• Migrants Blast New York City for Quality of Free Food, Want Longer Stays in Free Housing

    Migrants flooded a meeting in New York City with complaints that the free food and free housing they are being given are not good enough.

    • Snopes

    Minnesota Vikings' Stadium Going Meat-Free?

    "Minnesota would be the first NFL team to have a completely vegan stadium," an X post claimed.

  • Going Green: We can all be greener when it comes to fashion

    The judges said I’d ‘caused a thousand flowers to bloom in the clean energy sector’ which was apt as I was wearing a black dress with blossom flowers on it. While I manged to get to the stage without falling over in my heels, it got me thinking about green fashion. I loved the dress I wore, I borrowed it from a friend after a big trying on session at my house for the award. Yet while I was enjoying fashion parade in my home, 5,369 miles away, the glamorous and the good of California were...

  • Going Green: We can all be greener when it comes to fashion

    The judges said I’d ‘caused a thousand flowers to bloom in the clean energy sector’ which was apt as I was wearing a black dress with blossom flowers on it. While I manged to get to the stage without falling over in my heels, it got me thinking about green fashion. I loved the dress I wore, I borrowed it from a friend after a big trying on session at my house for the award. Yet while I was enjoying fashion parade in my home, 5,369 miles away, the glamorous and the good of California were...

  • ‘There’s no going back’: reasons to be hopeful about the future of fashion

    From textile waste to microplastics, the industry is broken. But with Fashion Revolution Week starting today, we ask sustainability experts for some positive news• Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAt times it is incredibly hard to be optimistic about the fashion industry, with its £1 bikinis and £0 boots. Fashion is the world’s second-largest industrial polluter, accounting for 10% of carbon emissions. Microscopic fibres from synthetic clothing are now found in...

  • What is going on with London house prices? It's messy, but green shoots are appearing

    After a challenging few years green shoots are starting to appear in London’s property market, but it's still a bit confusing.

  • TikTok Shop Launches Secondhand Luxury Fashion Category in UK

    TikTok's news features enable U.K. customers to purchase pre-owned high-end clothing, designer handbags, and accessories directly from TikTok.

  • TikTok Shop expands its secondhand luxury fashion offering to the UK

    TikTok Shop, TikTok’s social commerce marketplace, is launching a secondhand luxury category in the U.K., putting it in closer competition with The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, Depop, Poshmark, and Mercari, among others. The offering has already existed in TikTok Shop U.S. for over six months. The new category allows customers in the U.K. to purchase pre-owned […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • 23andMe wants to go private. It's the latest in a line of failed SPACs

    Like a number of companies that went public during the pandemic, 23andMe has for months been trying to manage a terrible case of SPAC-itis, an inflammation that causes plunging stock values due to the business being, as one analyst put it, not “ready for prime time.” 23andMe, the DNA-testing powerhouse that once threw celebrity “spit parties,” went public in 2021 by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) funded by billionaire Richard Branson. Briefly, it attained a $6...

  • Top tips for a stress-free house move for pets in Northamptonshire

    Alison Raine, Sales Director at Barratt and David Wilson Homes, said: “We want our customers’ home moving journey to be as stress-free as possible, and that includes keeping their pets happy! That’s why we’ve teamed up with the RSPCA to ensure a happy move all round.” The RSPCA, which has a branch in Northamptonshire, is encouraging buyers to plan ahead and minimise the impact on pets. Dominika Jagoda, Companion Animals Expert at the RSPCA, said: “Moving house can be a stressful time for...

    • TMZ

    Doorbell Video Shows Car Going Airborne and Crashing Into a House

    It's not every day a car flies through the air and lands inside a house, and it's even less common that it's captured on video -- but here we are!!! According to Storyful, the wild crash was one hell of a wakeup call going down at 6:30 AM in…

    • WCVB

    OTR: Mass. House speaker explains why he supports to-go cocktails

    Speaker Ron Mariano offers his opinions about the pandemic-era policy, which was not included in the State Senate's supplemental budget.