French President Emmanuel Macron will host an emergency summit of European leaders on Paris on Monday to discuss “European security.” The gathering, confirmed Sunday by Jean-Noël Barrot, will occur a day after the end of a conference in Munich where Vice President JD Vance gave a combative speech in front of the continent’s leaders, accusing them of failing to respect “freedom of expression” and confirming the U.S. is considering pursuing Ukraine war negotiations without European help. Leaders from Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom are expected to attend, in addition to the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission and the secretary-general of NATO. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, who first revealed invites had gone out for the meeting on Saturday, said he expected leaders will discuss ways to respond to the new administration of President Donald Trump, who he noted “has a method of operating which the Russians call razvedka boyem—reconnaissance through battle. You push and you see what happens, and then you change your position." Senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, are due to travel to Saudi Arabia in the coming days to hold talks with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators, sources told Reuters. Europe has not been invited, while Trump last week held a direct call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered his country’s illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Bachelorette star Katie Thurston, 34, has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer after discovering a lump in her chest. “This is day one of sharing and is going to be a long one. This first step of acceptance of my reality was the hardest,” she wrote on Instagram. “But I am ready to fight this.” She added in a post on her Instagram stories that she did not know what stage she was in yet. “I experienced a range of emotions over the past two weeks. Despair. Anger. Sadness. Denial. And then strength. Purposeful. Ready.” Thurston made her debut on 2021 season of The Bachelor with Matt James, but was eliminated in week 6. She returned to television the same year to star in her own season of The Bachelorette and accepted a proposal from Blake Moynes. The two broke up, however, and Thurston is now engaged to comedian Jeff Arcuri. “To my extraordinary husband to be...I don’t know how I’d do this without you,” she posted. “The selfless love that you smother me in is beyond anything I imagined I’d be blessed with.” Thousands of commenters showed support for Thurston. “I know sharing something like this is not easy,” wrote one Instagram follower. “But I’m so proud of you for being so vulnerable.”

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Make your own Jan. 6, 2021. Now, the infamous day in American history has its very own tabletop game—Capitol insurrection and all. Players get to choose which side they’re on: the red team, whose goal is to take over the Capitol and hunt down Vice President Mike Pence; or the blue team, aka the police officers fending off the MAGA army. Creators describe the large-scale, 20-player game—which had been in development for a year—as “a live performance installation that merges art, game design, and immersive storytelling.” The creators, the american vicarious [sic], hosted a successful gameplay in New York City in late January, with the installation’s next stop in London. The game features a 14-foot-wide and 5-foot-tall Capitol building and has 10,000 hand-painted protestors alongside 2,000 police officers. The game, designed by Alessio Cavatore, “is not just to win but to confront the fragility of democracy and the challenges of unity in a polarized society.”

A 24-year-old South Korean actress who appeared in the Netflix series Bloodhounds was found dead in her home Sunday, authorities said. Kim Sae-ron, who began acting at age 9, was discovered in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, by a friend around 4:50 p.m. local time, Yonhap News Agency reported. No cause of death has been released, but authorities do not suspect foul play. Sae-ron had racked up credits in 2010 action film The Man from Nowhere and the 2012 thriller The Neighbour, but stepped back from acting after she was involved in a drunk driving crash in May 2022. Her most recent appearance on screen was the Korean series Bloodhounds, which was released in 2023. However, the show reduced her role following the drunk-driving scandal.

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If you’re looking for effective anti-aging skincare formulas that don’t cost the sum of a monthly mortgage payment, take a cue from reality TV star Bethenny Frankel. Frankel, who has amassed quite the following on TikTok over the years, uses the platform to showcase her favorite products, including both luxury and drugstore formulas.

One of her favorite brands for skincare and cosmetics is No7—specifically, its Future Renew collection. Each formula in the line is affordably priced under $50 but, according to Frankel, looks, feels, and performs like higher-end counterparts.

One of her favorites is the Future Renew Damage Reversal Eye Serum. The lightweight anti-aging serum is formulated with Pepticology, the brand’s new and patent-pending peptide technology. This technology is formulated to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles while aiding in the skin’s natural repair process for a firmer, brighter, and smoother complexion. Frankel also notes that the wallet-friendly serum layers well with other skincare products (she uses it under her moisturizer), and it “plays well with makeup.”

While skincare is always a worthy splurge (after all, our skin is our biggest organ), you don’t have to shell out $100+ for effective formulas that target the visible signs of aging.

In his acceptance speech for the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement at the Writers Guild Awards on Saturday night, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan made a surprising admission to the audience: “Walter White, because of the work they did, he’s one of the all time-great bad guys,” said Gilligan. “But all things being equal, I think I’d rather be celebrated for creating someone a bit more inspiring.” Because in our current reality, “bad guys, the real-life kind, are running amok. Bad guys who make their own rules, bad guys who, no matter what they tell you, are really out for themselves.”

While Gilligan didn’t name any names, he did point out what he considers to be a “weird irony” that “in our profoundly divided country, everybody seems to agree on one thing: there are too many real-life bad guys.”

Gilligan’s advice to his fellow writers was simple: “I say we write more good guys.” Because they’ve accidentally made villains “too sexy” and aspirational. And “when that happens, fictional bad guys stop being the cautionary tales they were intended to be.”

Gilligan concluded, “Maybe what the world needs now are some good, old-fashioned, Greatest Generation types who give more than they take. Who think that kindness, tolerance and sacrifice aren’t strictly for chumps.”

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab in Omaha recently posted about one of its most entertaining patients: an opossum who had to be admitted to the hospital after eating an entire Costco chocolate cake. Following some time in the center—and a diet reset—she should be safe to be released. But the center wrote, “Until then, she is definitely a little cranky about our strict ‘zero chocolate’ policy!” The Washington Post interviewed the family who found that an opossum had stolen their cake and eaten almost the entire thing, leaving chocolate paw prints all over their patio furniture. Because the opossum “didn’t look so great” and was panting, Kim Doggett of Gretna, Nebraska, contacted the local Humane Society, who decided after an examination that the creature was OK, but could benefit from some time in rehab. The Wildlife Rehab is now selling Cake Bandit T-shirts for fans who may find the opossum’s antics relatable.

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. worries that a release of government documents ordered by President Donald Trump will revive “smears” the FBI pushed against the civil rights leader decades ago. Last month, Trump signed an executive order to divulge records related to the assassinations of King and former President John F. Kennedy—both frequent sources of conspiracy theories. But Axios has reported that the president denied a request from King’s family members to preview the records, which they fear will tarnish his reputation. “We know J. Edgar Hoover tried to destroy Dr. King’s legacy, and the family doesn’t want that effort to prevail,” a family friend told Axios. While King was fighting for civil rights for Black Americans during the 1960s, the FBI spied on him and tried to humiliate him by leaking details about King’s alleged affairs to the press. Another source close to the family confirmed that they are concerned about “smears” released “under the guise of transparency.” A White House spokesperson told Axios that the president denied the family’s request because he believes that “these records don’t belong to them. These are the public’s records.”

Biff Wiff, a character actor who appeared in Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave, as well as Jury Duty and 2022’s Academy Award juggernaut Everything Everywhere All at Once has died, according to a statement from his management. Entertainment Lab posted a statement on Instagram, writing, “It is with heavy hearts that we inform you of the passing of our beloved client and actor, Biff Wiff. Biff was an amazing person inside and out, and his loving energy could be felt by all. We are sending our heartfelt sympathies to his family & loved ones at this time.” Tim Robinson reposted a photo of himself with Wiff taken on the set of I Think You Should Leave to his Instagram story, adding a string of broken heart emojis, as well as a clip from one of the sketches Wiff appeared in, “Shirt Brothers.”

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Democrat Sen. Mark Warner offered a brutal assessment of his party’s standing with voters on Saturday. “I think the Democrats’ brand is really bad, and I think this was an election based on culture,” the Virginia lawmaker said at a Politico event taking place alongside the Munich Security Conference. “And the Democrats’ kind of failure to connect on a cultural basis with a wide swath of Americans is hugely problematic.” Warner, who is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, blamed the Republicans' election sweep on his party’s positioning. “I think the majority of the party realizes that the ideological purity of some of the groups is a recipe for disaster and that, candidly, the attack on over-the-top wokeism was a valid attack,” Warner said. He went on to praise Trump’s defiant approach with the media. “President Trump can say virtually anything, and it’s forgotten within the same 24-hour news period, so that is a whine and a complaint, but it’s the reality,” Warner said. He expressed concern for the actions of Trump’s presidency so far, saying that the president cannot be given “a pass on actions that damage national security.”

CNN reports that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a lawsuit this week against Starbucks, arguing that the company’s DEI program is discriminatory and results in slower service. Starbucks denied the allegations, saying its DEI policy was “designed to ensure the strongest candidate for every job every time.” This lawsuit is an early example of what legal experts expect to be a wave of litigation following President Donald Trump’s executive order threatening federal investigations over “illegal DEI” programs, which the administration claims are “discriminatory.” Many corporations have been swiftly reviewing their DEI policies to try to comply with the new administration’s expectations. Missouri alleges that Starbucks’ DEI programs are a “pretext for… unlawful discrimination” and race-based hiring, which it argues result in “more mistakes” at work and more expensive products. The company’s initiatives to increase minority representation include a minority mentorship program and employee resource groups, among others. Jason Schwartz, a lawyer with Gibson Dunn, called the lawsuit a “stretch” because it targets diversity programs that are open to everyone, regardless of race.