CNN Sports | Golden State Warriors win NBA championship with Game 6 victory over Boston Celtics

(CNN) – Led by 34 points from Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 103-90 on Thursday night to claim their fourth NBA championship in the last eight seasons.

The victory gives the trio of Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green their fourth title together — all under head coach Steve Kerr — adding to their championships from 2015, 2017 and 2018. They’ve won 21 NBA Finals games together, having recently passed Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili (19) for the most NBA Finals wins by a trio over the last 30 years.

Curry, who was in tears on the court after the final whistle, won NBA Finals MVP honors for the first time in his career.  –read more–  

businesswire | Apple Hospitality REIT Recognizes Hotel Associates with 2021 Apple Awards

RICHMOND, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. (NYSE: APLE) (the “Company” or “Apple Hospitality”) today announced recipients of the Company’s 2021 Apple Awards. The winners were chosen for their outstanding contributions in 2021.  –read more– 

HGTV | 10 Items Designers Scoop Up at Antique Stores

Find out what trending items interior designers are sourcing at thrift and antique stores.  –view gallery—  

CNN BUSINESS | Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham

New York (CNN Business) – Don’t count Bill Gates among the fans of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Those digital asset trends are “100% based on greater fool theory,” the Microsoft co-founder said Tuesday at a TechCrunch conference, referencing the notion that investors can make money on worthless or overvalued assets as long as people are willing to bid them higher.

Gates added that he’s “not long or short” crypto. And he mocked Bored Apes NFTs, joking that “expensive digital images of monkeys” will “improve the world immensely.”

Instead, Gates said he prefers old fashioned investing.  –read more–

F1 | What tyres will the teams and drivers have for the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix?

Formula 1 is back in Montreal for the first time since 2019, and Pirelli have nominated their softest tyre compounds for the third race weekend in a row.

F1’s official tyre suppliers have allocated the C3 hard tyre (x2 sets), C4 medium tyre (x3 sets) and the C5 soft tyre (x8 sets) for the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix.

Pirelli have pointed to the similarities in conditions between Montreal and Baku –with the heavy traction and braking demands on a rapidly-evolving circuit – but with lower speeds and cooler temperatures at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve.  –read more– 

CNN SPACE + SCIENCE | Why cats go so crazy for catnip

(CNN) – Catnip isn’t just intensely pleasurable for cats. It’s also practical.

When your feline friend rubs, rolls against, chews and licks catnip leaves, it’s not just playful high jinks sparked by the plant’s intoxicating qualities. The behavior leads to the release of certain compounds that might protect cats from pesky mosquitoes, according to new research out of Japan.

Compounds called iridoids in the leaves of catnip (Nepeta cataria) and the plant silver vine (Actinidia polygama) act as an insect repellent as they are released when the cats rub their bodies against the leaves, the same team found in a study published last year.  –read more– 

CNN World | June’s strawberry moon will light up the sky this week

(CNN) – June’s full moon, the strawberry moon, will illuminate the sky this week.

The moon will appear full from Sunday moonrise to Wednesday moonset, according to NASA. It will reach its peak at 7:52 a.m. ET Tuesday but will not be fully visible in North America until moonrise. This year’s strawberry moon is the first of two consecutive supermoons.

While there is no single definition, the term supermoon generally refers to a full moon that appears brighter and larger than other moons because it is at its closet orbit to Earth.  –read more–

CNN US | She graduated from college the day after her 82nd birthday

(CNN) – If you’ve been considering a return to school, this is your sign it is not too late.

Mae Beale, an 82-year-old retiree, just earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC).

Beale decided to return to school in her late 70s, according to a news release from the school. She received her diploma May 18, the day after her 82nd birthday, reported CNN affiliate WJLA.

In her younger years, Beale worked as a licensed practical nurse in Washington, DC, the release noted. While working at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, she helped plan several large events, which inspired a career pivot.  –read more– 

CNN | FROM FRINGE TO FRONTLINE – How Alex Jones stoked many of the conspiracy theories taking hold in today’s Republican party

On a January night in 2002, a 37-year-old man donned a patriotic-themed uniform, covered his face with a skull mask and activated a long-held plan.

Armed with a .45-caliber pistol, crossbow, makeshift bomb launcher, 2-foot-long sword and double-barreled shotgun/assault rifle hybrid, Richard McCaslin made his way into a forest north of San Francisco. His mission: to find and expose a secretive group of elites who — he wrongly believed — engaged in child abuse and human sacrifice.

On a January afternoon nearly 20 years later, another man made his way from California to Washington, DC, on a quest to vanquish elites who, he wrongly believed, had stolen the presidential election from Donald Trump. Daniel Rodriguez, then 38, joined the mob that besieged the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. During the battle to breach the building, Rodriguez used a stun gun on a police officer, who would suffer a heart attack and traumatic brain injury.  –read more–