Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! Errands may lead you to a tee and jeans, but Eva Mendes proved that the right dress can be just as easy. In fact, her flowy maxi style is even easier. It’s no wonder rich moms are rocking the look nonstop. At only $20, so are we! A few days ago, Mendes strolled around Santa Monica wearing a loose brown dress, cushiony flip-flops and a sweater tied around her waist. She finished the outfit with a bucket hat and two…

Sarti Rosa is making a splash with its United States debut. The new spirit in town, previously only available in Europe, is officially hitting liquor stores across the country – and it’s become a viral sensation. The aperitif hails from Italy and was developed by Casa Luigi Sarti & Figli, a historic distillery established in Bologna in 1885. The liqueur mixes blood orange, mango and passion fruit flavors. On the heels of other popular summer cocktails – like the Aperol and Hugo spritz – experts think the Sarti spritz could become a rival, drawing in drinkers with its vibrant pink color and sweet, fruity…

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A popular skincare influencer who has over two million social media followers has sparked online debate after filming herself doing a complete, multi-step skincare routine inside a packed cinema during a screening of “The Odyssey.” The injectables nurse and content creator, known online as @np.miranda, uploaded a viral TikTok showing off her extensive beauty regimen in the middle of a movie theater. The video begins with the nurse pulling on a skincare headband to sweep her hair back while seated in a crowded row. She then digs into her toiletries bag to pull out a bottle of micellar cleansing water,…

OpinionGeorge BrandisFormer high commissioner to the UK and federal attorney-generalAugust 16, 2026 — 4:00pmAugust 16, 2026 — 4:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIt was predictable that Andrew Bragg’s freewheeling speech to the National Press Club last Wednesday would annoy some of his colleagues. Ranging far beyond his portfolio, Bragg opined on a range of important issues, expressing personal views that had not been adopted by shadow cabinet.His critics lamented his lack of message discipline – although nothing he said was nearly so off-message as Tony Abbott’s recent attacks on…

Sandra Oh hasn’t appeared on Grey’s Anatomy in over a decade, so why is there speculation she could reprise the role of Cristina Yang in season 23? ABC caused fans to question a potential return when the official account for the network shared a photo of Oh, 55, on Wednesday, August 12, writing, “Heavy on the Yang.” Social media users took to the comments section to share their theories on what the cryptic post meant. Many suggested that resurfacing a photo with Oh meant she was filming scenes in the upcoming season. Others were quick to point out that with…

Hot girls, beware this cautionary tail. Booming butt bombs — flatulence, toots, poots, farts — are the pungent, piercing byproducts of Brazilian bikini waxes, warns one red-cheeked bombshell this summer.  “If you are going to get a Brazilian wax. If your backside is about to get the hair ripped out, and you’re going to be as smooth as a baby’s butt, that’s awesome,” Sarah Baus, a South Carolina-based content creator, assured her one million virtual viewers.  “Here’s the thing nobody tells you,” the influencer advised. “Let’s talk physics. When you pass gas, I’m dead serious, when you pass gas, your butt hair…

The family of British academic Jason Arday, who was found dead at a South London address on Friday night amid a high-profile plagiarism storm, have denounced what they called years of “sustained abuse”. In an overnight statement following Arday’s death, his family said he had been “subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse for more than three years since he accepted the role of professor at Cambridge University”. Arday had himself alleged a “racially motivated” campaign against him. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said “it’s a tragedy on so many levels, but particularly just for…

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is reiterating his call for Prime Minister Mark Carney to extend a pause on Canada’s fuel excise tax, which is set to return on Labour Day. Ottawa temporarily removed the tax from retail gas sales in April, a measure that will expire on Sept. 7. In a letter to Carney on Sunday, Poilievre argued the tax should remain paused until at least Canada Day 2027.“When Conservatives first called on you to take all federal taxes off gas and diesel until the new year, Canadians were already struggling with the cost of living,” Poilievre wrote. “Since then,…

August 16, 2026 — 5:59pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAVoters have condemned the Albanese government’s handling of immigration policy, with 54 per cent agreeing the government is running the portfolio in an “unplanned and unmanaged way” even as Labor prepares to unveil in the next fortnight tougher rules on visa overstayers and dodgy asylum claims.But the government will be buoyed by 60 per cent of voters supporting lower house prices, while nearly twice as many people back Labor’s changes to the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing as…

1991 was a pivotal year for entertainment. Will Smith ruled the small screen with the hit NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, while Whitney Houston memorably sang “The Star-Spangled Banner“ at the Super Bowl XXV. On the big screen, Arnold Schwarzenegger conquered the summer box office with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but there was another action flick that season that would go on to live in the hearts and minds of teenage boys everywhere. On July 12, 1991, Kathryn Bigelow’s surfer bro classic Point Break was released in theaters worldwide. The film did reasonably well in its initial release,…

It’s not all about short-legged speed when 150 corgis gather for an international race celebrating the little dogs. There’s a costume parade, the “smartest nose,” and — of course — the loudest bark. The fifth Corgi Race Vilnius drew dogs and their owners to the Lithuanian capital’s Vingis park on Saturday for what organizers said was the biggest edition yet. There were competitors from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, the United States and Britain — the country most closely associated with the breed, famously a favorite of the late Queen Elizabeth II. “In the first year, we gathered 40…

Published on 16/08/2026 – 16:29 GMT+2•Updated 16:39 Overnight strikes from both sides of the border have killed 12 people in Russia and Ukraine. With a reduction in frontline combat, the emphasis appears to be on long-range missile and drone attacks. In Ukraine, two people were killed at a steel plant in Kryvyi Rih, one of the country’s largest steel factories. Russia says it was targeting military-industrial sites there which manufacture Ukrainian Flamingo missiles. Strikes also killed two people in the Zaporizhzhia region and one in Sumy. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to social media to give an update on the…

The Winnipeg Sea Bears are Canadian Elite Basketball League champions for the first time in franchise history. Despite playing without injured star forward Teddy Allen, the Manitoba crew defeated the visiting Brampton Honey Badgers 98-84 on Saturday at Canada Life Centre to claim the 2026 title.The CEBL championship was intended to be a three-game series concluding Sunday, but Wednesday’s first game at Brampton’s CAA Centre was suspended early due to condensation on the court, and then cancelled.The league then said a three-game final couldn’t be completed within the scheduled window, and after consulting with both clubs, opted to return to a single game…

August 16, 2026 — 4:55pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAASenior Constable Mark Patterson is the kind of country cop colleagues adore and small towns desperately cling to.Once, determined to apprehend a bloke he wanted a word with, Patterson chased the would-be absconder into the waters of Blowering Dam, one of NSW’s biggest. Back on dry land, Patterson proudly told his boss he’d nabbed the suspect. His gun, though, had gotten a touch wet.Senior Constable Mark Patterson is battling pancreatic cancer.Glenn CampbellFor more than a decade, Patterson’s focus has been…