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Barbra Streisand‘s upcoming album The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two is a collaborative effort that will feature duets with Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Sting, Hozier, Laufey, Sam Smith, Tim McGraw, Josh Groban, Seal, and Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande. It arrives in stores on June 27, but Streisand released her first single, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” featuring Hozier, on Wednesday. “I’ve always loved singing duets with gifted artists,” Streisand says in a statement. “They inspire me in unique and different ways…and make our time in the studio a joy! My new album gave…

As Sarah Strong dominated the South Carolina frontcourt during UConn’s national championship victory, gobbling up rebounds, protecting the rim and scoring from everywhere on the court, it was easy to imagine her also doing so at the next level. WNBA executives had to be drooling over the idea of drafting the next Huskies star.But they’ll have to wait another three years. Under the collective bargaining agreement, which expires at the end of the 2025 season, American-born players are eligible to be drafted after completing four years of college. The one exception is that players can declare after their junior seasons…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More One criticism of computer use platforms and other search agents is that you cannot complete any transactions within the same window if you use them to find a product or a hotel.  Mastercard aims to change that by integrating AI companies and platforms into its payments network, enabling users and enterprises to transact seamlessly within their respective ecosystems. Today the company announced Agent Pay, a new payments program that brings the Mastercard payments system to AI chat platforms.  Greg Ulrich, Mastercard’s…

The funeral of Pope Francis — the world’s first Argentinean pontiff — will be held in Rome early Saturday as Catholics around the globe gather to pay their respects. Francis died Monday at the age of 88 from a stroke — a complication of chronic lung disease, which had plagued the pope for months. His death now sets off the tradition of finding a new Vatican leader through the tradition known as a conclave. Scores of world leaders are also expected to attend Francis’s funeral Saturday in St. Peter’s Square, from President Trump and former President Biden to Italian Prime…

Do we really have free will when it comes to eating? It’s a vexing question that is at the heart of why so many people find it so difficult to stick to a diet.To get answers, one neuroscientist, Harvey J. Grill of the University of Pennsylvania, turned to rats and asked what would happen if he removed all of their brains except their brainstems. The brainstem controls basic functions like heart rate and breathing. But the animals could not smell, could not see, could not remember.Would they know when they had consumed enough calories?To find out, Dr. Grill dripped liquid…

Founded by Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, the Hilton Foundation is one of the biggest financial backers of Catholic sisters’ work around the world, and has given roughly $28.5 million to Vatican-led initiatives, including Vatican departments, since 2020.Francis saw donors as vital partners. He looked to them not only to fund the causes dear to him but also to plug the Vatican’s creaky finances. In February, while the pope was recovering from a near-death bout of double pneumonia, he created the Commissio de Donationibus pro Sancta Sede, a committee to fund-raise directly for the curia, or the Vatican’s governing hierarchy,…

The life and legacy of Pope Francis — a pontiff who defied easy definition and led the Roman Catholic Church through a dozen years of different phases and contradictions — are not easy to fit into a single homily.But that was the task for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, on Saturday.“He was a pope among the people, with an open heart toward everyone,” Cardinal Re said beside Francis’ coffin from the steps of St. Peter’s Square. “He was also a pope attentive to the signs of the times and what the Holy Spirit was…

The melting Arctic icecap. Record-smashing wildfires across several provinces. A country that, on average, is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world.And yet, as Canadians go to the polls Monday, climate change isn’t even among the top 10 issues for voters, according to recent polling.“That’s just not what this election is about,” said Jessica Green, a political scientist at the University of Toronto who focuses on climate issues.What the election is about, nearly everyone agrees, is choosing a leader who can stand up to Donald J. Trump. The American president has been threatening Canada with a…

Oasis have officially reformed – with brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher performing together for the first known time in 16 years. Ahead of their series of concerts this summer, The Sun newspaper reports that the Gallaghers took to the stage in top secret at a London working men’s club. Both brothers were seen arriving ahead of filming a set of songs, to be included in a promotional film for their upcoming reunion tour. The newspaper reports that locals in Stoke Newington, north London, complained about the noise being made by the hitmakers as they took over the Mildmay club on…

As if 630 home runs and a trip to the Hall of Fame were not enough, Ken Griffey Jr. has taken up a new activity since he retired in 2010: photography.Most recently he was spotted taking pictures at the Masters where he captured an image of the winner, Rory McIlroy, celebrating on his knees that spread quickly online. But Griffey, a.k.a. the Kid, has been shooting for years in the sporting and non-sporting realms.“Because I played baseball, then I’m not allowed to do anything else?” Griffey, 55, said in an interview. “They see me as one thing; that’s not necessarily…