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Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. California dreaming! As an L.A. resident who grew up on the east coast, I definitely appreciate SoCal style — but it’s not the surfer or valley girl vibes I had imagined before moving here (The Californians sketch on SNL really threw me off). Instead, the overall aesthetic incorporates the laidback yet fashion-forward feel of coastal towns. And California in the ’70s was even cooler! It was basically real-life Coachella, minus the influencers. Crochet for days! Although fall on the west coast doesn’t get…

(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.)According to Deloitte, global ESG assets under professional management could be worth $80 trillion by 2024. But this growth in popularity combined with a global energy crisis has the sector facing increasing polarization. Critics worry that capital dedicated to ESG investments will further one value system at the expense of others. Lauren Taylor Wolfe co-founded Impactive Capital, an activist investment management firm focused on ESG investing for the long run. She sat down with CNBC’s Delivering Alpha newsletter to share why she thinks bans on ESG investing could be too risky and how understanding environmental,…

The two diplomats met for nearly 90 minutes in New York, and their conversation primarily focused on Taiwan, the official said.The meeting was held amid a period of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing and capped a busy week of diplomacy for Blinken at the UN General Assembly, where he met with a series of fellow diplomats from around the world and delivered remarks rebuking Russia’s war in Ukraine at a UN Security Council meeting Thursday. It also came as Blinken grieves an immense personal loss — his father, Donald Blinken, died Thursday evening.According to the official, the meeting with…

LOS ANGELES — Painful memories of a violent and chaotic past were resurrected this week for many Iranian Americans watching from afar as protesters flooded the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities following the death of Mahsa Amini.Amini, 22, died on Sept. 16 while in the custody of the Islamic Republic’s morality police, who accused her in part of violating the country’s strictly enforced hair code by improperly wearing her headscarf, which is required for all Iranian women.Her death has sparked outrage across Iran and waves of protesters clashed with Iranian security forces this week.Some women defiantly burned their…

BANGKOK: Thai authorities said on Wednesday (Sep 21) they had detained a Myanmar tycoon suspected of drug trafficking, who three sources said was linked to the upper echelons of Myanmar’s ruling military junta. Tun Min Latt, 53, was arrested in the Thai capital Bangkok in a dawn raid last week along with three Thai nationals on charges of conspiracy to traffic narcotics and money laundering, said Thailand’s deputy police spokesperson Kissana Phathanacharoen. “Police are in the process of requesting the court for pre-trial detention”, Kissana told Reuters by phone. Three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Tun…

Noel Hendrickson/Getty ImagesEven with signs that the housing market is cooling, homebuyers are still feeling the sting of elevated prices and higher interest rates.The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.7% as of Friday, up from 3.3% at the start of 2022, according to Mortgage News Daily. Alongside that, home prices — the median is $435,000 — are up 13.1% on average from a year ago, according to Realtor.com.”I think the major problem is payment shock,” said Stephen Rinaldi, president and founder of Rinaldi Group, a mortgage broker based near Philadelphia. “When I sit down with clients and…

Researchers investigated the effects of drinking different types of tea—such as green tea, oolong tea, and black tea—on diabetes risk. They found that drinking 1–3 cups of tea decreased type 2 diabetes risk slightly but that drinking 4 or more cups of tea daily was linked to a 17% lower risk. However, further study is needed to confirm the results. According to the World Health Organization, around 422 million people live with diabetes globally. The most common type is type 2 diabetes, which happens when the body cannot make sufficient insulin or becomes resistant to insulin and cannot easily absorb…

Hundreds of anti-monarchy protesters have been left red-faced after they accidentally smeared the Portuguese coat of arms in fake blood thinking it was the British coat of arms.Around the country in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide thousands of anti-monarchy protesters gathered during the National Day of Mourning for Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.Several of the demonstrators cut up, burned and poured red paint onto the Australian flag.Others dipped their hands in red paint to symbolise blood and wiped marks on buildings to represent the harm suffered by Aboriginals from British colonialism.But those who were protesting outside the building which…

It wasn’t until the Martins’ fifth pregnancy that the couple heard a heartbeat. Yadi Martin experienced four miscarriages and baby number five was their “miracle.” As the baby grew, they became excited as many first-time parents do. Then during an anatomy scan, everything changed.When the Martins learned that their son had CHAOS and he wouldn’t survive without having surgery midway through his birth, they weren’t sure what it meant. There’s so little information on CHAOS they wanted to share their story to help other parents who might have a baby with the condition.Courtesy the Martins“The doctor said, ‘He has very…

Goldman Sachs (GS) took an ax late Thursday to its stock market forecast, slashing its year-end target for the S&P 500 from 4,300 to just 3,600. That implies a further drop of 2% from current levels and no lasting rebound.Worse, the Wall Street bank warns of even more trouble for stocks in a potential recession and concedes risks to its outlook are tilted to the downside.”The outlook is unusually murky,” Goldman Sachs strategists wrote in the report. “The forward paths of inflation, economic growth, interest rates, earnings and valuations are all in flux more than usual with a wider distribution…