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Hello, health and wellness enthusiasts! My name is Kaitlin Reilly, and I’m here to share this week’s best tips for living your most awesome life.Summer is right around the corner, which means you’re likely putting some R&R on your calendar. This week, writer Amelia Edelman wrote about why you should take a staycation or use your time off to enjoy activities closer to home. You’ll skip the stress (and cost) associated with planning a big trip while still experiencing new things (that just so happen to be in your neck of the woods).For the most feel-good benefits, psychiatrist Dr. Jessica…
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — While other students might be in class or socializing at lunch, a group of young Catholics attends Mass every weekday at noon at the Princeton University Chapel.They sing Gregorian chants in Latin, pray and receive Communion at a side chapel — inside the huge, nondenominational Princeton Chapel — that young, devoted Catholics see as a sacred refuge in a mostly liberal and secular Ivy League environment. “I feel that people’s faith is so strong here,” student Logan Nelson said of the dedicated Catholic space where he attends daily Mass. “It feels like a home — even…
BERLIN (AP) — Three patients were killed and many people were injured in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in the German city of Hamburg, authorities said Sunday. Another patient was detained on suspicion of starting the blaze.Firefighters were alerted to the fire at the hospital, the Marienkrankenhaus, shortly after midnight. It broke out in a room in the geriatric ward, on the ground floor of the building, and spread to the facade of the floor above. Smoke spread across the building’s four floors, German news agency dpa reported.The three people who died were men aged 84,…
CNN — When Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson are your aunt and uncle – and your mom is Rebbie Jackson and your other uncles are the rest of the members of the Jackson 5 – getting into the music industry could feel like a double-edged sword. So why do it? “I actually have asked myself that before, but it wasn’t really because of (the) level of artists that I have had in my family. It was more so just, music is tough,” musician Austin Brown said in a recent conversation with CNN. “It is just tough, tough, tough, tough. But…
CNN — Todd Chrisley is out of prison but he’s not done advocating for judicial reform. The reality TV personality addressed a crowd of reporters on Friday, marking his first public event since President Donald Trump pardoned him and his wife Julie after they were convicted in 2022 of conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in loans. Chrisley and his daughter Savannah spoke during a press conference in Nashville, where they thanked President Trump and “pardon czar” Alice Johnson for their release. ”I really don’t even remember driving home,” Savannah Chrisley said of receiving the call…
CNN — Celebrated actor Valerie Mahaffey, whose stage, film and television work ranged from Shakespeare to the hit 1990s series “Northern Exposure,” died at age 71 after a battle with cancer, according to a statement released Saturday by her publicist. Mahaffey died Friday in Los Angeles, according to publicist Jillian Roscoe, the Associated Press reported. “I have lost the love of my life, and America has lost one of its most endearing actresses. She will be missed,” her husband, actor Joseph Kell, said in a statement. Survivors also include their daughter, Alice Richards. Mahaffey’s stage, film and television work included…
The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water criticizing the organizations’ “lackadaisical approach to the operation of this dirty data center” and calling on them to “issue an emergency order for xAI to stop operations completely” — or if there’s no order, to at least cite and stop the company from allegedly violating clean air laws. “AI is…
Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger, who also cofounded Instagram, says the job market is going to be tough for new grads.Krieger told The New York Times’ “Hard Fork” podcast on Friday that Anthropic is focused instead on hiring experienced engineers. He said he still has “some hesitancy” with entry-level workers.To some extent, that’s a reflection of Anthropic’s internal structure, which doesn’t yet support a “really good internship program,” Krieger said. Internships have long been the golden ticket to lucrative entry-level tech jobs.But it also shows how AI is upending the labor market, even at AI companies. As AI continues to evolve,…
CNN — Taylor Swift is now the proud owner of her entire catalog of music, roughly six years after she protested the sale of her master recordings by her former record label. Swift announced the news in a letter posted to her website Friday, writing that “all of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.” The Grammy-winner specified that she owns all her music videos, concert films, album art and photography, along with unreleased songs. She purchased her music “outright with no strings attached, no partnership, full autonomy,” from Shamrock Capital, a private equity company that had acquired…
An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to internal documents reportedly viewed by NPR. NPR says a 2012 agreement between Facebook (now Meta) and the Federal Trade Commission requires the company to conduct privacy reviews of its products, evaluating the risks of any potential updates. Until now, those reviews have been largely conducted by human evaluators. Under the new system, Meta reportedly said product teams will be asked to fill out a questionaire about their work, then…