Harry Styles shares powerful tribute to David Hockey as he kicks off Wembley residency
The beloved artist, who died on Thursday, painted a colourful portrait of the singer

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The beloved artist, who died on Thursday, painted a colourful portrait of the singer

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This year’s World Cup tournament boasted not one but three opening ceremonies – but which nation commanded the most star power?

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Styles is the consummate entertainer, a charisma factory who lights the place up better than any pyrotechnics

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Other western acts have attempted to crack country’s music scene since singer’s breakout success in 2018
One week after announcing she was “cancer free”, the British pop star Jessie J did what any recovering patient would do and travelled thousands of miles around the world to perform for an audience of more than a billion people.
On 29 May, the singer-songwriter, whose real name is Jessica Cornish, belted out a stage-rattling rendition of Frank Sinatra’s My Way on the stage of Singer, a hugely popular Chinese singing competition similar to The Voice. She also performed her new song, California, briefly adapting the lyrics to change California to Changsha, the Chinese city where Singer is hosted.
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Os Estados Unidos começaram a Copa do Mundo de 2026 da forma que sua torcida sonhava. Empurrada por mais de 70 mil torcedores no SoFi Stadium, em Los Angeles, a seleção comandada por Mauricio Pochettino dominou o Paraguai do início ao fim e venceu por 4 a 1 na abertura do Grupo D. O grande nome da partida foi o atacante Folarin Balogun, autor de dois gols, enquanto o meia Christian Pulisic liderou a criação ofensiva em uma atuação que reforçou as ambições dos anfitriões no torneio.

A equipe norte-americana praticamente resolveu o confronto ainda no primeiro tempo. Com marcação alta, intensidade e velocidade pelas pontas, os EUA pressionaram desde os minutos iniciais e abriram o placar aos sete minutos. Em jogada construída pelo lado esquerdo, a bola foi desviada para dentro da própria meta pelo volante Damián Bobadilla, que acabou marcando contra ao tentar cortar a investida adversária.
O gol aumentou a confiança dos anfitriões e desmontou o plano paraguaio. Pouco depois, Balogun ampliou ao concluir uma das diversas jogadas criadas por Pulisic. O atacante voltou a balançar as redes antes do intervalo, desta vez com uma finalização potente no ângulo, consolidando uma vantagem confortável para os donos da casa. Ao final dos primeiros 45 minutos, o placar apontava 3 a 0 para os norte-americanos, a maior vantagem dos Estados Unidos ao intervalo em uma partida de Copa do Mundo.
Se Balogun foi decisivo nos números, Pulisic foi o cérebro da equipe. Após chegar ao Mundial cercado por questionamentos sobre seu desempenho recente no Milan, o camisa 10 respondeu com uma atuação de alto nível. Participou diretamente das principais jogadas ofensivas, distribuiu passes em profundidade e desequilibrou a defesa paraguaia durante toda a etapa inicial.

O Paraguai, treinado por Gustavo Alfaro, tentou reagir após o intervalo. Com mais posse de bola e postura ofensiva, a equipe sul-americana conseguiu diminuir a diferença aos 28 minutos do segundo tempo, quando Maurício aproveitou uma das poucas falhas defensivas dos norte-americanos para marcar o gol de honra. Apesar da melhora momentânea, os paraguaios seguiram encontrando dificuldades para superar a organização dos anfitriões.
Sem perder o controle da partida, os Estados Unidos administraram a vantagem e continuaram criando oportunidades. Nos acréscimos, Gio Reyna fechou a goleada com uma bela finalização, decretando o 4 a 1 e transformando a estreia em uma noite histórica para a seleção da casa. O quarto gol também representou um marco estatístico: foi a primeira vez que os norte-americanos marcaram quatro vezes em um jogo de Copa do Mundo.

Além do resultado expressivo, a atuação reforçou a evolução da equipe sob o comando de Pochettino. Mais agressivos ofensivamente e com maior capacidade de controle do jogo, os Estados Unidos apresentaram um futebol diferente daquele visto em edições recentes do Mundial. Balogun, por sua vez, entrou para a história ao se tornar o primeiro jogador norte-americano a marcar dois gols em uma partida de Copa desde 1930.
Com a vitória, os Estados Unidos assumem a liderança provisória do Grupo D e ganham confiança para a sequência da competição. Já o Paraguai precisará reagir rapidamente para não comprometer suas chances de classificação logo nas primeiras rodadas. O resultado também amplia a expectativa em torno da campanha dos anfitriões, que sonham em transformar o fator casa em uma trajetória memorável diante de sua torcida.
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Singer released ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ earlier this month, ahead of highly anticipated Disney Pixar film’s arrival

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O artista Kássio atua este domingo, dia 14 de Junho, no programa “Domingão”, da SIC, em emissão especial desde a cidade de Quarteira, prometendo uma tarde de muita música, animação e proximidade com o público. Reconhecido como uma das grandes vozes da música ligeira portuguesa e com uma carreira de mais de duas décadas, o […]
The Welsh singer disappeared from the spotlight in 2010

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US artist scatters warning signs through the first side of the album in a way that feels pre-emptive, like she should have seen them all along

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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up.
The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.
Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.
That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.
It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.
Music is made to be as profitable as possible, which means giving it the broadest possible appeal using formulaic song structure calculated to cause a chemical response in the largest number of human brains.
Movies are designed to draw the largest possible box office revenue at the lowest possible risk to studios and investors, often by just rehashing a movie that’s already proven successful in the past or by slapping together a story about an IP with pre-existing mass appeal.
Food is made to be fast and addictive rather than nourishing.
Healthy human connection has been commodified as social media intertwines with friendships and dating apps insert themselves into the development of romantic relationships.
Human sexuality is being warped and twisted as internet porn normalizes violence and degradation for the maximum number of clicks.
Attention and engagement have been monetized, creating an information ecosystem dominated by conflict and gossip designed to appeal to our baser instincts.
Advertisement is injected into every possible corner of our waking sensory experience, with any available space where the eye might rest or the ear might listen being flooded with psychological manipulation compelling us to consume. They’ll start running commercials in our dreams the instant they have the technology to do so.
You spend eight hours at the office working to generate corporate profits, then you come home and consume products to profit other corporations. You need your beer and snacks to unwind, your streaming services and social media to distract your mind from the stress of it all, your online clothing purchase to try to feel good about yourself, and your prescription drugs to get to sleep at night. People live their entire lives like this.
And that’s those of us who are lucky enough to be living in the global north. In the global south you get wage slavery and exploitation with far more toil, far less relaxation time, and no cheap products made by impoverished workers on other continents with which to comfort yourself.
All of humanity has been roped into this mess. And for what? To make the numbers in some bank accounts increase. To get some green arrows pointing upward on the stock exchange. To enable a few billionaires to buy islands and elections.
All while destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival.
This, we are told, is the best possible system we could possibly be living under.
I personally do not believe this is true. I personally believe we can have better. Those who benefit from this current arrangement are going to assure us it’s impossible and do everything they can to stop us from changing it, but we do have the means to reclaim the wealth, dignity and happiness that they have stolen from us.
They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up.
Original article: caitlinjohnstone.com.au

Grande is the latest in a series of pop musicians including Sabrina Carpenter and SZA who have been angered by Trump administration videos
Ariana Grande has rebuked Donald Trump’s White House over use of her music in a video documenting the detaining of immigrants.
Earlier this week, the White House posted a montage of ICE agents handcuffing and detaining people, with the caption “Bye-bye President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history”. It was soundtracked by Grande’s 2024 song Bye.
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The band’s original line-up will perform the album, which features hits such as ‘In the Morning’ and ‘America’, in full during ther tour

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