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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Yahoo
Snapchat's Newest Feature Is Helping Parents of Teens Sleep Easier at Night
If you thought late nights and fractured sleep was just a hallmark of the baby years, we have some bad news… While it's true that parents will start to get more sleep as their child grows, it's also true that you'll spend many nights anxiously waiting by the door for your teen to get home. We can't help it! If our child is out in the world, we are going to worry about them. Snapchat's latest feature is designed to give parents of teens peace of mind — so maybe (fingers crossed!), we can finally sleep easier at night. Snapchat's latest feature is called HomeSafe, and it's an automatic alert that will let trusted family members and friends know when you arrived home after a drive. (If your mom has ever frantically woken you up in the middle of the night to check on you because you forgot to text her you made it home, then you know exactly how important this is!) More from SheKnows What Is 'Imagined Surveillance' - & How Is it Changing the Way Gen Z Is Dating? HomeSafe works like this: teens can set their home location on their Snap Map. Before heading home from a late night at work, a concert, a date, or any other reason, users can open the conversation, tap the Map icon, then tap the Home Safe button. It will give this private chat an automatic, one-time alert that you've arrived home, so you don't have to remember to send that follow-up text. Because every anxious mom fears the worst when their child doesn't text them that they returned home! 'Home Safe alerts are designed with safety and privacy in mind,' a statement by Snapchat read. 'Alerts can only be sent to friends you already share your location with, and the notification goes out only once, then shuts off automatically. As always, location sharing on Snap Map is off by default, so no one can see your location or receive a Home Safe alert unless you proactively choose to share it.' More than 400 million people use Snap Map every year to connect with loved ones and find places to visit nearby. In 2024, the company brought Snap Map to its Family Center, where parents of teens can request that they share their live location (and can share their location back) to keep everyone in the family updated. Last year, boys in our SheKnows Teen Council said that at least 100 people could see their location on Snap Map at any given time and sometimes more. 'There's probably about 250 people that can see my location,' Griffin, 16, told us. Other teens feel let out if they see their friends without them. 'Sometimes I get a little bit of FOMO when I see people together without me,' Calder, 16, shared. 'Especially if it's my friends, and it's a plan I wasn't invited to. Or, even that I was invited to and I couldn't go.' Still, if your teens are going to use Snap Map anyway, might as well make it beneficial for parents as well by keeping us informed of their whereabouts —and letting us know when they make it to their end-of-night destination (home, a friend's house, a co-parent's house) of SheKnows Celebrity Parents Whose Kids Have Big Age Gaps Rocky77, Aquaman, & More Unique Celebrity Baby Names How to Watch These 25 Halloween Movies on Disney+ for Summerween Antics Solve the daily Crossword
USA Today
10 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
6-foot-4, 310-pound Georgia freshman DL reportedly running over 20 MPH
Former Georgia Bulldogs defensive end David Pollack knows a good defensive lineman when he sees one. If Pollack highlights the talent a true freshman and former five-star recruit, then it is worth listening to. That's exactly what Pollack did when he talked about Georgia freshman defensive lineman Elijah Griffin. Pollack shared ample praise about Griffin on his podcast, "See Ball Get Ball". "Enormous, 6-foot-5, you know, 300-plus pound kid, that's an 18-year-old freshman, that continues to hit over 20 miles an hour every week on the GPS," said Pollack. Based on those numbers, Griffin would be one of the fastest players his size in both college and the NFL. In fact, only three ball carriers reached 20 miles per hour during the Super Bowl, so Griffin has an impressive combination of size and speed. For reference, Elijah Griffin is listed at 6-foot-4 and weights 310 pounds on Georgia's roster. The question is will Griffin be able to put it all together as a freshman? The five-star recruit may have to log a significant amount of snaps this fall as Georgia looks to replace seven of their top eight sack producers from last season. "I think he's a guy (Griffin) that can come in and play a bunch of snaps and and be really good," said Pollack. "Now, he's not going to go kill it. Jalen Carter-type good. Like Jalen Carter when you saw him as a freshman, like he was not refined. He wasn't Jalen Carter as a as a junior." Carter recorded 14 tackles as a freshman with Georgia in 2020. Georgia's 2020 defense was more loaded up front than what the 2025 version of the Georgia defense looks like, so we think Griffin will have a bigger role than Carter did as a freshman. Carter went on to be a first-round NFL draft pick and an NFL All-Pro and Super Bowl champion with the Philadelphia Eagles. "That dude (Griffin) is a guy that you could play and you go I'm not going to have a big drop off," added Pollack. "And when he learns to use his hands and it all starts to work, you better watch the freak out." Despite Pollack's praise for Elijah Griffin, he still has concerns about the Georgia defensive and offensive line. In fact, Pollack predicts that Georgia will go 9-3 this season. Follow UGAWire on Instagram or Threads for more Georgia football coverage!
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Joy Behar Interrupts Alyssa Farah Griffin To Question If She Really Worked On Pentagon 'War Plans' Before Joining ‘The View'
Everyone's got a past, and Alyssa Farah Griffin's just happens to be extra interesting. After all, she regularly criticizes her former boss on national TV as part of The View panel. But even some of her co-hosts forget everything she did before she earned her seat at the Hot Topics table. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The View is on hiatus from Monday, July 28 until Tuesday, September 2. The episode that ABC aired today was originally broadcast on March 25, 2025, the same date that the article you are currently reading was first published.) Griffin, who first officially joined the show in 2022, previously worked as the White House director of strategic communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during Donald Trump's first term. She also notably served as press secretary of The Pentagon starting in 2019, and worked as deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs and the press secretary for the United States Department of Defense until 2020. All of that experience that came in handy during today's chat about The Atlantic report detailing how the magazine's editor was accidentally included in a Signal chat in which high-ranking Trump officials discussed impending war plans in Yemen. Griffin gave her co-hosts the run-down of how such planning is traditionally done (spoiler: not by group chat), as she explained, 'Let me tell you how this is supposed to work. So when I was in The Pentagon, I was involved with planning leading up to air strikes a number of times.' She continued, 'So what happens is, either all the senior leaders gather in the White House Situation Room—' but was cut off by Joy Behar, who could be heard asking, 'You were?' Griffin replied, 'Yes,' but Behar was clearly caught off guard, asking again, 'Really?' As Griffin began to list off the plans she was directly involved in at The Pentagon, Sara Haines gently reminded Behar that Griffin's work with the department is old news to The View, telling her, 'You learn this for the first time every time she says it.' Behar, defending herself, replied, 'That she was in on war plans, I never heard that before,' but Griffin wasn't swayed. Swiftly moving on, she continued describing the protocol for situations like the Yemen planning that was leaked to The Atlantic. 'No one would have a personal cell phone. You wouldn't even have your government device with you, and you'd be video-conferencing with the other people that you're with,' she said, adding emphatically, 'An encrypted messaging app is not secure. It is not where you can legally share classified information.' The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
Miami Herald
4 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
Lottery player wins $1 million jackpot in NC — and it's not her first time
A North Carolina woman turned her $2 lottery ticket into a life-changing prize — and it's not the first time. Licette Griffin of Greensboro recalled 'buckling to the floor' after realizing she'd won a $1.16 million instant jackpot, the North Carolina Education Lottery said in a July 25 news release. She tried her luck at the Wheel of Bonuses digital instant game on July 18 and hit the jackpot, beating odds of 1-in-15.5 million to snag the top prize, officials said. 'I literally went to the floor I was so weak at the knees,' Griffin told the lottery. Luck struck twice for the Greensboro woman, who won $1 million on a $10 Jumbo Bucks scratcher in 2022, according to officials. She said she predicted that win but didn't think it would happen again. 'My brain did not catch up with what was actually happening,' Griffin told the lottery of her most recent win. 'I was not expecting that.' She claimed her winnings July 24, and took home $836,318 after taxes The windfall was extra special, coming the day after her husband's birthday, she told officials. 'He wanted a pair of shoes for his birthday, so we went to Tanger and bought two pairs instead,' Griffin said, according to the lottery. Griffin said she has other plans for her winnings, including paying off her home and putting money away for retirement. Greensboro is about an 80-mile drive northwest from downtown Raleigh.
Winnipeg Free Press
4 days ago
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
Longtime lawmaker shapes the debate as Arizona grapples with dwindling water supplies
PHOENIX (AP) — Throughout two decades marked by drought, climate change and growing demand for water, Arizona's leaders have fiercely debated an increasingly urgent problem: how to manage dwindling water supplies in an arid state. At the crossroads sits Rep. Gail Griffin, a savvy and quietly assertive lawmaker who has for years used her status as the leader of key water and land use committees in the Republican-controlled Legislature to protect property owners' rights, deciding which bills live and die. Griffin's iron fist has infuriated residents and other lawmakers worried that unfettered groundwater pumping is causing wells to run dry. The GOP lawmaker has also drawn the ire of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who considered her the barrier to legislation that stalled this year despite having others at the negotiating table. Without the Legislature charting a path, Hobbs could tap her executive authority to carve out specific areas where regulations could be imposed, like she did in recent months with the Willcox Basin north of Douglas. Fighting over a rural framework At the start of this year's session, Hobbs floated a proposal to regulate pumping in rural areas but the bipartisan deal failed to get Griffin's support. Griffin, however, did back a separate measure to let farmers transfer their pumping rights to developers, who can then access credits to demonstrate they have enough drinking water to supply future housing projects. It was one of the most significant pieces of water legislation to win approval this year. Still, domestic well-owner Karen Weilacher and other residents are frustrated that efforts to expand Arizona's 1980 groundwater code have repeatedly failed despite pleas to address unchecked pumping as conditions worsen — in the state and greater Southwest region. Arizona's code already allows for managing pumping in major metropolitan areas. The disagreement is over a framework for rural areas. Lawmakers also have clashed over who would govern the use of the water and pathways for future regulation. Weilacher, earlier this year, addressed the natural resources committee led by Griffin. She pivoted to let the powerful panel read her shirt: 'Water is life.' 'I shall use the remainder of my time to do what Representative Griffin has done to us,' she told committee members, as she turned her back on them. Griffin declined to comment specifically on her role in shaping Arizona's water policy, but she's adamant about her belief that Hobbs' proposal would devastate agriculture and rural economies. 'As we work with stakeholders, we will continue to support private property rights and individual liberty while ensuring that any legislative solution protects local communities and our natural resource industries, allowing rural Arizona to grow,' Griffin said in an emailed response to an interview request from The Associated Press. Rural way of life With a legislative tenure dating back to 1997, Griffin's convictions are anchored in preserving a rural lifestyle in which residents help each other and reject government mandates, said former GOP House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a friend of hers for decades. 'She was a hard-core believer in her principles,' Bowers said. 'And if you didn't respect it, then get the heck out of the way, she'll run over you like a Mack truck.' Back home in Hereford, Griffin has been known to go on walks, armed with her gun and mobile phone. A member of the Arizona Farm Bureau and the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, she has referred to her ranching neighbors as 'true environmentalists' because they take care of the land year-round. At a 2019 forum, Griffin recounted an exchange in which she was advised how to handle a bear busting into her home, questioning at the time whether calling authorities for help would be enough to keep her safe. 'And what will you do when I shoot and kill that bear?' Griffin had asked. She didn't like the answer she got — that prosecution, jail time and a fine would be likely. Griffin won the crowd over with her rural sensibilities. She told them the desire to give people the tools they need to protect themselves and their property is what first led her to run for public office. That hasn't changed. Her stances resonate with voters who repeatedly send her back to the statehouse. Cochise County farmer Ed Curry is one of them but wouldn't say whether he would do so next year as Griffin eyes a seat in the state Senate. He said he and other constituents have begged Griffin to usher in change, sharing stories at a town hall last year about wells drying up and the exorbitant costs residents face when digging deeper wells. Wednesdays What's next in arts, life and pop culture. 'She doesn't ask, she tells. She doesn't listen, she speaks,' Curry said of Griffin. Curry, who serves on the governor's water policy council, said that even growing crops that don't require much water hasn't kept his wells from dropping. He said new regulations will help to ensure Arizona's future. 'Something has to be done,' he said. ___ The Associated Press' women in the workforce and state government coverage receives financial support from Pivotal Ventures. AP is solely responsible for all content. 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