They send one-word texts. Or take forever to reply to messages instead of replying within seconds.

Taurus

They say they’re too busy to hang out or grab dinner or talk on the phone. They act like their schedule is jam-packed all of a sudden and never make backup plans.

Gemini

They stop acting affectionate with hugs and high fives and cheek kisses. They act cold and unapproachable when they’ve never been that way before.

Cancer

They stop reaching out first. They only respond if someone texts them or asks them to make plans. Otherwise, they’re completely silent.

Leo

They completely drop off the grid. They don’t answer messages and they dodge the other person in public.

Virgo

They mute (or unfollow) the other person on social media. They cleanse their timeline so this person is out of sight and out of mind.

Libra

They stop sending holiday and happy birthday messages. They give the silent treatment until they cannot take it anymore. Then they come clean.

Scorpio

They always act like they’re running late and have no time to talk. They keep every conversation as short as possible.

Sagittarius

They remove the person from their close friends on Instagram and end their Snap streaks.

Capricorn

They act super serious in every conversation. They won’t crack a smile or laugh in the hopes of ending the conversation faster.

Aquarius

They start hanging out with other people. They make sure they’re seen with a different group.

Pisces

They stop going to the same parties and bars as this other person. They do their best to keep their distance.

O’Leary’s argument, delivered on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast, came down to compound interest: a worker earning $70,000 who drops $28 on lunch is torching money that could have grown for decades. In his telling, small daily habits are the difference between building wealth and staying broke.

Sanders wasn’t buying the premise. Reacting to the clip on the debut episode of the YouTube show “On Sunday with Jack Cocchiarella,” the Vermont senator said people like O’Leary are “completely separated from the reality that ordinary Americans are experiencing.” His words: “They have no clue. They live in their own world.”

He pushed it further, casting the disconnect as something bigger than lunch budgets: “Many of these guys, I don’t know about O’Leary specifically, many of these guys do not believe in democracy,” Sanders said, before voicing the mindset he’s describing: “I run the world, kid, and you better understand that.”

The clash lands at a moment when younger investors are already drifting from the old playbook O’Leary is defending. In Bank of America Private Bank’s 2026 Study of Wealthy Americans, 67% of Gen Z and millennial investors said stocks and bonds alone no longer cut it — against just 15% of boomers and the Silent Generation who agreed. The gap suggests the retire-richer formula may be losing its audience regardless of what either man thinks.

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She and Bongiovi got the news over the phone, after what she calls a long, thorough process. “I will never forget it,” she said. “We both knew in that moment that was that, we had found each other.” She described sending each other pictures in real time: “I have a picture of him and he has a picture of me and it was just like, oh, my goodness. This is our girl, 100%, no doubt.” No questions asked, she said: “I knew we had found our baby and she found us.”

Shetty asked whether she had the conversation recorded. She didn’t, and she said that’s part of what makes it special: “My whole life’s recorded.” Then: “You had to be there.”

She also had things to say about the people picking apart her timeline. Brown got married at 20 and became a mother at 21, and she’s clocked every version of the criticism. “You get married at 20, you’re too young, what are you doing. Oh my god, people are praying on the downfall. And then it’s like, you’re 40, you’re not married, what are you doing? You’re twice divorced, oh my god, how dare you.” On adoption specifically: “How could they let you.” Her verdict on the noise: “You all are a walking contradiction.”

She said if she lived by those rules, she’d “live the most boring, mundane, awful, miserable life,” and she’s not basing her decisions on “random robots on the internet.” She keeps coming back to the same read on it: “Women don’t win. Because we don’t get to win. Like, we don’t get to just be in peace.”

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“Sophie Cunningham… I’m going to say 2050, is going to be Vice President of the United States. I don’t know what party she’ll be in, I don’t know anything about her political views. But she will be the vice presidential candidate, at least the candidate. I don’t know what it is. It’s something about the fact that she wears those sleeves on the court, something about the way she triggers in-bound plays at the end of games, makes me think she will be someone’s ideal vice president. You know, she has a damn likable personality,” he said.

The market agrees her value is bigger than basketball. Project B, a new global women’s league, has reportedly offered her $2 million-plus with equity to leave the WNBA, where she made around $100,000 this past season.

Her podcast is a big piece of the profile. She co-hosts “Show Me Something” on Colin Cowherd’s The Volume network with West Wilson, her high school best friend from Columbia, Missouri, who’s now a cast member on Bravo’s Summer House. She’s been unfiltered enough on it to draw a $1,500 WNBA fine early on for criticizing the league and officials.

She also works as a player analyst for USA Network, and turned up as a UFC ring girl in Las Vegas over the weekend, photographed alongside Trump ally Dana White.

Fans had already tagged her “MAGA Barbie,” but she pushed back on the label. “I’m clearly white and from Missouri, and so I think there was a lot of assumption there,” she said. “All I have to say is I really am right in the middle, and I think a lot of America is like that.”

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Stop worrying about when you’ll reach your dreams. Enjoy the journey.

Taurus

Stop worrying about when you’ll get married. You’ll find the perfect person when the timing is right.

Gemini

Stop worrying about when you’ll get over your ex. Healing takes time.

Cancer

Stop worrying about when you’ll have kids. Enjoy your freedom while it lasts.

Leo

Stop worrying about when you’ll feel better about your life. Live in the moment.

Virgo

Stop worrying about when you’ll buy your first home. You’re doing perfectly fine.

Libra

Stop worrying about when you’ll lose X amount of pounds. You should love yourself exactly how you are.

Scorpio

Stop worrying about when you’ll make as much money as your friends. You’re not falling behind.

Sagittarius

Stop worrying about when you’ll graduate. Everyone moves at their own pace.

Capricorn

Stop worrying about when you’ll get a promotion. You’re doing the best that you can.

Aquarius

Stop worrying about when you’ll find love. Being single isn’t that bad.

Pisces

Stop worrying about when you’ll see the world. You still have plenty of time. [tc-mark]

Michael Jordan spent the week parked in Porto Cervo, the guarded corner of Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda where the ultra-rich go to not be seen.

The boat is the M’BRACE, his 74.5-meter, $115 million superyacht, bought in late 2022 and cheap to run only if you consider $5-11 million a year cheap. He got there on his custom Gulfstream G650ER, tail number N236MJ. The 23 is his jersey, the 6 is his championships, and the MJ speaks for itself.

Forbes has him at $4.3 billion as of 2026, up from $3.8 billion the year before, still the richest athlete in history by a wide margin. The engine is Jordan Brand at Nike, which has been clearing $6.5 to $7.3 billion in annual revenue and putting an estimated $200 million-plus into his pocket every year on royalties alone. Selling his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets in 2023, in a deal that valued the franchise around $3 billion, is what kicked the net worth into a new gear.

The yacht isn’t the only fleet. He runs a serious sportfishing operation under the Catch 23 name, including an 82-foot custom Bayliss in the $12 to $15 million range that’s held its own at the White Marlin Open. Home base is a 28,000-square-foot compound in the Bear’s Club in Jupiter, Florida, plus a second house he added in the same community for around $17 million in 2024.

On board in Sardinia were his wife Yvette, their 12-year-old identical twins Victoria and Ysabel, and his father-in-law Carlos Prieto Sr. The twins were born in February 2014, and this is the branch of the family Jordan travels with now. His three older kids from his marriage to Juanita Vanoy (Jeffrey, 37, Marcus, 35, and Jasmine, 33) weren’t along for the trip.

Paparazzi caught Jordan and Carlos Senior parked on deck with cigars while everyone else kept low.

The family posted nothing. Yvette keeps these trips off her private Instagram and Michael doesn’t post on social media.

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“I don’t watch movies much, so I have no idea who people are,” Haaland said on the Norwegian show A Laget, explaining the silence. “There was one asking if we could go out for dinner, but I’d never seen him, so I didn’t bother to answer.”

The dinner invite went out over Monaco Grand Prix weekend in June. Holland spotted Haaland in a hospitality suite across from his own while watching Lewis Hamilton race and figured, “I just thought I’d shoot my shot. Why not?”

Someone eventually clued Haaland in that the stranger in his DMs was Spider-Man. The penny dropped, and he’s said he owes Holland a reply.

The kicker: Holland is deep in promo mode for the movie he personally moved mountains to make. He had an “uncomfortable conversation” with Sony boss Tom Rothman to push Spider-Man: Brand New Day back so it wouldn’t clash with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Sony obliged. The Odyssey lands July 17, Brand New Day July 31.

Odyssey shooting had its own fanboy moment. Mid-fight scene, Matt Damon (playing Odysseus) grabbed Holland and dropped an iconic Jason Bourne line straight at him, and Holland was completely starstruck opposite one of his action heroes.

Holland confirmed the ghosting on The Tonight Show and treated it as a healthy ego check. “That is exactly the type of humbling experience that is important for actors. I texted him. I’ll take him to dinner. Not even a response. Not an excuse. Not, ‘I’m busy tonight, I’m playing football.’ Nada. Nothing.”

Fallon leaned all the way in. The segment ran a round of Odyssey-themed Cyclops Beer Pong (non-alcoholic) and a full “Holland vs. Haaland” bit, so the whole thing played as comedy, not a callout.

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Cunningham was sitting ringside on an off night when she half-jokingly told Dana White that if he ever needed a ring girl, to let him know. About eight minutes before the Paddy Pimblett vs. Benoit Saint Denis co-main, he put her on the Round 1 card.

“When she walked in, she goes, ‘Oh, I wanna walk around that.’ I said, ‘Then you’re gonna walk around it,'” White told reporters. She kicked off her shoes, walked out in a black tank top and shorts, and hit her signature finger-point the whole lap. Pimblett choked out Saint Denis in under a minute, so she only got the one walk.

The clip took off after a basketball account posted it with the note that she was working the fight as a ring girl. Then the ranking started fast and got blunt. Male fans lined her up against the actual Octagon Girls working the card, mainly veterans Chrissy Blair and Brooklyn Wren, with early replies calling her “the least attractive one there tbh” and ranking her last next to the women who work the cage every fight.

Pushback followed, with fans firing back that scoring a pro athlete who stepped in on eight minutes’ notice against the regular Octagon Girls proved nothing, but a large share of the thread still treated it like a live beauty contest.

A second thread broke off to argue Cunningham was getting a pass that Angel Reese never would. “If Angel Reese did this white people would go crazy,” one post read, pulling Reese into a fight she had nothing to do with.

Cunningham called the night “so much fun” and said she and White have become friends. “I love Sophie Cunningham, and we’ve created a relationship,” White said. The next night he turned up at the Fever’s game against the Las Vegas Aces in a custom shirt of Cunningham flipping double middle fingers.

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Defining our worth by our achievements is such a familiar feeling these days; we work hard and naturally hope it will make us feel valued. But maybe it helps to gently remind ourselves that our worth was never meant to rest only on what we accomplish, but on who we are in God. Pause and pray this with me.

Dear God,

I confess that I often find my worth in accomplishments and the approval of others, allowing my value to be tethered to external factors, leaving me in a constant ebb and flow of temporary satisfaction rather than lasting joy.

Today I ask you to help me value my relationship with you above all achievements. Reorient my heart to find its greatest joy in belonging to you. Thank you for the eternal security and unshakable identity you’ve given me in Christ, allowing me to feel fulfilled and at peace regardless of successes or failures in this world. Help me to serve from a place of security rather than striving for significance.

Amen.

Hathaway announced the pregnancy on Instagram with three words: “x Baby, I’m yours x.” She’s been showing the bump through a two-week press run for “The Odyssey” that ran from New York to London to Paris and back, waving to fans this week as she left a Late Night with Seth Meyers taping at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Prior to the announcement, she was seen in St. Tropez also glowing and showing the first signs of her baby bump.

Natalie Portman, 45, shared her own pregnancy news in April. “I know it’s such a privilege and a miracle,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “And knowing it’s probably the last time, I cherish every moment.”

Last month, 44-year-old Serena Williams returned to Wimbledon singles and lost in the first round. She said afterward that she “enjoyed the moment more than anything.” Her sister Venus, 46, is still on tour.

The shift shows up in the numbers. The median first-time homebuyer hit 40 in 2025, per the National Association of Realtors. Women 40 and over made up nearly 20% of America’s graduate students in 2021, about two-thirds of them women. American women now have a life expectancy of 81.4 years, and a woman in her mid-40s can reasonably plan on decades of active life still ahead.

The milestones that used to define a settled life by 40, the house, the career, the kids, keep arriving later. It leaves the decade looking less like an ending and more like room to keep going.

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