Sofia Richie looks sporty in leggings and a white baseball cap while out to lunch with husband Elliot Grainge in LA… after whirlwind Milan Fashion Week trip

By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com

Published: 02:59 EDT, 24 September 2023 | Updated: 02:59 EDT, 24 September 2023

Jennifer Lawrence is a vision of style in fitted white T-shirt and pink statement cap as she pushes son Cy in his stroller during NYC walk

By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com

Published: 23:34 EDT, 21 August 2023 | Updated: 00:29 EDT, 22 August 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that Woody Harrelson is probably unaware of the backlash to his wearing a ‘Kennedy 2024’ cap because the actor lives off grid.

Harrelson posed for a photo with the Democratic presidential candidate’s actress wife Cheryl Hines earlier this week while wearing a blue ballcap endorsing Kennedy.

Reaction was strong on social media but Kennedy, campaigning in Iowa on Saturday, doubts that the actor has heard any of it. 

‘I’ve texted with him. You know, he’s very hard to get a hold of. He’s been a friend for many, many years. He’s very close to me and Cheryl,’ Kennedy said.

He added texting with the former Cheers star is usually a long shot anyway, given Harrelson’s lifestyle.

‘One thing is he doesn’t like cell phones. It’s conceivable that he does not know about all of the controversy,’ Kennedy told Fox News. 

‘He doesn’t watch TV. He doesn’t have his cell phone and he’s kind of off the grid.’

The 66-year-old donned a blue ‘Kennedy 2024’ cap in the snap with his Wilson co-star Hines, posted on Thursday.

‘Great seeing you Woody’, Hines posted without elaborating. But commentators were quick to suggest it was an endorsement.

Her post contained the tags ‘#friends #hats #rfkjr.’  

Harrelson joined New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers as the latest celebrity endorser of the anti-vaxxer vying to challenge President Joe Biden in 2024.

Polls have him in a distant second, and recent claims about COVID have sparked controversy. 

Nevertheless, some Democratic stalwarts worry his campaign could harm President Joe Biden’s reelection effort, particularly if the president is forced to stay away from New Hampshire after the Democratic National Committee gave South Carolina an early primary slot in a diversity push.

That infuriated New Hampshire officials who jealously guard their first-in-the-nation status, and could provided a venue for Kennedy to try to wound Biden.

Biden has a wide lead over Kennedy in Democratic primary polls. But he continues to have low national approval ratings hovering around 40 percent, while facing a Green Party challenge from Dr. Cornel West and a potential ‘No Labels’ third party run. 

That along with a primary challenge could sap his strength even if he is up against rival Donald Trump, who is facing multiple indictments. 

Harrelson has called himself ‘an anarchist,’ and has railed against the nation’s foreign wars, once comparing President Barack Obama to Richard Nixon.

He played former John McCain advisor Steve Schmidt in the movie adaptation of the political book ‘Game Change.’ That prompted a question by Politico if he disliked Democrats as much as he did Republicans.

‘It’s all synchronized swimming to me,’ said the former Natural Born Killers and Kingpin co-star.

‘They all kneel and kiss the ring. Who’s going to take on the oil industry or the medical industry?,’ he said in the 2013 interview. 

‘People compare Obama to Lyndon Johnson, but I think a better comparison is between Obama and Nixon. Because Nixon came into office saying he was going to pull out of Vietnam, and then he escalated the war,’ he said. 

‘I don’t believe in politics. I’m an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves,’ he said.

Forget Thames Water, the real boardroom drama this week was at the cosmetics small-cap Revolution Beauty. 

Online retailer and 26.6 per cent Revolution shareholder Boohoo has tried to wrest control of the AIM-listed company through a hostile takeover and ousting of Revolution’s board.

This came to a head at Wednesday’s annual general meeting, when a shareholder showdown saw chief executive Bob Holt, chief financial officer Elizabeth Lake, and chair Derek Zissman voted out.

Non-executive director Jeremy Schwartz briefly became the sole board member. His first responsibility under the company’s articles of association was to hire three more members.

After brief contemplation, he selected Bob Holt as chief executive, Elizabeth Lake as chief financial officer, and Derek Zissman as chair. Fancy that.

Revolution and Boohoo have exchanged vitriolic words all week, accusing each other of being self-serving.

As we all know, investors hate instability, yet Revolution’s share price rocketed 53 per cent higher on Wednesday, though that doesn’t tell the whole story.

Shares were actually suspended since September 2022 for failing to publish company accounts amid Minto’s contentious departure.

Come Friday, as the tumultuous week comes to a close, Revolution shares remained 26 per cent higher since Wednesday’s readmission.

The same can’t be said for the broader Aim All-Share Index, which ended the week around 2 per cent lower at 751.84, underperforming considerably against the FTSE 100 index’s 0.8 per cent add.

The gap would likely have been wider if the blue-chip utility segment didn’t cop a beating, with Severn Trent, United Utilities and BT Group among the worst large-cap performers. It appears that Thames Water is causing contamination in more ways than one.

That stocks underperformed this week is hardly a surprise, what with last week’s bruising half-a-percentage point interest rate hike, though with income stocks out of favour on the premium segment, some pass through to the lower end of the market could have been assumed.

Speaking of which, Caspian Sunrise, the AIM-quoted Kazakhstan-focused oiler, took a 30 per cent beating on Friday after scrapping its dividend payment for the foreseeable future.

The group has found itself the unintended victim of the Ukraine conflict insomuch as it has layered in additional costs and, crucially, copped an $18million loss of revenue. Shares fell from 4.3p to 2.82p.

African phosphate producer Kropz‘s shares also plunged over 40 per cent after revealing that its shares will be suspended from trading on AIM after failing to publish its annual reports.

The same fate beset Trackwise Designs, with shares in the printed circuit technology manufacturer crashing 70 per cent failing to provide financial statements for the last financial year.

Trackwise said manufacturing delays and ‘intense demands upon the entire management team’ have caused delays in the financial auditing process’. Shares have now been suspended.

Outside of the heavy industries, video game group tinyBuild plummeted 70 per cent after the firm said its first-half performance had undershot expectations.

tinyBuild pinned the blame on the underperformance of two acquisitions- US publisher Versus Evil and Brazil-based developer Red Cerberus.

On the bullish side was banknote printer De La Rue, which shot up over 50 per cent following indications of a recovery in currency demand and a robust performance in its authentication business, particularly in the latter half of the year.

This marks a turnaround from April, when the Basingstoke-based group dished out a profit warning.

Renalytix was a top mover In the pharmaceuticals segment, closing the week 44 per cent higher on the back of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granting marketing authorisation for its KidneyIntelX.dkd prognostic test.

Prospex Energy was a top riser in the energy sector, gaining 10 per cent after bullish news emerged from its Italy-based gas field.

But the real energy stand out was Invinity Energy Systems, which added nearly 40 per cent in what can only be considered a vindication of its full-year trading statement published on Wednesday.

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Kanye West returned to Twitter late Friday to post a photo of a hat emblazoned with the numbers 2024 – sparking rumors of a possible presidential campaign run.

The tweet was posted just a day after the rapper sat down for an exclusive interview Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson where he explained his reasoning behind his ‘White Lives Matter’ fashion controversy and hinted at a second bid for the White House.

Kanye attempted a presidential run in 2020, but called it quits less than two weeks after announcing. 

Since then, the rapper – who regularly flirts with conservatism – has declared more than once his plan for a 2024 presidential run. 

West has posted sporadically since his last main post in 2020, but deletes them almost immediately. His Twitter account often made headlines for his rants about his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her former boyfriend Pete Davidson.

But the tweet posted on Friday remained up for at least a few hours. 

Just a day earlier, West  appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show wearing a lanyard featuring an ultrasound image of a fetus.

He told Carlson he was wearing the lanyard to express that he is ‘pro-life’.

‘50 percent of black death in America is abortion, so I really don’t care about people’s responses. I perform for an audience of one, and that’s God.’ 

‘I care about the fact there’s more black babies being aborted than born in New York city,’ he said.

West may have been relying on a 2013 report compiled by New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to support his claim that more black babies are aborted than born in New York City.

There were around 5,000 more abortions than births of black babies in 2013 according to the official city report. 

The interview came after West stirred up controversy earlier this week hosting a Paris Fashion Week event during which he wore the lanyard and also posed with conservative commentator Candace Owens, while wearing ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirts.

His appearance on Carlson’s show is the latest in a series of politically charged acts in which he expressed solidarity with the former President Donald Trump.

It was reported by the Texas Tribune this year that around 40 percent of women who get abortions in the US are black, while black women account for less than 15 percent of the country’s female population.

The 2013 report on pregnancy outcomes found that in 2013 black women terminated around 29,007 pregnancies, accounting for almost 42 percent of all abortions in the city. That same year, black women in the city gave birth to 24,108 babies.

The Carlson interview aired at 8pm EDT on Fox News and came just days after 45-year-old West was condemned by fans and the fashion industry for the Paris show, leading Adidas to put their partnership with West ‘under review’.

At the very beginning of Carlson’s interview with West in his Los Angeles studio he addresses the peculiar lanyard, asking: ‘What is that?’

‘It’s a photograph of a baby’s ultrasound,’ West said. ‘It just represents life. I’m pro-life,’ he said.

Kanye told Carlson that his political attitudes developed when Trump was in office. West suggested that during that period he caved in to social pressures forcing him not to vocalize support for the ex-president.

He told Carlson that his ex-wife Kim Kardashian had a close friendship with the Clintons, which the political couple exploited to control his expression.

West was asked if he felt like he was ever being manipulated by political forces through his wife.

‘Attempted manipulation, me not saying I liked Trump was a form of manipulation,’ he said.

West went on to address the accusations that he is crazy.

‘We’re in a battle with the media and the jokes are not working. This whole “Ye is crazy,” it doesn’t work,’ he said. 

West explained to Carlson that his father is an educated ex-black panther who endorsed his decision to wear the ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirt.

At another stage in the Carlson interview West turns on his former friend and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

West has been friends with both Jared and his younger brother Josh since around 2010.

Two weeks after proclaiming his admiration for Kushner in an interview with ABC News, West told the Fox News host that he was not a fan of the 41-year-old former senior adviser to Trump, and his entrepreneur brother Josh, 37.

‘After talking to them and really sitting with Jared and sitting with Josh and finding out other pieces of information, I was like, wow, these guys might have really been holding Trump back, being very much a handler,’ said West. 

Kanye West turns on former friend Jared Kushner and says he has not been ‘serving my boy Trump’ in the right way – even suggesting that the ‘entitled’ former White House aide negotiated Middle East peace accords in order to ‘make money’

Kanye West on Thursday night turned on his former friend Jared Kushner, accusing Donald Trump‘s son-in-law of being entitled, a mercenary and amoral as part of a wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson.

Two weeks after proclaiming his admiration for Kushner in an interview with ABC News, West told the Fox News host that he was not a fan of the 41-year-old former senior adviser to Trump, and his entrepreneur brother Josh, 37.

West – friends with the Kushners since at least 2010 – said he had dined with the brothers and Jared’s wife Ivanka Trump recently and was unimpressed.

‘After talking to them and really sitting with Jared and sitting with Josh and finding out other pieces of information, I was like, wow, these guys might have really been holding Trump back, being very much a handler,’ said West.

The rapper and musician in August 2020 spent time with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in Telluride, and was reported by Forbes at the time to be speaking to the elder Kushner sibling ‘almost daily’. 

Kushner confirmed that he and West would trade articles and books, and discuss ideas. 

West told Forbes: ‘One time I talked to Jared Kushner, who was saying, ‘We don’t have black leaders—we just have hustlers.’ Why? Because they killed all the black leaders.’ 

West later asked Forbes to remove the quote, saying: ‘I love Jared. I was just . . . that’s my boy, you know? That’s really my boy. So I prefer to not drop his name.’ 

On Thursday, however, West was biting in his criticism, and said Kushner and his brother both looked down on him and the former president.

‘They love to look at me or look at Trump like we are so crazy and they are the businessmen,’ West told Carlson.

‘When I think about all of these things that Jared doesn’t get enough credit for with his work – his work in Israel, what is this, you know what he made peace treaties, you know the facts on this right here?’

Carlson attempted to summarize the Abraham Accords, telling the West: ‘Israel and some of the other Arab nations.’

West said, of the peace deal: ‘I think it was to make money. 

‘I think that’s what they are about is making money, I don’t think they have the ability to make anything on their own. 

‘I think they were born into money.’

West said he did not think Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s closest advisors in the White House, served him well.

‘It makes me feel like they weren’t serving my boy Trump the way we could have,’ said West.

‘Because Trump wanted nothing but the best for this country.’

He said Kushner was not being honest with Trump.

‘Moses stuttered. God isn’t always going to bring the most perfect personality.

‘A lot of times the most fake people, their job is talking and making people feel comfortable. 

‘And the realist people are going to make you feel uncomfortable at first.’ 

West was also angered to learn that Josh Kushner, a venture capitalist, owned 10 percent of ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand, Skims – double what West owned.

‘These VCs come in and get a piece of it after the fact, and they run around and say they have ownership,’ said West.

West said that he was instrumental in founding the brand with his then-wife, and accused the Kushner brothers of damaging the brand.

‘It reaches another level when her business partners are selling pieces of the company they don’t have to, because the company is already a successful, internet-based company,’ said West. 

‘They are really just selling off the company in order to create more relationships for themselves that are unneeded.’

He said he was angered by the marketing strategy, for which he blamed the Kushners.

‘I had a lot of issues with the imagery – I felt like there’s a lot of imagery that was openly sexualized and things I would not want to see my wife and definitely not my daughters doing in the future in order to sell a product,’ said West.

‘It reaches another level when it’s like this is what my wife is doing, this is what they are doing – this is what she is doing for our children.’ 

West also spoke to Carlson amid the ongoing controversy over his ‘White Lives Matter’ fashion show concept, which sparked widespread controversy at Paris Fashion Week.

The catwalk presentation was staged on Monday, and West told Carlson it was based on a ‘feeling’ and ‘gut instinct.’

The rapper compared the stunt to Tonya Harding instinctively landing the first triple axel jump at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

‘I do certain things from a feeling, I just channel the energy it feels right,’ said West. 

‘Hits using a gut instinct, connection with god and just brilliance. They asked Tonya Harding how she did the triple flip and she was in so much practice that when it was time for her to skate in a competitive format it just happened. It happened outside of practice that happened in the real format.

‘That’s what’s happening. God is preparing us for the real battles. We are in a battle with the media.’

West, who arrived at the Los Angeles studio sporting a lanyard he had designed with a photo of a baby’s ultrasound, also opened up about why he’s pro-life. 

‘It just represents life. I’m pro-life,’ said West, when asked about his design. 

Carlson told him: ‘You wear it like a badge.’

‘I don’t care about people’s responses but I care about the fact that there are more black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point,’ West said.

‘That 50 per cent of black death in America is abortion. I really don’t care about people’s response to that. I perform for an audience of one and that is God. ‘

West stood by the ‘White Lives Matter’ slogan he wore on a T-shirt at his surprise Yeezy fashion show – even though his spokesman, Jason Lee, quit in protest.

Lee wrote on Instagram that West was ‘gaslighting black people and empowering white supremacy.’ 

The Donda rapper, 45, posted a photo of the long-sleeved black shirt to his Instagram on Wednesday with the caption: ‘Here’s my latest response when people ask me why I made a tee that says white lives matter… THEY DO.’

During the Carlson interview, West also called out politicians, including ‘friend’ Trump, for using Black people to boost their approval ratings.

Recounting a phonecall he shared with Trump, West said: ‘One of the things he said to me is, ”Kanye, you’re my friend. When you came to the White House, my Black approval rating went up 40 per cent”.

West said: ‘For politicians, all Black people are worth is an approval rating… The Democrats feel that they don’t owe us anything, and Republicans feel like they don’t owe us anything.’

He also told Carlson he was shocked to learn that ex-wife Kim had a close relationship with the Clintons – close enough that they were ‘just a phone call away’, Kanye explained in the exclusive interview. 

‘Close enough to say ”Tell Kanye to say this,” or close enough to use our platforms to push vaccinations,’ he continued. 

Carlson told his viewers that Kanye was surprised to learn after his divorce that ‘his former wife had a close and secretive relationship with the Clintons, and that they were working on her to influence him to read from the script.’

‘It was interesting, friend of mine told me that Kris and Kim had called him because he had influence inside the black community,’ Kanye said. ‘And had called him to say, to get him to influence people to take the vaccination. 

‘And I don’t have opinion on that I just wanted to state that as a statement. It was wild that I didn’t know how close my own wife was to the Clintons. I didn’t know, I didn’t realize it at the time.’

Carlson asked Kanye if he felt at times like he was being manipulated by political forces through his wife.

‘Attempted manipulation, me not saying I liked Trump was a form of manipulation,’ he said. 

Meanwhile, one of the only famous friends coming to the defense of Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband at the moment is Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who called the musician a ‘free thinker’ and says his message was ‘misconstrued.’

Diddy, 52, said ‘My boy is a super, super, super free thinker,’ in an interview on The Breakfast Club on Wednesday. 

 ‘And a lot of times, what he means is, like, misconstrued, you know what I’m saying?’ the record executive added. 

When host Charlamagne, 44, interjected to say, ‘You gotta stop making excuses for him,’ the mogul replied: ‘No, no, I’m not making excuses, I’m just sayin’ if he did it, that’s the way he thinks.’