Two Members of New Order Step Away From Touring ‘Due to Personal Health Reasons’
New Order announced Monday that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be joining their show at Primavera in Chile in November “due to personal health reasons.” “Circumstances make it impossible,” the band said in an Instagram post. That leaves frontman Bernard Sumner as the only original member of the seminal post-punk band who will…
Read MoreWorld Cup 2026: Brazil were 45 minutes from humiliation – but ‘Crafty Carlo’ does it again
The personnel largely stayed the same but it was a different Brazil team in the second half. There was a purpose and intensity to their play that had been lacking in the first half and a number of tactical tweaks, mostly notably a willingness to get the ball into the box. Brazil put in 12…
Read MoreTrump Threatens EU With Punishing Duties Days Ahead of Trade Agreement Deadline
A hard-fought trade truce between the European Union and the United States, ratified last week, may already be in peril ahead of a July 4 deadline. President Donald Trump has threatened to hit the 27-member trade bloc with devastating duties over its Digital Services Tax (DST)—a key point of contention in the trade relationship. “Numerous…
Read MoreAnthropic partners with California to expand AI use by government workers
Anthropic teamed up with California to get more state workers to use its artificial intelligence assistant Claude as part of an effort to leverage technology to make the government more efficient. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who announced the partnership on Monday, said state agencies will be able to access Claude at a 50% discount. Free training…
Read MoreUkraine Has Been Liberated (from Us) | National Review
Washington’s lack of interest has, paradoxically, helped Kyiv in some ways. Source link
Read MoreThis Plus-Size Wardrobe Dilemma Turned Into A Very Helpful Style Guide | The Curvy Fashionista
Every curvy woman knows the feeling: your closet is full, but somehow nothing inside feels like you anymore. That was the style crossroads one Redditor found herself facing when she asked an online community for help rebuilding her wardrobe. According to the Redditor, she was a plus-size woman in her early thirties who wanted clothes…
Read MoreWhat Happened to Your Face?
One of the things Wittgenstein implies is that we don’t theorize the faces we see. I might talk of “reading” your face, but it isn’t like reading a code or a map: I don’t look at you, add together your liquid eyes and droopy mouth, and pronounce my final judgment that you’re sad. I simply…
Read MoreAt Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their eyes closed, celebratory guys in basketball jerseys, swaying couples, groups of friends interested more in one another than in the guy in the booth. He had brought with him Prospa,…
Read MoreLauryn Hill Receives All-Star Tribute From Queen Latifah, SZA, Doechii, Doja Cat, Nas and More at BET Awards 2026
Lauryn Hill was honored with the Living Legend Icon Award as well as a very robust all-star performance featuring Doechii, Nas, Doja Cat, SZA, Common and Queen Latifah, among many others, at the BET Awards 2026. Ice Cube introduced the megawatt tribute by giving Hill her flowers. “One of the greatest voices in Black music…
Read MoreNavy to build drone-equipped warships instead of replacing ageing destroyers
Plans to replace ageing warships will be scrapped in favour of building at least six new modern “hybrid” vessels equipped to deploy drones in the UK’s upcoming defence strategy. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the new vessels would be more suited to the “pace and nature of modern warfare”, and a better investment than…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Longchamp Names Chinese Opera Star Lijun Chen Local Brand Ambassador
The renaissance of traditional Chinese fashion styles in the local market has lifted the tide for adjacent cultural realms — most recently, a burgeoning fandom around classic Chinese theater. Now one of the industry’s rising stars, the Yue Opera performer and film actress Lijun Chen, has become the face of Longchamp in China. The 34-year-old…
Read MoreBaidu’s chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to buy its semiconductors
TL;DR Baidu’s Kunlunxin targets a $50B Hong Kong IPO and asked investors to commit to buying its chips, blurring the line between shareholder and customer. Baidu’s AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 billion, The Information reported on Sunday. In an unusual twist, the…
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