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MUSE Announces North American Amphitheater Tour Behind The Wow! Signal – Grateful Web
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Judge Orders Release Of $5.8 Million To E. Jean Carroll After Supreme Court Declined Donald Trump’s Appeal In Sex Abuse And Defamation Case
A federal judge ordered the release of $5.8 million held in an escrow account to writer E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court declined to take Donald Trump’s appeal of a jury’s judgment that he was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued the order on Wednesday, despite efforts…
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Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is ‘nuking the team into the dirt’ and is now the size of a ‘support studio’
“This is what insanity and despicable corporate greed looks like,” said another artist.
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US launches new wave of strikes against Iran after promising to ‘hit them hard’
The United States has carried out a fresh round of strikes on Iran, following President Donald Trump’s warning that he would “hit them hard again tonight”. The attacks, reported by Iranian state media across southern port cities including Bandar Abbas and Sirik on the Strait of Hormuz, mark a sharp escalation in hostilities between the…
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Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Football’s three defining stars of the past two decades — Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah — are preparing for life after the game, and their off-pitch strategies are increasingly diverging. As the 2026 World Cup marks Ronaldo’s final tournament and another career milestone for Messi and Salah, Messi and Ronaldo have moved heavily…
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Divisive Thriller Truly Feels Like a Lost ‘Twilight Zone’ Episode
This Collider article by Anthony Crislip, published on 8 July 2026, revisits M. Night Shyamalan’s 2021 existential horror film Old, arguing that it stands as the director’s work that most closely captures the spirit of Rod Serling’s classic 1960s anthology series The Twilight Zone. The piece matters as a critical reappraisal of a film that…
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Lollapalooza 2026: Here’s Where to Get Affordable Tickets to the Summer Music Festival Online
Billboard has published a guide on where to buy tickets for Lollapalooza 2026, the long-running Chicago music festival, which will run for four days from Thursday 30 July to Sunday 2 August at Grant Park. The piece matters chiefly as a consumer shopping guide, noting that many official dates have already sold out or are…
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Chart Rewind: In 1986, Willie Nelson’s Patriotic ‘Promiseland’ Carried the Torch for Immigration
Billboard’s “Chart Rewind” feature revisits June 1986, when Willie Nelson’s “Living in the Promiseland” reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Written by David Lynn Jones, the song borrowed from Emma Lazarus’s Statue of Liberty poem to champion immigration, and its rise coincided with the landmark’s reopening after restoration — a timely pairing…
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Justin Verlander announces he will retire after this season: ‘I’ve realized that time has come’
Justin Verlander, one of the most decorated pitchers in baseball history, has announced that the 2026 season will be his last, bringing an end to a 22-year Major League career. The three-time Cy Young Award winner and 2011 American League MVP made the announcement on social media on Wednesday, having endured an injury-hit final campaign…
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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing
QuantumDiamonds, a German startup spun out of the Technical University of Munich, has secured €76 million in non-dilutive funding from Germany’s federal economy ministry and the state of Bavaria, approved by the European Commission under the European Chips Act. The money will fund a new Munich facility to produce semiconductor testing equipment, part of a…