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Crocs’ Newest Shoe Is Designed to Feel Like a Sneaker With All-day Comfort — but It’s Not Totally New
Crocs’ clogs and sandal-adjacent shoes are typically not the sort of footwear you expect to see an abundance of once summer fades away, but the Colorado-based company has a...
Doechii Embraces Alien-Esque Beauty in Pink Body Paint & Sky-High Moto Boots at Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival
Doechii went for a full-on alien-esque look for her performance at Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields music festival held on Aug. 29 in Irvine, Calif. Other performers in the...
Brad Johns, Influential Hair Colorist Known for ‘Chunking,’ Dies at 70
Brad Johns, the influential New York hair colorist whose dimensional blondes and signature “chunking” technique helped define the look of the 1990s, died Thursday at his home in West...
Moynat Plants a ‘Folding Paper Garden’ Pop-up at SKP Beijing With Artist Jojo
BLOSSOMING IN BEIJING: Moynat is continuing its relationship with Asian artists with a pop-up at SKP Beijing imagined with Chinese artist Jojo. Running until Sept. 19 in the luxury...
World
Rivers Cuomo Is Piecing It All Together
Do you imagine threading it together into a meaningful narrative—a book?That’s somebody else’s job. I like recalling all the details, and not trying to make sense of it all....
Going Through the Motions with Khloé Kardashian’s “The Girls”
The Kardashians’ smooth-brained, smooth-faced mercenariness has always struck me as dispiriting, and yet it’s also true that they’ve been masters at their game, second to none at transforming their...
Nicole Rifkin’s “Pure Gold”
For the cover of the September 7, 2026, issue, the artist Nicole Rifkin—a musician herself—pays homage to one of America’s most beloved icons, Dolly Parton, who died on August...
There’s No Place Like Group Chats
I used to think that I was in love with loneliness, but the reality proved significantly less romantic than the concept. Because I’m not in love with being alone,...
Business
Stock Market LIVE: GIFT Nifty signals negative open; Most Asian markets fall; Brent tops $90
Sensex Today | Stock Market LIVE Updates, Monday, Aug 31, 2026: The GIFT Nifty indicated that the Nifty50 may open on a negative note as rising oil prices and...
ROEs of SGX mid-caps are a mixed bag, small-caps lag
Uneven ability to keep up with AI and interest-rate pressures are seen as two factors driving the divide[SINGAPORE] A study has found that the average small-cap company on the...
Vessels crossing Strait of Hormuz drop to 5 per day over weekend
Published Mon, Aug 31, 2026 · 07:26 AM[SINGAPORE] The number of visible commodity vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz dropped to five per day over the weekend, shipping data...
If You Thought California’s High-Speed-Rail Idea Was Insane . . . | National Review
. . . wait until you hear about its tire regs. Source link
News
Democrats: Make Peace With Becoming a Little Radical
The opening salvo in this supposed “war” is also pretty sad: a wan op-ed by the organization’s top dogs, Jon Cowan and Matt Bennett, in the pages of The...
New Hampshire’s Senate Race Leans Dem, but the State Is—Well, You Know
But in 2024, the Democratic National Committee jilted New Hampshire and chose South Carolina to vote first in the presidential primary. Last month, the state was snubbed again. South...
Three Trump-Appointed Judges Deliver Major Blow to Kalshi
A federal court has dealt a serious blow to prediction markets, ruling that Kalshi can’t block the state of Nevada from regulating its platform. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Trump Totally Bombs His Speech in Front of Artemis II Astronauts
The Marshall Islands were occupied and administered by the U.S. during World War II, and Congress granted the islands their independence in 1979. Micronesia also was occupied by the...
Beauty
Exim Matters: India needs higher cargo volumes to attract sailings
The shipment cost to the US has reportedly risen from about $1,500 before the US-Iran conflict to about $10,000 for a 40-foot container. Similarly, freight rates to the Gulf,...
Mutual funds add gold and silver ETFs to equity portfolio mix
Most fund houses announced the addition through an addendum last week, almost 6 months after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) allowed all non-debt active schemes to...
Gaurs Group buys 35 acre land parcels along Yamuna Expressway for ₹700 cr
Realty firm Gaurs Group has acquired 35-acre land parcels along Yamuna Expressway from ICICI Bank for around ₹700 crore to develop residential projects as part of its expansion plan.The...
Low-pressure area in Bay of Bengal to bring heavy rain over east India
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall across parts of eastern India as a low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal and...
Celebrity
Stock Market LIVE: GIFT Nifty signals negative open; Most Asian markets fall; Brent tops $90
Sensex Today | Stock Market LIVE Updates, Monday, Aug 31, 2026: The GIFT Nifty indicated that the Nifty50 may open on a negative note as rising oil prices and...
Kaizad Bharucha seen as strong contender for HDFC Bank’s MD & CEO post
Bharucha (60) joined the board of the bank in 2014 and is the longest-serving executive board member. According to norms of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a wholetime...
Five Chandra-linked entities controlled 61.78% insolvency vote: Lenders
Dissenting lenders have alleged that five entities linked to Essel Group founder Subhash Chandra’s family together controlled 61.78 per cent of the voting share and were instrumental in pushing...
HDFC Bank CEO search puts investor confidence, governance to test
By Siddhi Nayak and Samie Modak HDFC Bank Ltd.’s search for a new chief executive after Sashidhar Jagdishan’s surprise decision to step aside will test whether India’s largest private-sector lender...
Culture
Vessels crossing Strait of Hormuz drop to 5 per day over weekend
Published Mon, Aug 31, 2026 · 07:26 AM[SINGAPORE] The number of visible commodity vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz dropped to five per day over the weekend, shipping data...
Fed chair Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole turn favours soaring banks over struggling S-Reits
Rising bond yields may reach a tipping point that chokes off growth and deflates richly priced blue chips[SINGAPORE] In the end, market watchers seemed to interpret US Federal Reserve...
Director interests, buybacks and capital formation across SGX stocks
[SINGAPORE] Over the five sessions from Aug 21 to 27, close to 90 director interests and substantial shareholdings were filed for around 40 primary-listed stocks.Directors or CEOs reported 22...
Glencore books US$480 million provision covering entire Radiant World exposure: sources
Several major commodity traders have moved to cut ties with Radiant World amid concerns it provided falsified documents to banksPublished Sun, Aug 30, 2026 · 08:57 AMGLENCORE took a...
Style
Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” Was an Anthem, Then an Elegy
Mano’s place was a third-story walkup on a quiet stretch of Montrose Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Marcy projects. It was stuffy, barely furnished, and perpetually...
Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur
Breen enthusiasts, myself among them, often find themselves asking: what is this man’s deal? The answer is: no one knows, and everyone enjoys not knowing. Breen claims to have...
AI Visibility Is Now a Founder Problem, Not an SEO One
ShouldEye launched a business platform this week that tracks how leading AI models describe a company, according to Practical Ecommerce’s August 26 roundup of new merchant tools. The product...
Data Center Power Startup Emerald AI Raises $150M
Emerald AI closed a $150 million Series A on August 25, 2026, at a valuation of $1.05 billion. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led the round, and the raise lifts...
Fashion
ROEs of SGX mid-caps are a mixed bag, small-caps lag
Uneven ability to keep up with AI and interest-rate pressures are seen as two factors driving the divide[SINGAPORE] A study has found that the average small-cap company on the...
SoCal-based Mapquest takes stand against Trump’s ‘Lake America.’ Also, still exists
Within days of President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” Google Maps quietly fell in line. Searches for the international boundary water in Google Maps...
Defensive consumer stocks deliver robust performance amid strong institutional inflows
Top 10 consumer staple stocks have averaged a 26.7% total return for the year to date[SINGAPORE] While artificial intelligence continues to dominate global headlines, Singapore’s non-cyclical consumer sector has...
Fight over EssilorLuxottica founder’s US$47 billion fortune deepens as heir quits roles at Ray-Ban maker
Stalemate becoming a distraction as firm strives to hang on to first-mover lead in AI smart glasses marketPublished Sun, Aug 30, 2026 · 03:55 PMTHE FIGHT over the late...
