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A wildfire in northern New Mexico that destroyed at least 330 homes and displaced thousands of people was caused by a planned burn by the U.S. Forest Service, federal fire investigators said on Friday.The Calf Canyon fire escaped containment lines and merged with the Hermits Peak fire, which was also caused by an out-of-control planned burn, to form the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history.The combined Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire has burned more than 312,000 acres, threatening remote mountain villages and forcing thousands to evacuate, sometimes repeatedly, over the past two months.The fire was 47 percent contained as of Friday…
About one to three days after getting a fever, most people also develop a painful rash that is characteristic of poxviruses. It starts with flat red marks that become raised and filled with pus over the course of the next five to seven days. The rash can start on a patient’s face, hands, feet, the inside of their mouth or on their genitals, and progress to the rest of the body. (While chickenpox causes a similar-looking rash, it is not a true poxvirus, but is caused by the unrelated varicella-zoster virus.)Once an individual’s pustules scab over, in two to four…
Relief for animals exploited for entertainment! Kentucky has adopted new regulations that prohibit circuses from using endangered species, effectively ban elephant rides in the state, and end dangerous exotic-animal shows at state and county fairs. PETA submitted comments in support of the statewide rule changes in late 2021 and has been instrumental in ensuring that the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) enforces regulations when it comes to the use of exotic animals in circuses. As a result of these changes, PETA fired off a letter to the Kosair Shrine Circus, calling on the act to go animal-free—just…
Art Briles, the former Baylor football coach who was fired in 2016 after a university investigation found that he and other coaches botched sexual assault accusations levied against football players, was hired Thursday as Grambling State University’s offensive coordinator, school officials said.Briles had not coached in college football since his ousting from Baylor, but he was the head football coach at Mount Vernon High School in Texas before resigning in 2020. Briles, 66, also coached football in Florence, Italy, in 2018.Briles’s hiring at Louisiana’s Grambling State, one of the most popular historically Black colleges in the United States, immediately raised…
One chilly afternoon this past January, Kennedy took the microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, before a crowd of maybe a few hundred people, some of whom carried signs reading, “We will not comply,” “Resist medical tyranny” (accompanied by a swastika) and “Land of the free you can’t mandate me.” A march earlier that day, involving several thousand people, included members of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys, firefighters wearing helmets and even a few Buddhist monks from New England. They had gathered for a rally billed as Defeat the Mandates: An American Homecoming. Its speakers…
C. Vivian Stringer, the Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach at Rutgers University who first commanded a college sideline in 1971 and became one of her sport’s premier defensive minds, said Saturday that she would retire in September.The first Black coach to win at least 1,000 Division I basketball games, Stringer, 74, has long been among the celebrated and idolized figures in college sports. In recent years, though, she has sometimes been at a remove from the Rutgers program she built into a mainstay of women’s basketball over more than a quarter-century in charge in Piscataway, N.J. She did not…
When fights occur in professional sports it can sometimes take years for the facts to come out. Rumors will swirl, tidbits will be attributed to anonymous sources and years later the people involved will finally explain what happened.In the case of Friday’s slap heard around baseball, though, fans just had to wait for Joc Pederson to get to the clubhouse after the San Francisco Giants’ 5-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Friday.Pederson, an outfielder for the Giants, confirmed what social media had been buzzing about: Tommy Pham, an outfielder for the Reds, had slapped him before the game over…