One Good Thing: PupCup Trip to Starbucks Turns Into Therapy Session for Baristas
In a world that can be inundated with heavy news stories, Cheddar News is bringing some light to your week with our 'One Good Thing' segment.
Today, the highlight comes from a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York. There, baristas had their shifts boosted after a couple brought in their pup, a five-month-old Pomeranian Husky named Knox, for a pup-cup. That's when the little guy was spotted by the Starbucks crew who instantly fell in love with him and began passing him around. It was the perfect opportunity for the pup, who is training to become a therapy dog, according to his human Michael Lindstorm.
The trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted this year in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment — and now the case is touching on the tech world with arguments that his defense attorney bungled the case, in part, by using an artificial intelligence program to write his closing arguments.
Israel said Wednesday that it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day siege on the territory. Palestinians reeled from a massive blast at a Gaza City hospital that killed hundreds the day before and grew increasingly desperate as food and water supplies ran out.
A 4000-year-old slab of rock is being dubbed a treasure map for archaeologists. The rock was found in 1900 at the site of an ancient tomb in northwestern France and it was declared Europe's oldest known map in 2021.
Hundreds of people gathered for a vigil honoring a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed to death over the weekend by his family's landlord in an apparent hate crime.
If you have some older comic books stashed away in your attic, basement or closet, make sure to check their condition as they could be traded for serious cash. Cheddar News' Michelle Castillo at New Yor Comic Con spoke with Chris D'Lando, event manager with NYCC for Reedpop; Andy Mourat, co-founder and president of MetaZoo; and Julian Montoya, senior vice president of The Noble Collection, to get their thoughts.
