CNN health | No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband’s life

(CNN) – In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection.

After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her husband, Tom Patterson, was too racked with bacteria to live.

“And I have this conversation that nobody ever wants to have with their loved one,” Strathdee told an audience recently at Life Itself, a health and wellness event presented in partnership with CNN.  –read more– 

CNN US | 4,000 beagles will be rescued from a Virginia breeding facility

Thousands of beagles will be transferred from a Cumberland, Virginia, research facility to humane societies across the United States.

(CNN) – The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) will transfer 4,000 beagles from a research facility in Cumberland, Virginia, to humane societies across the United States where they can be adopted, under a plan approved by a federal judge last week.

A series of inspections over the course of nine months found more than 70 animal welfare violations at the Envigo breeding facility. Mortality records reviewed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed over 300 puppy deaths from January 1, 2001, to July 22, 2021, that were attributed to unknown causes. The facility also did not take any additional steps to determine the cause in order to prevent similar deaths in the future.  –read  more– 

CNN style Design | Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum — and this 12-year-old boy’s dog house

Famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed iconic buildings like the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania and the Guggenheim Museum in New York — and he also designed a dog house for a 12-year-old boy who sent him a letter.

Jim Berger grew up in a San Anselmo, California, home that his parents had commissioned Wright to design, according to Marin County. In 1956, when Berger was 12 years old, he sent a letter to Wright asking for plans for a matching dog house for his labrador retriever, Eddie.  –read more– 

CNN US | Man who said he was ‘almost a school shooter’ reveals what stopped him

(CNN) –  Aaron Stark, who penned a letter titled “I was almost a school shooter,” joins CNN’s Pamela Brown to react to some of the recent mass shootings in the US, and discusses the mindset behind mass shootings  —watch– 

F1 | Leclerc shrugs off late reliability scare to overhaul Verstappen for Austrian Grand Prix victory

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won the Austrian Grand Prix over Red Bull’s Max Verstappen with Lewis Hamilton completing the podium for Mercedes – after Carlos Sainz retired.

Leclerc took the lead when the Sprint winner and championship leader Verstappen pitted on Lap 12. Leclerc pitted much later, on Lap 27, and retook the lead with a pass on Lap 37. With Sainz challenging Verstappen for P2, the Dutchman pitted again on Lap 37.  –read more–  

watch: Race Highlights | 2022 Austrian Grand Prix

CNN US | Black men explain why an innocent person would run during a police stop

Jayland Walker exits his vehicle and runs before being shot to death by up to eight officers in Akron, Ohio, last month in a still image from police body camera video.

(CNN) – Kerwin Webb said he knows the terror that young Black men experience when being pulled over by police.

Webb said tensions are often high and adrenaline is rushing because in too many cases, Black people have lost their lives during police encounters.

So he understands why Jayland Walker led Akron, Ohio, police on a car chase and then ran on foot before eight officers fired dozens of bullets at him. Walker suffered at least 60 gunshot wounds.  –read more– 

F1 | Verstappen leads battling Ferraris for Sprint victory and P1 grid spot for the Austrian GP

Max Verstappen won the F1 Sprint at the Red Bull Ring, beating the duelling Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, as he cruised to victory and secured a P1 start for Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix.

Verstappen aced qualifying on Friday evening, in a session that saw both Mercedes crash out in Q3, after which Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez was bumped down to P13 on the grid for this Sprint. This new-for-2022 Sprint format awards points to the top eight instead of the top three.  –read more– 

watch: F1 Sprint Highlights | 2022 Austrian Grand Prix

B/R | Raiders hire NFL’s 1st Black woman team president

The Las Vegas Raiders have hired former Nevada Gaming Control Board chairwoman Sandra Douglass Morgan to be team president, making her the first Black woman in NFL history to hold that role.   –read more–

HGTV | Copy Joanna’s Farmhouse Style: 30 Things to Paint White Now

A white coat of paint on this 16-foot table and bench crafted from salvaged wood creates a classic farmhouse aesthetic.

White may be the most definitive neutral color, but Joanna Gaines from HGTV’s Fixer Upper understands the design power of this seemingly basic hue. Check out all of the ways she uses white paint to create a classic farmhouse look.   –view gallery– 

CNN BUSINESS | Black and Hispanic Americans are getting hit harder by inflation. Here’s why

New York (CNN Business) – Many Americans are struggling to cope with higher prices for food, gas, housing and other essentials. But inflation has taken an even heavier toll on certain segments of the population.

Black and Hispanic Americans have been grappling with higher inflation rates than the national average since prices began surging in March 2021, according to a recent analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That’s a shift from the pre-pandemic period, when Black and Hispanic Americans’ inflation rates were at or slightly less than the national average.  –read more–