CNN health | FDA orders Juul Labs to remove products from US market

(CNN) – The US Food and Drug Administration ordered Juul products removed from the US market as the agency issued marketing denial orders for its vaping devices and pods.

“As a result, the company must stop selling and distributing these products. In addition, those currently on the U.S. market must be removed, or risk enforcement action,” the FDA said on Thursday.

Juul devices and four types of pods — tobacco and menthol-flavored — cannot be sold or distributed, the FDA said.  –read more–  

HGTV | 7 Weird Items That Are Super Useful at the Beach

Here’s why you should bring your snow sled to the beach.  –read more–

HGTV | 25 Budget-Friendly Cleaning Hacks

From time-honored, environmentally conscious natural cleaning options and recipes to “you can do what with WHAT?” swaps, these clever tidying-up tips will make your home sparkle with pantry staples and items you probably already own.  –read more–

CNN health | New safe sleep guidelines for babies stress no co-sleeping

(CNN) – Co-sleeping under any circumstances is not safe for infant sleep, the American Academy of Pediatrics stressed Tuesday in the first update to its safe sleep guidelines for babies since 2016.

“We know that many parents choose to share a bed with a child, for instance, perhaps to help with breastfeeding or because of a cultural preference or a belief that it is safe,” said Dr. Rebecca Carlin, who coauthored the guidelines and technical report from the AAP Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and the AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn, in a statement.  –read more– 

CNN politics | Hero aviator of the Tuskegee Airmen honored at Arlington burial

(CNN) – When Charles McGee first dreamt of flying above the clouds nearly a century ago, the US military wouldn’t even allow Black Americans to do so.

On Friday, in ceremonies attended by family and friends, at which the secretary of the Air Force and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came to pay their respects, McGee, honored as a brigadier general and famed for his heroism as a member of the fabled Tuskegee Airmen, was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, the most sacred of all grounds for US service members.

McGee, who was 102 when he died in his sleep on January 16, successfully completed 409 air combat missions across three wars — World War II, Korea and Vietnam — serving a total of 30 years of active service while overcoming the racial barriers of his day.  –read more–

F1 | Verstappen survives late Safety Car to beat Sainz to Canadian GP victory

Max Verstappen claimed his fifth win in the last six races at the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix, withstanding a late onslaught from Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, as Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton took his second podium of the season in P3.

Verstappen was looking well-placed for a comfortable victory over Sainz at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve when a Safety Car was called on Lap 49 of 70, after Yuki Tsunoda hit the Turn 2 barriers after exiting the pits.  –read more– 

CNN | A father hopes photos of his son can change the world’s view of Black families

Rashod Taylor knows he is raising a son in a country that is not always kind to Black men and boys.

Taylor said he sees how Black men are criminalized, killed by police and portrayed as absentee fathers.

It worries him. One day 6-year-old LJ will grow up and leave home while carrying the weight of his blackness. Taylor said he won’t always be there to protect him.  –read more–

CNN travel | She’s visited every country in the world. Here’s what she learned

(CNN) — As her plane began its descent into the Seychelles on October 6, 2019, Ugandan-American travel influencer Jessica Nabongo peered out of the window, preparing herself for the momentous occasion about to take place.

Not only was she about to become a member of a prestigious club made up of the very few people who’ve traveled to every country in the world, she’d be the first Black woman to have documented doing so.

Nabongo was accompanied by 28 of her friends and family, who had flown in to travel on that last flight with her.  –read more–  

CNN US | Black people are more likely to die from heat stress than White people in New York City, report says

(CNN) – There are hundreds of heat-related deaths in New York City each summer but the rate at which Black people die is twice as high compared to other racial and ethnic groups, the city’s health department says.

As millions of people in over a dozen states are under some of type of heat alert and cities continue setting high temperature records, health officials in New York City published a report Thursday examining the deadly impact of heat in recent decades. Heat is the No. 1 cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.  –read more–  

CNN Opinion | Why Lego is the best toy ever invented

(CNN) – Lego was my favorite toy as a kid. My best friend and I would spend countless hours crouched over a giant pile of bricks, using our own Lego language — hundreds of names for hundreds of different pieces — to communicate which one we needed and what we were building. Now that I’m a parent I’m doing the same with my own kids, and it means so much more.

Lego has been around for generations. The Lego Group, the company behind the fantastic plastic, is celebrating its 90th anniversary this Saturday, June 18 with Lego Con, a virtual convention streaming live on YouTube from the Lego House in Billund, Denmark — a 130,000-square foot complex shaped like Lego bricks and filled with 25 million of them.  –read more–