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The "twisties," which cut short Biles' Tokyo run, were nowhere in sight on Saturday as the U.S. gymnast appeared back to her previous, top-notch form after taking more than a year off from the sport. During that break she prioritized her mental health, which became a major focus following her abrupt withdrawal from the team finals in Tokyo. "I’m still continuing to work on myself and go to therapy," Biles said, stressing the importance of a mental break. "I think I’m in better shape than I was in 2021," she said. "Who knows, I'm not going to think too far ahead," Biles said when asked about her plans.

Persons: HOFFMAN, Simone Biles, dazzled, Biles, I’m, I'm, Karen Braun, William Mallard Organizations: Tokyo Olympics, Thomson Locations: , Illinois, Chicago, Tokyo, U.S

But the four-times Olympic gold medallist cleared up any confusion this past weekend, proving she is as big a threat as ever one year out from the next Olympics. In addition to the all-around, Biles is favoured on the world stage for the vault and floor exercise golds due to her unmatched difficulty. The Russian women, competing as the Russian Olympic Committee due to a doping ban, captured team gold in Tokyo, leaving the United States to settle for silver. Contenders could include an unprecedented three Olympic all-around champions as 2012 winner Gabby Douglas, 27, recently announced plans to join Biles and 2020 champion Sunisa Lee, 20, on the road to Paris. The Paris squad will be selected at U.S. team trials at the end of June next year, a month before the 2024 Games.

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Biles, a seven-time Olympic and 25-time world medallist, showed off routines on all four apparatus in podium training on Friday ahead of Saturday’s Core Hydration U.S. Classic in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. All is good.”The 2016 Olympic all-around champion took more than a year off training after the Tokyo Games, but her routines show no signs of a slowdown. “She looks amazing,” fellow Tokyo team mate and Tokyo Olympics all-around champion Sunisa Lee said of Biles after Friday’s training session. Biles is the most decorated gymnast at Saturday’s two-session competition, but the women’s line-up is stacked, sharing a combined 55 Olympic and world medals according to gymnastics podcast Gymcastic. Along with Biles and Lee, other notable competitors include 2020 Olympic floor exercise champion Jade Carey, 2020 Olympic team silver medallist Jordan Chiles, and Leanne Wong, 2021 world all-around runner-up.

Persons: HOFFMAN, Simone Biles, ”, Biles, “, Sunisa Lee, ” Biles, Cecile Landi, Laurent, Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Leanne Wong, Pritha Sarkar Organizations: Tokyo, Tokyo Games, Tokyo Olympics, U.S, National Team Camp, Thomson Locations: , Illinois, Chicago, Hoffman Estates , Illinois, Texas, Tokyo

☆ Amazon Fresh grocery chain has struggled. See its stores of the future
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Amazon has faced challenges getting shoppers to buy groceries in its Amazon Fresh grocery stores and recently laid off workers — but it’s betting a new strategy and redesigned stores will be the answer to its struggles. An Amazon Fresh redesigned grocery store. Amazon has paused its Amazon Fresh store expansion plans. Meanwhile, Amazon Fresh grocery stores are targeted at lower- and middle-income customers and function as full-size grocery stores. Amazon had big plans to grow Amazon Fresh stores, but it has paused store expansion.

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☆ What causes someone to become a serial killer? Criminology experts explain
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. CNN spoke with three forensic psychologists and serial killer experts to better understand what causes people to become serial killers. Scott Bonn: Not all psychopaths are serial killers, and not all serial killers are psychopaths. In the case (of a serial killer who) is a psychopath, their brain functions differently than a normal human brain. Are all serial killers serial sexual murderers?

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☆ Getting an entry-level job at Blackstone is harder than getting into Harvard, says Steve Schwarzman. Here's how to ace an interview and land a job there.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Casey Sullivan | Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Getting a job at private equity giant Blackstone is getting more competitive. In 2020, Insider spoke with president Jon Gray to learn how to stand out and land a job Blackstone. The billionaire that built Blackstone doubts he'd land a job at the private equity titan today. "Getting an entry-level job at Blackstone is 12 times harder than getting into Harvard. So how exactly do applicants dead-set on working for the firm land one of its highly-prized entry-level gigs?

Persons: Jon Gray, Blackstone, Stephen Schwarzman, That's, I'd, Schwarzman, —, Gray, Blackstone's cofounders, Pete Peterson, couldn't, Here's Organizations: Blackstone, Morning, Wall Street, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Locations: New York, Chicago

☆ The Bombs Bursting in Air
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Rich Cohen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Probably the most exciting moment of my childhood occurred on July 4, 1977, when my father, without first reading the instructions, lit a ground bloom flower in our suburban Chicago yard. If placed as directed on cement or some other hard surface, the firework spins wildly and changes color.

Locations: Chicago

☆ At least 22 hurt and one dead in a Juneteenth celebration mass shooting in a Chicago suburb
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

At least 22 people were hurt and one was killed in a Sunday mass shooting at a Juneteenth event. An unknown number of suspects opened fire in a strip mall parking lot in Willowbrook, Illinois. People had gathered to celebrate Juneteenth, a day that marks the end of slavery in the United States. It's unclear what led to the gunfire in a strip mall parking lot in Willowbrook, Illinois. The celebration began around 6 p.m. local time in a strip mall parking lot near Hinsdale Lake Terrace apartments, the DuPage County Sheriff's Office said in a news release, according to The New York Times and CNN.

Persons: —, Joe Biden, Jacek Boczarski, Eric Swanson, J.B, Pritzker, I've Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Union Army, Anadolu Agency, Getty, DuPage County Sheriff's, CNN, Police, Illinois Locations: Willowbrook , Illinois, Chicago, The, United States, Texas, Galveston , Texas, Willowbrook, Hinsdale Lake Terrace, DuPage County

☆ Jerry Springer, raucous talk show host, dead at 79
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Television personality Jerry Springer at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File PhotoLONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - Television personality Jerry Springer, known for a long-running talk show that featured raucous audiences, controversial topics and fist-fighting guests and who briefly served as Cincinnati mayor, died at age 79 on Thursday, his family said. Springer was born in London on Feb. 13, 1944, and immigrated to New York City when he was 4 years old. In 1991, Springer landed his own television program, a syndicated talk show broadcast across the United States until 2018. The daytime program, known as "The Jerry Springer Show," was initially a politically oriented show but later featured everyday people discussing sensationalistic topics, often related to unconventional sexuality.

☆ Food Insecurity Hits Hard With Veterans and Uniformed Troops
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Ben Kesling | Photographs Taylor Glascock For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HINES, Ill.—Every Thursday, Bob McMahon —often in his trademark Marine Corps sweatshirt and ball cap—volunteers in a food pantry at the Hines VA Hospital in suburban Chicago that helps veterans, active-duty troops and hospital employees. Mr. McMahon, 63 years old, who served in the Marines just after the Vietnam War and left the service as a Private First Class, was homeless when he first came to the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital program in 2013, which he credits with saving his life. The pantry serves more than 100 veterans a week, said Kerry Thomas, a licensed clinical social worker at Hines.

☆ Some new offices are mini towns with their own restaurants, doctor offices, and hotels. Workers actually want to go.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The idea is getting replicated from the Bell Labs location, or Bell Works New Jersey, Keating said. The spaces run by Bell Works' own coworking brand, CoLab, are nearly 100% occupied. At Bell Works New Jersey, Zucker partnered with Toll Brothers to build a 185-home 55-and-over community. At BRIC, tenants can take advantage of a dozen art galleries, some of which show the work of building tenants. A lobby area near offices at Bell Works Chicagoland.

☆ Turkish-American Women Take In Quakes’ Devastation, Seek to Help
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | Joe Barrett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

From her suburban home north of Denver, Burcu Dagli has a window into the destruction from Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey: Her boyfriend is a paramedic in the southern Turkish province of Mersin who was sent to help dig people out of the rubble and provide medical care. Rana Yurtsever has spent much of the past few days on the phone in suburban Chicago, checking on loved ones and friends affected by the quake, coordinating donations—and reliving her own memories of a deadly quake in 1999 before she left the country as a young girl.

☆ Illinois Judge Temporarily Blocks Assault-Weapons Ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Joe Barrett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Seven were killed and dozens wounded by a gunman wielding an AR-15-style rifle during an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago. An Illinois judge has temporarily blocked a new ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons in a setback for Gov. J.B. Pritzker , who championed the law in the wake of a July 4 mass shooting by a gunman wielding an AR-15-style rifle. Judge Joshua Morrison of Effingham Circuit Court in southeastern Illinois granted a temporary restraining order against implementing the law in a lawsuit brought on behalf of hundreds of plaintiffs on the grounds that the legislative maneuvers used to pass the law were unconstitutional.

☆ Rooftop solar: How homeowners should do the math on the climate change investment
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Tim Mullaney | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Central to the deal: Tax credits and other benefits from both the state of Connecticut and from Washington, D.C., he says. Hurwitz's experience points up one benefit of the Inflation Reduction Act that passed in August: Its extension and expansion of tax credits to promote the spread of home-based solar power systems. California's solar energy net metering decision Certainty has been the thing that's hard to come by in solar, where frequent policy changes make the market a "solar coaster," as one industry executive put it. watch nowFor potential switchers, tax credits can quickly recover part of the up-front cost of going green. The bids for one suburban Chicago house ranged as low as $19,096 after the federal credit and as high as $30,676.

☆ A billing expert investigated her husband's ER bill. She was able to knock thousands off the charge.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Bram Sable-Smith | Kaiser Health News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

She took one look at the hospital charges and decided to investigate further. “Even in our case, we waited until the second bill,” Kalsariya said. Depending on the medical procedure, Kalsariya said, a bill could contain an overwhelming number of line items that are hard to understand. Dr. Bhavin Shah was left with a $3,319 medical bill after he landed in an emergency room following a skiing accident in Wisconsin. But when a KHN reporter responded to the family’s request for help investigating Shah’s hospital bill, the couple decided to send in the form to accurately document their saga.

An unseasonal early surge of respiratory viruses among babies and toddlers has caught doctors off guard and worried about the coming months. "There is no one virus that's causing pediatric respiratory viruses this fall," said Dr. Deanna Behrens, a pediatric critical care physician at Advocate Children's Hospital in suburban Chicago. CDCWhile RSV is inundating many children's hospitals, the number of pediatric flu cases is also increasing. But the fact that kids are testing positive for multiple respiratory viruses at once can blur the signs of any one virus. In addition to RSV, Combs expects the number of pediatric flu illnesses to double in the coming weeks.

☆ Suburban Chicago police officer charged with murder in 2020 fatal shooting of Black man
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — A former suburban Chicago police officer who was fired after he shot into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and seriously wounding the man’s girlfriend, has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced on Thursday. On the night of the shooting, another Waukegan officer stopped the couple’s car and was questioning them when Williams suddenly drove off, according to investigators. The officer pursued them and Salinas responded to his call for help and joined the chase. An expert analyzing the trajectory of the bullets was able to determine the location of Salinas and the trajectory of his bullets, Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said in the statement. Salinas surrendered to authorities on Thursday and a judge ordered that he be held on $350,000 bond, prosecutors said.

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