When today’s teenagers and young adults are struggling emotionally, some are turning not only to friends, family members and therapists but also to artificial intelligence.

Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents and young adults have used AI chatbots for advice or help when they felt upset, nervous or anxious, according to a new study published June 1 in JAMA Pediatrics.

Researchers also found that many of these young people use chatbots repeatedly and consider the advice helpful.

This suggests that AI is already becoming part of the mental health information ecosystem for millions of young people.

Those insights are raising important questions about how these tools should be used and where their limitations lie. (CNN)

Within six months of arriving in New Zealand on a working holiday visa 10 years ago, Erin Klatt knew she wanted to make the country her home for good.

Klatt was looking for “somewhere different to be” for a variety of personal and political reasons when she left the US in 2016.

“So when I came to New Zealand, it just kind of all clicked,” she said.

A decade later, at 34, Klatt officially cut ties with the United States.

Earlier this year, just before the US State Department reduced the fee to renounce US citizenship by about 80%, Klatt paid the then $2,350 price and read an oath renouncing her US citizenship.

She had experience with dairy farming in the U.S. and found a similar pursuit in New Zealand. (CNN)

Others left the U.S. because they didn’t like the direction of the country.

When Ukrainian children’s home director Liubov Rudyka took the minors in her care to Naples after Russia invaded, she thought she was bringing them to safety.

It never occurred to her that Italy might not want to give them back. And yet, four years later, their return has become a legal battlefield.

Ukrainian authorities have told CNN that several children who were evacuated to Italy with Rudyka are among dozens of Ukrainian minors whose return home has been prevented by the Italian courts.

A dispute over their situation escalated in April, after Kyiv announced that one of the Ukrainian children, a 15-year-old boy named Sasha, had been legally adopted by an Italian family – despite having a mother who wants him to return to Ukraine.

Kyiv argues that the evacuations were meant to be temporary and that while the war continues, the situation has stabilized in parts of the country and there are safe places for returning home. (CNN)

Among all the horrors of the Ukrainian war, losing their children to an Italian court was never imagined.

It’s called BALCONY PIZZA!

He has a pulley system that lowers the pizza to the street where potential customers wait in line.

The idea came to a young man living in Oslo, Norway.

And it’s catching on in other European cities.

I guess I’m not smart enough to understand its popularity.

There’s no place to sit and eat.

The BALCONY PIZZA founder says it is a great example of trusting people.

I think the thing about Norway that we’re really showing here is the level of trust — this is a very trust-based system,” Gran said.

“You have to trust that I follow food hygiene, so that you’re not going to get food poisoning.

I need to trust that you will pay me …

I think it just shows humans at their best.”

It could be cheaper to attend a Super Bowl than to watch the New York Knicks play the San Antonio Spurs in the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden.

Games 3, 4 and 6 of the 2026 NBA Finals are each priced to be more expensive than almost every Super Bowl tracked by SeatGeek.

The only exception is Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers in February 2024.

“All three home games at MSG are now pricing above every Super Bowl we’ve ever tracked — except Super Bowl 58, which had Taylor Swift, a dynasty matchup, and the novelty of the first Super Bowl in Vegas.

“The Knicks have none of those external factors.

This is pure, 27-year pent-up demand for a championship moment at MSG, and it’s unlike anything we’ve seen on SeatGeek.” (CNN)

The Chicago Bears are one step closer to potentially moving from Soldier Field to a new stadium in Hammond, Indiana.

The team’s board of directors voted Thursday to advance their stadium development project in Hammond, the Bears announced Friday.

“We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region.

It will connect Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago,” Bears chairman George H. McCaskey and president and CEO Kevin Warren said in a statement. (NYT)

Hard to believe!

Soldier Field is now and always has been The Chicago Bears!

A Sherpa climbing guide who was believed to have died high on Mount Everest was found crawling back to Base Camp after spending almost a week on the mountain with no food or bottled oxygen.

For six days, there had been no radio contact or sign of Hillary Dawa Sherpa, 52, who was last seen on May 29 resting above Camp 3, which sits at 7,060 meters (23,163 feet).

With Hillary Dawa alone on the world’s tallest mountain in perilous conditions for so long, his family had already begun funeral rites for him.

But tragedy turned to joy on Thursday when a cleaning crew spotted him crawling through the icefall, exhausted and frostbitten, but alive.

This story is a lesson for us all.

Our lives are PRECIOUS and they are worth fighting for!

(The photo is of the British SPIT FIRE used in the Battle of Britain in WWII.)

At the height of the Battle of Britain, the average life expectancy for a newly deployed fighter pilot was about three to four weeks. (Facebook·World War Aviation)

This incredibly low statistic reflected the intensity of the air war over the UK in 1940.

Out of the roughly 3,000 RAF pilots of Fighter Command, over 500 were killed during the 16-week campaign. (Fire Brigade Museum.)

Why do I show you this story now?

I think it is important to remember those who came before us…

…And PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE!

Yes, your power is not found in your muscular strength.

No, it is in the incredible power of WORDS.

WORDS can hurt or heal and do everything in between.

And you can’t take them back.

Once they’re out there, they’re out there!

Yours can be WORDS of encouragement.

Or WORDS of condemnation.

Which WORDS will you use today?

The circumstances of our lives change every day.

On one day, there is good news every way you turn.

On yet another, nothing seems to be going well.

On a third day, it’s neither good nor bad, it just is.

So, regardless of circumstance, will you, can you bring the best of yourself?

Will you be positive when the circumstances are negative.

Are you a problem solver when you are confronted with obstacles?

So, the question remains, how well do you manage yourself?