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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Britney Spears will soon release her first new song in six years—and her first since a judge ended her controversial 13-year-long conservatorship—in a duet with Elton John called “Hold Me Closer,” a representative for John confirmed to Forbes on Monday. Key Facts John teased fans with a social media post featuring a photo of a rocket emoji, symbolizing his song “Rocket Man,” and a rose, a favorite symbol of Spears’. The song is due in the coming days, according to Variety . The single is rumored to be a new version of John’s 1971 hit “Tiny Dancer.” Key Background Spears had largely disappeared from the music scene in the last few years while fighting a a conservatorship that left several court-appointed people, including her dad Jamie, in charge of her career and her financial and personal decisions. Her last release was in 2020, which was a re-issue of her 2016 album … [Read more...] about Britney Spears Releasing Duet With Elton John—In Return To Music After Ending Conservatorship

Former President Donald Trump released a campaign-style advertisement on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Tuesday following the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home. The ad begins with the former president appearing to target President Joe Biden’s administration, calling the U.S. a “nation in decline,” lamenting the 40-year record high inflation and rising energy costs. He described the alleged loss of free speech, a collapsing economy, rising crime and the withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We’re a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never before, we’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. “We’re a nation that no longer has a free and fair press. Fake news is about all you get. We are a nation where free speech is no longer allowed. Where crime is rampant like never before, where the economy has been collapsing, where more people died of COVID in 2021 than in 2020.” Trump then claimed that the U.S. is allowing Iran to … [Read more...] about ‘We Will Not Yield’: Trump Releases New Campaign-Style Ad

(CTN News) – Here are the instructions on how to obtain the Tower of Fantasy Twitch drops if you tune in and watch Hotta Studios’ new Genshin Impact-style game being played by streamers; find out where you can get them. Tower of Fantasy has an anime-style game design and an open world storytelling style that rivals Genshin Impact 3.0. We’re giving away a bunch of Twitch drops to celebrate its launch, so here’s how to get them. You’ll want to check out Tower, if you’ve ever wanted to see what riding a motorbike in Genshin Impact would be like. Over 3 million people have already registered for Teyvat, which focuses on cyberpunk-style combat rather than Teyvat’s magical world. With Tower of Fantasy’s release date just around the corner, Hotta Studio has partnered with streaming giant Twitch to offer players a series of exclusive rewards; all you have to do is join. Are you looking to score some Tower Twitch drops? You can find everything you need here. Rewards … [Read more...] about Twitch Drops In ‘Tower of Fantasy’ And How To Claim Them

This article first appeared in The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on August 1, 2022 - August 07, 2022. - A + A WILL it be third time’s the charm for Jardine Cycle & Carriage Ltd, which launched yet another unconditional takeover offer for Cycle & Carriage Bintang Bhd (CCB) on July 14? Jardine’s bid to acquire the rest of the shares in CCB that it does not already own — at an offer price of RM2.70 per share — marks its third attempt at making CCB a fully owned subsidiary. As with the first two exercises, the current offer is expected to fall short, because even though it is higher than the previous offers of RM2.20 per share followed by another at RM2.40, it is still far from the RM4.65 enterprise value (EV) that the main dissenting shareholder Datuk David Goh contends it is worth. In an exclusive interview with The Edge in July last year, Goh said that the underlying value of CCB — one of the largest Mercedes-Benz dealerships in the country — was at … [Read more...] about Suspense over Jardine’s third attempt at CCB privatisation

Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Bergen's new paperback is "The Rise and fall of Osama bin Laden." from which this article is, in part, adapted. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) In 1961, after a CIA-backed invasion of Cuba failed spectacularly, President John F. Kennedy said of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, "Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan." Peter Bergen Last week, President Joe Biden took a victory lap when he announced that the US had tracked down and killed its most wanted terrorist, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was living in a house in Kabul, Afghanistan. Don't expect a similar celebration on August 30, the first anniversary of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which ended the longest war in American history. Any realistic assessment of that action shows that it … [Read more...] about Opinion: Biden’s Afghanistan exit decision looks even worse a year later

Gene Seymour is a critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. Follow him on Twitter @GeneSeymour . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) Nobody trusts my ability to forecast the future, least of all me. Nevertheless, I feel fairly safe in predicting that WNBA star Brittney Griner will not serve all nine years of her sentence by a Russian court for drug possession and smuggling. Gene Seymour It's not that much of a stretch to imagine this coming true, especially when recapping the basis for that charge: two vape cartridges of hashish oil found in Griner's luggage at a Moscow airport in February. Nine years? For two cartridges? The maximum sentence is 10 years , and at least Griner didn't get that. Those with long enough memories can't help but think of the incredulous … [Read more...] about Opinion: What happens next to Brittney Griner is beyond our control

Jill Dougherty is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) Some of the most dramatic -- and diplomatically delicate -- moments in United States-Russia relations are linked to prisoner exchanges. Jill Dougherty February 10, 1962: In a Cold War, Hollywood-style trade on the Glienicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, two men -- an American and a Soviet -- walked in opposite directions across what would decades later be known as the "Bridge of Spies." They were Francis Gary Powers, the American pilot of a spy plane shot down over the USSR, and Soviet KGB colonel Rudolph Abel, who had served five years in the US on espionage charges. More than half a century later, Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, certainly knows the value of prisoner swaps. In April, his administration freed former US Marine … [Read more...] about Opinion: Putin’s prisoner swap calculus

Washington (CNN) After months of internal debate, the Biden administration has offered to exchange Viktor Bout , a convicted Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year US prison sentence, as part of a potential deal to secure the release of two Americans held by Russia , Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, according to people briefed on the matter. These sources told CNN that the plan to trade Bout for Whelan and Griner received the backing of President Joe Biden after being under discussion since earlier this year. Biden's support for the swap overrides opposition from the Department of Justice, which is generally against prisoner trades. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that "so far, there is no agreement on this issue." Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that the US presented a "substantial proposal" to Moscow "weeks ago" for Whelan and Griner, who are classified as wrongfully detained. Speaking at a press … [Read more...] about CNN Exclusive: Biden administration offers convicted Russian arms dealer in exchange for Griner, Whelan

Congress has spent the last few weeks hammering out next year’s authorizations and funding decisions. advertisement advertisement On the policy side, CHIPS and Science passed in both the House and Senate last week.  On the funding side, policymakers have been reviewing and amending next year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which will provide funding for military space programs. CHIPS and Science The finalized Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act included an authorization bill for NASA–the first new authorization the agency has received in more than five years. Authorization vs. budget: The authorization bill under the CHIPS act is a policy bill, meaning that it didn’t provide or recommend any new funding to the agency. NASA’s funding is determined through the President’s federal budget request , which was released in late March for FY23. advertisement Instead, the authorization … [Read more...] about Congress is busy considering space funding and authorizations

It looks like an ordinary pill that’s roughly the size of a fish-oil supplement. But when someone swallows the capsule, they don’t digest it. Instead, when it makes its way into the intestines, it uses a tiny dissolvable needle to give a painless injection. advertisement advertisement The device, called the RaniPill, is the winner of the health category of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards , and it’s designed to solve an important challenge: Millions of patients have conditions that can be effectively treated with injections, but many of them avoid taking shots. advertisement advertisement The company, which raised $73 million in an IPO in 2021, currently has five drugs under development—all already approved, and most off-patent, for conditions including cancer and rare diseases—to test the efficacy of their use with the auto-injector. The next trial will test how the pill performs with an osteoporosis drug … [Read more...] about The pill that could make routine injections for millions of patients obsolete