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May Udy, 32, is “on the cusp” of affording part-time childcare. She works full-time at her remote sales job, and her husband, Jackson, has a steady stream of work as a contract engineer in Knoxville, Tennessee.Yet, the cost of even a few days of childcare for their two children, Noah and Hannah, aged 5 and 6, is untenable.Nationally, care for one child ranges from $4,800 to $15,000 a year, and the prices are expected to keep rising. In Tennessee, the average annual childcare cost is $10,000-$11,000.Politicians on both sides of the aisle agree that childcare is a significant financial strain.…

A month-long Vatican summit has ended with a call for women to have more leadership roles in the Catholic Church, but not a call for women to be ordained as priests, as some progressives had hoped at the start of the process.The synod was the end of a four-year consultation aimed at gauging the views of every church-going Catholic globally, and Pope Francis opened up what is usually a bishops conference to some lay people, including nearly 60 women of 368 voting delegates.All of the synod members voted on each of 151 proposals. Although all proposals were passed by the…

Play video content TMZSports.com The 2024 college basketball season is about to begin … and Dan Hurley tells TMZ Sports his UConn program is running at a “super high level” of confidence as they prepare for a three-peat!! The 51-year-old head coach was out greeting fans in New York City … a couple weeks before the Huskies’ first regular season game on November 6 in Storrs, Connecticut. All eyes are on the back-to-back NCAA champions leading into the 2024-25 season … and Hurley — who decided to stay with UConn instead of joining the Los Angeles Lakers — mentioned their…

Traveling through Italy, I used ChatGPT as a tour guide for the moments where my mom and I wandered into interesting little corners, alleys and buildings where our curiosity was piqued with no tour guide around.Salvador Rodriguez/CNBCAs I stood with my mom under the blistering sun in Rome waiting for our audio tour of the Pantheon to begin, I decided to kill some time with ChatGPT. “Tell me about the Pantheon in Rome,” I said.The AI tool returned a bunch of information in bullet points that was helpful but hardly made for an interesting read. So I tweaked my prompt and…

As the war enters its 975th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Sunday, October 27, 2024: Fighting Ukraine’s air defence units were deployed early on Sunday to repel a wave of Russian drones heading towards Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, said, telling residents to stay in shelters. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air defence units also destroyed overnight at least 30 Ukrainian drones over the southern regions of Voronezh, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk and Belgorod. One woman was injured as a result of the drone attack on the border region of Belgorod,…

New York City’s biggest airport is getting a major facelift.John F. Kennedy International Airport broke ground on a new Terminal One in September 2022. The 2.4 million-square-foot facility will live where terminals 1, 2, and 3 once stood, with the first facilities expected to open in 2026.A private consortium is investing $9.5 billion to modernize the new terminal, focusing on safety, efficiency, and the customer experience. This is part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s $19 billion total investment in upgrades at the city’s largest airport.And there’s no better time than now, as the industry sees record-breaking…

BBCDonald Trump enjoys a huge lead among men, while women tell pollsters they prefer Kamala Harris by a similarly large margin. The political gender gap reflects a decade of social upheaval and could help decide the US election.For the first woman of colour to secure a presidential nomination, and only the second woman to ever get this close, Kamala Harris goes to great lengths not to talk about her identity.“Listen, I am running because I believe that I am the best person to do this job at this moment for all Americans, regardless of race and gender,” the vice-president said…

Lizzo’s going down to “South Park” to have herself a time … dressing up as the Ozempic alternative named after her for Halloween — months after cracking up over the viral episode. The singer-songwriter posted photos of her Halloween costume this year … a box of “Lizzo” from the hit adult animated show — with a measuring tape cinched around her waist like a belt. Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media. She added advertising slogans to the background … saying Lizzo is a great way to lose guilt and gain confidence. Remember, when “South Park: The End…

Royal Caribbean’s “Icon of the Seas,” billed as the world’s largest cruise ship, sails from the Port of Miami in Miami, Florida, on its maiden cruise, on Jan. 27, 2024.Marco Bello | Afp | Getty ImagesThe demand for cruises is still going strong — and it doesn’t appear to be letting up anytime soon.The industry was the last to recover from the Covid pandemic, but once it did, it has been enjoying strong pricing and booking momentum. While pricing growth is starting to normalize somewhat, it is still well above the rate of inflation, said Patrick Scholes, travel and leisure…

She was only seven years old at the time, but Michiko Kodama has a crystal-clear memory of the morning of August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. “It was a sunny day,” she says. “At 8:15, I was at school, sitting at my desk at the front of the class, when there was a tremendous white flash and the ceiling collapsed. A piece of glass was lodged in my shoulder, and all around me people were trapped by pieces of debris, but somehow everybody was still alive.” The next thing she remembers is being in the school clinic where one of…