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“Grease is the Word” at San Marcos High

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) San Marcos High School is putting on its senior production of "Grease: The Musical."

The 1950s classic features songs such as "Grease Lightning" and "You're The One That I Want."

The next show is Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets are available at the door at San Marcos High School Theatre located on Hollister Avenue in Santa Barbara on Hollister Avenue.

For more information visit https://smhstheatredept.com

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CIF-SS Soccer semifinal results

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Rough day for many local soccer teams in the semifinals

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CIF-SS Boys Soccer Semifinals:

Division 3: Calabasas 1, Camarillo 0

Division 4: University 1, Pacifica 0

Division 5: Santa Ana Valley 2, San Marcos 1 (2OT)

Esperanza 2, Camarillo 1

Division 8: Rio Hondo Prep 2, Thacher 2: Rio advances on PKs 4-3

CIF-SS Girls Soccer Semifinals:

Division 3: Quartz Hill 2, Simi Valley 0

Division 5: Del Sol 1, Hesperia-Sultana 1: Del Sol advances PKs

Division 6: Santa Ana-Segerstrom 3, Grace 0

Division 7: Azusa 2, Cate 1

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Deadly explosions in western Ukraine investigated as ‘terrorist attack’

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By Victoria Butenko and Rhea Mogul, CNN

Kyiv (CNN) — At least one person was killed and dozens more injured in explosions that hit the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early Sunday, in what authorities have labeled a “terrorist attack.”

The blasts took place as police responded to an emergency phone call about an intrusion at a store near the city center, according to Lviv’s regional prosecutor’s office.

The first occurred after police arrived at the scene, it said, and was followed by another after the arrival of a second crew.

A 23-year-old policewoman was killed in the attack, while a patrol car and a civilian vehicle were damaged, the prosecutor’s office said.

Lviv’s regional prosecutor’s office said it has launched an investigation into “a terrorist act that caused serious consequences,” but added that the circumstances were unclear.

“This is definitely an act of terror,” Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovy said in a post on Facebook.

Officials have not yet said who is suspected of perpetrating the attack.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv was under a combined missile and drone strikes overnight into Sunday. Explosions were heard in the city following a ballistic missile alert.

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Trump says he’s sending a hospital boat to Greenland

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By Riane Lumer, Aleena Fayaz, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is sending a hospital boat to Greenland, the Arctic island and Danish territory he has sought to acquire.

“Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!” the president posted on social media alongside an illustration of the naval hospital ship the USNS Mercy.

It is unclear what Trump was referring to in his post. Greenland and Denmark have free, nationalized health care systems.

CNN has reached out to the White House, the Danish Embassy in Washington, Landry’s office, the Danish government and Greenland’s parliament for more details. The Pentagon referred questions to US Northern Command, which in turn referred questions to the US Navy. The Navy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Landry, whom Trump tapped in December to serve as special envoy to Greenland, said on social media he is “proud to work” together with Trump on “this important issue.”

The US Navy has two mobile hospital ships, the USNS Mercy and the USNS Comfort, that support troops during deployments and provide services for US disaster relief and humanitarian operations. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Navy deployed the USNS Comfort to New York City, the epicenter of the virus outbreak in the United States.

Strategically located Greenland is the world’s least densely populated country and, due to the limited network of roads, its 56,000 residents travel by boat, helicopter and plane between the island’s towns. The US has one military base in Greenland, the Pituffik Space Base, which is on the western coast of the island.

Trump’s post comes a month after his escalated efforts to obtain Greenland shook European allies as he asserted the US would settle for nothing less than total control of the country.

In late January, Trump announced “the framework of a future deal” on Greenland with the NATO chief, but his continued interest in the Arctic island raises questions about Greenland’s sovereignty.

The idea of US leadership has rattled Greenlanders, including municipal engineer Ludvig Petersen.

He previously told CNN that his main aversion to American control stems from the issue of private health care.

“I don’t like the idea of becoming part of America,” he said. “My primary concern is all this privatization of health care and education. It’s not something we are used to.”

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Las cosas jamás vistas por el humano que cuatro astronautas podrían encontrar en su viaje alrededor de la Luna y más allá

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Por Ashley Strickland, CNN

Cuando la misión Artemis II de la NASA emprenda un viaje de 10 días alrededor de la Luna, la tripulación podrá vislumbrar características de la superficie lunar que ningún otro ser humano ha visto a simple vista.

Mientras los astronautas sobrevuelen el misterioso lado oscuro lunar, que siempre mira en dirección opuesta a la Tierra, verán una parte de la Luna que los astronautas del Apolo no pudieron observar debido a las órbitas de sus cápsulas.

La próxima misión histórica, que se espera despegue a principios del próximo marzo, marcará la primera vez en más de 50 años que los humanos se aventuren a las cercanías de la Luna y dará inicio a una nueva ola de exploración lunar que podría responder preguntas eternas sobre el satélite natural de la Tierra.

“Hemos estado observando la Luna a lo largo de la historia humana, e incluso ha sido visitada por astronautas y varias misiones robóticas”, dijo Jeff Andrews-Hanna, profesor en el Laboratorio Lunar y Planetario de la Universidad de Arizona. “Sin embargo, aún hay muchas cosas que no entendemos sobre la Luna a un nivel muy básico”.

Las muestras cruciales recolectadas durante las misiones Apollo a finales de los años 1960 y principios de los 70 sentaron las bases para nuestra comprensión actual de la Luna, dijo. Las rocas y el suelo lunar ofrecieron nuevas perspectivas sobre el origen y la composición de la Luna, y análisis más recientes de muestras Apollo previamente intactas, así como de muestras recuperadas por misiones robóticas, revelaron el sorprendente descubrimiento de agua atrapada en rocas que se creía que estaban completamente secas.

No obstante, las misiones Apollo se aventuraron a sitios similares cerca del ecuador lunar en el lado cercano de la Luna, donde el terreno era plano y los astronautas podían permanecer dentro del alcance de los satélites de comunicación. Como los científicos han llegado a comprender, las muestras no son completamente representativas de la diversidad de la Luna, dijo Andrews-Hanna.

Explorar diferentes regiones lunares con el programa Artemis podría proporcionar un retrato más completo del paisaje y su composición, y descubrir pistas sobre por qué difieren los lados cercano y lejano de la Luna, cuánta agua contiene la Luna y cómo ha evolucionado el brillante cuerpo celeste a lo largo del tiempo.

Además, estudiar la Luna podría arrojar luz sobre capítulos perdidos de la historia temprana de la Tierra, y ayudar a confirmar o refutar la teoría predominante de que la Luna se formó tras el impacto de otro cuerpo celeste que colisionó con nuestro planeta hace millones de años.

“Pienso en la Luna como el octavo continente de la Tierra”, dijo Noah Petro, jefe del Laboratorio de Planetología, Geología, Geofísica y Geoquímica de la NASA en el Centro Goddard de Vuelo Espacial en Greenbelt, Maryland. “Cuando estudiamos la Luna, en realidad estamos estudiando una extensión de la Tierra”.

Y luego está la promesa de lo inesperado.

“Tendremos sorpresas”, dijo Petro, quien también lidera el equipo científico de la misión Artemis III, que tiene como objetivo devolver astronautas a la superficie lunar en 2028. “Por eso exploramos. Si supiéramos lo que vamos a encontrar, no tendríamos que ir”.

Cada vez que una nave espacial se aventura a la superficie de un planeta o un asteroide, lo mejor que puede hacer es traer un recuerdo a la Tierra, dijo Barbara Cohen, científica del proyecto para la misión Artemis IV, otro alunizaje planificado para finales de esta década.

“Aunque no estuvimos allí en el pla

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