By Devan Cole, CNN

(CNN) — A federal appeals court is letting President Donald Trump continue his deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital.

In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, the court indefinitely paused a lower court order that had required Trump to remove thousands of guard members from the city’s streets. The court had previously frozen that order while it considered whether to pause it for a longer period of time.

The appeals court said that given the city’s status as a federal district, Trump appears likely to succeed in a lawsuit brought by DC’s attorney general over the deployment of troops from both the city’s militia and that of several GOP-led states.

Without the court’s intervention, Judge Patricia Millett wrote for the three-judge panel, there would be a “profound level of disruption to the lives of thousands of service members who have been deployed for four months already.”

“The President’s order implicates a strong and distinctive interest in the protection of federal governmental functions and property within the Nation’s capital,” added Millett, an appointee of former President Barack Obama.

The other two members of the panel were appointed to the appeals court by Trump during his first term.

Under Wednesday’s order, Trump can keep National Guard members in the district through at least late February. The appeals court will now consider the underlying merits of the city’s lawsuit, and it’s possible the court later rules against Trump’s deployment.

The presence of several thousand National Guard troops in DC has come under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks following a shooting of two guard members last month that left one dead and another in critical condition.

Just after the shooting, lawyers for the Trump administration asked the DC Circuit to freeze the ruling from US District Judge Jia Cobb but made no mention of the attack in court papers.

The legal wrangling in the nation’s capital is playing out as a series of separate cases over Trump’s deployment of troops in other Democratic-led cities and states around the US continue to unfold.

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By Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN

(CNN) — With the holidays near, there is one type of gift I’m always happy to receive — a delicious jar of homemade jam. And here’s the truth: You don’t need to be Martha Stewart or Ina Garten to make phenomenal jams.

I know you have follow-up questions. Is it safe? Is it easy? Do you need special equipment?

Yes, yes and no. All you need is a little bit of fruit, sugar and a clean jar.

Store-bought jams tend to be high in sugar, which acts as a preservative and a flavoring agent. These jams may also contain gelling agents for a firmer set. Making your own jam allows you to cut back on the sugar and keep the ingredient list to a bare minimum.

Whatever produce you may have in the fridge could be enough to get you started on your jam-making journey. Another bonus: Making jam out of ripe produce that you won’t realistically consume quickly enough is an excellent way to reduce food waste in your kitchen.

And that’s no small bunch of bananas: About 31% of food that is grown and produced goes unsold or uneaten in the United States, according to Sara Burnett, executive director of ReFED, a nonprofit organization focused on reducing food waste.

The personal cost of waste is real — and more noticeable when grocery prices are rising.

“Consumers waste about $800 per year from their own wallet that they are just throwing in the trash when they waste food,” Burnett said. “For my family of four — eight times four — I’m wasting about $3,000 a year in food that just goes uneaten, that otherwise could have fed my family or fed one of my neighbors in need.”

Get started on your jam-making journey

To make jam, pick your fruit and add some sugar. The ratio of fruit to sugar in a jam depends on personal preference, and it can be as high as 1-to-1.

You could add lemon, to lower the fruit’s acidity or pH level to give the pectin a boost and help things set, but you don’t have to, according to expert jam maker Claire Dinhut, a content creator and author of “The Condiment Book: Unlocking Maximum Flavor With Minimal Effort.”

Let fruit and sugar boil until they reach the so-called gel point, at 220 degrees Fahrenheit (104 degrees Celsius), at which you should be ready to jar it up.

“A lot of people, I think, get scared when they’re making jam, because sometimes there’s a looser set, sometimes it’s more like jelly, and that’s only because the fruit has a different level of pectin,” Dinhut said. Fruits such as apricots don’t have much pectin, while apples are rich in it.

A good training jam to get started with is a strawberry jam, according to Dinhut. In her experience, a strawberry jam doesn’t always set well, but “regardless of how loose it is in the jar, it’s going to taste like childhood and be really nice.”

It’s fun to experiment with ingredients and flavors for small-batch jams to be refrigerated and consumed quickly. If you’re interested in canning your goodies for longer-term storage, it’s recommended that you use safety-tested recipes from reputable sources.

Share small batches with family and friends

Making jam can be a casual, low-effort endeavor.

“When people think about making jam, they think they have to buy a case

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) - For centuries, monarch butterflies have traveled thousands of miles across North America, guided by instincts that scientists are only beginning to understand.

Now, a team of researchers on California’s Central Coast is giving these fragile travelers a high-tech voice in their own survival.

At dawn on Ellwood Mesa in Goleta, biologist Charis van der Heide and her team set out under the first light of day.

Armed with long poles and fine nets, they search the eucalyptus groves for resting monarchs. “At 47 degrees, they can’t fly,” van der Heide explains. “That’s the perfect window to catch and tag them.”

Each carefully captured butterfly is gently placed into a container and brought to a small field station that doubles as a makeshift lab.

There, researchers use transmitters lighter than a grain of rice, attaching them to the butterflies with a tiny dab of eyelash glue.

The miniature trackers send real-time signals to an app called Project Monarch, which helps scientists monitor movement patterns, temperature responses, and migration behavior.

“This is groundbreaking technology,” says Melissa Fontaine, director of the Ellwood Friends Project. “For the first time, we could actually watch the monarch migration unfold across the continent.”

The work comes at a critical time.

Once numbering in the millions, monarch populations have plummeted over the past few decades due to habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change.

For volunteers like Craig Wakamiya, a docent at the Goleta Monarch Butterfly Grove, the research represents hope. “The opportunity to do science that could help save them — it’s quite a leap,” he says.

After each butterfly is tagged, the team returns it to the branch where it was found, its transmitter now silently pulsing data into the digital air.

“I hope they share their secrets with us,” van der Heide says. “I hope they become our teachers.”

For Goleta’s scientists, it’s a moment where ancient migration meets modern innovation — and a chance to listen to what these timeless travelers have to tell us, one fragile flight at a time.

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Gil Gerard, el actor más conocido por interpretar al héroe de ciencia ficción Buck Rogers, ha fallecido. Tenía 82 años.

Su muerte en un centro de cuidados paliativos el martes fue anunciada por su esposa, Janet Gerard, en Facebook. Ella escribió: “Esta mañana temprano, Gil –mi alma gemela– perdió su lucha contra una forma de cáncer rara y agresivamente violenta. Desde el momento en que supimos que algo andaba mal hasta su muerte esta mañana pasaron solo unos días.

“No importa cuántos años haya podido pasar con él, nunca habrían sido suficientes. Abracen fuerte a quienes tienen y ámenlos intensamente”.

Por separado, publicó otro mensaje en la propia página de Facebook de Gerard, incluyendo palabras que él mismo había escrito previamente.

“Si estás leyendo esto, entonces Janet lo ha publicado como le pedí”, escribió, y añadió: “Mi vida ha sido un viaje increíble. Las oportunidades que he tenido, las personas que he conocido y el amor que he dado y recibido han hecho que mis 82 años en el planeta hayan sido profundamente satisfactorios.

“Mi viaje me ha llevado de Arkansas a Nueva York, a Los Ángeles y, finalmente, a mi hogar en el norte de Georgia con mi increíble esposa, Janet, durante 18 años. Ha sido un gran viaje, pero inevitablemente uno que llega a su fin, como el mío.

“No pierdas tu tiempo en nada que no te emocione o te traiga amor. Nos vemos en algún lugar del cosmos”.

Gerard saltó a la fama en la película de 1979 “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”. Más tarde, esto fue seguido por una exitosa serie de televisión del mismo nombre, que tuvo 32 episodios entre 1979 y 1981.

Originario de Little Rock, Arkansas, Gerard se mudó a Nueva York en 1969, donde comenzó a formarse como actor mientras trabajaba como taxista para pagar las cuentas. Fue mientras conducía un taxi que uno de sus pasajeros le sugirió que hiciera una audición para la película de 1970 “Love Story”. Según su sitio web, pasó unas 10 semanas trabajando en el set, aunque su pequeño papel nunca apareció en la versión final de la película. Sin embargo, la experiencia lo inspiró a permanecer en el negocio y luego apareció en cientos de comerciales, varios otros papeles pequeños y también protagonizó las películas “Airport ’77” y “Hooch”.

Fue una aparición especial en “La familia Ingalls” (“Little House on the Prairie”) la que le dio su gran oportunidad. La estrella principal del programa, Michael Landon, le ofreció a Gerard una nueva serie que estaba escribiendo y produciendo. Aunque NBC no aprobó la serie, quedaron impresionados con Gerard y luego le ofrecieron el papel principal en su colaboración de película y programa de televisión con Universal Pictures, “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”.

Después de que terminó “Buck Rogers”, Gerard continuó actuando en una gran cantidad de programas de televisión y películas hechas para la televisión. Según IMDb, Gerard estuvo casado y divorciado cuatro veces. Le sobrevive su hijo, Gib Gerard, quien también es actor.

Gerard también hacía apariciones regulares en la convención de cultura pop Dragon Con.
La convención le rindió homenaje en Facebook, escribiendo: “El

By Chris Isidore, CNN

(CNN) — California is threatening to ban sales of Tesla cars in the state for 30 days after a regulator said the term “Autopilot” for its driver assist feature constitutes false advertising.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles could have halted Tesla sales in the state immediately, under terms of a previous administrative law judge’s findings. However, it said Tuesday it was pausing that action for 90 days in order to continue negotiations with the electric vehicle maker.

It said in a statement that Tesla cars do not live up to the promise suggested by the term “Autopilot” because they are not capable of operating as truly autonomous vehicles.

The DMV first brought action against Tesla in 2023 on the use of the term “Autopilot” and the two parties have been unable to reach an agreement. Now, if Tesla wants to avoid the halt of sales, it will likely need a court to block the DMV’s action.

“Tesla can take simple steps to pause this decision and permanently resolve this issue,” California DMV Director Steve Gordon said in a statement.

Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have frequently made ambitious claims about the capability of its cars, and those claims have helped to drive its sales and the value of its stock. But the automaker has also issued a caution that drivers of its cars must stay alert and ready to take control of the vehicle in case of problems, even when using its driver assistance features.

Tesla on Tuesday criticized the action by the DMV, writing in a post on X: “This was a ‘consumer protection’ order about the use of the term ‘Autopilot’ in a case where not one single customer came forward to say there’s a problem. Sales in California will continue uninterrupted.”

As the DMV’s case against it advanced, Tesla changed the formal name of its more extensive “Full Self-Driving” features that are available for purchase at additional cost on Tesla cars. It now calls the $8,000 feature “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” — though Musk and the car’s fans often simply refer to it as “FSD.”

The “Autopilot” mode provides driver assistance features found on many modern cars, such as automatic braking, reducing speed when a slower moving vehicle is in front of the car, and blind spot alerts. FSD, even the supervised version, is supposed to be able to essentially drive the car, even if the driver is supposed to be on alert and ready to take over.

California’s DMV is not the one questioning the safety of Tesla’s self-driving futures. Federal safety regulators have announced numerous investigations into accidents caused by drivers using the features. In August, a Florida jury found Tesla liable in the 2019 fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, and ordered it to pay $329 million to the family of a deceased woman and an injured survivor. Tesla is appealing that verdict.

California is a key market for Tesla sales, and home to one of its two US factories. The DMV’s action could have been worse, as it postponed the 30 day halt in sales from taking immediate effect and permanently dropped a recommendation by an administrative law judge hearing the state’s complaint that could have stopped Tesla from temporarily manufacturing vehicles in the state.

Shares of Tesla (TSLA) closed at a record high Tuesday ahead of the regulator’s decision, up 3% on the day and 21% for the year. Its shares were little changed in premarket trading Wednesday.

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