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New ARCH ENEMY Singer LAUREN HART: Joining The Band Was ‘A Dream Come True For Me And The Start Of A New Future’
Lauren Hart, the new vocalist for Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, has spoken about her first show fronting the group and the warm reception she has received from fans since joining. Speaking to Germany’s Metal Hammer magazine, Hart described stepping into the role as fulfilling a childhood dream, having grown up admiring the…
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US counterintelligence ‘way behind,’ post-9/11 record ‘extraordinarily negligent’, fmr Trump WH official warns
Former Trump White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster has warned lawmakers that US counterintelligence capabilities have fallen significantly behind the threats posed by China and Russia. He argued that Washington’s near-exclusive post-9/11 focus on counterterrorism allowed rival states to substantially expand their espionage, cyber and influence operations largely unchecked, describing America’s counterintelligence record over…
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Discriminatory ‘shadow’ review process locks White, Asian students out of California med school, DOJ alleges
The Trump administration’s Justice Department has accused UC San Diego’s medical school of illegally discriminating against White and Asian applicants by favouring less-qualified Black and Hispanic candidates through an alleged “shadow” review process. The allegations put nearly $1 billion in federal funding to the university at risk and form part of a wider administration push…
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Country Star Shares Hopeful Update on Daughter After Hospital Stay
Country singer-songwriter Rory Feek has shared an uplifting update after his daughter Indy returned home following an eight-day hospital stay that included open-heart surgery. Indy had earlier needed to be airlifted after fluid built up around her heart, prompting an outpouring of concern and support from fans as Feek kept them informed throughout her treatment…
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Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
A new BloombergNEF report predicts that US data centres will consume roughly one-fifth of the country’s generated electricity by 2035, a fourfold increase from current levels, driven largely by surging demand for AI computing power. This matters because it signals a dramatic acceleration in energy demand forecasts, with data centre capacity expected to reach nearly…
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Caitlin Clark keeps delivering record WNBA viewership as Fever top 1 million viewers yet again
Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever continue to break WNBA television viewership records, with the team’s game against the Golden State Valkyries becoming the most-watched WNBA fixture in USA Sports PR’s tracking history. This underlines Clark’s outsized commercial impact on the league, even as questions persist about how well the WNBA is managing her rise,…
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Liverpool owner in talks to sell stake to QPR co-owner Amit Bhatia
Liverpool’s US owner, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), is in talks to sell a significant minority stake in the club to a consortium led by Queens Park Rangers co-owner Amit Bhatia, backed financially by his father-in-law, the Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. FSG confirmed the negotiations in a statement to the Financial Times, describing the approach…
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Connecticut Sun’s road struggles face a tough test against a Fever team winning seven of its last 10
The Connecticut Sun face a difficult road trip as they travel to take on the Indiana Fever, a team that has won seven of its last ten games and holds a strong home-court advantage built around star guard Caitlin Clark. The matchup comes roughly two months before the WNBA Playoffs begin, in a season that…
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Consortium in talks to buy Liverpool minority stake
A consortium led by British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia is in talks to buy a minority stake in Liverpool FC, according to owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG). The move would mark FSG’s second sale of a partial stake since taking control of the club in 2010, and comes as Bhatia steps away from a long-standing ownership…
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on 21 July 2026 that Washington would investigate open-source Chinese AI models for evidence of intellectual property theft, warning that sanctions could follow against Chinese firms found to have stolen from American companies. The move reflects growing US concern that Chinese models, such as Moonshot AI’s recently released Kimi…