CNN health Fitness | What you need to know about your low back pain

(CNN) – If you’re suffering from low back pain or have grappled with it in the past, you’re not alone.

As many as 577 million people globally experienced low back pain in 2017, a 2020 study cited by the International Association for the Study of Pain revealed. In fact, low back pain causes more disability worldwide than any other condition, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the US, it’s estimated that 80% of Americans suffer at least one episode of low back pain in their lifetime, with an additional 50% chance of recurrence within one year.  –read more–  

CNN US | Body camera video obtained exclusively by CNN shows moments that led to police shooting an unarmed 13-year-old

(CNN) – An investigation is underway after a 13-year-old boy was shot by a Chicago Police Department officer, according to the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

The teen’s lawyers, and witnesses, contend his hands were up when police opened fire. He is now paralyzed from being shot in the back, the attorneys said.  –read more– 

CNN BUSINESS | Google becomes the latest tech giant to slow hiring

(CNN Business) – Google plans to slow its pace of hiring for the remainder of the year in the latest sign of tech companies rethinking staffing amid a market downturn that has hit Silicon Valley particularly hard.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, announced the news on Tuesday in an internal memo, noting “the uncertain global economic outlook.” Google confirmed the authenticity of the letter to CNN Business, but declined to comment further.  –read more– 

CNN BUSINESS | The couple behind the bag that sold out in 2 minutes

New York (CNNBusiness) – In 2020, when the pandemic brought all nonessential travel to a grinding halt, Ami and Jason Richter had to think fast. They were running a flourishing business called Lug that sold fun travel bags and accessories and had a growing legion of fans, which included Oprah.

But as travel bans went into effect, households succumbed to lockdowns and work from home quickly become the norm, buying backpacks and shoulder bags was the furthest thing from people’s minds.  –read more–

Formula 1 | Hamilton fastest on disrupted final day of pre-season running in Barcelona

Hamilton lit the sectors purple with a very late effort of 1m 19.138s to put Mercedes at the top on Day 3. Team mate George Russell was fastest in the morning, amid five stoppages. The first red flag was for Alpine’s Fernando Alonso, thick smoke pouring out of his A522. The team soon stated that they would call an early end to their pre-season programme in Spain due to that hydraulic issue.  –read more–

HGTV | 21 Different Ways to Add Color Into Your Kitchen

Paint on the walls? Sure, that’s easy enough. But here are 21 alternatives to pack color and panache into your kitchen design.  —view gallery—  

CNN BUSINESS | Google expands in New York with $2.1 billion office purchase

New York (CNN Business) – Google is dramatically expanding its office presence in New York City with a $2.1 billion purchase on Manhattan’s West Side. 
 
The move comes even as the company embracing a hybrid work model because of the pandemic. 
 
Google said Tuesday that the new office will be an “anchor” of its sprawling city campus that houses much of its 12,000-strong regional workforce. It’s scheduled to open in mid-2023. 
 
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, wrote that the deal is the most expensive sale of a single US office building since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and ranks as one of the priciest ever in US history.  —read more—  

CNN BUSINESS | These Burger King workers all had it their way, and quit

CNN | Ransomware attacks saddle Biden with grave national security crisis

(CNN) – The Biden administration Sunday confronted the implications of a sudden and grave national security challenge as ransom-demanding cyber hackers target the staples of American life — food,gas, water, hospitals and transport.

The assaults, which have led the FBI director to make comparisons to 9/11, are targeting the country’s vulnerable infrastructure as it struggles back to life after pandemic shutdowns and are putting civilians on the front lines of an invisible conflict likely to defy quick fixes to lessen the threat.

They leave President Joe Biden, who took office amid multiple crises, with thorny dilemmas about how to respond without escalating a full-on international cyber war and expose him to new political vulnerability. Many of the attacks appear to be the work of criminal gangs on Russian soil, heaping more pressure on the President’s already tense, high-stakes summit next week with President Vladimir Putin during his first foreign trip.  —read more—