo police officer fatally shot 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa on Jun 2, 2020, after responding to reports of suspects stealing from a pharmacy as peaceful protests and civil unrest swept across the country following Floyd’s killing a week earlier in Minneapolis. California Attorney General Rob Bonta found there was not enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Jarrett Tonn, who was a detective with the Vallejo Police Department at the time of the shooting, did not act in self-defense or in defense of his partner officers. “Sean Monterrosa’s life mattered and there is nothing that can make up for his death. His loss is and will continue to be felt by his family and the Bay Area communi...