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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It pays less and less to buy and flip a home these days.From April through June, the typical home flipped by an investor resulted in a 25.1% return on investment, before expenses. That’s the lowest profit margin for such transactions since 2008, according to an analysis by Attom, a real estate data company.Gross profits — the difference between what an investor paid for a property and what it sold for — fell 13.6% in the second quarter from a year earlier to $65,300, the firm said. Attom’s analysis defines a flipped home as a property that…

MILAN (AP) — At Roberto Cavalli, creative director Fausto Puglisi’s latest collection came alive with fluid gold gowns and lamé-treated denim that caught the light, and sometimes the air, with every step.The Spring-Summer 2026 womenswear collection previewed Thursday night during Milan Fashion Week possessed all of the sexy glamour that has defined Cavalli.For this collection, Puglisi took inspiration from Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 film.The reference was most apparent in a pleated gown that fanned off the shoulders with a plunging neckline; the pleated bodice made another appearance as a top tucked into a gilded python mini.“Of course,…

Sept. 19-25, 2025 Venezuelan migrants departed Jaque on Panama’s Pacific coast en route to Jurado, Colombia, as they returned home after failing to enter the United States. Yuliana Andrea Agudelo embraced her son Sebastian Agudelo after he was rescued from a gold mine that collapsed, trapping more than 20 miners. This gallery was curated by AP photo editor Jon Orbach in Mexico City. Yuliana Andrea Agudelo embraces her son Sebastian Agudelo after he was rescued from a gold mine that had collapsed trapping over 20 miners, in Segovia, Colombia, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga) Yuliana Andrea Agudelo embraces…

By Phoebe Liu, Thomas Gallagher, Monica Hunter-Hart, John Hyatt and Chase Peterson-Withorn. TikTok is here to stay. President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that paves the way for the social media app to remain available in the United States. The business, which had been facing a ban in the U.S. following a bipartisan law passed in 2024 to limit its Chinese ownership, will be taken over by a consortium of mostly American investors. “It’s  run by American investors and American companies, great ones, great investors. The biggest, you don’t get bigger,” Trump said from the Oval Office after…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Portions of the Grand Canyon’s North Rim will reopen soon after a wildfire destroyed a historic lodge and dozens of structures, the National Park Service announced Thursday.Daytime access will begin Oct. 1 to locations including Point Imperial, the park’s highest overlook at the eastern end of the Grand Canyon, and the Cape Royal overlook, the park service said in a news release. Those areas will remain open through Nov. 30, but they could close sooner if there is significant snowfall. The more remote North Rim historically is open seasonally, while the park’s South…

MILAN (AP) — Moschino nearly single-handedly kept irony alive and kicking on the Milan runway.Repurposed materials produced surprising results in the Spring-Summer 2026 womenswear collection previewed Thursday: Crinoline bands became a haute couture skirt. Rubber bands were woven into an ombre mini dress, with just a little bounce. And chimney brushes made whimsical shoes.On the Moschino runway, dresses were made from newspaper print textiles. Here’s the real novelty: They all contain good news. Whereas other brands barely cover nipples, Moschino fashioned bodices from crochet doilies sprouting miniature swans that peek up at the wearer.Inspired by Arte Povera, creative director Adrian…

MILAN (AP) — Prada’s cavernous showroom was awash in bright orange paint Thursday for a women’s collection that swerved from cocooning to revealing, rigorous to feminine.Co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons continued their meditation on the uniform, but here they invited women to throw caution to the wind, and pair bright opera gloves with coveralls, the kind a mechanic with sartorial sense might wear.“We thought a lot about the idea of freedom, freedom in the way you dress,’’ Simons said backstage. The Prada toolboxThe runway was therefore a toolbox of elements to compose individual looks without regard for conventions…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A woman has sued Universal Orlando Resort, claiming she was injured on a roller coaster at its newest theme park. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, comes a week after a man died from blunt impact injuries after going on the same ride.Sandi Streets filed the negligence lawsuit in state court in Orlando, days after the death of 32-year-old Kevin Rodriguez Zavala in a separate incident.Streets said she was invited to Universal’s Epic Universe theme park just a few weeks before it officially opened to the public in May and went on the dual-launch coaster, which reaches speeds…

Despite years of congressional hearings, lawsuits, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the dangers of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children from harm, with “woefully ineffective” safety measures, according to a new report from former employee and whistleblower Arturo Bejar and four nonprofit groups. Meta’s efforts at addressing teen safety and mental health on its platforms have long been met with criticism that the changes don’t go far enough. Now, the report published Thursday, from Bejar, the Cybersecurity For Democracy at New York University and Northeastern University, the Molly Rose Foundation, Fairplay…

NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced a major overhaul of its popular “Collegiate” dictionary. The company has added more than 5,000 terms. Here’s a few of them with definitions — and some usage examples of our own.Beast modeDEFINITION: An extremely aggressive or energetic style or manner that someone adopts temporarily to overpower an opponent in a fight or competition.EXAMPLE: He needed to go beast mode to crush the hot dog eating contest.Dad bodDEFINITION: A physique regarded as typical of an average father, especially one that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular.EXAMPLE: Harry rocked a dad bod even…