In 2019, Lucy Hale bought a 1940s Spanish-style home in Los Angeles for $2.95 million; after getting sober in 2022, she spent three years transforming it into a colourful retreat with a meditation room

Lucy Hale teamed up with Proem designers Ashley Drost and Marie Trohman to bring colour, character and depth to her home. A house can hold the story of a life in ways that photographs rarely capture. For actor Lucy Hale, her Los Angeles home has witnessed heartbreak, personal change and the quiet work of finding…

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Huda Beauty: Huda Kattan bought back the investor stake in Huda Beauty after eight years; how the $6,000-startup-loan brand returned to full founder ownership | World News

Huda Kattan started her beauty business with a $6,000 loan, building a cosmetics brand that would eventually attract tens of millions of followers online. In 2017, the company brought in investment firm TSG Consumer Partners, which acquired a minority stake as Huda Beauty continued to expand. Eight years later, that partnership ended, with Kattan regaining…

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Jason Momoa launched a water brand to fight plastic pollution; after reporting more than 6 million plastic bottles removed, his company introduced hotel machines that can refill up to 500 bottles an hour

Jason Momoa launched Mananalu in 2019 with a clear goal: challenge the bottled-water industry to move away from single-use plastic. The Hawaiian water brand began with aluminium bottles and a “buy one, remove one” programme that funded the removal of plastic bottles from the ocean. According to PR Newswire, that effort has resulted in more…

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$38,000 to $40,000 per fake marriage: Massive fraud ring for facilitating Green Card busted in Massachusetts. US citizen was selling ‘American Dream’ and investing money in Dominican Republic

A fake wedding to facilitate marriage-based Green Card in Massachusetts. A major fake marriage ring has been busted in Massachusetts that was operating for decades, performing as many as 18 to 20 sham marriages every year, charging between $38,000 and $40,000 per marriage. These marriages were part of a larger Green Card fraud as spouses…

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McBee Dynasty star Steven McBee Sr. must pay $7.18 million in federal crop fraud settlement after pleading guilty in 2024 over selling 1.6 million bushels of corn and soybeans in 2018

Steven McBee Sr. admitted selling more than 1.2 million bushels of corn and nearly 416,000 bushels of soybeans in 2018 as part of a federal crop insurance fraud scheme. McBee Dynasty star Steven McBee Sr. has agreed to pay more than $7.18 million to the US government after settling his federal crop fraud case. The…

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A Massachusetts buyer took a $3.85 million mortgage on a house sitting less than 14 feet from an eroding bluff; he demolished the property and went to court to challenge the loan | World News

Image Credit: AI Generated A Massachusetts coastal property became the centre of a legal dispute after its owner took out a $3.85 million mortgage on a house standing less than 14 feet from an eroding bluff above Cape Cod Bay. John Bonomi bought the Wellfleet property for $5.5 million in November 2021, but years of…

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‘I will get it straightened out’: Trump says he will talk to Musk if Ukraine’s Starlink issues persist

US President Donald Trump. US President Donald Trump has said he would intervene to resolve any ongoing restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starlink communications, saying he would speak to Elon Musk if the problem remained unresolved.Ukrainian officials said on Friday that speed restrictions on Starlink services were still in place, contradicting Trump’s earlier claim that…

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Rhode Island collected more than 600 unwanted Christmas trees in 2026, but instead of sending them to landfills, volunteers are placing them along damaged streams to rebuild riverbanks and shelter young trout

Volunteers across Rhode Island have collected more than 600 discarded Christmas trees in 2026 to help repair damaged riverbanks and protect wild trout. The effort turns holiday waste into valuable underwater habitat for fish and other aquatic life. The statewide project, known as “Trees for Trout,” is a joint effort by the Rhode Island Department…

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US midterms 2026: Mark Carney rejects US claim of election interference, says ‘no merit’ | World News

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney/Image: Reuters Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected allegations that Ottawa intends to interfere in the upcoming US midterm elections, criticising Washington’s ambassador for suggesting that Canadian officials were seeking to influence American politics.Speaking to reporters during an official visit to Turkey on Friday, Carney said Canada had no plans…

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In 2018, Portia de Rossi surprised Ellen DeGeneres with a gorilla conservation project; by September 2023, its Rwanda campus had welcomed over 40,000 visitors, including more than 7,500 local schoolchildren

When actress Portia de Rossi surprised her wife, television host Ellen DeGeneres, with a 60th birthday gift in 2018, she helped fund a major conservation project in Rwanda. The project improved wildlife protection and gave local people more chances to learn about the environment. By September 2023, the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey…

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