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Priscilla Mussa is three months old and has spent two of them sleeping on a filthy mattress on a sidewalk in the South African city of Durban. A fuchsia down onesie, a wool cap and a thick blanket that her mother, Rebecca Varis, pulls almost completely over her protect her from the southern winter. Around them there is the smell of a steaming, spiced stew that several dozen men and women are eating for breakfast from plastic cups. Across the sidewalk, washed clothes hang from an iron fence. “This is where we live now,” Varis says, pointing at the mattress.…

Three years ago, artist Maja Malou Lyse, 33, received the most unusual proposal of her career: the CEO of Cryos, the world’s largest sperm bank, offered her 20 liters of semen to make a sculpture. For Lyse, whose practice addresses issues such as female empowerment and the relationship between images, desire and media culture, the idea was so bizarre that she saw possibilities in it. “I thought it was an interesting material and said yes,” she explains. “But after a while I realized I didn’t know what to do with it.” The project ended up taking shape differently from the…

Rafael Velázquez knew guards could find his diary in any search, so after finishing each page that he wrote on the back of official forms, he folded it several times and hid it in a plastic bag among the showers at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center in Florida’s Everglades. During the two months he was held there, he wrote more than 20 pages.“My idea was for the world to know what was happening there, but in our handwriting from the inside,” explains Velázquez, a Colombian who had applied for asylum in the United States and was deported back to…

He makes an entrance as a star usually does: surrounded by a retinue of aides and sparking an immediate change in the atmosphere. With a coffee cup in hand (after 16 years of sobriety), he’s elegant, but also displays a touch of rock ‘n’ roll thanks to the red shirt peeking out from under his black blazer. Ronnie Wood, 79, exudes the legendary aura that only the Rolling Stones possess. The British band released Foreign Tongues – their 25th studio album – on July 10, and the London-born guitarist is ecstatic: “We’re definitely not running out of creativity. And that’s…

Christopher Caldwell, 64, is a veteran U.S. conservative political analyst. A leading writer for the now-defunct The Weekly Standard — something of a bible for Republicans until it shut down in 2018 — he is the author of books such as Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West and The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. He is now a regular contributor to The New York Times Opinion section and has also been a columnist for the Financial Times.Speaking in Spain during the annual meeting of the Cercle d’Economia in Barcelona, Caldwell discusses the increasingly…

“Buenos días,” says a man wearing an orange vest with a logo resembling that of a government agency, speaking in Spanish. His partner is dressed the same way. “We’re working for the city, we’re working on the light pole,” the purported electrician told a resident in South Los Angeles, a predominantly Hispanic area. He said they needed him to move his vehicle so they could carry out the work. It was a trap set for José de Jesús Cortez Delgado. When the Mexican man moved his truck out of the backyard and parked it in an alley beside his house,…

The Euro Step is a basketball move where an offensive player picks up their dribble, takes a long step in one direction to shift the defender, and then quickly steps the opposite way to blow past them and finish at the rim.It’s one of the most effective finishing moves in basketball… and once your players learn it, they’ll want to use it on every single drive.In this guide, I’ll break down the full euro step technique, explain why it’s not a travel (even though it looks like one), cover the most common variations, and give you drills to practice it…

Ciara’s husband Russell Wilson didn’t waste any time pushing for baby number five, according to the singer. Ciara is mom to sons Future, 12, (whom she shares with rapper Future) and Win, 5, as well as daughters Sienna, 9, and Amora, 2. While the couple already have their hands full with four kids, Ciara exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, July 10, that Wilson wants more. “I will tell you, when I was giving birth to Amora, that was our fourth baby, he was like shortly after, ‘So, cinco?’ and I’m like, ‘Wait a minute now, like slow it down,…

Jul 10, 2026; New York City, New York, USA; Boston Red Sox designated hitter Masataka Yoshida (7) hits a two run double against the New York Mets during the first inning at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images Wilyer Abreu had three hits, including a two-run homer, Friday night as the Boston Red Sox capped an eventful day by beating the host New York Mets, 6-2, in the opener of a three-game interleague series. The first pitch was pushed back from 7:15 to 7:51 p.m. ET after the Red Sox didn’t land at nearby LaGuardia Airport until after 4…

Jul 10, 2026; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Los Angeles Angels third baseman Vaughn Grissom (5) hits a RBI sacrifice fly against the Minnesota Twins in the fifth inning at Target Field. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images Vaughn Grissom hit a solo home run and sacrifice fly and Grayson Rodriguez threw 5 1/3 solid innings to lead the Los Angeles Angels to a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night in Minneapolis. Grissom hit his fifth home run of the season in the fourth inning, and the Angels built a 4-1 lead and held on after Rodriguez (3-2) left the…