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Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a conditional posthumous pardon.

Angela Bassett’s skin looks just as flawless as it did 30 years ago. In fact, despite her busy lifestyle, her time-honored skin seems to get even better with age. “I’ve always been on the move,” Bassett tells ESSENCE exclusively. “I really appreciate products that make getting ready feel easy without sacrificing quality,” she says, which makes Lancôme’s new Teint Idôle Ultra Wear Shape Stick an answered prayer. 

The new multi-use complexion stick is the core of Bassett’s everyday routine. It’s a foundation, but at the same time, a contour, blush, highlighter, and even bronzer for just $46 dollars. “Beauty should work for you, not the other way around,” she says. “I’ve never believed that there’s just one way for a woman to look or show up in the world; we all have different styles and unique ways we want to express ourselves.” 

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While Bassett is known for her timeless beauty, she often alternates between her natural skin and dressed-up glamour. Luckily, she calls the shape stick “versatile and convenient” for its easy, multi-use application. Enriched with squalane (a moisturizing ingredient) and vitamin E (to keep your color true), it’s part of why her skin looks blurred all the time, even without wearing any makeup at all. “[It] helps me feel polished and put together every day,” she says. 

It’s a complexion product formulated to make your skin look visibly smoother and youthful because it doesn’t crease, cake, or rest into fine lines and wrinkles. Instead, its angled bullet makes application more precise, whether slimming out your jawline, defining your cheekbones, or concealing perceived imperfections. And, best of all, it’ll give you a second-skin, Angela Bassett-like blur regardless of how you build. 

“I love having options, and this product gives me that flexibility,” she says. “I feel that modern beauty is all about having products that support your lifestyle and help you feel like the best version of yourself.”

Political commentator Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday criticized younger Americans for having, in his eyes, a lack of financial literacy. “There are a lot of younger Americans who are absolutely clueless about how to make money, how to keep money, and about the capitalistic system,” O’Reilly told host Leland Vittert on NewsNation’s “On Balance.” Earlier in…

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Spain remains the only NATO member uncommitted to 5% GDP defense spending.

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As 2026 got underway, there was reason for cautious optimism about Donald Trump’s obsession with acquiring Greenland. On Jan. 21, the American president announced he had agreed to “a framework” with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on the future of Greenland, which was apparently designed to satisfy the Republican’s demands.

A day later, in an interview with Fox Business, Trump suggested it was unlikely the United States would actually take ownership of the Arctic island — a priority that he had said in recent days was paramount — though he emphasized that he expected the deal to provide U.S. officials with greater “access” to Greenland. (The fact that we already had ample access was a detail that apparently eluded him.)

There were plenty of questions at the time about the relevant details of the agreement, none of which the president was prepared to address, and about whether Trump would reverse course and renew his crusade to annex the island.

Nearly six months later, Trump has reversed course and renewed his crusade to annex the island. CNBC reported:

President Donald Trump on Tuesday resurrected his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, and suggested the U.S. could pull all of its armed services members out of Europe in response to the Continent’s continued pushback on the issue.

The island territory “should be controlled by the United States,” Trump said shortly after he arrived in Ankara, Turkey, for a NATO summit.

As part of his comments on Tuesday, the American president not only said the U.S. should control Greenland, he added that NATO’s reluctance to simply give him the island he wants “hurt” his relationship with the alliance.

A day later, Trump kept going, insisting that he considered it “a big problem” that he had not been able to acquire Greenland, followed by a fresh round of whining about NATO members not giving him what he wants.

For good measure, the Republican added, “We took Greenland and then, stupidly, we gave it back. We shouldn’t have given it back to them, because we’re the ones that need it. We need it for protection of the world, not just the United States. And it’s very important.”

Why does all of this matter? For one thing, Trump’s nonsense suggests the “framework” announced in January is effectively meaningless. For another, it set off a new international incident of sorts, as European leaders scrambled to make clear that the U.S. needs to leave Greenland alone.

“We are ready to defend every inch of NATO, including our own territory,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told reporters. “One of the reasons why we built NATO many, many years ago is if anything happens to one of us then everybody should stand up for each other.”

Just as notable is that Trump’s focus on Greenland had already done significant harm to U.S. diplomacy and our international standing. For the Republican to renew his obsession for no reason does fresh harm to his own country in exchange for … nothing.

This post updates our related earlier coverage.

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