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MYCENTRALJERSEY.COM SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2018 3A Carbon dioxide the gas scientists say is most responsible for global warm- ing reached its highest level in record- ed history last month, at 410 parts per million. This amount is highest in at least the past 800,000 years, according to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Be- fore the onset of the Industrial Revolu- tion, carbon dioxide levels had ed over the millennia but had never ex- ceeded 300 parts per million. keep burning fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide keeps building up in the said Scripps scientist Ralph Keeling, who maintains the longest continuous record of atmospheric carbon dioxide on Earth.

Keeling and his late father, Charles David Keeling, have kept carbon dioxide measurements at the Mauna Loa Ob- servatory in Hawaii since 1958. The average concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 410.31 parts per million for April, according to the Keeling Curve measurement series. This marks the time in the histo- ry of the Mauna Loa record that a monthly average has exceeded 410 parts per million. Carbon dioxide at highest level in atmosphere in 800,000 years USA TODAY Gigi Hadid and Vogue Italia have separately apologized for the May Vogue Italia cover showing the top model with a darker skin tone and hair color that set off a social media backlash and underlined the lack of diversity in the fashion industry. Hadid, in a post Thursday on In- stagram that has since been deleted, said diversity needs to be ad- dressed, and she does not want take opportunities away from anyone The cover shows the normally blond Hadid with dark hair and heavily bronzed skin, wearing a tiara and sequined jumpsuit.

Gigi Hadid, apologize for dark look LUCA LIFE VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. With the orange of its engine lighting up the foggy sky for miles around, a car-sized Mars lander rocketed into space early Saturday on a mission to probe beneath the surface of the Red Planet. The Mars InSight probe, a mission costing nearly $1 billion, blasted shortly after 4 a.m. local time, roaring south down the coast to the delight of crowds gathered on beaches and church parking lots to watch. The two- year mission aims to understand what makes the Red Planet like Earth.

literally unbelievable. I just stand here in said InSight princi- pal investigator Bruce Banerdt a few minutes before launch. Banerdt has been leading the project for nearly a decade, through construction and a 2016 launch scrubbed over an equip- ment failure. Scientists had to wait two years until Mars and the Earth aligned again so the probe could start its 200- day journey. This was interplanetary launch from the West Coast, a decision made in large part because Vanden- launch pads are less busy than the ones at Cape Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

main mission is to check for quakes beneath surface, which will help reveal how the solar system was created and lay the groundwork for exploration of potentially habitable planets elsewhere. Although Earth and Mars are gener- ally formed of the same material, scien- tists want to know why the two planets ended up In addition to sci- ence experiments, the lander also car- ries two tiny silicon wafers engraved with the names of 2.4 million people who signed up via a public awareness campaign. InSight is expected to reach Mars around Thanksgiving, hitting the thin Martian atmosphere at about 13,200 mph, and then slowing down through friction, a parachute and, right before reaching the surface, with thrusters. Even if the probe reaches Mars, no guarantee of success: Missions to the Red Planet have just a 40 percent suc- cess rate, NASA said. scary part is when we get to said Tom the InSight project manager for Jet Propul- sion Laboratory.

never know what Mars is going to throw at Federal taxpayers have provided about $813 million for the lander, with another $180 million from Germany and France. By early 2019, scientists hope In- instruments will be reporting back everything from how often the planet has quakes to how warm the soil is, thanks to a probe designed to burrow nearly 20 feet below ground. That probe will be the top of the lander by a robotic arm, the time one has been used on another planet. A rocket blasts off carrying Mars InSight lander from Vandenberg Air Force Base, early Saturday. It was interplanetary launch from the West Coast.

MATT NASA launches $1B probe to explore beneath Mars Insight lander will study quakes and drill below Red surface Trevor Hughes USA TODAY CHICAGO At least 61 people have been shot in the third-largest city since Monday, a troubling uptick of violence for a metropolis that has seen some recent success in reducing shootings. The surge in violence, which in- cludes people who were fatally shot, comes after Chicago Police De- partment expressed optimism that gun violence was on the down- ward trend in a city that tallied more than 1,400 homicides in 2016 and 2017 combined. Chicago recorded a 22.3 percent re- duction in murders and a 26.5 percent decline in shooting incidents for the four months of 2018 compared with the same period in 2017, according to police department data. April also marked the 14th consecutive month in which Chicago recorded a decline in gun violence, accord- ing to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. But as the weather warmed Chicago endured the fourth-cold- est April on record this year but saw temperatures rise this week the city has seen a spasm of violence.

At least 15 people were shot between Friday evening and sunrise Saturday, according to police. Police said several of the in- cidents, including a drive-by shooting late Friday in which a 41-year-old man and 17-year-old boy were wounded, ap- pear to be gang-related. Another victim, a 15-year-old boy, was struck in the head by a bullet Wednesday afternoon on his way home from school on a city bus. The boy, who is listed in good condition, traveled several miles from his home to attend one of the most academically se- lective high schools. infuriates me that we have a good kid doing what we all ex- pect him to do, and a victim of something like Police Superin- tendent Eddie Johnson said.

is why we have to have common sense gun legislation in this country. Not just this city, this state, but in this country, to stop things like this from 61 people shot in Chicago since Monday Aamer Madhani USA TODAY Violence soars as weather warms up Eddie Johnson White House blasts request from China as WASHINGTON The Trump ad- ministration lashed out Saturday at a demand by China for U.S. airlines to stop describing Taiwan and Hong Kong as separate countries, calling the request White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that the government will resist by the Chinese Communist Party to im- pose Chinese political correctness on American companies and Trump suggests nation to keep immigrants out CLEVELAND President Donald Trump criticized U.S. immigration pol- icies during a business roundtable Sat- urday in Cleveland. Trump said people entering the U.S.

illegally are taking advantage of policies and show up for their immigration court dates. He said: may have to close up our country to get this Trump reiterated his call to build a bor- der wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Indian police arrest 14 suspects in rape, burning death of girl PATNA, India Indian police on Saturday arrested 14 people suspected of kidnapping, raping and burning to death a teenage girl, the latest in rising crimes against women in India despite toughening of laws. District Magistrate Jitendera Singh said the defendants abducted the girl from Chatra, a village in eastern Jhark- hand state, while she was attending a wedding on Thursday.

Some allegedly raped her before letting her go home. Singh said the suspects beat up the family members for complaining to police and burned her to death after her at home alone on Friday. More than 1,600 arrested in Russia amid anti-Putin protests MOSCOW Russians angered by the impending inauguration of Vladi- mir Putin to a new term as president protested Saturday in scores of cities and police responded by reportedly ar- resting more than 1,600 of them. Among those arrested was protest organizer Alexei Navalny, the anti-cor- ruption campaigner who is most prominent foe. Police seized Navalny by the arms and legs and carried the thrashing ac- tivist from Pushkin Square.

North Korea adjusts time zone by 30 minutes to match South SEOUL, South Korea North Korea readjusted its time zone by 30 minutes to match South on Saturday and described the change as an early step toward making the longtime ri- vals following a land- mark summit. NATION WORLD WATCH Lava from the eruption of the Kilauea volcano spews from a in the Leilani Estates subdivision on Big Island Friday. FREDERIC J. IMAGES Today is Sunday, May 6, the 126th day of 2018. There are 239 days left in the year.

On this date in: Molotov. Comedian Bob Hope did his first USO show before an audience of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Field in Riverside, California. crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground. 1941: Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. 1935: The Works Progress Administra- tion began operating under an exec- utive order signed by President Franklin D.

Roosevelt. 1937: The hydrogen-filled German air- ship Hindenburg caught fire and TODAY IN HISTORY.