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The Last of Us season 3 casts Sinners breakout star in key role

The Last of Us season 3 casts Sinners breakout star in key role

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Last of Us season 3 has added even more stars to its cast, with Sinners actress Li Jun Li joining the fray. The post-apocalyptic drama, which will focus its third season on Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby, will see Li play Miriam, a Seraphite and the mother of Lev and Yara, according to Variety. The actress is best known for her role as Grace Chow in Ryan Coogler’s Oscar-winning movie sinners, and she’s set to appear in Marvel’s Spider-Noir alongside Nicolas Cage. It was previously confirmed that Michelle Mao will play Yara and Kyriana Kratter will play Lev, a pair of siblings who encounter Abby at a key moment in their lives. The Last of Us season 3 will show Abby’s experience as a soldier in Seattle, with the character having her perspective changed after seeking revenge against Joel (Pedro Pascal) for her father’s death. Li Jun Li Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic Alongside Dever, cast members Bella Ramsey (Ellie), Isabella Merced (Dina), Gabriel Luna (Tommy) and Jeffrey Wright (Isaac) will return. They’ll be joined by Clea DuVall, who’s playing …

Bryson Tiller Bolts Kansas for Rival Missouri After a Breakout Freshman Season

Bryson Tiller Bolts Kansas for Rival Missouri After a Breakout Freshman Season

Published by Sam Flores

Bryson Tiller is leaving Kansas for bitter rival Missouri after a promising and productive freshman season with the Jayhawks. The 6-foot-11 forward arrived in Lawrence before the spring semester in 2025 and redshirted before playing last season, when Tiller was a regular in the starting lineup. He averaged 7.9 points and 6.1 rebounds, and one of his best games for Kansas came against the Tigers, when he had 13 points, five rebounds and five blocks in an 80-60 rout at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Missouri has been active in the transfer portal, landing Tennessee forward Jaylen Carey and Providence forward Jamier Jones. Tiller visited the Tigers on Sunday and made the decision to join coach Dennis Gates over interest from Michigan, Georgia Tech, NC State, Arizona and others. He visited Miami but canceled a planned visit to Arizona. Kansas already lost another big man, Flory Bidunga, who decided to transfer to Louisville. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Photos You Should …

Best Acne Treatment of 2026 for Every Kind of Breakout

Best Acne Treatment of 2026 for Every Kind of Breakout

Published by Jenni Sidey

Best Complete Acne Treatment: Byoma So Clear Set Getting to grips with acne-prone skin is as much about consistency and continuity when it comes to following a grooming regimen. This starter kit, offering an introduction to some of Byoma’s hardest-working and most effective blemish busters will set you on the right path, features three sized-to-try vegan skin saviors that won’t leave your skin feeling stressed out. The kit includes a Creamy Jelly Cleanser with antioxidant-rich licorice root and green tea extract which forms a gentle foam that breaks down dirt, excess oil and debris without damaging the skin barrier, a Clarifying Serum with blue tansy and PHA + Zinc to clear and calm the complexion, and a Moisturizing Gel Cream, which instantly absorbs into thirsty skin, and features superstar actives, green tea and niacinamide. A one-stop shop for a clearer complexion’s needs, each formulation is enriched with Byoma’s signature lipid-boosting Tri-ceramide Complex. More Acne Treatments We Love Currentbody Skin LED Series 2 Special Kit For those in the know, LED face masks are some of …

How Koa Peat and Brayden Burries Became the Breakout Freshmen Duo of the NCAA Tournament

How Koa Peat and Brayden Burries Became the Breakout Freshmen Duo of the NCAA Tournament

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Arizona duo will join a bunch of other electric one-and-doners to make up the most exciting set of prospects in over 20 years. Headlined by BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, Kansas’s Darryn Peterson, and Duke’s Cameron Boozer, many basketball observers are comparing the 2026 draft class—which could see as many as 20 freshmen selected—to the iconic classes of 1984 (Hakeem, MJ, Barkley, Stockton), 1996 (Iverson, Ray Allen, Kobe, Nash), and 2003 (LeBron, Melo, Bosh, D-Wade). Those drafts were loaded with transformational talents, but never has the NBA seen so many polished 18, 19, and 20-year-olds projected to enter the league in the same year. Most mock drafts predict Burries to be a late lottery selection while Peat is likely to be chosen in the top 20. But before they peace-out of school and devote their attention to the pros, the fabulous freshmen are looking to ace college basketball’s final exam. The duo were a big reason why (aside from their first half against Purdue) Arizona has cruised through the NCAA Tournament. The Cats have won their …

‘A broken heart can turn somebody into a bad Casanova’: breakout R&B star Leon Thomas on defiance, D’Angelo and his ‘doggie’ persona | Music

‘A broken heart can turn somebody into a bad Casanova’: breakout R&B star Leon Thomas on defiance, D’Angelo and his ‘doggie’ persona | Music

Published by Sam Flores

Forget viral hits or sold-out shows: you know you’ve reached the big time when the godfather of funk gives you custom-made headgear. Last spring, Leon Thomas was backstage at California’s Coachella festival and due to join Ty Dolla $ign, his label boss, for a performance alongside George Clinton. The cosmic crusader said to Thomas: “‘You’re the kid who does the dog song, right? I made something for you,’” Thomas recalls. “He gave me this cool white hat with a foxtail on it.” Thomas wore it to play Mutt, his 2024 breakthrough single, followed by a rendition of Clinton’s 1982 P-funk anthem Atomic Dog. But not before Clinton hot-boxed the trailer. “I don’t really smoke weed any more, but I was in the dressing room with him and Ty,” says Thomas, 32. “They both were smoking so much – when I was on stage, I realised, ‘Ohhh, I’m a little buzzed right now!’” A spiritual baton had been passed. “We went up there and rocked the crowd,” Thomas continues. “It was like 12, 13,000 [people] out …

See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models

See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models

Published by José Betancourt

With his last pic­ture The Fabel­mans, Steven Spiel­berg told a sto­ry of his own. Giv­en his long-held stature as more or less the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of big-screen Hol­ly­wood enter­tain­ment, there’s only one such sto­ry he could have told: that of how he became a film­mak­er. The most mem­o­rable of The Fabel­mans depicts the young direc­to­r­i­al sur­ro­gate alone in the base­ment of his fam­i­ly home, re-cre­at­ing the train crash scene from The Great­est Show on Earth with an eight-mil­lime­ter cam­era and a Lionel set. Today, on the brink of his ninth decade with his famous pro­duc­tiv­i­ty hard­ly slow­ing, Spiel­berg remains, on some lev­el, the wide-eyed boy smash­ing his toys togeth­er at just the right angle. What bet­ter way to pay him trib­ute than to repli­cate his cin­e­mat­ic achieve­ments in minia­ture? The Fabel­mans ends with its pro­tag­o­nist a col­lege stu­dent, eager to drop out and go straight to Hol­ly­wood. At the same point in life, the real Spiel­berg was about to receive an offer from Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures to write and direct the short film that became Amblin’, which itself led to a …

Zoomlion looks set for breakout 2026 with .2B in deliveries

Zoomlion looks set for breakout 2026 with $1.2B in deliveries

Published by skeptic

Chinese manufacturing and equipment firm Zoomlion looks set for a breakout year – the company has shipped some 15,000 units with a combined value of approximately 8.5 billion yuan (~1.2B), and we’re barely into March (!). Launched in 1992, the Chinese brand’s broad-ranging portfolio has grown to include everything from humanoid factory robots on up to the world’s largest-capacity 4,000 ton all-terrain crane (shown, above). But, while Zoomlion has already established itself a major player in its home market, it’s still relatively unknown in the West. With a significant portion of its 2026 equipment sales bound for 23 countries, however, that seems set to change. The list of export markets about to receive Zoomlion machines includes Germany, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In the earthmoving and mining segment, Zoomlion’s integrated fleet solution (featuring high-performance hundred-ton-class mining excavators paired with battery-electric mining trucks) was a key component of the overall delivery volume. Over 3,700 units of earthmoving and mining machinery, valued at around 2.3 billion yuan (approx. US$335 million), were shipped from the Zoomlion Smart Industrial …

UK households urged to stockpile 9 key foods for WW3 breakout | UK | News

UK households urged to stockpile 9 key foods for WW3 breakout | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

Shoppers worried about WW3 should turn to 9 key foods (Image: Getty) With US strikes on Iran and the death of the Ayotollah this weekend, alongside Vladimir Putin’s lakeys making yet more nuclear threats to UK, it’s fair to say tensions are continuing to ramp up. It’s the worst case scenario which absolutely nobody wants to think about. But with everything that’s going on in the world right now, there are some fears that World War Three could genuinely be closer than we want to admit and the UK government does advise that households should be prepared, not just for the event of war but for other national emergencies too. Earlier this year, the Doomsday Clock was moved to just 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. The clock has, since just after the end of World War Two, been used to symbolise how close science believes the world is to annihilation, whether environmental, viral or indeed, nuclear. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it triggered a cost of living crisis that saw food …

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: the quarter-zip is the breakout star of 2026 – and I think I know why | Fashion

Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: the quarter-zip is the breakout star of 2026 – and I think I know why | Fashion

Published by Sam Flores

My favourite kind of fashion moment is not a Met Gala headline-maker or a Paris catwalk extravaganza. Nope. My favourite fashion moment is when one piece of clothing is suddenly everywhere for no obvious reason, which is what is happening right now with the quarter-zip sweater. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. The jumper with a chin-to-breastbone zip, which has been around for ever, is the breakout main character of the 2026 wardrobe. At a Chanel catwalk show held in New York recently, a quarter-zip knit was the star of the show, worn with a fancy cocktail-hour skirt and diamond drop earrings. Charli xcx teamed a Saint Laurent one with sunglasses and shorts on her last trip to Paris fashion week. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta wears stealth-wealth dark merino ones in the dugout, rapper Central Cee wears a cream Ralph Lauren one on TikTok – and the man opposite you on the train right now, taking a Zoom call on his AirPods …

Teyana Taylor Has Arrived: The Veteran Star on Her Breakout Year

Teyana Taylor Has Arrived: The Veteran Star on Her Breakout Year

Published by Sam Flores

Last year, that business also meant a return to music. In August 2025, Taylor released Escape Room, which earned her her first Grammy nomination, for best R&B album. Between interludes from a slew of famous friends—including Henson, Nash Betts, Issa Rae, and Jodie Turner-Smith— Taylor works through heartbreak in the wake from her divorce from former NBA player Iman Shumpert, to whom she was married from 2016 until 2023. When we spoke in October, Taylor admitted that their relationship still influences how she thinks about future romantic partnerships. “Divorce, to me, is you’re grieving the death of a living being,” she says. “I think once children are involved, you understand the importance of really still having to show up for each other. At least for the next 18 years, and being the best co-parents that we can be.” But she maintains that she doesn’t “want people to start feeling scared of marriage, because marriage is a beautiful thing.” For “Escape Room,” she also released a “visual album” — a short film starring Lakeith Stanfield and …