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The hottest trend this spring for young people is … gardening. Growing carrots and strawberries, pruning weeds. I’m sorry to inform parents anxious about screentime: This doesn’t mean your kids are digging in the dirt outside in the fresh air.They’re probably on Roblox, playing “Grow a Garden,” which, as I typed this Thursday, had more than 2.2 million people playing — four times as many as the next most popular game. (A Roblox spokesman told me the game had around 9 million concurrent players at one point over a weekend in late May — a Roblox record.)I tried the game…
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Jane said that when she first started engaging in the “hotel nights” in 2021, Sean “Diddy” Combs facilitated the “entertainers,” or other men involved in the drug-fueled sexual encounters. Jane said she hated that the men who joined them in the sexual encounters were strangers to her. Jane said even though she didn’t want to have sex with other men, she said she should at least choose who she’d be with. “I just said to myself, ‘if we’re going to be doing this I should just choose who was going to be on my body,’” she testified. Jane said the…
PARIS (AP) — Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz reached the French Open final on Friday after Lorenzo Musetti retired from their semifinal in the fourth set.Alcaraz was leading 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-0, 2-0 when the eighth-seeded Italian stopped playing on Court Philippe-Chatrier.“It’s not great to win a match like this. Lorenzo is a great player,” Alcaraz said. “I wish him all the best, and wish him a quick recovery and hope to see him soon on the court.”Musetti had treatment on the inside of his left thigh late in the third set and then again before the fourth.Musetti was 5-0 down…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of his plan to dismantle the agency.The Justice Department’s emergency appeal to the high court said U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston exceeded his authority last month when he issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs of nearly 1,400 people and putting the broader plan on hold.Joun’s order has blocked one of the Republican president’s biggest campaign promises and effectively stalled the effort to wind down the department.…
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Stars coach Pete DeBoer was fired Friday after three seasons with the team, getting to the Western Conference final each time but never advancing past that for a shot at the Stanley Cup.The move came eight days after the Stars ended their season in a 6-3 loss at home to Edmonton in Game 5 of the West final. DeBoer made the curious and much-discussed decision to bench Jake Oettinger after his star goalie gave up two goals on two shots in the first 7:09. Two days later, the coach acknowledged he still hadn’t talked to…
San Antonio, TX CNN — A family who moved to a south-side San Antonio neighborhood roughly six years ago said that they were warned right away about an eccentric man who lived across the street. They were told, they said, that Jonathan Joss would play drums on his roof at all hours of the night and would yell obscenities and racial slurs at people outside. They said that, when confronted, Joss would often say that he was rehearsing for a role. He really was an actor, though. He played the role of John Redcorn in the animated show “King of…
CNN — British actor Tom Felton, best known for playing Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, will reprise his role as the arrogant antagonist – this time, on stage. Felton announced his role in the Broadway production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Instagram Thursday, in a joint post with the official Harry Potter and Harry Potter on Broadway Instagram pages. In a joint Instagram reel, captioned “Guess who’s back,” Felton adorned himself in the familiar black suit with a wand in the pocket, rings and a long blonde wig, before ominously saying, “scared, Potter?” “The…
Botox has traditionally been sought out by older women looking to do something about the wrinkles they already have. But that’s changing. Now younger women are turning to the cosmetic treatment to avoid getting those fine lines in the first place.That’s the idea behind preventative Botox, which Houston plastic surgeon Dr. Kristy Hamilton has seen explode in popularity over the past five years. “The summer of 2020 was when I started seeing younger patients coming in and asking about starting Botox to prevent lines,” Hamilton tells Yahoo Life. “What I tell them is that when you start to see lines…
(Reuters) – South Africa is building up vaccine stocks and expanding inoculations to fight a worsening foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, the agriculture ministry said, as the country faces threats to beef supplies.Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious, viral infection of cloven-hoofed animals that may also affect other species. Flare-ups have been reported over the past several months in five of South Africa’s nine provinces, with KwaZulu- Natal being the worst affected.This week, Karan Beef, which operates the country’s largest feedlot and one of the world’s biggest, reported an outbreak at its facility in Heidelberg, about 50 kilometres southeast of Johannesburg. The…