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Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
7.3 magnitude earthquake rattles Alaskan island, prompting tsunami advisory
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Sand Point, Alaska, on Wednesday, prompting a tsunami warning from the National Weather Service. The warning was later downgraded to an advisory, according to the agency. Sand Point is located on northwestern Popof Island, off the Alaska Peninsula. It's approximately 600 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. MORE: 6.2 magnitude earthquake near Istanbul rattles Turkey The earthquake struck 54 miles south of Sand Point, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The tsunami advisory is in effect from South Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula to Kennedy Entrance and Unimak Pass, Alaska, on the Pacific Coast. In addition to Sand Point, Alaskan cities Cold Bay and Kodiak are included in the advisory area. Kodiak Police told ABC News sirens sounded in the city, which indicates to move to high ground. Any impacts in the area would be expected to arrive at approximately 2:40 p.m. MORE: 5.2 magnitude earthquake shakes San Diego area There have not been any reports of damage from the earthquake in Kodiak, according to police. Michael Ashley of Cold Bay Lodge told ABC News he was working outside when he noticed things shaking, but says it "wasn't very intense." Cold Bay was under the tsunami warning, but Ashley said "residents are not concerned since we are 100 feet above sea level." He says these large quakes are common for the area in the summer. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Woman Refuses to Name Baby After Late Father-in-Law After Husband Suggests His Ex's Name
NEED TO KNOW One woman says her husband has offered a couple of options for names for their baby: one, after his ex, and another, after his late father In a post shared to Reddit, she writes: "I'm not too enthusiastic about naming my baby after my father-in-law after figuring out that my husband is still thinking about his past" Now, she's taking to the internet to seek adviceA woman who is currently pregnant says her husband wants to name the child after his recently passed father — but she isn't interested. In a post published on Reddit, the woman writes that her husband's father passed away while she was pregnant — and he immediately added his name to the list of those they should consider for their child. "Before I knew the gender of our baby, he suggested that if it's a girl.... Baby should be named 'Ashley.' And I'm not too fond of commonly used names so it never sat right with me anyway, but turns out his ex's name was Ashley," she writes. "Turns out I'm having a baby boy and now all of my in-laws are depending on me to name my baby after my husband's recently deceased father (it's been like a month)," she continues. "Putting all emotions to the side.... I'm not too enthusiastic about naming my baby after my father-in-law after figuring out that my husband is still thinking about his past." "I kinda feel like I'm being selfish as well as he is being selfish..... But I feel extremely disrespected that he was going to dishonor our family by naming my baby after some random girl. Advice please?" she adds. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories. Writes one commenter: "No one would enjoy being strong-armed into a pick with no concern to their feelings. And if it was a name of an ex? Yeah... that's a huge disrespect." "I'd actually tell him he lost his naming [privileges] when he honest to God believed he could get away with naming a child after his ex. Talk about poor [judgment] and neanderthal thought process," added another. Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword
Elle
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Simone Ashley Is Embracing Her ‘Single Era'—Get to Know Her Full Dating History
Bridgerton's Simone Ashley has become synonymous with romance since she captivated viewers with her role as Kate Sharma on the Netflix hit. Her on-screen chemistry with actor Jonathan Bailey made Kate's story one of the most popular seasons in the series. She released her rom-com Picture This in 2025, solidifying her iconic romantic heroine status. But at the moment, Ashley's private life is not about romance. The actress is currently single and loving it. In March 2025, she told People that she is 'defining [her] single era as a time that I don't wanna waste away.' 'It's about self-growth, and I am looking for someone who is so confident in themselves and is really ready to have an open heart in the same way I do. And I think that's hard to find,' the 30-year-old actress said. 'I'm not in a rush. It can be easy to jump into the next thing immediately, which is something that I am choosing not to do.' Ashley continued, 'I want to take my time to find the right person for me and to work on myself—to grow, and to focus on my work.' 'I've got such an incredible year ahead, and I'm up to such exciting things,' Ashley added. 'And I have the most amazing family and friends around me. So I'm working on my heart and on myself and on my confidence.' So, before her single era, who was Ashley romantically entangled with? Here's her complete known dating history so far. Ashley started dating Constantin Klein after she met him in May 2022 at the Grand Prix in Monaco, which she shared with Vogue in a November 2022 interview. Klein worked as a corporate lawyer until 2019, before switching careers and becoming the CEO of GP Ice Race, a winter car race that runs on an actual ice track. In the Vogue interview, Ashley didn't say who this new boyfriend was but told the outlet, 'I'm very happy. We haven't gone public yet, and we're having those conversations about how we can get there before anyone else does.' When asked about living together, she added, 'I'd like to but, you know, one day.' Before her interview, fans were pretty aware of Klein because they were seen together at a few public events over the summer. In December 2022, she posted a photo of Klein blowing out his birthday candles on Instagram, writing in the caption, 'The best birthday surprise for the best person.' He also made a discreet appearance in a carousel of pictures of a beautiful winter vacation. Things became 'official' when she shared a photo of them being affectionate and laughing at a Netflix BAFTAs after-party in London in March 2023. And in August 2023, she shared some pics of him taken by her brother while out on a hike. Klein hosted a birthday party for Ashley in March 2024. She shared pictures from the night on Instagram, writing in the caption, 'Thank you to my love for organizing the best day ever. I adore all my friends so much ❤️.' But in early 2025, Ashley revealed her relationship had ended. During her February 28 appearance on BBC's Woman Hour podcast, Ashley said, 'It's kind of ironic I'm promoting a rom-com [Picture This], and as of January this year, I've been entering my single era.' She added, 'I'm focusing on me and focusing on my work and my inner confidence. It feels like a different chapter from when Bridgerton came out, where things were just so crazy.' The former couple was last seen out together in October 2024. Ashley has not commented on why they split.
IOL News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Is a floral dress a political statement?
Rachel Tashjian When the conservative youth group Turning Point USA was planning its recent Young Women's Leadership Summit in Texas, organizers sent out a Pinterest mood board of suggested looks. Amid a few images of sleeveless vests, skirt suits and pleated skirts were a number of floral dresses: some with puffed princess sleeves, others with a more casual, backyard-barnyard fit and a few that looked like vintage nightgowns. The attendees either took note of the mood board or didn't need it: reporting from the summit, Washington Post reporter Kara Voght described the attendees' looks as 'a smear of pastels and florals - ruffles on their dresses, cowboy boots on their feet, bows on their curls. The aesthetic could be summed up as Laura Ingalls Wilder-core, as if the little house on the prairie had been down the street from a Sephora.' Is the floral dress now the uniform of the conservative 'it' girl? Maybe as conservatives, especially millennials and Gen Z, become a cultural force rallying for women to take on more conventional roles of motherhood and homemaking, they are looking for the clothes that express, or align with, their worldview. A look at the recent fashion history of prairie and sundress styles makes this notion head spinning. The first wave came almost a decade ago, when Batsheva Hay began producing clothes inspired by her childhood obsession with Laura Ashley's Victoriana calico and floral printed dresses. Hay's upbringing in Queens was far from Ashley's very sincere life in the British countryside - the designer recalls reading that Ashley would bring fresh fruit from her farm into the office - but her printed prairie dresses, with puffed shoulders and ruffles on the cuffs and hems, became an unexpected hit, with celebrities like Chloë Sevigny, Natalie Portman and Erykah Badu wearing them out and about in New York and Los Angeles. 'The idea was that they were like a treat for me - these feminine, girly dresses that contrasted with my very corporate career as a lawyer, or that gave me something 'modest' or traditional to wear for Shabbat dinner that still allowed me to express myself,' Hay said. 'It was very much winking at this old-fashioned femininity.' Both Hay and her customers often wear the dresses with something unexpected: combat boots, or a baseball cap, or an outrageous lip color or hairstyle that make it clear the wearer is playing with these old-fashioned ideas about domesticity and womanhood. 'A lot of women feel like they need to f--- it up somehow.' Batsheva's dresses became a symbol of female empowerment - a statement that you could embrace traditional femininity without looking the part of the oppressed housewife. Other brands launched in the years following that also seemed to celebrate a more 'classic' concept of femininity with varying degrees of irony. New Yorker Sandy Liang has a cult following of Gen Z fans who love her ballerina-inspired sportswear. Then there is Doen, a line featuring simple nightgown-inspired dresses started by two sisters in California, as well as Loveshackfancy, a New York-based label that makes Laura Ashley-esque florals in much sexier cuts, often with bare midriffs or exposed hips. Hay's dresses continued in popularity as trends like cottagecore, a pandemic-era frenzy that romanticized country life, and modest fashion began permeating women's wardrobes. But increasingly, Hay says, she has seen dresses on conservative women - women like Hannah Neeleman, also known as Ballerina Farm on social media, who is often considered the beacon of the tradwife movement - that very much resemble hers. 'It's really fascinating to see,' Hay said. 'They take the idea of these dresses, this romanticized idea of living in the country, and interpret it very earnestly.' Cottagecore practitioners were just fantasizing that they wanted to move to the country and become a stay-at-home moms - until something shifted and a lot of women suddenly, sincerely, wanted to. Last year, Evie Magazine, which is often called Cosmo for new conservatives, released what it calls the 'Raw Milkmaid Dress,' a fitted frock with puffed sleeves and a plunging neckline that emphasizes the décolletage and hugs the waist. It recalls the simple white dresses Marie Antoinette had made for her respites at the Petit Trianon, where (in a presaging of the cottagecore movement, perhaps) she played house and pet barnyard animals to escape the complex voyeurism of Versailles. Brittany Hugoboom, Evie's founder, said in an email interview that her team designed the dress for a cover story with Neeleman when they couldn't find the perfect milkmaid dress for their photo shoot. Hugoboom pointed to shows like 'Bridgerton' as the reason behind the revival of milkmaid styles. 'We took all our favorite elements from 18th-century French 'peasant' dresses, Regency era bodices, pieces worn in iconic films, and made it modern enough that supermodels would wear it to brunch,' she said. Evie has also introduced 'The Perfect Sundress,' a style with a built-in bra, which Hugoboom says sold out in 48 hours. 'Evie was always envisioned as a 'one-stop shop for femininity,'' said Hugoboom, whose publication is perhaps best-known for its Instagram account, with over 220,000 followers double-tapping posts that celebrate a traditional brand of femininity: the hottest guys of all time, 'how to stay madly in love with your husband' and clips of tradwives like Nara Smith speaking about the challenges of motherhood. She plans to introduce more clothes in the future. 'Instead of competing with men, many of us want to lean into our feminine traits like beauty, sensuality, softness, and charm,' she said. 'In recent years, trends have shifted toward women dressing for other women. We'll clock a Row handbag or a Khaite top and nod. But a lot of trends, like mom jeans or oversize blazers, aren't looks men love. So our goal was simple: dresses that women love to wear and men love to see women wearing. We love men, and we love being women. To me, it's a sign that the gender wars may finally be cooling off.' Biz Sherbert, a brand consultant and writer who often covers beauty standards and style in the second Trump era, describes conservative style not through a garment, per se. 'A lot of people are trying to define it because so much value is placed on it,' she said. 'Like, 'these are the women we're fighting for,' or 'this is what we need to preserve.'' Melania Trump may be the face of American conservative womanhood, but she most often wears highly tailored, almost armor-like styles that seem to protect her like a shell, along with tall spiked heels. It's far from the romantic styles of cottagecore. Sherbert also sees women on the right making tweaks to more traditional styles, but they are in the name of sex appeal instead of eccentricity - a high neck top with a very short skirt, or pearls with a minidress. 'There's an implicit sense of how a man would see this,' she said. 'A woman might say, 'Oh, that dress is cute.' But the real deciding factor would be a man saying, 'Oh, that's not a vibe.'' For Sherbert, the turning point when ultrafeminine styles moved from cheeky to sincere was the mania around tiny little bows in late 2023. 'On the TikTok shop, I would see Trump 2024 merchandise that was super coquette,' she said, referring to the TikTok aesthetic that emphasized ultra girly femininity. 'It was using this visual language that I had seen come up through Sandy Liang and people inspired by her,' said Sherbert. 'It was this brand of pastiche femininity that was so strong, and people [described as] reclaiming girlhood, but no one could ever substantiate why that was radical. It was vaguely feminist but ill-defined.' So how could so many women see different things in the same dress? 'People are consuming a lot of the same content, and then they go down different ideological rabbit holes,' she said. 'Maybe in this case, Republicans or conservatives are better at walking the walk of these lifestyles: They're actually going to go homestead. I'm not just going to live in Brooklyn and have this cottagecore fantasy.' Many of those in the new conservative movement, Sherbert pointed out, have been influenced by the culture and politics of an over-scrutinized New York neighborhood called Dimes Square, a pandemic party zone that nurtured a sense of skepticism around the left. Incidentally, Sandy Liang's shop is right in the middle, and Batsheva is just a few blocks away.
Boston Globe
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Is a floral dress a political statement?
Advertisement Is the floral dress now the uniform of the conservative 'it' girl? Maybe as conservatives, especially millennials and Gen Z, become a cultural force rallying for women to take on more conventional roles of motherhood and homemaking, they are looking for the clothes that express, or align with, their worldview. Alex Clark, (second from left) a wellness influencer and podcaster, at the Young Women's Leadership Summit on June 14. Organizers sent out a Pinterest mood board of suggested looks ahead of the summit. JAKE DOCKINS/NYT A look at the recent fashion history of prairie and sundress styles makes this notion head spinning. The first wave came almost a decade ago, when Batsheva Hay began producing clothes inspired by her childhood obsession with Laura Ashley's Victoriana calico and floral printed dresses. Hay's upbringing in Queens was far from Ashley's very sincere life in the British countryside — the designer recalls reading that Ashley would bring fresh fruit from her farm into the office — but her printed prairie dresses, with puffed shoulders and ruffles on the cuffs and hems, became an unexpected hit, with celebrities like Chloë Sevigny, Natalie Portman and Erykah Badu wearing them out and about in New York and Los Angeles. Related : Advertisement 'The idea was that they were like a treat for me — these feminine, girly dresses that contrasted with my very corporate career as a lawyer, or that gave me something 'modest' or traditional to wear for Shabbat dinner that still allowed me to express myself,' Hay said. 'It was very much winking at this old-fashioned femininity.' Both Hay and her customers often wear the dresses with something unexpected: combat boots, or a baseball cap, or an outrageous lip color or hairstyle that make it clear the wearer is playing with these old-fashioned ideas about domesticity and womanhood. 'A lot of women feel like they need to f*** it up somehow.' Batsheva's dresses became a symbol of female empowerment — a statement that you could embrace traditional femininity without looking the part of the oppressed housewife. Other brands launched in the years following that also seemed to celebrate a more 'classic' concept of femininity with varying degrees of irony. New Yorker Sandy Liang has a cult following of Gen Z fans who love her ballerina-inspired sportswear. Then there is Doen, a line featuring simple nightgown-inspired dresses started by two sisters in California, as well as Loveshackfancy, a New York-based label that makes Laura Ashley-esque florals in much sexier cuts, often with bare midriffs or exposed hips. Hay's dresses continued in popularity as trends like cottagecore, a pandemic-era frenzy that romanticized country life, and modest fashion began permeating women's wardrobes. But increasingly, Hay says, she has seen dresses on conservative women — women like Hannah Neeleman, also known as Ballerina Farm on social media, who is often considered the beacon of the tradwife movement — that very much resemble hers. Advertisement 'It's really fascinating to see,' Hay said. 'They take the idea of these dresses, this romanticized idea of living in the country, and interpret it very earnestly.' Cottagecore practitioners were just fantasizing that they wanted to move to the country and become a stay-at-home moms — until something shifted and a lot of women suddenly, sincerely, wanted to. Attendees at the Young Women's Leadership Summit in Grapevine. Many women often pair their prairie and sundress styles with something unexpected: combat boots, or a baseball cap, or an outrageous lip color or hairstyle. JAKE DOCKINS/NYT Last year, Evie Magazine, which is often called Cosmo for new conservatives, released what it calls the 'Raw Milkmaid Dress,' a fitted frock with puffed sleeves and a plunging neckline that emphasizes the décolletage and hugs the waist. It recalls the simple white dresses Marie Antoinette had made for her respites at the Petit Trianon, where (in a presaging of the cottagecore movement, perhaps) she played house and pet barnyard animals to escape the complex voyeurism of Versailles. Brittany Hugoboom, Evie's founder, said in an email interview that her team designed the dress for a cover story with Neeleman when they couldn't find the perfect milkmaid dress for their photo shoot. Hugoboom pointed to shows like 'Bridgerton' as the reason behind the revival of milkmaid styles. 'We took all our favorite elements from 18th-century French 'peasant' dresses, Regency era bodices, pieces worn in iconic films, and made it modern enough that supermodels would wear it to brunch,' she said. Related : Evie has also introduced 'The Perfect Sundress,' a style with a built-in bra, which Hugoboom says sold out in 48 hours. 'Evie was always envisioned as a 'one-stop shop for femininity,'' said Hugoboom, whose publication is perhaps best-known for its Instagram account, with over 220,000 followers double-tapping posts that celebrate a traditional brand of femininity: the hottest guys of all time, 'how to stay madly in love with your husband' and clips of tradwives like Nara Smith speaking about the challenges of motherhood. She plans to introduce more clothes in the future. Advertisement 'Instead of competing with men, many of us want to lean into our feminine traits like beauty, sensuality, softness, and charm,' she said. 'In recent years, trends have shifted toward women dressing for other women. We'll clock a Row handbag or a Khaite top and nod. But a lot of trends, like mom jeans or oversize blazers, aren't looks men love. So our goal was simple: dresses that women love to wear and men love to see women wearing. We love men, and we love being women. To me, it's a sign that the gender wars may finally be cooling off.' Biz Sherbert, a brand consultant and writer who often covers beauty standards and style in the second Trump era, describes conservative style not through a garment, per se. 'A lot of people are trying to define it because so much value is placed on it,' she said. 'Like, 'these are the women we're fighting for,' or 'this is what we need to preserve.'' Melania Trump may be the face of American conservative womanhood, but she most often wears highly tailored, almost armor-like styles that seem to protect her like a shell, along with tall spiked heels. It's far from the romantic styles of cottagecore. Related : Advertisement Sherbert also sees women on the right making tweaks to more traditional styles, but they are in the name of sex appeal instead of eccentricity — a high neck top with a very short skirt, or pearls with a minidress. 'There's an implicit sense of how a man would see this,' she said. 'A woman might say, ' Oh, that dress is cute.' But the real deciding factor would be a man saying, 'Oh, that's not a vibe.'" Attendees at the Young Women's Leadership Summit in Grapevine. Brittany Hugoboom, founder of the conservative magazine Evie, said that "many" of her customers "want to lean into our feminine traits like beauty, sensuality, softness, and charm." JAKE DOCKINS/NYT For Sherbert, the turning point when ultrafeminine styles moved from cheeky to sincere was the mania around tiny little bows in late 2023. 'On the TikTok shop, I would see Trump 2024 merchandise that was super coquette,' she said, referring to the TikTok aesthetic that emphasized ultra girly femininity. 'It was using this visual language that I had seen come up through Sandy Liang and people inspired by her,' said Sherbert. 'It was this brand of pastiche femininity that was so strong, and people [described as] reclaiming girlhood, but no one could ever substantiate why that was radical. It was vaguely feminist but ill-defined.' So how could so many women see different things in the same dress? 'People are consuming a lot of the same content, and then they go down different ideological rabbit holes,' she said. 'Maybe in this case, Republicans or conservatives are better at walking the walk of these lifestyles: They're actually going to go homestead. I'm not just going to live in Brooklyn and have this cottagecore fantasy.' Many of those in the new conservative movement, Sherbert pointed out, have been influenced by the culture and politics of an over-scrutinized New York neighborhood called Dimes Square, a pandemic party zone that nurtured a sense of skepticism around the left. Incidentally, Sandy Liang's shop is right in the middle, and Batsheva is just a few blocks away. Advertisement
