Just as Rihanna did for April Fool"s Day last year, Britney Spears gave Jimmy Kimmel a pleasant though shocking surprise as the late-night host tried to sleep. Kimmel"s wife conspired with the pop star for the prank.
In the Jimmy Kimmel Live! clip, Spears sneaks through Kimmel"s house close to 2 a.m. with a troupe of shirtless male dancers sporting tribal body paint. Spears and the dancers launch into a performance of Spears" new single "Make Me." At one point, Spears jumps on the bed, whipping her hair and body rolling. The dancers also jumped on the bed, performing on top of Kimmel"s body as he remained laying down.
After the performance, Kimmel jokingly confronted his wife and met with Spears, who was worried that his kids were home. He also noticed the man providing all the special effects and lighting on his body, covered in multi-colored tinsel and flashing lights that were attached to his shoulders and head.
Spears" ninth album, Glory, will be released via Apple Music on August 26th.
Britney Spears announced on Twitter that "Glory" will arrive in just a few weeks. Watch here.
Alex Morgan was healthy and scoring goals then, helping the U.S. women"s national team to an Olympic gold medal in 2012. And she"s healthy and scoring goals now, gearing up to help the U.S. attempt to win another one.
"I think the window in between is the interesting part," USA coach Jill Ellis said of her star forward, one of the highest-profile Central Florida-based athletes competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
During the past four years, Morgan has gone through a series of injuries bone bruises, sprained ankles, knee issues. She"s pushed to come back from each one, regaining her spot at the forefront of the national team as it begins an endeavor to become the first country to win a FIFA World Cup and Olympic gold back-to-back.
There have been endorsements Coca Cola, GNC, Wheat Thins, ChapStick, Nike and Nationwide, among others that brought in money beyond her soccer salary, and accusations of wage discrimination, leading Morgan and her teammates to fight the U.S. Soccer Federation for pay equal to their male counterparts.
She has become a world champion; gotten married to her college sweetheart, Orlando City midfielder Servando Carrasco; and moved to a new city to become the leader and face of the Orlando Pride National Women"s Soccer League team.
It has all changed Morgan and motivated her to remain one of the most threatening forwards in the world as the U.S. women"s national soccer team launches its Olympic campaign with a match against New Zealand at 6 p.m. Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony. Matches against France and Colombia follow to round out Group G.
Morgan is one of seven on the 18-player U.S. roster who previously competed in the Olympics, and one of three players who scored a goal during the 2012 London games.
"It"s really crazy to think about myself four years ago because I feel like I was just so much younger, and I feel like it was so long ago even though it wasn"t too long ago," said Morgan, 27. "It"s exciting to think about where I was then and where I am now, just how much I feel like I"ve grown as a teammate, as a player, as a person.
"I feel like I"m just in a very different place now, and I"ve gone through a lot to be able to give myself the experience needed for this Olympics. So, I feel like I"m really excited to go to this Olympics now with the knowledge and experience I"ve gained over the years and having a greater role with the team."
On paper, Morgan"s 2012 seems hard to top. She scored 28 goals for the national team and had 21 assists. Morgan scored a game-winner in the 123rd minute of an Olympic match against Canada, sending her team to a duel with Japan in the final. She took her place on the podium, lowered her head to accept an Olympic medal and then turned to former teammate Abby Wambach to simultaneously kiss the hard-won gold around their necks. She was named U.S. Soccer"s Female Athlete of the Year and a finalist for FIFA World Player of the Year.
Morgan entered 2012 with 27 international appearances and 10 goals. She finished it with 58 caps and 38 goals.
But she enters the Rio Olympics with 112 caps and 67 goals for the national team, with first-hand experience of what it takes to win it all and renewed determination to prove herself after multiple seasons full of setbacks.
So far this season, she has started in 12 of 13 international matches and played for 990 minutes. She leads the U.S. team with 11 goals and also has three assists.
"Four years ago, 2012, that"s when I was first barely starting with the national team. Before that, I was coming off the bench a lot, getting five minutes, 15 minutes, whatever it may be," Morgan said. "[These Olympic games] do feel different because I feel like I have a greater role. ... I feel like there are just more eyes on me. So, obviously that puts a little pressure on me to just perform every single game."
Part of that leadership role included joining goalkeeper Hope Solo, defender Becky Sauerbrunn and midfielders Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe as a voice for the women"s national team, which is seeking a compensation structure equal to the men"s team. The five players filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions and await a decision while pushing to negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Another dominant performance in the Olympics could reinforce their slogan pushing for "Equal Play, Equal Pay."
The inability to score the number of goals she"d hoped for in club play with the Orlando Pride adds to the pressure Morgan faces in Rio. She is tied for third on the Orlando expansion team for goals scored with two.
"There"s always those spells that strikers go through," said Pride coach Tom Sermanni, who also coached the U.S. women"s national team from 2013-14. "The thing that Alex does is she takes a lot of pressure off other players because virtually every time she gets the ball, there are two or three players manhandling her and she has to cope and deal with that. That opens up the space for other players."
That"s "been difficult," Morgan said of the limited scoring with the Pride, but the pressure to perform isn"t a bad thing.
She is embracing Olympic challenges and thinks the young U.S. national team will thrive with the high expectations of the nation on its shoulders.
Ellis doesn"t seem worried, either. She sees many similarities between 2012 Player of the Year Morgan and 2016 Morgan along with some improvement.
Morgan"s movement and running off the ball has evolved significantly, as has her timing and touch, Ellis said.
"Was she an important piece of the attack then? And now? Yes," Ellis said. "And, you know, we"re going to play a little bit differently. Then, it was running and chasing goals down. We still want her to penetrate and make runs in behind, but now she has b***s coming in the box to her. She"s going to get a lot more service."
As Ellis said, things have changed in the past four years, but a lot remains the same, including one thing in particular.
"Putting on the jersey and representing the crest is the same every time," Morgan said. "There"s a lot of excitement building on all fronts. I feel like we"ve been talking about it for so many months and now it"s just around the corner."
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Opening kickoff
The U.S. women"s soccer team opens the Rio Olympics at 6 p.m. Wednesday against New Zealand. The match will air on the NBC Sports Network.
Last month, to the dismay of his Aerosmith bandmate, Steven Tyler released a country album called Were All Somebody From Somewhere. Featured on said album is a re-worked, acoustic version of the Aerosmith track Janies Got A Gun, which apparently was recorded with the surviving/remaining members of Stone Temple Pilots. In a post on the STP website, guitarist Dean DeLeo said the re-working and recording the track was done over a single afternoon in 2015. Check out photos from the studio along with the full statement from DeLeo and stream the track below.
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Back in 2015 , Robert, Eric and myself spent and afternoon with Steven Tyler reworking and recording Janies Got A Gun. The song is on Stevens latest record titled Were All Somebody From Somewhere.What a beautiful day we all had in the studio. Steven is electric. No one better !!! For real !!! Hope ya dig the track.
Were All Somebody From Somewhere is out now on Dot Records.
The pictures triggered some amusing tabloid headlines. The Sun went with "Sword of the Rings", referencing Bloom"s breakthrough role. Inside the paper, it punned "Privates of the Caribbean", a play on his more recent fantasy series.
"Blooming Oarsome Orlando", said the Daily Star, while the New York Daily News posted the pictures on Twitter stating: "FULL BLOOM: Orlando Bloom bares all on vacation with Katy Perry."
Several amusing tweets followed the publication of the pictures:
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil A new era opens for the U.S. women"s soccer team at the Olympic Games as a generation of younger players seeks to continue the global domination established at last year"s World Cup. Bidding to add Olympic gold to World Cup success, the U.S. will have 11 Olympic newcomers on its roster when it opens against New Zealand on Wednesday (6 p.m.) at the Mineirao Stadium. It will be the team"s first major competition since the retirement of players such as Abby Wambach and Lauren Holiday following last year"s triumph in Canada. "Of course we had some gigantic losses, some players that have been around the game for quite some time, and they are irreplaceable, really," veteran goalkeeper Hope Solo said. "But we have something different and I don"t think anybody has seen the U.S. team as we are right now. Nobody knows what to expect, with our younger players, with our new talent, with our formation. So I think it"s going to be exciting." Seeking a fourth straight Olympic gold, the Americans are also without Christine Rampone because of injury, while Sydney Leroux and Amy Rodriguez are pregnant. Two other key players, captain Carli Lloyd and midfielder Megan Rapinoe are coming to Brazil recovering from health problems. Rapinoe is not expected to play in the early games. "There"s been a little bit of a change in the roster, but it"s good," Lloyd said. "I think we have about 11 players who are competing in their first Olympics, which is a huge turnaround, but I also think that those players bring experience, they"ve been around this team, they"ve earned quite a few a caps with the team and are doing very well. So I think that, mixed in with us old folks, we will be all right." Among the Olympic newcomers are a few players who also made it to the World Cup last year, including Meghan Klingenberg, Ali Krieger, Morgan Brian and Whitney Engen. The youngest player in the current roster is 18-year-old Mallory Pugh. The U.S. is trying to become the first team to win the Olympics after succeeding at the World Cup. Lloyd, the team"s captain in Rio, said the U.S. remains favored to win the title despite the revamped team. "I think the toughest [opponents] are going to be ourselves," said Lloyd, who scored a hat trick in the World Cup final against Japan. "No other team should intimidate our team. Of course, there are going to be tough contenders, but honestly, not a single team intimidates me." The U.S. is trying to win its fifth gold medal since women"s soccer became an Olympic sport in 1996. It won its third World Cup title in Canada, the first since 1999. "I think we are always feeling the pressure of coming back with gold. It"s just in our DNA," Lloyd said. "Even if we hadn"t won the World Cup we"d still be under tremendous pressure to win. It comes with being the No. 1 team in the world and going for a fourth consecutive gold medal. We are super excited to get started. I know this team has a lot of talent and depth and we have the opportunity to really create history." After playing New Zealand, the U.S. faces powerhouse France and then Colombia in Group G of the 12-team Olympic tournament. Second-ranked Germany, fifth-ranked Australia, sixth-ranked Sweden and host Brazil loom as potential quarterfinal opponents. "We as a team acknowledge the pressure," Solo said. "We know that the target is on our backs. We are ranked No. 1 for quite some time, we won last year"s World Cup, we won the last Olympics. It doesn"t make it easy. We don"t come into any tournament with an extreme amount of confidence or arrogance. We know that the job is going to be extremely difficult to repeat winning a gold medal."
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1. Donald Trumps campaign has been buoyed by a torrent of small donations over the past month that nearly evened the financial playing field with Mrs. Clinton. His war chest now boasts $74 million in cash.
Still, the Republicans disarray was on display as Mike Pence, the vice-presidential nominee, endorsed Speaker Paul Ryans re-election bid a day after Mr. Trump declined to.
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Video Unfiltered Voices From Donald Trump"s Crowds
New York Times reporters have covered Donald J. Trump"s rallies for more than a year. His supporters at these events often express their views in angry and provocative ways. Here are some examples.
By ERICA BERENSTEIN, NICK CORASANITI and ASHLEY PARKER on Publish Date August 3, 2016. . Watch in Times Video
2. Mr. Trumps rallies often stir strong emotions, but one aspect sets them apart from other political gatherings: the frequency with which his supporters use coarse and violent language.
The video sampling above captures a range of the vulgarities and racial and ethnic slurs that have sometimes characterized Trump events.
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3. The hacks that infiltrated computer systems on the Democratic side have made election cybersecurity a new focus for the Department of Homeland Security.
Intelligence agencies have told the White House they have a high degree of confidence that Russia was behind the breaches.
Above, Hillary Clinton campaigned in Colorado.
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Video Exporting Terror
In this rare jailhouse interview, a former ISIS member from Germany tells his story and provides new insight into the militant groups plot to attack Western countries.
By ANDREW GLAZER, RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and BEN LAFFIN on Publish Date August 3, 2016. Photo by Gordon Welters for The New York Times. Watch in Times Video
4. From a prison in Germany, a former ISIS member gave our reporter a detailed account of his rapid disillusionment with the group in Syria and his escape from its clutches. (Watch the video, above.)
His experience, including being urged by masked men to return to Germany to spearhead attacks there, adds insight into how a unit of the Islamic State, called the Emni, exports terror abroad.
For Americans, he said, the unit prefers to recruit over the internet: They say we can radicalize them easily, and if they have no prior record, they can buy guns.
5. India overhauled its tangled tax code, a major victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi that economists say should significantly boost the countrys growth rate.
This is hugely consequential for the ease of doing business, an analyst said, and for demonstrating to the outside world that India is dragging its economy into the 21st century.
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6. A study of two insular farming communities in the U.S. the Amish of Indiana and the Hutterites of North Dakota strongly suggests exposure to microbes from farm animals can lower asthma and allergy rates.
The results were so compelling that a discussion is already underway on developing a microbial spray that could prompt many more children to develop immune systems that can sidestep asthma.
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7. Barbra Streisand, 74, may be reclusive, but shes not idle. The megastar is about to issue a star-studded new album (Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway), embarking on a nine-city concert tour (The Music the Memries the Magic!) and writing a memoir.
Her perfectionist tendencies were in evidence on matters great and small during an interview at her Malibu estate.
She said she was dismayed when she heard a fellow singer in conversation with an interviewer, and They both called me Barbra Strize-and, not Stry-sand.
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8. A Florida start-up called Moon Express won F.A.A. permission to try to land a spacecraft on the moon.
Doing so would earn it $20 million Google Lunar X Prize, as the first such private effort. But the Moon Express chairman said the stakes were much higher.
Everything we fight over whether its land or its fresh water, whether it is energy is in abundance in space, he said.
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9. The value of the digital currency Bitcoin plunged after one of the worlds largest Bitcoin exchanges said it had been hacked.
An official with the exchange, Bitfinex in Hong Kong, said that 119,756 Bitcoins worth tens of millions of dollars had been stolen.
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10. Brazil is welcoming a flood of athletes and spectators to the Rio Games amid a mosquito-borne epidemic of the Zika virus.
This is the best mosquito repellent in the country. But its not the best money can buy because its not on the shelves. A military lab makes it for the exclusive use of the Brazilian Army.
There is no plan for external commercialization, a military statement said.
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11. Finally, Happy 90th birthday, Tony Bennett.
Thousands of Starbucks outlets played his albums, stars like Willie Nelson and Oprah Winfrey saluted him, and Lady Gaga ceremonially lights the Empire State Building in his honor at 8:30 p.m. Eastern.
It feels great to be 90! he wrote on Twitter. Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Im just getting started.
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