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DENVER (AP) — It’s often said music is the universal language of humanity. Now a 12-year-old Houston boy is putting that to the test among an unlikely audience — man’s best friend. Yuvi Agarwal started playing keyboard when he was 4 and several years ago noticed his playing soothed his family’s restless golden doodle, Bozo. He grew curious if it also could help stressed homeless animals. With help from his parents, who both have backgrounds in marketing, he founded the nonprofit Wild Tunes in 2023 to recruit musicians to play in animal shelters. So far he has enlisted about 100…

NEW YORK (AP) — Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people.Many worry about what the future holds, and a daily grind of climate anxiety and distress can lead to sleeplessness, an inability to focus and worse. Some young people wonder whether it’s moral to bring children into the world. Many people grieve for the natural world.Activists, climate psychologists and others in the fight against climate change have a range of ways to build resilience and help manage emotions. Some ideas:Get active in your communityFeeling isolated? Find ways to connect with…

PARIS (AP) — The birds scattered in every direction as the first drumbeat thundered across the plaza outside Paris’ Pompidou Center Tuesday, clearing the way for a different kind of flight: Beyoncé and Jay-Z swept into the front row. The star couple anchored a guest list at Pharrell Williams’ latest Louis Vuitton spectacle that doubled as a map of contemporary culture now: Bradley Cooper, J-Hope, Karol G, Pinkpanthress, Future, Pusha T, Jackson Wang, Bambam, Mason Thames, Miles Caton, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Malcolm Washington, Jalen Ramsey, and A$AP Nast. If there was any question about the gravitational pull of Louis Vuitton under…

Extreme heat makes it especially hard for your body to cool down, so you need to be extra careful if you exercise or play sports when it’s baking outside.Your brain tries to keep your body within a degree or two of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius), and it does so in part by triggering sweat. When sweat dries, it carries away heat from your body’s surface. When sweat can’t do its job — because your body is generating a lot of heat or it’s too hot and humid to cool down — you are at risk of becoming dehydrated…

On a recent visit to see my son at the University of California, Davis, I wandered into a lab at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science … as one does. A bunch of students were preparing for a tasting to evaluate some of the strawberry breeds they have been developing. My food nerd heart swelled, and for the first time in decades, I missed school.When strawberries are in season, it is incumbent upon us to make the most of those fleeting weeks.And I can’t think of a better way to put them to use than in a…

TWINSBURG, Ohio (AP) — When Judy Sautner recently walked into Power Appliance, a store in a southeastern suburb of Cleveland, she had one goal in mind: replace her daughter’s broken dryer with something that worked and didn’t break the bank.“I wasn’t really worried about all the bells and whistles,” said Sautner.Jay Buchanan, the store’s owner, said many customers are like Sautner, and what they are looking for frequently ends up being an appliance with the Energy Star symbol.The U.S.-based program claims that its blue seal of approval on efficient appliances saves households an average of $450 on their bills per…

PORTO, Portugal (AP) — On Porto’s steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by bonking friends and strangers alike with toy hammers and reveling in the streets all night. A Christian holiday with pagan roots, the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist — Porto’s patron saint — is celebrated with fireworks, balloons and lots of grilled sardines. An older St. John’s Eve ritual in Portugal’s second-biggest city involved buying leek flowers believed to bring good fortune and inviting strangers to sniff the…

For about two weeks every spring, my letter carrier, delivery drivers and just about everyone else who walks into my yard comments on the deliciously strong scent emanating from the two lilac shrubs flanking the front gate. Most days, the breeze carries the fragrance all the way to the front door or even indoors if the windows are open.Not many flowers have that power. Some never did. Others no longer do, thanks to breeding that has developed bigger, prettier, hardier and disease-resistant plants at the expense of scent. Most carnations and violas aren’t what they used to be, and even…

© 2025 Bloomberg Finance LP Hims & Hers cofounder and CEO Andrew Dudum dropped out of Forbes’ billionaire ranks on Monday – less than two months after joining the three-comma-club, in May. Dudum, 36, lost more than $400 million in wealth in a single trading day, after shares of his telehealth firm, known for its hair loss and erectile dysfunction pills, fell by 35%. Forbes estimates Dudum is now worth closer to $950 million. The sudden selloff came after drugmaker Novo Nordisk’s announcement early Monday that it is ending a short-lived partnership with Hims & Hers to sell Wegovy, Novo…

After a dramatic split from his onetime girlfriend and cofounder, Phil Shawe bought out her half of their translation firm in 2018. Here’s how he has since nearly doubled the company’s revenue and became a billionaire. “There’s an old story about the Rolling Stones being tax exiled in France,” billionaire Phil Shawe, 55, says by video call from a white-walled office in Puerto Rico, the tropical sun peeking through the shutters. “I am tax exiled in Puerto Rico.” Shawe affectionately calls Puerto Rico the “one legitimate tax haven” in the U.S. He relocated to the island in 2018—the same year…