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CNN — Gracie McGraw is embracing Pride month. In a post on social media, the 28-year-old daughter of country superstars and actors Tim McGraw and Faith Hill celebrated recognition of the LGBTQ+ community and its history in the month of June. “Happy freaking Pride. I love being queer,” she wrote. McGraw followed it up with a more extensive statement, writing, “It has come to my attention that some tabloids have taken an Instagram story I posted yesterday and have used it as clickbait, saying I’ve ‘come out.’” “Let me be VERY clear here… I’ve been an out and proud queer,…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Before Erin Patterson’s in-laws and their relatives arrived at her home for lunch, she bought pricey ingredients, consulted friends about recipes and sent her children out to a movie.Then, the Australian woman served them a dish containing poisonous death cap mushrooms — a meal that was fatal for three of her four guests.Whether that was Patterson’s plan is at the heart of a triple murder trial that has gripped Australia for nearly six weeks.Prosecutors in the Supreme Court case in the state of Victoria say the accused lured her guests to lunch with a lie…
I admit it: I most definitely rolled my eyes in 2019, when Twitter announced vague plans to build a “open and decentralized standard for social media.”At the time I didn’t really understand what then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was trying to do — or why the head of a social media company with plenty of problems was messing around with plans to create more social media companies.I get it now: Bluesky was a science project that aimed to let people build their own social networks. And that’s still what it is at its core, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.But in the…
PARIS (AP) — The dream run continues for the 361st-ranked Loïs Boisson at Roland-Garros.After taking down third-seeded Jessica Pegula in the previous round, the French wild-card entry upset sixth-ranked Mirra Andreeva 7-6 (6), 6-3 on Wednesday in front of a boisterous and largely partisan crowd to reach the semifinals of the French Open.A year ago, Boisson tore her left ACL just a week before her home Grand Slam tournament started, preventing her from accepting an invitation to play. On Thursday, she will have the chance to advance to the final when she takes on No. 2 seed Coco Gauff.“It’s incredible,…
In the post-nuclear age, scientists noticed a peculiar problem: steel produced after 1945 was contaminated. Atomic bombs had infused the atmosphere with radioactivity, which contaminated the metal.This made most steel useless for precise equipment such as Geiger counters and other highly accurate sensors. The solution? Salvage old steel from sunken pre-war battleships resting deep on the ocean floor, far away from the nuclear fallout. This material, known as low-background steel, became prized for its purity and rarity.Fast forward to 2025, and a similar story is unfolding — not under the sea, but across the internet.Since the launch of ChatGPT in…
I’ll be the first to admit that prior to this project, I did not give food dyes much thought. After all, I eat, shop and cook pretty healthily. I’m a lifelong vegetarian turned vaguely pescatarian, I shop organic whenever possible (at the very least for the Dirty Dozen), I frequent the farmer’s market, and I actually enjoy eating all the weird types of plant-based protein. But I’m also a mom of two young kids, and therein, as I quickly learned when I began my first day of eliminating all artificial food dyes from my life, lies the rub.As I whirred…
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has abolished its long-standing two-child limit on Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population.The National Assembly passed amendments scrapping rules that limit families to having one or two children, state media Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.Vietnamese families are having fewer children than ever before. The birth rate in 2021 was 2.11 children per woman, just over the replacement rate required for a population to avoid shrinking over the long term. Since then, the birth rate has steadily declined: to 2.01 in 2022, 1.96 in 2023…
SEMINOLE, Texas — On a Saturday in mid-March, Dr. Ben Edwards put on his scrubs and drove to a sheet metal building in this tiny West Texas city to treat children with measles. Red spots mottled his face; Edwards was sick with measles, too.An outbreak of the disease was swelling in Gaines County, a rural community with one of the lowest childhood vaccination rates in the country. For two weeks, lines of families had snaked around the building’s dusty parking lot, almost all belonging to the area’s Mennonite community, a religious group known to speak Low German and keep to…
CNN — Patrick Schwarzenegger is still coming off the “whirlwind of emotions” that was the making of “The White Lotus” Season 3. The actor, who is taking part in a new campaign for Venmo with costar Aimee Lou Wood, spoke to CNN recently about how his perspective has changed since the release of the show, which saw his character Saxon go from loathsome finance bro to a vulnerable young man who realized he has a lot to learn. “It was definitely a learning experience for me, being on this show,” Schwarzenegger said, adding that the viewership and engaged fandom –…
BENGALURU, India (AP) — At least 11 people are dead and more than 30 injured after a stampede on Wednesday as crowds tried to enter a cricket stadium in southern India’s Karnataka state, authorities said.The crush happened as tens of thousands of cricket fans gathered outside the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru city to celebrate the winners of the Indian Premier League, the world’s most popular T20 cricket tournament. An ambulance arrives at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium as fans gather to celebrate Royal Challengers Bengaluru cricketers, winners of the Indian Premier League, in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP…