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Republican businessman challenges Paul Ryan for congressional seat

Source: Wisconsin State Journal

Rep. Paul Ryan faces a challenge on his right flank this year from a Delavan businessman seeking to channel anti-establishment anger against the top elected Republican in the country.

Paul Nehlen, 46, is challenging Ryan, for whom he previously campaigned, for the Republican nomination for the 1st Congressional District.

It’s only the second time since 1998 that Ryan 46, of Janesville, has faced a primary opponent, and the first time the opponent is mounting a serious campaign.

In 2014, Ryan easily defeated Jeremy Ryan, a frequent protester against Gov. Scott Walker known for riding a Segway.

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Ted Cruz adds 21 delegates with Colorado sweep

Source: AP

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz continued his Colorado winning streak Friday, locking up the support of 21 total delegates to the Republican National Convention, representing a majority of the delegates Colorado will send to Cleveland in July.

Slates loyal to Cruz won every assembly in Colorado's seven congressional districts, which began April 2 and culminated Friday with 12 delegates selected. The Texas senator is well-positioned to pad his total Saturday, when 13 more delegates will be chosen at Colorado Republicans' state convention.

Of Cruz's delegates, only 17 were formally pledged to him, and in theory the other four could change their vote in Cleveland. But they were all included on the senator's slates and are largely state party officials who said they were barred from signing a formal pledge for Cruz but have promised to back him in balloting at the convention.

The result shows how Cruz's superior organization has helped him as he tries to catch up with front-runner Donald Trump. While Cruz's campaign spent months recruiting slates of delegates and securing pledges, Trump only this week hired a Colorado state director. Two candidates Trump's campaign told backers to support in one district were not even on the ballot.

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The melting of Greenland and Antarctica is changing the Earth's rotation

Sophisticated new gravity research suggests that changes in Earth's climate may actually be having a stunning geophysical effect: slightly moving the location of the planet's spin axis, or axis of daily rotation. In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving. This, in turn, means that the physical North and South poles are actually shifting, with the North Pole now drifting towards England.

And given that much of this is related to the loss of polar ice, a changing climate would appear to be at least partly - although perhaps not wholly - responsible. "If we lose mass from the Greenland ice sheet, we are essentially putting mass elsewhere. And as we redistribute the mass, the spin axis tends to find a new direction. And that's what we mean by polar motion," said Surendra Adhikari, a researcher with Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who conducted the work with his colleague Erik Ivins. The new research appeared Friday in Science Advances.

Ivins emphasizes that the study doesn't explicitly attribute the motion of the pole to human caused climate change - noting that "the word human is not in this paper." The study wasn't aimed at attribution of the causes of mass loss – it merely observed them using NASA's twin GRACE satellites, which measure gravitational changes at the Earth's surface, and tied that to polar motion.

At the same time, however, much research has suggested that the warming of the Earth is behind considerable polar ice mass, not only in Greenland and Antarctica, but also smaller glaciers around the world. NASA research, for instance, finds that Greenland is losing 287 billion tons of ice per year, while Antarctica is losing 134 billion tons.

Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article70882447.html