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Celebrating Halle Berry’s 60th Birthday: Her Evolution From Sexy Strappy Sandals to Classic Pointed Pumps
Halle Berry is turning 60. The actress has been been a red carpet staple since she first burst onto the scene in 1989 in “Living Dolls.” Since then, the...
LoveShackFancy, Fanatics Team on Limited-edition College Collection
LoveShackFancy and Fanatics are teaming up to court the college kids. The limited-edition college collection brings a fresh, feminine perspective to collegiate apparel, combining official university colors, logos and...
CBP Seizes 440 Pounds of Unprocessed Cotton at Virginia’s Dulles Airport
A strange scene unfolded at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia on Thursday when Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists seized around 440 pounds of unprocessed cotton from passenger...
Hermès to Open in Tampa’s Hyde Park Village
Hermès continues to expand its retail footprint. The French luxury house has signed a lease to open an 8,030-square-foot boutique at Hyde Park Village in Tampa, Fla. The store,...
World
Toons Have Seldom Been Loonier Than in “Coyote vs. Acme”
In the 1952 “Looney Tunes” short “Operation: Rabbit,” Bugs Bunny encounters another member of the cartoon-critter pantheon. “Allow me to introduce myself,” the figure says, brandishing a business card....
“The Hobbler,” by Ingeborg Bachmann
Maybe there’s still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days....
POTUS on the Move
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Claudia Rankine Plays Dead
The scholar Kevin Quashie has argued that the Black subject gets read primarily through her capacities for resistance: she is presumed to exist in order to produce social meaning,...
Business
Celebrating Halle Berry’s 60th Birthday: Her Evolution From Sexy Strappy Sandals to Classic Pointed Pumps
Halle Berry is turning 60. The actress has been been a red carpet staple since she first burst onto the scene in 1989 in “Living Dolls.” Since then, the...
Russia rejects Black Sea ceasefire
Moscow has rejected a Turkish proposal to stop Ukrainian and Russian attacks on ships in the Black Sea, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.Russia is repeatedly...
Tata, NIBE to arm Army with loitering munitions under Rs 1,577-cr deal
The Indian Army will be equipped with loitering munitions under contracts signed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with domestic firms TATA Advanced Systems Limited and NIBE Private...
Live Shopping Booms as Whatnot Hits $20B Valuation
Whatnot has raised $545 million in a Series G round that values the live shopping marketplace at $20 billion, nearly doubling its worth in under a year. ICONIQ, Lightspeed,...
News
Transcript: Fox Hits Trump with Brutal Polls as Aides Feed Him Hopium
Sargent: Well, we have two new forecasts that pretty much bear out what we’re saying in this conversation. The Fifty Plus One forecast has Dems very narrowly favored to...
Trump Defies Court Order to Put Name on Kennedy Center
The Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board first tried to close the Center in May, but that decision was blocked by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who argued that the board’s...
DHS Spied on Labor Unions During Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota
The Trump administration responded to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January by opening up investigations into left-leaning groups days later. The New...
Karoline Leavitt Will Soon Lie Somewhere Else
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt—one of the most public facing spokespersons for President Trump and the MAGA agenda—will step away from her role next month to spend more...
Beauty
Tata, NIBE to arm Army with loitering munitions under Rs 1,577-cr deal
The Indian Army will be equipped with loitering munitions under contracts signed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with domestic firms TATA Advanced Systems Limited and NIBE Private...
India’s 600th Test puts history, red-ball revival in focus at Galle
Ninety-four years after India first walked onto the Test stage at Lord’s, the country will enter an exclusive club when Shubman Gill leads the side against Sri Lanka...
H-1B costs soar, prompting Indian IT companies to rethink US hiring
The number of properly submitted, or eligible, registrations tanked 38.5 per cent to 211,600 for FY27, from 343,981 a year earlier, the United States Citizenship and Immigration...
NPS for NRIs: Investment options, account rules and repatriation explained
Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) can use the National Pension System (NPS) to build a retirement corpus, but the rules are not identical to those for resident subscribers. NRIs can...
Celebrity
Sebi mulls allowing digital KYC for NRIs, foreign nationals outside India
The proposal is to simplify the onboarding process for PROI clients and enable seamless digital onboarding in the securities market.
Under the proposed changes, intermediaries...
Centre notifies 40 questions for Census 2027; caste, SC, ST status included
The population enumeration in Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, will take place from September 1 to 301 min read Last Updated...
Best of BS Opinion: Mining reforms risk undermining fiscal federalism
Hello, and welcome to the Best of BS Opinion, our wrap of the day's Opinion page. Creating a predictable environment for mining investment is a legitimate objective,...
Tata Trusts to set up Selection Committee to pick Chandra’s successor
1 min read Last Updated : Aug 13 2026 | 12:19 PM IST
Tata Trusts to set up Selection Committee to pick Chandra's successor.
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Culture
Live Shopping Booms as Whatnot Hits $20B Valuation
Whatnot has raised $545 million in a Series G round that values the live shopping marketplace at $20 billion, nearly doubling its worth in under a year. ICONIQ, Lightspeed,...
A Guide to Holiday Gifting and Showing Appreciation Throughout the Year
Holiday gifting comes around each December when budgets are closing, teams are stretched and other priorities are competing for attention. However, this chaos can be avoided if CEOs and...
Pushing the limits: Why are top Tennis stars withdrawing from major tournaments
Top tennis stars are systematically withdrawing from major tournaments with high criticism for the demands of this year’s calendar. With the likes of Novak Djokovic and Janik Sinner, arguably...
Recession 2026 Fears Rise, Yet Small Firms Beat Plan
Small business owners are feeling two things at once, according to Fora Financial’s 2026 Mid-Year Pulse survey. Three in four say the year is meeting or beating the plan...
Style
What’s the Value of an Hour?
A further irony is that we live in an analytical, financialized age. All around us, systems calculate, markets churn, and clever people find ways to monetize seemingly everything, from...
AI Startup Funding: Europe Grabs 55% of VC Cash
AI startup funding in Europe hit a record in the first half of 2026, with a new HumanX and Crunchbase report putting the total at $23 billion. That is...
Black-Owned Businesses Cross 200,000 in a Milestone Year
Black-owned businesses just crossed a line that took years of steady effort to reach, with new analysis of federal business data showing Black-owned employer firms surpassing 200,000 for the...
Small Business Grants 2026: Emigrant Bank Names Winners
Finding money to grow a small business is stressful, and it rarely feels fair. So it is worth pausing on some good news. Emigrant Bank has named the recipients...
Fashion
US retail sales unexpectedly fall in July
Published Fri, Aug 14, 2026 · 09:21 PM[WASHINGTON] US retail sales unexpectedly fell in July after recent strong gains that were fuelled by large tax refunds, but consumer spending...
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba’s support: sources
Published Fri, Aug 14, 2026 · 01:20 PMAPPLE has trained a large language model specifically for the China market, three people familiar with the matter said, a departure from...
CXMT overtakes Tencent as most valuable Chinese firm
Crossover reflects investors’ continued preference for AI-linked hardware over traditional internet championsPublished Fri, Aug 14, 2026 · 09:08 AMCXMT has overtaken Hong Kong-listed Tencent Holdings as the world’s most...
Dollar steadies after benign US inflation curbs Fed rate hike bets
Published Thu, Aug 13, 2026 · 08:14 PM[LONDON] The dollar drifted on Thursday (Aug 13) after an overall benign reading of US consumer inflation prompted traders to pare back...
