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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Holmes faces Cruise, Scientology in fight for Suri
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APNewsBreak: Proof of 'God particle' found
FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. The illustration shows how the long-presumed Higgs boson particle is thought to look like. Scientists at CERN plan to make an announcement on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 about their hunt for the elusive sub-atomic particle. Physicists have said previously they are increasingly confident that they are closing in on it based on hints at its existence hidden away in reams of data. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. The illustration shows how the long-presumed Higgs boson particle is thought to look like. Scientists at CERN plan to make an announcement on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 about their hunt for the elusive sub-atomic particle. Physicists have said previously they are increasingly confident that they are closing in on it based on hints at its existence hidden away in reams of data. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a wall painting by artist Josef Kristofoletti is seen at the Atlas experiment site at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland. The painting shows how a Higgs boson may look. On Wednesday, July 4, 2012, CERN plans to announce the status of their long-running hunt for the elusive subatomic particle, whose existence has only been presumed until now. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
GENEVA (AP) ? Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought "God particle" answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist.
But after decades of work and billions of dollars spent, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, aren't quite ready to say they've "discovered" the particle.
Instead, experts familiar with the research at CERN's vast complex on the Swiss-French border say that the massive data they have obtained will essentially show the footprint of the key particle known as the Higgs boson ? all but proving it exists ? but doesn't allow them to say it has actually been glimpsed.
It appears to be a fine distinction.
Senior CERN scientists say that the two independent teams of physicists who plan to present their work at CERN's vast complex on the Swiss-French border on July 4 are about as close as you can get to a discovery without actually calling it one.
"I agree that any reasonable outside observer would say, 'It looks like a discovery,'" British theoretical physicist John Ellis, a professor at King's College London who has worked at CERN since the 1970s, told The Associated Press. "We've discovered something which is consistent with being a Higgs."
CERN's atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to help them understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.
For particle physicists, finding the Higgs boson is a key to confirming the standard model of physics that explains what gives mass to matter and, by extension, how the universe was formed. Each of the two teams known as ATLAS and CMS involve thousands of people working independently from one another, to ensure accuracy.
Rob Roser, who leads the search for the Higgs boson at the Fermilab in Chicago, said: "Particle physicists have a very high standard for what it takes to be a discovery," and he thinks it is a hair's breadth away.
Rosen compared the results that scientists are preparing to announce Wednesday to finding the fossilized imprint of a dinosaur: "You see the footprints and the shadow of the object, but you don't actually see it."
Though an impenetrable concept to many, the Higgs boson has until now been just that ? a concept intended to explain a riddle: How were the subatomic particles, such as electrons, protons and neutrons, themselves formed? What gives them their mass?
The answer came in a theory first proposed by physicist Peter Higgs and others in the 1960s. It envisioned an energy field where particles interact with a key particle, the Higgs boson.
The idea is that other particles attract Higgs bosons and the more they attract, the bigger their mass will be. Some liken the effect to a ubiquitous Higgs snowfield that affects other particles traveling through it depending on whether they are wearing, metaphorically speaking, skis, snowshoes or just shoes.
Officially, CERN is presenting its evidence at a physics conference in Australia this week, but plans to accompany the announcement with meetings in Geneva. The two teams, ATLAS and CMS, then plan to publicly unveil more data on the Higgs boson at physics meetings in October and December.
Scientists with access to the new CERN data say it shows with a high degree of certainty that the Higgs boson may already have been glimpsed, and that by unofficially combining the separate results from ATLAS and CMS it can be argued that a discovery is near at hand. Ellis says at least one physicist-blogger has done just that in a credible way.
CERN spokesman James Gillies said Monday, however, that he would be "very cautious" about unofficial combinations of ATLAS and CMS data. "Combining the data from two experiments is a complex task, which is why it takes time, and why no combination will be presented on Wednesday," he told AP.
But if the calculations are indeed correct, said John Guinon, a longtime physics professor at the University of California at Davis and author of the book "The Higgs Hunter's Guide," then it is fair to say that "in some sense we have reached the mountaintop."
Sean M. Carroll, a California Institute of Technology physicist flying to Geneva for the July 4th announcement, said that if both ATLAS and CMS have independently reached these high thresholds on the Higgs boson, then "only the most curmudgeonly will not believe that they have found it."
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Borenstein reported from Washington.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
Judge delays numbering of California ballot measures
SACRAMENTO ? A judge here Friday stopped the state from assigning the order in which propositions will appear on the November ballot while he considers a lawsuit filed by the proponent of one such measure.
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Timothy M. Frawley issued the temporary restraining order against Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who determines the proposition numbers, after hearing from attorneys representing initiative proponent Molly Munger. Munger is backing a November tax measure that competes with Gov. Jerry Brown's tax measure.
She alleges that Democratic lawmakers and county election officials violated state law in efforts to boost Brown's proposal. With her lawsuit, Munger sought to prevent Bowen from placing the governor's initiative above hers on the ballot, and her attorneys argued that the judge's order was necessary to prevent "irreparable harm" to her measure.
The judge agreed and scheduled a hearing to evaluate the merits of her case July 9.
Brown's campaign downplayed the judge's action.
"We're pleased the court put this on a fast-track and confident it will be resolved quickly so we can move forward," Dan Newman, a spokesman for the governor's initiative campaign, said in a statement.
The stakes were made clear Friday by courtroom attendance. The audience included a top aide to Assembly Speaker John A. P?rez (D-Los Angeles), Brown's campaign operatives and opponents of both tax measures.
Munger's legal team maintains that Democrats in the Legislature acted illegally to move Brown's measure toward the top of the fall ballot this week by changing state election law. The legislation, introduced Monday, passed without a committee hearing and signed by Brown on Wednesday, states that constitutional amendments ? like the governor's tax proposal ? should appear ahead of other initiatives on the ballot.
"The Legislature and the governor took extraordinary steps to change the rules in the middle of the game," said Grant Davis-Denny, Munger's attorney.
Democrats, who hold wide majorities in both houses of the Legislature, passed the measure as part of the package of budget bills approved this week, which allows the law to take effect immediately. Most bills do not become law until the January following their signature by the governor.
"This bill ? was in no way, shape or form related to the budget," Munger's complaint states. The lawmakers' move was an "abuse of the political process and legislative power."
Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said the bill was simply a "clarification" of existing law, and Brown's measure deserved to be at the top of the ballot because its fate would have important consequences for the state.
The lawsuit also alleges that election workers in Los Angeles and Alameda counties "failed to comply with their statutory duties" by tallying petitions for Brown's campaign before Munger's, even though the governor's petitions were submitted after hers.
Frawley's order granted Munger's attorneys permission to depose election officials in the two counties.
Deputy Atty. Gen. Ross C. Moody, representing the secretary of state, argued that delaying the numbering of the initiatives would wreak havoc on ballot printing, which involves translating election information into various languages.
"The more you slow it down and the more you tinker with it," he said, the more there was "the possibility of errors in the process."
Munger's attorneys used a series of charts and graphs to argue that the legal proceedings would not jeopardize the state's traditional election calendar.
A secretary of state spokeswoman, Nicole Winger, said Bowen would follow whatever the court ultimately decides, asking only "that the judge issue a ruling as soon as possible so that our staff can continue with the many preelection duties that are dependent on the decision."
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Eastern United States Storms Leave Two Dead, Two Million Without Power
-- Violent evening storms following a day of triple-digit temperatures wiped out power to more than 2 million people across the eastern United States and caused two fatalities in Virginia ? including a 90-year-old woman asleep in bed when a tree slammed into her home, a police spokeswoman said Saturday.
Widespread power outages were reported from Indiana to New Jersey, with the bulk of the service interruptions concentrated on Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas. Earlier Friday, the nation's capital reached 104 degrees ? topping a record of 101 set in 1934.
More than 20 elderly residents at an apartment home in Indianapolis were displaced when the facility lost power due to a downed tree. Most were bused to a Red Cross facility to spend the night, and others who depend on oxygen assistance were given other accommodations, the fire department said.
The storms, sometimes packing 70 mph winds, toppled three tractor trailers on Interstate 75 near Findlay, Ohio.
Fallen trees were blamed on both deaths in Springfield, Va.
Besides the 90-year-old woman, who authorities didn't identify pending notification of kin, a man driving his car was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities identified him as Khiet Nguyen, 27, of Burke, Va.
In addition, a park police officer was injured by an uprooted tree in the northern Virginia county, and an 18-year-old man was struck by a power line, Jennings said. He was in stable condition after receiving CPR, she said.
"Our officers and firefighters are out there with power saws, trying to clear the streets," Jennings said.
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency after more than 500,000 customers in 27 counties were left without electricity.
At least four utility poles fell on a road in Columbus, Ohio, making it too dangerous for people in four cars to get out, police said. One person was taken to a hospital.
As of 1 a.m. Saturday, Pepco was reporting 406,000 outages in the District of Columbia and Montgomery and Prince George's counties, Md.
"We have more than half our system down," said Pepco spokeswoman Myra Oppel. "This is definitely going to be a multi-day outage."
Amtrak suspended its service from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia due to the storms, at least until mid-morning.
In the Washington, D.C., area, the Metrorail subway trains were returned to their endpoints due to the storms and related damage, officials said.
"It has had a widespread effect on the region," Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said early Saturday. He said about 17 train stations were operating on backup power due to local power outages, but that he didn't anticipate service being disrupted on Saturday.
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Associated Press writer Norman Gomlak in Atlanta and Rebecca Miller in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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For Obama, a transcendent win still not assured
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Presidents live in a world of wins and losses quickly forgotten. Rarely are they presented with the kind of defining moment that President Barack Obama experienced when the Supreme Court upheld his health care law.
It's one that will transcend his presidency, change America's social safety net and shape how he is likely to be remembered.
Then there's the catch.
If Obama does not win a second term in November, he risks losing both the law and the core of his legacy. Republican Mitt Romney will try to gut the law and impose something else. All the rest of what Obama accomplishes will fall under the dimmer view of history assigned to one-term presidents.
Immediate attention isn't on the lasting consequences. Right now, the campaign retains its focus and remains a biting contest between two men with vastly different visions about how to fix the economy.
Obama's re-election message is not expected to differ because of the ruling. But his presidency has changed.
Where others failed, he succeeded, pushing through a plan to get basic health coverage to millions of uninsured people in the richest nation on earth.
"Obamacare," as critics derisively call it and supporters adoringly do, is his Medicare, his Social Security.
The high court ensured that the law would crown Obama's legacy. He did it with no Republican help in Congress, with half the country against him, with a Supreme Court led by a conservative chief justice who produced the surprising, deciding vote to rescue his law.
"If he wins re-election, he's got one huge marker down that he can build upon," said Bill Daley, Obama's former chief of staff.
Daley said if Obama achieves a long-term debt deal on immigration or brokers an energy plan as well, and avoids major mess-ups for eight years, "then that has the potential to be a very significant presidency."
Douglas Brinkley of Rice University, among the presidential historians who have met with Obama for dinners, said Obama wants to be remembered on the scale of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
Now, Brinkley said, Obama is poised to go down as one of the leading progressive presidents for delivering on a health care promise that has eluded so many, for so long.
"It's a bit of confounding presidency," Brinkley said. "It always seems like Obama is about to flip off the rails. And then lo and behold, he's back on top again."
And if he loses to Romney? "It all changes," Brinkley said. "One-term presidents have a hard time building tremendous legacies."
The law is built around a mandate that people who can afford to buy health insurance must do so to help rein in the costs of coverage for everyone. Overall, the legislation is unpopular with the public, although individual parts of it are not.
Romney calls it an act of government intrusion and says he will ask Congress to repeal the law. Obama's triumph at the Supreme Court, therefore, seemed less about legislative permanency and more about electoral urgency.
Within hours, a fundraising appeal under Obama's name warned donors of Romney's undo-it plans and said, "We can't allow that to happen. We have to win this election."
Just don't expect Obama's fundamental pitch to voters to turn much at all, White House and campaign officials said.
To the degree that the health care law becomes a more prominent part of his campaign, it will still be in the framework that Obama has settled upon, his vision of economic revival and opportunity and fair taxation.
He wins by persuading people about the potential jobs ahead, not the health care fight behind him.
Campaign officials say they do see some fresh opportunity to change perceptions about the law and draw contrasts with Romney. They will do that by focusing on popular elements that could disappear, such as the promise of insurance for people with medical conditions.
In his majority opinion, Roberts made clear he was not offering a policy endorsement of what Obama and his Democratic allies had done.
"Those decisions are entrusted to our nation's elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them," the chief justice said. "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."
Obama is that guy trying not to get thrown out of office. He had an eye on the legacy of the law within hours of knowing it was saved.
"I'm as confident as ever that when we look back five years from now, or 10 years from now, or 20 years from now, we'll be better off, because we had the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward," he said.
Implied in there was his message to voters to keep moving forward with him.
"The court victory is a huge step towards making affordable health care a reality to everyone in the country," said Robert Gibbs, a senior advisor to Obama's campaign. "We have another big hurdle left. It's called the election."
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Online:
Health care interactive: http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2012/healthcare
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