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Forbes
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Mariah Carey Shares ‘Sugar Sweet' Single With Kehlani And Shenseea
Mariah Carey Mariah Carey is gearing up for a major return to music with her first new album in nearly a decade. The Grammy-winning icon teased her return with the single 'Type Dangerous' last month, and followed it up earlier this month with 'Type Dangerous' remix EP featuring Busta Rhymes, Method Man, Redman, Big Sean, DJ Snake, and Luísa Sonza. This week, Carey announced the forthcoming release of her sixteenth album Here For It All, set for release in September. For her latest preview of the project, Carey has released the single 'Sugar Sweet,' a new collaboration with Kehlani and Shenseea that calls to mind Carey's classic mashups of R&B, pop, and hip-hop. Carey recruited R&B producer and frequent Justin Bieber collaborator Harv to bring 'Sugar Sweet' to life. 'Walk to the car and there you are / Can't explain the rush that I feel / Open up the door, you pull me towards you / Then you put your lips on me,' Carey sings on the track. 'Hate it when you have to leave / But I don't say a thing / 'Cause I will absolutely get the ring.' Getting to be able to work with Carey was a dream come true for Kehlani. 'The earliest video of me singing and first song I ever learned was 'Hero' and everybody who knows me knows this is one of my heroes,' Kehlani said of Carey on Instagram. 'This woman is the definition of an icon. To have given us so much for decades and never fail to impress us through all the twists and turns music makes. I am so honored and immensely grateful." At this point in her career, Carey has nothing to prove, and thus was in no rush to make a new album. Instead, she allowed it to come together naturally. 'I would make like four songs and then be like, 'We can start making an album now,' and then I would never do it,' she admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. 'And then I got up to like 10 songs and we were basically ready with an album.' Here For It All is out Sept. 26.
Daily Mirror
10-07-2025
- General
- Daily Mirror
Student pilot dies after horror mid-air collision during training flight
Savanna May Royes was killed when two small training planes collided mid-air just hundreds of yards from the runway of Harv's Air Pilot Training School in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada A young female trainee pilot tragically lost her life when two training planes collided mid-air in a horrifying crash. Savanna May Royes, 20, was killed following the chilling incident, which occurred just after 8.45am local time on Tuesday (2.45pm UK). The pair of small Cessna aircraft were practicing take-offs and landings near a rural runway in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Both planes, belonging to Harv's Air Pilot Training School, crashed mere hundreds of yards from the airstrip in what officials are labelling a rare and tragic event. Both pilots – one a novice and the other nearing qualification for a commercial licence – were declared dead at the scene. Adam Penner, the flight school's president, confirmed to CBC that the aircraft were equipped with radios He stated: "It appears both pilots were trying to land at the same time and collided. We don't understand how they could get so close together. We'll have to wait for the investigation." Savanna May Royes will be remembered as "the essence of pure joy", her family said. They added: "Savanna's faith and laughter will forever touch everyone who was lucky enough to have known her during her short life," her heartbroken family shared in a statement. Local residents Lucille and Nathaniel Plett, who live near the airfield, recounted the eerie sounds of the collision. "We heard some kind of crackling, banging sound and then the engine turned off – I recognised that because sometimes they do stunts around here and they turn the engine off, but they turn it back on," Lucille recounted to Global News. "Next thing we heard is a big crash and a big bang... and we knew this isn't a stunt, this is something serious." Nathaniel recalled: "We saw a pillar of black smoke coming up and a little bit later [we] heard another bang and there was an even bigger pop of black smoke." The incident was out of the ordinary for the flight school, established by Penner's parents in the 1970s, which has been training international students for both recreational and professional aviation careers. "For more than 51 years, we have been offering the very best flight training the safest, most enjoyable way possible," boasts the school's website. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has taken on the investigation of the crash, which occurred roughly 42 miles south of Winnipeg. Three people died after a light aircraft crashed in the French Alps this week. It came down close to Chambéry airport, a small international airport. Footage shows the small aircraft ploughing nose down into the ground, close to a building, with dirt and debris being thrown up into the air.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
US universities are moving to the right. Will it help them escape Trump's wrath?
In 2018, a teaching hospital at Harvard took down 30 portraits of distinguished doctors and researchers affiliated with the hospital. The portraits reinforced a perception that 'white men are in charge', a professor of medicine told the Boston Globe, and were relegated to less prominent areas of the hospital. Some students and faculty welcomed the decision, or were indifferent. Others were disconcerted. They saw the portraits' removal as the impulsive reflex of a university whose political atmosphere, already liberal leaning, seemed to continually lurch further left. In the years following, a series of fierce political winds – the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements; expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; the Israel-Gaza war – buffeted Harvard, and each gale seemed to strengthen progressivism's hold on campus. Harvard began asking academic job applicants to file statements describing their commitment to 'diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging' in higher education. Opponents criticized the statements as political litmus tests. 'Over the last couple of decades, at Harvard and other elite institutions of higher ed, there has been kind of an ideological intensification in one direction,' said Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of the Harvard medical school faculty and a well-known critic of what he describes as leftwing conformity in academia. That ideological intensification is most pronounced in humanities and social science fields, he said, where 'it's quite a dominant reality'. Yet now – with a few years of distance from the ideological tumult that began around 2011, which some critics and observers dubbed 'the great awokening' – the situation feels very different. The Trump administration is pursuing an unprecedented pressure campaign on Harvard, on the grounds that it discriminates against white people and tolerates antisemitism. The university's federal funding is in question, as is its ability to enroll foreign students and make basic decisions about its own management. While many faculty and students at Harvard may still affiliate with the left, their power and influence feel pale in comparison with just a short time ago. The irony of Trump's attack is that Harvard and other universities – keen to appease critics who have accused them in recent years of liberal bias, tolerating antisemitism and being too soft on disruptive student activists – were already angling for an ideological re-alignment. As a result, these universities are now in an odd and paradoxical situation: trying to resist the Trump administration's project of ideological subjugation while at the same time quietly continuing their efforts to sand down their leftwing edges. It's a tricky dance, and it may not satisfy the Trumpist right. The problem is that 'in general, Harvard needs the government much more than the government needs Harvard', the political scientist Harvey Mansfield, who retired from teaching two years ago, said. Mansfield was for decades Harvard's best-known conservative. 'The Trump administration,' Mansfield added, 'has been rather creative in finding ways to torture its victim.' Harvard receives some $9bn in federal funding that is frozen or under review. In contrast to Columbia, which quickly capitulated to the government's demands, including that the university take over control of an academic department from its faculty, Harvard has tried to remain unbowed. It has sued the government, arguing that the Trump administration's actions threaten Harvard's academic freedom and violate federal procedures. Among other things, the Trump administration has demanded that Harvard cease all race- and gender-based affirmative action in hiring and admissions; take measures to screen out foreign students 'hostile to American values'; 'shutter' all DEI programs; and end recognition of several pro-Palestinian campus groups that the Trump administration has accused of antisemitism. The administration's attacks on universities have often emphasized the idea that they are centers of leftwing indoctrination. While it may or may not be the case that universities are incubators of a 'woke-mind virus', as Elon Musk and others have suggested, studies of the political makeup of the American professoriate do support the idea that it is disproportionately left-leaning. A 2016 study of voter affiliation at '40 leading US universities' found that in humanities and social science fields, such as history, economics, journalism and psychology, professors who were registered Democrats outnumbered registered Republicans by almost 12 to one. A 2022 survey by the Harvard Crimson found that 80% of faculty there identified as 'liberal' or 'very liberal'; only 1% identified as 'conservative', and none as 'very conservative'. In a letter last month to the US Department of Education, Harvard's president, Alan Garber, objected to the 'claim that Harvard is a partisan institution'. Yet he also acknowledged a 'need for greater intellectual diversity on campus' and indicated, without elaborating, that the university was taking 'initiatives to make Harvard a more pluralistic and welcoming place'. Last year, before Trump was again elected president, Harvard already appeared to be trying to change course. The school's Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that instead of 'diversity statements', applicants would submit statements on their 'efforts to strengthen academic communities'. The university also convened a working group to study 'open inquiry' on campus. The group's report, released last October, found that 45% of students and 51% of teaching faculty were reluctant to discuss charged topics in class. More recently, in the face of Trump administration pressure, Harvard and other universities have walked back DEI efforts. Harvard recently renamed its diversity office the 'office for community and campus life' and said that it would no longer fund 'affinity celebrations', which are optional graduation events for identity-based groups, after the federal government said it would cut funding because of them. Harvard's most aggressive moves, however, have been its efforts to suppress sentiment viewed as being anti-Israel. In January, following a legal settlement with a group of students who accused the university of tolerating antisemitism, Harvard adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, despite opposition by people – including the author of the definition – who argue it is too easily used against critics of Israel. In March, the university dismissed the leaders of the school's Center for Middle Eastern Studies as well as suspended the Harvard Divinity School's 'Religion, Conflict, and Peace' Initiative. Critics had accused both of promoting one-sided views of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Other colleges and universities have taken similar tacks. Last year, Muhlenberg college, in Pennsylvania, fired Maura Finkelstein, an anthropologist known for her stridently anti-Zionist views, on the grounds that her perspective discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students. Universities broadly have taken restrictive measures to prevent a resurgence of widespread pro-Palestinian protests. The Atlantic recently speculated that Harvard and other universities, spurred by the political climate, may engage in a kind of 'affirmative action' for conservatives. Johns Hopkins announced a project this April, in collaboration with the right-of-center American Enterprise Institute, to 'increase heterodox faculty across the university'. It is unclear if academia's efforts to move right will make much difference. When it comes to higher education, the Trumpian right has not generally seemed forgiving of the ideological indulgences of the recent past. Despite Columbia's capitulation and Harvard's concessions, the government has not shown many signs that it is going to moderate its aggression. The University of Florida recently un-hired Santa Ono, an academic who was formerly the president of the University of Michigan, because conservatives disapproved of his past support for diversity efforts. Ono's efforts to distance himself from his own decisions made no difference. Reforms and compromises may not be enough to satisfy officials whose ultimate goal may look less like reform and more like retribution.
