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ILLINOIS
Obama’s library will be in Chicago
President Obama has chosen his home town of Chicago to host his future presidential library, two individuals with knowledge of the decision told the Associated Press on Thursday, placing the permanent monument to his legacy in the city that launched his dramatic ascent to the White House.
Obama’s library will be built on Chicago’s South Side, where the University of Chicago has proposed two potential sites not far from the family’s home. It was unclear which of the sites had been selected, but officials were expected to make an announcement within weeks.
The decision brings to a close a hard-fought competition that began in the earliest days of Obama’s second term. From an initial list of about a dozen proposals, the Barack Obama Foundation chose four universities to vie for the library. In recent months, it became increasingly clear that the Obamas were leaning toward the University of Chicago, the elite private school where Obama taught law before becoming president.
Individuals familiar with the decision said that Obama was likely to base other types of programming at the universities that lost out on the library itself — the University of Hawaii, New York’s Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, a public school that proposed building the library on Chicago’s West Side.
— Associated Press
SPACE SCIENCE
Planned crash ends 4-year Mercury orbit
The only spacecraft to orbit Mercury ended its four-year tour with a crash landing Thursday.
NASA’s Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun’s closest planet at about 8,750 mph, creating a crater an estimated 52 feet across.
Messenger became the first spacecraft to orbit hot, little Mercury, in 2011. It circled the solar system’s innermost planet 4,105 times and collected more than 277,000 images.
Until Messenger, the only spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA’s Mariner 10 back in the 1970s. That was only a fly-by mission.
Lead scientist Sean Solomon, director of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said that Messenger set a record for planetary fly-bys — once past Earth, twice past Venus and three times past Mercury before entering Mercury’s orbit — and survived “both punishing heat and extreme doses of radiation” to surpass expectations.
Flight controllers managed to keep the spacecraft going a few extra weeks by using helium gas not originally intended as fuel. But the gas tank finally emptied, and gravity’s relentless tug did Messenger in.
— Associated Press
OKLAHOMA
Reserve deputies’ duties reduced
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it will limit the duties of reserve deputies, including no longer allowing them to patrol alone after a white volunteer deputy was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black suspect.
The office has faced questions about whether these deputies have been properly trained since the April 2 incident in which a reserve deputy, Robert Bates, killed Eric Harris, saying he meant to draw a stun gun but instead used a handgun.
Bates, a 73-year-old insurance agent, has pleaded not guilty in Harris’s death.
— Reuters
U.S. settles radiation dispute with New Mexico: The U.S. Energy Department has agreed to fund more than $73 million in infrastructure projects across New Mexico to settle a dispute stemming from a radiation leak at the federal government’s troubled nuclear-waste dump there. The agreement, announced Thursday after months of negotiations., is the largest settlement in DOE’s history.
Ariz. law blocks plastic-bag bans: Efforts by a few cities in Arizona to ban plastic bags are in limbo after lawmakers voted to make the bans illegal, angering municipalities over what they see as heavy-handed action by a conservative state against local governments. The state bill, which was approved in early May and takes effect in July, outlaws bans of single-use plastic bags and applies similar restrictions on foam containers and other disposable products.
— From news services
ILLINOIS
Obama’s library will be in Chicago
President Obama has chosen his home town of Chicago to host his future presidential library, two individuals with knowledge of the decision told the Associated Press on Thursday, placing the permanent monument to his legacy in the city that launched his dramatic ascent to the White House.
Obama’s library will be built on Chicago’s South Side, where the University of Chicago has proposed two potential sites not far from the family’s home. It was unclear which of the sites had been selected, but officials were expected to make an announcement within weeks.
The decision brings to a close a hard-fought competition that began in the earliest days of Obama’s second term. From an initial list of about a dozen proposals, the Barack Obama Foundation chose four universities to vie for the library. In recent months, it became increasingly clear that the Obamas were leaning toward the University of Chicago, the elite private school where Obama taught law before becoming president.
Individuals familiar with the decision said that Obama was likely to base other types of programming at the universities that lost out on the library itself — the University of Hawaii, New York’s Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, a public school that proposed building the library on Chicago’s West Side.
— Associated Press
SPACE SCIENCE
Planned crash ends 4-year Mercury orbit
The only spacecraft to orbit Mercury ended its four-year tour with a crash landing Thursday.
NASA’s Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun’s closest planet at about 8,750 mph, creating a crater an estimated 52 feet across.
Messenger became the first spacecraft to orbit hot, little Mercury, in 2011. It circled the solar system’s innermost planet 4,105 times and collected more than 277,000 images.
Until Messenger, the only spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA’s Mariner 10 back in the 1970s. That was only a fly-by mission.
Lead scientist Sean Solomon, director of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said that Messenger set a record for planetary fly-bys — once past Earth, twice past Venus and three times past Mercury before entering Mercury’s orbit — and survived “both punishing heat and extreme doses of radiation” to surpass expectations.
Flight controllers managed to keep the spacecraft going a few extra weeks by using helium gas not originally intended as fuel. But the gas tank finally emptied, and gravity’s relentless tug did Messenger in.
— Associated Press
OKLAHOMA
Reserve deputies’ duties reduced
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it will limit the duties of reserve deputies, including no longer allowing them to patrol alone after a white volunteer deputy was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black suspect.
The office has faced questions about whether these deputies have been properly trained since the April 2 incident in which a reserve deputy, Robert Bates, killed Eric Harris, saying he meant to draw a stun gun but instead used a handgun.
Bates, a 73-year-old insurance agent, has pleaded not guilty in Harris’s death.
— Reuters
U.S. settles radiation dispute with New Mexico: The U.S. Energy Department has agreed to fund more than $73 million in infrastructure projects across New Mexico to settle a dispute stemming from a radiation leak at the federal government’s troubled nuclear-waste dump there. The agreement, announced Thursday after months of negotiations., is the largest settlement in DOE’s history.
Ariz. law blocks plastic-bag bans: Efforts by a few cities in Arizona to ban plastic bags are in limbo after lawmakers voted to make the bans illegal, angering municipalities over what they see as heavy-handed action by a conservative state against local governments. The state bill, which was approved in early May and takes effect in July, outlaws bans of single-use plastic bags and applies similar restrictions on foam containers and other disposable products.
— From news services
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