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Kelly Wearstler has had a decades-long career as an interior designer. In addition to celebrity clients like Gwen Stefani and Cameron Diaz, Wearstler owns her own product line and has designed hotels around the world.In college, Wearstler studied interior, architectural and graphic design. Her accolades include Architectural Digest’s AD100 and Time Magazine’s The Design 100, and she was the first interior designer to teach a MasterClass.But before founding her design studio in 1999, Wearstler was working as a waitress to support herself and pay off her student loans. Now, over 20 years later, the 57-year-old South Carolina native credits her…

After every downpour, the displacement camp where Hamza al-Mutawwaq is staying turns into a swamp. Mud clings to shoes and small ponds shimmer between sagging tents, where children slip and parents struggle to stay dry. “It’s as if people are sleeping on a flowing river of rainwater,” said the Palestinian father, speaking from the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. After two years of relentless Israeli bombardment of civilians, almost the entire 2.2 million-strong population now dreads another danger from the sky: rainfall. Al-Mutawwaq is one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forced to make a home from tents, with…

Aston Villa forward Morgan Rogers has agreed terms on a new six-year deal at the club.The England international’s previous contract was set to end in 2030 but the fresh deal will now run until 2031, while also making him one of the top five earners in Unai Emery’s squad. Rogers had previously been on the radar of clubs in both the Premier League and Europe.Rogers signed for Villa from Middlesbrough in 2024 in a deal worth up to £16m and the forward quickly established himself as a key figure in Unai Emery’s squad.The 23-year-old has scored 18 goals and added…

Courtesy: Archer AviationArcher Aviation’s stock plummeted 8% after a share sale overshadowed a narrower-than-expected third-quarter loss.The company posted a net loss $129.9 million, narrower than the FactSet estimate of a $178.6 million loss.However, Archer disclosed a $650 million stock offering for 81.25 million shares to support its $126 million acquisition of Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles as a hub for air taxi operations there. Archer was chosen as the official air taxi provider for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.The move would dilute the value of the stock for existing shareholders. The weighted average for Archer shares outstanding has grown…

NiaChloe Bowman knew she didn’t want to become one of the millions of student loan borrowers still making payments in their 30s and 40s.During her freshman year accounting class at Babson College, Bowman determined how long it would take for her to pay off the $19,000 she borrowed for school — and how much it would cost her in interest if she stuck to the standard 10-year repayment plan.”I projected out what my loan liability was going to be, and at that time it was going to be $25,000,” the now-28-year-old tells CNBC Make It. Bowman vowed to get rid of her…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge expressed optimism Friday at the government’s progress in making required changes to a Chicago-area federal immigration facility with alleged “inhumane” conditions.Many of the changes included regular cleanings, ordering bedding and making drinking water and soap more readily available for people held in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the west Chicago suburb of Broadview.U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman ordered the changes Wednesday after several hours of emotional testimony from detainees about overflowing toilets, crowded cells, no beds and water that “tasted like sewer.” Gettleman called the alleged conditions “unnecessarily cruel.”The testimony offered…

SAO PAULO (AP) — The justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court panel reviewing former President Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal unanimously rejected his request on Friday.Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the case’s rapporteur, rejected all defense arguments, calling them “unfeasible,” and said there were no omissions in the sentencing. He was later followed by Justices Flávio Dino, Cristiano Zanin and Cármen Lúcia.The panel has until Nov. 14 to submit their votes, and the decision won’t be finalized until then. Although unlikely, justices could change their votes before then.Bolsonaro was convicted in September of attempting a coup following his 2022 electoral defeat and was sentenced…

After graduating from Boston College with a doctorate degree in law in 2001, landing a job at the Department of Labor and later financial services firm Fidelity, Sonia Raman thought she would be a lawyer forever.Then in 2008, she left her career in corporate law behind to coach women’s basketball.”I actually really loved my day job at Fidelity, but I think [my] passion was with coaching,” Raman, 51, tells CNBC Make It. “Basketball just kept pulling me back in.”It was a “calculated risk,” she says, but one that seems to have paid off: Raman was named the next head coach…

Volunteers load boxes of food into cars during an event held by the Community FoodBank of New Jersey in partnership with Bergen County to deliver emergency food relief to Federal workers and SNAP recipients amid the U.S. government shutdown in Leonia, New Jersey, U.S., November 6, 2025.Mike Segar | ReutersWorries over the government shutdown surged in the early part of November, pushing consumer sentiment to its lowest in more than three years and just off its worst level ever, according to a University of Michigan survey released Friday.The university’s monthly Index of Consumer Sentiment posted a reading of 50.3 for…

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.The breakthrough — made when the brash, Chicago-born Watson was just 24 — turned him into a hallowed figure in the world of science for decades. But near the end of his life, he faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people.Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or…