A Deeply Personal Race Against A Fatal Brain Disease

 Posted on July 5, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  223 words  |  Martina Birk

In the mornings, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel's first job is to get their two garrulous kids awake, fed, and off to daycare and kindergarten. Then they reconvene at the office, and turn their focus to their all-consuming mission: to cure, treat, or prevent genetic prion disease. Prions are self-replicating proteins that can cause fatal brain disease. For a decade, Sonia Vallabh has been living with the knowledge that she has a genetic mutation that will likely cause in her the same disease that claimed her mother's life in 2010. [Read More]

Families of Yorkshire divers who died on Greece trip may never know what happened | Greece

 Posted on July 5, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  549 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Greece This article is more than 4 months oldFamilies of Yorkshire divers who died on Greece trip ‘may never know what happened’This article is more than 4 months oldInvestigation into deaths of Vincent Hong and Timothy Saville ‘let down’ by Greek authorities, says coroner The families of two men from Yorkshire who died on a scuba diving trip in Greece have been told they may never find out exactly what happened to their loved ones. [Read More]

Lionel Messi scores for PSG in 2-0 win vs. Angers

 Posted on July 5, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  101 words  |  Martina Birk

Lionel Messi scored for PSG in their 2-0 win vs. Angers. Messi scored his first goal of the new year. The Copa America, Finalissima and World Cup champion scored PSG’s second goal of the match. A lovely string of passes by the league leaders ended with Messi getting the ball inside the penalty area and scoring with his right foot. He has now scored eight goals and has 10 assists in 14 Ligue 1 matches this season. [Read More]

Lionel Messi to return to PSG in January after winning the World Cup

 Posted on July 5, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  75 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Lionel Messi has a PSG return date set as he will be back in January after winning the World Cup. Messi is still in Argentina with his family, having celebrated Christmas on Sunday. The World Cup winner will not return to Paris until January 3, meaning he will miss two of PSG’s league matches and one French Cup match. The Argentine would make his return for their match on Wednesday, January 11 vs. [Read More]

Man Dies in Cliff-Jumping Incident at Lake Powell in Utah

 Posted on July 5, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  431 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

An Ohio man was found dead on Friday after a cliff-jumping incident at Utah’s Lake Powell, said authorities.  According to the National Park Service (NPS), witnesses observed a man — later identified as Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender, 36, of Cincinnati — jumping off a 50-foot cliff on Thursday morning and did not see him resurface. They received a 911 call around 11:43 a.m. local time about the incident. A search for Ehrnschwender was conducted by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area rangers and members from the Utah Department of Natural Resources and Kane County Sheriff’s Office, USA Today reported. [Read More]

Miranda Lambert Rocks White Tank, Daisy DukesSee the Pic!

 Posted on July 5, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  138 words  |  Larita Shotwell

"One day we were country singers, and the next we're on the front of the tabloids," she says. "I'm, like, really magical. I've been pregnant for two and a half years." Miranda might be used to all the heat that comes from the press, but according to Blake, she's not above getting into a bar fight if you make her mad enough! "People always try to pop off or call her bluff at bars," [Read More]

The Day the Puffles Cried: Disney Shuts Down Club Penguin Rewritten

 Posted on July 5, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  676 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

As global warming surges on and the ice caps continue to melt, penguins are increasingly threatened, with over half of penguin species now classified as vulnerable or endangered. But no breed is under more threat of imminent extinction than the one being brutally slaughtered by the Walt Disney Company in the thousands: the penguins of Club Penguin Rewritten. If you are reading this through pince-nez because you are an Old™️, Club Penguin was a massive multiplayer online game that ran from 2005 to 2017, in which young players could build customizable penguin avatars, party, play games, decorate their own igloos, and make friends in a virtual world. [Read More]

'Harrison Ave' Covers Lil Dicky's Romantic Origins

 Posted on July 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  548 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Dave “Lil Dicky” Burd is looking for love in the FXX/Hulu series Dave Season 3, but we learn more about his origins with women in episode 2. Written by Jordan Mendoza and directed by Kitao Sakurai, here’s our recap of “Harrison Ave.” [SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers ahead regarding Dave Season 3 Episode 2.] Lil Dicky’s music video in ‘Dave’ Season 3 Episode 2  Episode 2 of Dave explores Lil Dicky’s romantic origins and his crush on his childhood best friend, Brittany (Jane Levy). [Read More]

Adidas Made Billions Before Addressing Yes Alleged Antisemitism and Harassment

 Posted on July 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  502 words  |  Reinaldo Massengill

Kanye West in 2022. Adidas allowed Kanye West’s erratic behavior, which included allegations of antisemitism and sexual harassment, to go unchecked for nearly a decade until the company ended their partnership last year, a New York Times report alleges. West entered the Yeezy collaboration with the German sportswear company in 2013, and Adidas made billions of dollars while employees claim they suffered through forced screenings of pornography, tense work environments filled with shouting and tears, and the rapper’s increasing admiration of Hitler, according to the New York Times, which interviewed current and former staffers and combed through hundreds of internal documents for the story. [Read More]

American Symphony review Netflixs Jon Batiste documentary doesnt dig deep enough

 Posted on July 4, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  834 words  |  Martina Birk

Documentary filmsReviewMatthew Heineman’s look at the Grammy-winning musician and his wife has moving moments but keeps us at a distance In American Symphony, a moving but scattershot documentary following the recording artist Jon Batiste during a whirlwind year, the transcendent moments tend to come along when its subject is anchored to a piano. Batiste, a musician who harmonizes between genres like jazz, classical, R&B and funk, is most famous for leading Stay Human, the house band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and taking home Album of the Year at the 2022 Grammys. [Read More]