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DEAR ABBY: I'm in high school. My boyfriend lives across the country in a different state. He is a teenager, too. I have asked people for advice about this before and mostly gotten the same answer. They say, "Wait 'til you're older," or, "Your mom is just looking out for you." I don't believe it.

Were you SEEN at SUNY Schenectady’s 50th (socially distant) commencement on campus Monday, June 29, 2020.

All 11 MAAC schools are represented on the team, which highlights some of the best student-athletes in MAAC history. MAAC women's basketball traces back to 1982.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a historically high pace that shows that many employers are still laying people off in the face of a resurgent coronavirus.

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC says Joy Reid will move into the early evening time slot vacated in March by former “Hardball” host Chris Matthew's retirement in March.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Forget about up-close “meet-and-greet" sessions with Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck when Walt Disney World parks reopen. There will be no firework shows or parades — those would draw too many people together — and both visitors and employees will be getting temperature checks when they enter.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether Congress and the Manhattan district attorney can see President Donald Trump's taxes and other financial records that the president has fought hard to keep private.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The mob of over 150 people who forcefully took Muhammad Yunus’ cadaver from a hospital in eastern Indonesia thought it was impossible that the 49-year-old Islamic preacher could have died from the coronavirus. He had always washed his hands, worn a mask and followed health protocols issued by the government, according to local residents.

Openings and events

Saratoga Springs Cultural Institutions Respond and Reopen, 4 p.m. Tuesday. https://skidmore.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3UWTZAbJT4q2A-lki-TQ1Q.The Saratoga Springs Arts Commission in partnership with Skidmore College invites the community to the second in our series of talks with Saratoga arts leaders on the state of our cultural institutions as the city enters Phase 4 of New York's reopening plan. These leaders will share their upcoming programs for summer and fall both online and in-person... Читать дальше...

New York

Since contracting COVID-19 in March, Tom Hanks has been, by most measures, busy. He and his wife, Rita Wilson, flew home after recuperating in Australia, where he had been shooting Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley film. He hosted a from-home episode of "Saturday Night Live," an already distant enough memory that it takes a beat for him to remember it. And he saw his new World War II naval drama "Greyhound" steered from theatrical release by Sony Pictures to Apple TV+ — the streaming service's biggest movie yet. Читать дальше...

Tim Flynn was looking forward to one final year as the mayoral host of training camp for the Dallas Cowboys in Oxnard, Calif.

The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to suspend all fall sports, including football, because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving open the possibility of moving some seasons to the spring if the outbreak is better controlled by then.

"Trolls World Tour": Its theatrical release an early victim of the coronavirus pandemic, Universal offered "Trolls World Tour" as a digital rental in April, which the studio said broke records as its biggest debut for an original digital release. The colorful animated family flick reunites the main characters from 2016's "Trolls," as Queen Poppy (voiced by Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) once again set off to save the kingdom.

Something tells me it wasn’t the first time that 16-year-old Colby Kokosa didn’t listen to his father.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Reno-based Eldorado Resorts Inc. received the go-ahead Wednesday from Nevada casino regulators to buy Caesars Entertainment Corp. in a $17.3 billion deal creating a gambling giant owning or operating 55 properties in 16 U.S. states and several other countries.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Marley’s Grammy-winning children and chart-topping grandson have re-imagined one of his biggest hits to assist children affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With a cough and shortness of breath, it took Austin, Texas, resident Sam Lee three tries to get a COVID-19 test last month.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Downtown businesses in Portland, Oregon, have sustained about $23 million in damages and lost customers because of violent nightly protests that have brought the city to its knees, authorities said Wednesday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country group Lady A, which dropped the word “Antebellum,” from their name because of the word's ties to slavery, has filed a lawsuit against a Black singer who has performed as Lady A for years.

Many familiar pregame sights won't be back when baseball and the NBA return later this month. Managers won't exchange lineup cards at home plate and basketball lineup introductions won't feature special high-fives.

The second vote on the proposed 2020-21 Rensselaer City School District budget slated for July 28 does not include athletics as an expenditure. That has sent the athletic program into survival mode as it looks to maintain things for the upcoming scholastic year.