内容摘要：Fewer than 10 transgender students have applied to participate in middle school and high school sports in the state since 2018, the Nebraska School Activities Association said Wednesday.

Fewer than 10 transgender students have applied to participate in middle school and high school sports in the state since 2018, the Nebraska School Activities Association said Wednesday.

Victor Gensini, Northern Illinois University meteorology professor and a lead scientist of Project ICECHIP, right, and Logan Bundy, PhD Candidate at NIU and ICECHIP IOP assistant, look at cloud formations during a Project ICECHIP operation, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, south of Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Victor Gensini, Northern Illinois University meteorology professor and a lead scientist of Project ICECHIP, right, and Logan Bundy, PhD Candidate at NIU and ICECHIP IOP assistant, look at cloud formations during a Project ICECHIP operation, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, south of Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Scientists in two hail-dimpled vehicles with special mesh protecting the windshields are driving straight into the heart of the storms, an area known as the “shaft” where the hail pelting is the most intense. It’s a first-of-its-kind icy twist on tornado chasing.“It’s an interesting experience. It sounds like somebody on the outside of your vehicle is hitting you with a hammer,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini, one of the lead researchers.A team of journalists from The Associated Press joined them this week in a several-day trek across the Great Plains, starting Tuesday morning in northern Texas with a weather briefing before joining a caravan of scientists and students looking for ice.

Members of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing flight team stage in a Walmart parking lot before a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Atlus, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Members of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing flight team stage in a Walmart parking lot before a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Atlus, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The caravan features more than a dozen radar trucks and weather balloon launching vehicles. At each site, the scientists load and unload drones, lasers and cameras and other specialized equipment. There are foam pads to measure hail impact and experimental roofing material. There are even special person-sized funnels to collect pristine hail before it hits the ground and becomes tainted with dirt.

Already in treks across Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, the team has found hail measuring more than 5 inches (13 centimeters) in diameter — bigger than a softball, but not quite a soccer ball. The team’s equipment and vehicles already sport dings, dimples and dents that scientists show off like battle scars.said he raped her in 2013, when she was trying to build an acting career.

accused him of forcibly performing oral sex on her in 2006, when she was looking for work in entertainment production., who wasn’t involved in Weinstein’s first trial, told jurors that he forced oral sex on her, too, during 2006. At the time, she was a teenage fashion model trying to break into acting.

“They all had dreams of pursuing careers in the defendant’s world, the entertainment industry,” prosecutor Nicole Blumberg told jurors in her closing argument Tuesday. She contended that Weinstein let the women think he was interested in their careers when what actually interested him were their bodies, and “he was going to have their bodies and touch their bodies whether they wanted him to or not.”. His defense called other witnesses, including some former friends of Sokola’s and Mann’s.