Princess Kate has gone blonde, and she officially showed off her new look during a recent royal engagement. The princess made her first public apperance today (Sept. 4) since going on summer holiday with Prince William and their kids, Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7. While visiting the Natural History Museum’s updated gardens, she showcased her major hair transformation—and fans loved it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by People Magazine (@people) Along with the highlights, Kate also let her hair grow much longer than typical, and she styled it in big, bouncy curls. Princess Kate’s Blonde Hair Is A Major Change Kate sparked chatter on August 24th when she was photographed riding in a car near Balmoral Castle in Scotland. In the pictures, she appeared to be sporting what looked like golden locks. The internet went wild with speculations that she’d changed her signature chestnut hair. But the pictures weren’t clear enough to confirm the fresh makeover. Princess Kate has been a long-respected fashion icon since she began dating Prince William in 2001. Along with her classic and elegant outfits, she’s had fun experimenting with new hairstyles. She’s also donned curtain bangs, choppy layers, and varying shades of brown. This story’s featured image is by Karwai Tang/WireImage. The post Princess Kate Officially Unveils Her New Blonde Locks appeared first on InspireMore.

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A Virginia farm is welcoming newly-retired military to come learn how to farm as a way of providing a fulfilling path back into civilian life. The Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food figured that veterans were perfectly cut out for farming, as the average vet is 45% more likely to start their own business, and aside […] The post Veterans, Military Spouses Cultivate a New Mission on the Farm: ‘This is the place that relaxes me’ appeared first on Good News Network.

News Talamasca: The Secret Order Talamasca Trailer Shows Off Supernatural Spy Thriller With a Hint of Orphan Black They’re always watching. By Molly Templeton | Published on September 4, 2025 Screenshot: AMC Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: AMC The previous teaser for the latest series in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, Talamasca: The Secret Order, looked very Torchwood meets Buffy‘s Watchers Council—a potent mix already. A new trailer treads similar ground, but leans hard on supernatural-spy-thriller vibes, with a hint of Orphan Black. It’s not just that the trailer opens with someone stepping in front of a train; it’s also the sense of the fully modern world running up against something else. This series probably isn’t veering off into humans with tails, but it is full of technology and mysteries and tangled histories. And witches and vampires, too. (Yeah, okay, maybe there’s a little bit of Grimm in this show’s DNA.) There are certainly secrets in the history of Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton), who is recruited by a strange woman named Helen (Elizabeth McGovern) to work for the Talamasca, which keeps watch over the supernatural. (He thinks she’s a spy at first. He seems not entirely wrong.) Interview with the Vampire’s Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) shows up to warn him away. His handler, Olive (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), tells him he’s in so much trouble. William Fichtner’s vampire tells him he’s already in hell. And clearly, little Guy saw something very traumatizing. His was no ordinary childhood. TV Insider‘s fall preview spotlight on the show includes an intriguing detail about the show’s relationships: Helen’s recruitment of Guy is long-planned. “He’s actually had a lot of his life sort of mapped out for him by this woman and the Talamasca,” Denton explains. “It’s really quite horrible… She’s made this complete fictitious world for him, and it’s quite a heartbreaking [reveal] for Guy, and for Helen in a way, because she has to admit that she’s done these things to him.” Why? Because, as the trailer says, he can hear things other people can’t. (Spidey sense, is that you?) Talamasca seems designed to require little to no previous Immortal Universe knowledge, and is not based on any specific Rice novels. The Talamasca appears in her books about vampires and witches—and Talamasca agents appear on Interview with the Vampire—but showrunners Mark Lafferty (Halt and Catch Fire) and John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) seem to have had a lot of freedom to concoct a whole new side to the Immortal Universe. Talamasca: The Secret Order premieres on AMC and AMC+ on October 26.[end-mark] The post <i>Talamasca</i> Trailer Shows Off Supernatural Spy Thriller With a Hint of <i>Orphan Black</i> appeared first on Reactor.

Movies & TV Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Hell on the Gas Giant — Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Terrarium” Ortegas must find a way to survive on a hostile moon — alongside the enemy. By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on September 4, 2025 Credit: Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Paramount+ Ever since Hell on the Pacific was released in 1968, tons of stories have been told that riff on the Lee Marvin-Toshiro Mifune classic where they play, respectively, an American soldier and a Japanese soldier stuck alone on an island in the middle of World War II. The two have to overcome a language barrier, as well as a cultural one, and work together to survive. The most famous science fictional riff on this concept is probably Barry B. Longyear’s multiple-award-winning 1979 novella Enemy Mine, which was adapted into a mediocre movie featuring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. in 1985. Star Trek has dipped into this well a lot, including twice on TNG (“The Enemy,” “Darmok”) and once on Enterprise (“Dawn”), plus variations on it on both DS9 (“The Ascent”) and Voyager (“Gravity”). And now we add SNW to the list with an episode that only annoyed me a little bit, “Terrarium.” Let’s get the annoying part out of the way. The episode’s climax has an appearance by a Metron (played by Dariush Zadeh) in yet another failed attempt to reconcile SNW with what was established in the original series’ “Arena.” I gotta say, I do not get the SNW producers’ obsession with the Gorn, especially since most of their episodes have been terrible. And this episode tries to make it look like what happened in “Arena” was the latest in a series of experiments by the Metrons involving the humans and Gorn, which almost makes sense, but still doesn’t reconcile the complete ignorance of the Gorn evinced by the Enterprise crew in the 1967 episode with the deep history with the Gorn the Federation has in the 2020s. Having said that, it’s that history that makes this episode work. Ortegas has been suffering some serious PTSD since the trauma of escaping from the Gorn ship in “Hegemony, Part II,” seen most overtly in her insubordinate behavior in “Shuttle to Kenfori.” Here, she’s assigned to pilot a shuttlecraft to drop a subspace buoy in a technobabble phenomenon. However, a wormhole appears out of nowhere and the Archimedes falls through it. On the other side, the shuttle crashes on a moon orbiting a gas giant. These types of shuttle-crash stories have many of the same beats, and it’s to the credit of “Terrarium’s” script, credited to co-executive producer Alan B. McElroy, that the familiar tropes remain compelling viewing. A big part of that is Melissa Navia’s charm. Ortegas is often fun to watch, and her snark-leavened desperation is particularly compelling viewing. So is her excitement—at one point, she cobbles together a water condenser, and her joy at it working is palpable. However, while the condenser gives her water, and the shuttle itself provides shelter, she has no food (the emergency rations were trashed in the crash). So she explores, and comes across another crashed ship, which belongs to a single Gorn. Thus starts the true part of the Hell on the Pacific/Enemy Mine riff. Ortegas has to get past her distrust of the Gorn, especially since the latter’s shuttle has a working force field that will hold off the predators on the planet. Ortegas even cobbles together a translator, which can only handle “agree” and “disagree” (an amusing riff on the yes/no wheelchair we saw Pike using in “The Menagerie,” the episode that introduced Pike to the viewership in 1966). It makes for some fun conversations between the two of them. (The Gorn can understand Ortegas, because she has learned the language of the enemy, but Ortegas needs the translator.) Between them, they’re able to eat and survive. Eventually, Ortegas comes up with a crazy-ass plan to get the Enterprise’s attention, to wit, setting the moon’s atmosphere on fire. Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise, Spock and Uhura are trying to come up with a way to determine if Ortegas is alive and if she can be rescued. Credit: Paramount+ I’m really enjoying seeing Spock and Uhura’s friendship develop here. While the Bad Robot movies’ interpretation of the Spock-Uhura friendship as seen on the original series was to propose a romantic relationship between them—which is a perfectly valid interpretation, mind you—it isn’t the only interpretation possible. (The joys of 1960s TV and its lack of interest in developing characters.) Either way, though, it’s obvious from their interactions—in particular in “Charlie X,” “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” and “Who Mourns for Adonais?”—that there’s a deep abiding respect between the two, one that easily can speak for a friendship that dates back to before Kirk became captain of the Enterprise. Indeed, this episode—with Uhura’s out-of-the-box thinking in coming up with a solution, one that Spock then has to engineer—is a nice bit of prequility (a word I made up and continue to use) to “…Adonais?” in which Spock expresses what is obviously a long-held confidence in Uhura’s technical and scientific expertise. It’s said in the original series episode in relation to her fixing the communications console, and you can easily see that he’s basing it at least in part of things like her work in “Terrarium.” That solution is to use the Enterprise itself to jam open the wormhole and use its sensors to find Ortegas. The probes they send in are too small and fragile to do the job. Because there must be a ticking clock, the Enterprise has limited time to try to find and/or rescue Ortegas because they need to rendezvous with the Constellation to deliver a vaccine. At one point, Number One has to forcefully remind Uhura that there are thousands of people who will die without the vaccine and saving them is more important than saving one person. I appreciated this very much, as far too often in fiction, people who are in the opening credits are deemed more important than other people, and it’s morally bankrupt. (We’ve actually seen it twice in Trek, on the original series’ “The Galileo Seven” and DS9’s “Waltz.”) So Number One’s repeated reminders that they have a deadline is appreciated. So is the continuity hit: the Constellation was established as another ship of the same class as the Enterprise in the original series’ “The Doomsday Machine,” and Pike even references Captain Decker. (He was a commodore in the original series episode, but that takes place six years in the future, so his promotion obviously happened in that timeframe…) In the end, the Enterprise plugs open the wormhole, they see the moon on fire, and go and rescue their pilot. I do have one other complaint about the episode, albeit a minor one, and one that may still be addressed (though there’s only one episode left this season, so I’m not confident), and that’s the rescue. La’an and two other security guards beam to the moon, and as soon as La’an sees the Gorn with Ortegas she fires on her and kills her. While this is briefly touched on in the final scene in Ortegas’ quarters in her conversation with Uhura—with Ortegas saying that the Gorn was her friend and La’an is her friend, and she doesn’t know what to do with that—I’m incredibly disappointed that that wasn’t addressed in this here episode. La’an’s response is understandable, but also shows a spectacular inability to evaluate a situation, as there was no cause, none, for her to be firing on the Gorn until she knew more about what was going on. The Gorn wasn’t armed and wasn’t doing anything threatening. La’an’s own history makes her reaction understandable, but it wasn’t appropriate, and the episode’s unwillingness to address that is a minor flaw. Of course, there’s still a chance of it being addressed—if not next episode, then next season—but it’s a bit of a lack here. Still, this is one of Trek’s better reworkings of Hell on the Pacific, and bravo to them for that. Even if it is yet another damn Gorn episode…[end-mark] The post Hell on the Gas Giant — <i>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds</i>: “Terrarium” appeared first on Reactor.

A federal judge Wednesday struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard. That funding freeze was part of the administration’s effort to combat antisemitism at universities that failed to protect their students and faculty. But U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs said Wednesday that the halt on grants was both illegal and unconstitutional. In an 84-page opinion, she held that the administration’s actions were “arbitrary and capricious,” violated Harvard’s First Amendment rights, and didn’t follow the required procedural steps. Burroughs, an Obama appointee, permanently banned the administration from enforcing its attempts to freeze Harvard funding and from engaging in future attempts to withhold funding from Harvard “in retaliation for the exercise of its First Amendment rights.” This wasn’t Burroughs’ first anti-Trump ruling—or her first ruling on Harvard. She ruled in 2019 to uphold Harvard’s admissions practices, saying, “race conscious admissions programs… have an important place in society.” That ruling was famously struck down by the Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which called Harvard’s practices unconstitutional and discriminatory. In June, Burroughs temporarily blocked an executive proclamation from President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the U.S. on Harvard-sponsored visas. That case now awaits a decision from the First Circuit Court of Appeals. In April, Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order stopping Department of Energy actions that would effectively cut federal research funding. Burroughs isn’t the first Obama judge to block Trump funding cuts. In March, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan blocked Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency from cutting climate grants that the EPA said suffered from lack of oversight and conflicts of interest. That decision was struck down earlier this week by an appeals court, which said Chutkan’s ruling was an “abuse” of “discretion.” The post Obama Judges Strike Again as Court Blocks Trump’s Harvard Funding Freeze appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump joined a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders, where Trump urged European nations to stop purchasing Russian oil. French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders invited the president into their “Coalition of the Willing” meeting, a White House official told The Daily Signal. “President Trump emphasized that Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil that is funding the war—as Russia received €1.1 billion [$1,280,565,000] in fuel sales from the [European Union] in one year,” the official said in a statement. “The president also emphasized that European leaders must place economic pressure on China for funding Russia’s war efforts.” Macron and Zelenskyy met in France, while roughly 20 other leaders joined the meeting virtually to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine. The meeting also included British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, among others. The post For Peace in Ukraine, Trump Urges Europe to Stop Purchasing Russian Oil appeared first on The Daily Signal.