Chris Field

1 week ago | san.com | Cassandra J. Buchman |Chris Field |Evan Hummel |Lauren Keenan

As the world shifts its focus to the Israel-Iran conflict, Palestinians said they worry they are being forgotten while death and hunger continue in Gaza. In a span of 24 hours during the week of June 16, at least 140 people across the enclave were killed,  At least 40 of those deaths came from Israeli gunfire and airstrikes on Wednesday, June 18, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Among those reported dead were some killed as they sought food from humanitarian aid trucks.

1 week ago | san.com | Ally Heath |Chris Field |Evan Hummel

Surgeons in Houston successfully completed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S. on a 45-year-old man. Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center said doctors performed the entire procedure without opening the patient’s chest. According to a Baylor press release dated Tuesday, June 17, surgeons used a robot to make precision incisions into the abdomen. Usually in heart transplants, doctors saw open the chest and fracture the chest bone.

1 week ago | san.com | Ally Heath |Chris Field |Ray Bogan |Snorre Wik

[RAY BOGAN]The assassination of Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman shows once again just how vulnerable elected representatives are. Many live in homes where the address is known to the public, and aside from members of leadership, they don’t have security. There are more than 7,500 state legislators in the 50 states and DC and 535 members of Congress. Neither the states nor the federal government have the resources to provide personal protection for all members.

2 weeks ago | san.com | Chris Field |Evan Hummel |Lea Mercado

Antarctica wasn’t always a frozen landscape. In fact, it may have once featured lush forests, palm trees, and rivers, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications. “This finding is like opening a time capsule,” Professor Stewart Jamieson, who co-authored the study, told The Economic Times. Researchers began the study in 2017, extracting sediment from the once-thriving ecosystem frozen in time for tens of millions of years beneath the ice, The Jerusalem Post reported.

2 weeks ago | san.com | Chris Francis |Chris Field |Jake Larsen |Lawrence Banton

A soccer tournament with the top professional teams from around the world starts Saturday, June 14, at stadiums across the U.S. Judging by ticket sales, however, fans don’t seem excited about the Club World Cup. It marked an embarrassing start for FIFA, soccer’s world-wide governing body. The 32-team event was considered by officials to be a dry run for next summer’s World Cup, especially in terms of stadium logistics, transportation and security. With sparse crowds, that may no longer be the case.