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If there’s one shade range that makeup artist and entrepreneur Bobbi Brown is known for, it’s universally flattering pinky browns. When developing her eponymous Bobbi Brown brand in 1991 (which she’s no longer affiliated with), she created wearable variations of pinky nudes “because she was sick of red lipstick.” While a lot has changed since then, including Bobbi Brown launching Jones Road Beauty in 2020 — a few things remain faithful to her original vision: easy-to-use, all-ages-friendly makeup that makes you look subtly gorgeous. The apogee of this is the Miracle Balm, a multi-use, first-of-its-kind skincare and makeup hybrid that gives life…

Austin, Texas-based startup won’t have the space to itself, but partner Visa and backers providing $7.2 million in seed funding led by Streamlined Ventures like the company’s odds. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare you to take bold steps forward. The Next Chapter is about to begin. Be part of it. Join us and thousands of real estate leaders Jan. 22-24, 2025. Rewards cards targeting homeowners and would-be homeowners are all the rage, with Austin, Texas-based startup Mesa the latest to…

Mira Murati announced on Wednesday that she is leaving OpenAI, where she served as chief technology officer and interim CEO after Sam Altman was briefly ousted in November.Her departure immediately set off shockwaves across the tech sector. Bloomberg reported that employees used a “WTF” emoji in Slack in response to the news. There’s also rampant speculation on X about why she is leaving — and where she’ll end up next.And then, of course, there are the memes on social media, poking fun at the high-profile departures that have happened this year.One VC joked that OpenAI lacked a C-suite.Others pointed to…

Republican presidential candidate says even ‘worst deal’ would be better than current level of death and destruction.Donald Trump has hit out at Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not negotiating with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, claiming that even the “worst deal” would be better than the current level of death and destruction. Speaking at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump said that Ukraine would never be able to replace its “many dead people” and towns and cities destroyed in the war. “Those cities are gone. They’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a…

Shocking and horrifying news this week out of the world of reality television: Xol, who was a singer and actor before appearing on seven seasons of Extreme Makeover, was found on the morning of September 20 by authorities in Palm Springs, California. According to the Riverside County Coroner, Xol was then taken to a local hospital — where he was pronounced dead from multiple stab wounds. He was 58 years old. Eduardo Xol appears here on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. (ABC) A man named Richard Joseph Gonzales has been arrested for the apparent murder. “We are heartbroken at the tragic…

The share of single-family homes sold to investors peaked at nearly 30% at the start of this year, but these types of transactions dropped significantly in the ensuing six months, according to a CoreLogic report released Wednesday. Investor purchases began to decline in March 2024 and by June represented 23.4% of all U.S. home sales. That was the lowest share in two years, CoreLogic economist Thomas Malone noted in the report. But investor activity is still higher than it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when their purchase share bounced between 15% to 20%. ”The decline since March is sharp,…

Donald Trump, who has been quite vocal about a tariff-heavy trade policy, appears to have shifted the focus of his protectionist agenda from China to some of the closest U.S. allies.  Speaking at a campaign event in Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday, the Republican presidential nominee said he would build upon the tariff policies of his first term in an effort to take manufacturing jobs from foreign countries — both friends and foe. “You will see a mass exodus of manufacturing from China to Pennsylvania, from Korea to North Carolina, from Germany to right here in Georgia,” he said in his mostly economic-centered…

A Japanese warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland for the first time, Japanese media have reported.The Sazanami, a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, passed through the strait from north to south on Wednesday while on its way to participate in multilateral drills in the South China Sea, government sources were quoted as saying.Navy ships from Australia and New Zealand, which were part of the exercise, transited the waterway with the Japanese vessel.This comes less than two weeks after Germany sent two warships across the narrow body of water, in what it said was a demonstration…

Drea de Matteo took part in the new HBO documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, but that doesn’t mean she’s happy with how it turned out. De Matteo, 52, took issue with how the film portrayed her late Sopranos costar James Gandolfini, saying that it made the late actor look like “a beast.” “When I saw the film at Tribeca and I saw the part about James Gandolfini, I was appalled. I really was disgusted,” she exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting the relaunch of her apparel line, ULTRAFREE. “Why pick the lowest hanging fruit on Jim’s character…

Online rental portal Zumper will now give its users the ability to search for rentals in buildings that allow tenants to rent units out part-time on Airbnb. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare you to take bold steps forward. The Next Chapter is about to begin. Be part of it. Join us and thousands of real estate leaders Jan. 22-24, 2025. In its quest to land more inventory for its platform, Airbnb landed a key new partnership this week. The rental…