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CINCINNATI — A group of 14 high school students nervously waited their turn to present their team. They had spent the past three weeks at the Bigger Than Sneakers (BTS) Academy learning how to design shoes and clothes and create a cohesive business strategy around their fashion line. All that was left was for them to present their idea to a panel of judges.”It’s kind of emotional because I spent three weeks with teenagers and we all got along and it was really fun,” Mariam Barry, 15, said after the presentation. “These three weeks were probably the best three weeks…

A growing epidemic of “sadfishing” among teenagers is causing alarm as they increasingly use social media to exaggerate their distress and seek attention, experts say.Sadfishing is defined in a 2021 study in the American College of Health Journal as “the tendency for social media users to expose exaggerated aspects of their personality in order to gain sympathy,” according to Fox News.The study concluded that sadfishing “is not caused by an acute lack of social support, but rather may be strongly associated with the enduring trait of insecure attachment.”According to Parents magazine, journalist Rebecca Reid came up with the phrase in…

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of southeastern Pennsylvania met with numerous stakeholders, including the state of Delaware, to vet proposals for a share of $500 million in federal funding. Photo by PROPEL WILMINGTON — The Southeastern Pennsylvania region and its partners, including the state of Delaware, have unsuccessfully bid to win $504 million in federal funding as part of the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Technology Hub Initiative. Delaware is one of three states In bidding for the PROPEL Tech Hub, It is seeking nearly $80 million in funding to boost the region’s importance in precision medicine. The region is one of…

Sepp Straka will be looking to win the 2024 John Deere Classic for the second time in a row when the tournament begins Thursday at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. No player has successfully defended his title at the John Deere Classic since Steve Stricker won three straight tournaments from 2009-2011. Last year, Straka closed with a 9-under 62 on Sunday to win by two strokes. This year, he enters the tournament as one of three co-favorites to win the 2024 John Deere Classic at +1800 odds. The other two favorites to win are two-time John Deere Classic winner…

Image source, Senedd CymruImage caption, The Labor government says the ban could do more harm than goodArticle informationauthor, David Deanrole, BBC Wales News Political ReporterJuly 2, 2024Updated 9 hours agoThe Welsh Government has pledged to introduce a ban on politicians lying by the 2026 Senate elections.Justice Secretary Mik Antoniou vowed to legislate on Tuesday to avert an embarrassing defeat for the Government in the Welsh Assembly.Labor tried to block an attempt by Plaid Cymru to pass its own ban bill but faced defeat at the polls.Antoniou promised that the legislation would see any Senedd politician or candidate found guilty of…

At least three people were killed when Hurricane Beryl battered the islands of Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, authorities said. Two deaths have been reported on the Grenada islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said at a press conference on Tuesday, citing Carriacou and Petite Martinique Minister Tevin Andrews. “The possibility of more deaths remains a harsh reality,” Mitchell said. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves announced on Monday evening that Hurricane Beryl had struck St. Vincent and the Grenadines, with at least one person previously reported dead. Hurricane Aftermath: Mitchell said the…

David Zarbowski/AP Cars are lined up in a row outside a dealership in Lone Tree, Colorado, on June 2, 2024. new york CNN — CDK Global said that “nearly all” of the roughly 15,000 auto dealerships that use its software across North America are back online on its core management system, roughly two weeks after a cyber incident caused a software outage. “We are pleased to report that we are ahead of schedule,” said an automated message on CDK’s customer care phone line. According to CDK, the outage began on Wednesday, June 19. The company’s systems were taken down by…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday condemned a UN report that called the detention of former prime minister Imran Khan “arbitrary and in violation of international law”, maintaining that the cricketer-turned-politician’s arrest and the case against him are the country’s “internal matter”.Imran, founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was convicted in the Toshakhana case and has been in jail since August last year. The Election Commission of Pakistan subsequently disqualified him from voting for five years ahead of February’s general elections. He also faces charges in the crypto and Iddat cases.The Geneva-based UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded in an…

summary Bridgerton Season 3 joined the top 10 most-watched TV shows on Netflix. Season 3, which focuses on Colin and Penelope’s love story, followed seasons 1 and 2 and became one of the platform’s most popular TV shows. The continued success of the series Bridgerton It’s one to watch on Netflix, especially since it’s already been renewed for season four. Bridgerton Season 3 has topped Netflix’s all-time most-watched rankings, continuing the series’ trend of earning the period drama further performance awards on the streaming platform. The series is one of the streaming service’s most popular shows, telling the love story…

THR Illustration; images: Elsa/Getty Images, Rich Barnes/Getty Images, Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images Sometime in the near future, the NBA will sign a new TV contract that will roughly triple the value of its current deal. The league is likely to get a $70 billion-plus windfall (from ESPN and, most likely, NBC Sports and Amazon) — even though the audience for professional basketball has been mostly static in the past few years, and well below its pre-pandemic state. Other sports have had similar ratings patterns in recent years (with the NFL being a planet-sized outlier). The catch is, live sports rank as…