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CNN  —  Gwen Stefani sang about bathing in it, and now it’s actually becoming a thing, thanks to one euphoric actress. Sydney Sweeney is again partnering with soap brand Dr. Squatch to sell a limited addition line of bars infused with her bathwater. Yes, you read that right: according to a series of Instagram posts from the “Euphoria” star on Thursday, “Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss” soap bars can be yours next month. The product push comes after Sweeney’s now-viral ad for Dr. Squatch Natural Body Wash last October, which featured her in a bubble bath addressing “dirty little boys.” “You kept…

CNN  —  In the final episode of their podcast before they reported to prisons hundreds of miles apart, married TV reality stars Julie and Todd Chrisley played a voice message from a listener named Angie. Angie said she was sorry about the verdict, was praying for the couple daily and was certain that “this test will become a testimony.” Julie Chrisley, who with her husband made their family D-list famous on a brand defined by spending and scripture, said she agreed, adding “I know for a fact that this is not the end for us.” “I know that beyond any…

Michael Donnelly-Boylen calls March 10, 2024, his “second birthday.” It’s the date he gave himself his first shot of the weight loss and diabetes drug Mounjaro. “Fourteen months ago, I was pretty certain I was getting ready for my death,” he tells Yahoo Life. “I had given up because nothing was working to help me lose weight and get healthy. But that box [of medicine] changed my life.”Donnelly-Boylen was in Weight Watchers by age 12. In the decades since, he’s tried everything from the South Beach Diet to the cabbage soup diet. “Any version of ‘eat less, move more,’ I’ve…

Call it an “Everything Store,” just without the clutter.Amazon has been getting rid of billions of product listings deemed “unproductive” through a confidential project called “Bend the Curve,” according to an internal planning document obtained by Business Insider.The document reveals that Amazon planned to remove at least 24 billion ASINs, or unique product listings, from its marketplace. These underperforming items range from poor-selling items to those with misleading descriptions or inactive pages.”Reduce active ASINs in the Amazon Catalog to be less than 50B (projected to be 74B by EOY 2024) by cleaning up unproductive selection,” the document stated, giving a…

Nvidia’s revenue climbed to $44.1 billion last quarter, yet one of the chip giant’s most important metrics doesn’t have a dollar sign in front of it.”OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are seeing a step function leap in token generation,” said Nvidia CFO Colette Kress on the company’s Wednesday earnings call.”Microsoft processed over 100 trillion tokens in Q1, a fivefold increase on a year-over-year basis,” she continued.Throughout May, top tech executives — many of whom are also some of Nvidia’s largest customers — have been boasting about their token growth.Though somewhat hard to track from outside the AI cloud or foundation model…

Imprisoned former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, who for decades shared an acrimonious relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs, said his longtime archrival should take the stand in his trial. Speaking to CNN’s Laura Coates from prison, where he’s serving a 28-year sentence for a deadly hit-and-run in 2015, Knight said he believed Combs should “humanize” himself. “I feel if he do tell his truth, he really would walk,” Knight said. “If Puffy goes up there and says, ‘Hey … I did all the drugs, I wasn’t in control of my life at the time, or myself’ – he can humanize…

MUNICH, Germany (AP) — Billions of dollars have been spent. Some of the world’s greatest players have come and gone. But the Champions League title has remained agonizingly out of reach for Paris Saint-Germain. That could be about to change.The Qatari-owned team is one game away from European club soccer’s most prestigious prize, with Inter Milan standing in the way in Saturday’s final in Munich.PSG is the favorite, with one of the most exciting teams in Europe, having produced thrilling performances to beat Manchester City and Liverpool on the way to the final. It feels like its time has finally…

PARIS (AP) — For the fourth French Open in a row, tournament director Amélie Mauresmo was asked about a lack of women’s matches during the tournament’s night sessions — there was one in 2022, one in 2023, zero in 2024 and, as of Friday, zero in 2025.And for the fourth French Open in a row, Mauresmo dismissed the issue, saying at a news conference Friday, when she also was pressed about placing women’s matches in the noon slot at Court Philippe-Chatrier, when attendance tends to be sparse: “The funny thing is that it’s the same questions, year after year.”At the…

CNN  —  Like a plot out of an emo band music video, The All-American Rejects’ joyfully hectic house party tour made a stop in a Missouri college town over the weekend only to have their show shut down by the police, who turned out to be familiar with the music. The band – particularly known well and loved by Millennials and likely played daily over the speakers at your grocery store of choice – have swung through cities in the midwest this month and made some unlikely stops along the way, like backyards and, in one instance, a bowling alley.…

HOUSTON (AP) — Soon after Lance McCullers Jr.’s family received online death threats following a tough start by the Houston Astros’ pitcher, his 5-year-old daughter, Ava, overheard wife Kara talking on the phone about it.What followed was a painful conversation between McCullers and his little girl.“She asked me when I came home: ‘Daddy like what is threats? Who wants to hurt us? Who wants to hurt me?’” McCullers told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “So, those conversations are tough to deal with.”McCullers is one of two MLB pitchers whose families have received online death threats this month as internet abuse…