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Jorge Valdano considera que Paraguay tiene un reto contra una Francia sólida, pero los sudamericanos han aumentado su confianza. Sobre Argentina, afirma que Argentina vio un Cabo Verde heroica y sobre los colombianos, cree que le falta más gol.

Jesse Marsch y Stephen Eustáquio destacaron el nivel mostrado por Canadá pese a la eliminación, mientras Azzedine Ounahi reconoció la dificultad del partido y celebró la clasificación de Marruecos a los cuartos de final.

A skydiver who crashed into a rodeo event earlier this week got right back on the bull after the unintended smackdown … jumping the very next day. Here’s the deal … during the Folsom Pro Rodeo event in Northern California on Thursday, video…

This year at ESSENCE Festival of Culture, HBCU pride is present in full force.

Walk through the Convention Center or catch the energy outside the Superdome, and it is impossible to miss the sheer number of Black college students and alumni who treat this weekend less like a festival and more like a homecoming.

For Xavier University senior Malik Faulker, that feeling developed early. Growing up 20 minutes from the Superdome, he remembers standing outside as a kid just to catch the music drifting from the arena. Now that he is old enough to walk through the doors himself, the sounds resonate in a new way.

“This is home. This is us,” Faulkner says, describing what it’s like to finally experience ESSENCE Festival as an adult.

Not everyone’s connection is local, though. Spelman College junior Journee Whitfield made the trip for the longtime event from Atlanta, viewing the weekend as equal parts celebration and networking opportunity. Sitting in on panels featuring Black women across beauty, media, and tech has given her something she didn’t expect.

“My seat at the table is already being built,” Whitfield says, reflecting on what it means to see women who look like her thriving in the industries she hopes to enter.

Howard University alum Denise Johnson has turned her ESSENCE Festival trips into an annual tradition with her college friends. A decade after graduation, the pact she made with her Howard circle still holds.

“No matter where life took us, we’d meet in New Orleans every July,” Denise says, explaining how the reunion keeps them rooted in the community they built as students, from catching up on life throughout the weekend and patroning Black-owned businesses side by side. 

Morehouse College alum Xavier Brown says the experience still pulls him back every year. While the Evening Concert Series dominates most conversations, it’s the Global Black Economic Forum activation that left the biggest impression on him this time, particularly hearing Black men discuss ownership and legacy building in ways that reshaped how he thinks about his own future.

Whether it’s a panel, Black-owned vendor booth, or a reunion on the calendar every year, these proud HBCU scholars and alumni represent something bigger than their individual schools when they touch down from July 3rd to the 5th. ESSENCE Festival remains something more than a festival for them. It is a family reunion, a classroom, and a celebration, all in one.

Paraguay has a tough fight against France today, which means President Santiago Peña may have to savor his last chance to wrap himself in the flag of Latin America’s most over-performing team.

Few of the world’s elected leaders have done as much as Peña to associate themselves with their country’s World Cup successes. He has traveled to the United States to watch his team in action, and declared a national holiday after it eliminated former World Cup champions Germany on penalty kicks.

“When Paraguay wins on the world stage like it did against Germany, it becomes clear cause for celebration,”

Carlos Pavón y Guti afirman que México tiene la ventaja de la localidad y la altura. Maxi Rodríguez ve el partido ante Inglaterra parejo, pero advierte que la ansiedad de tener que ganar el partido le puede jugar en contra.

La Selección de Francia se prepara para un duelo importante en sus aspiraciones al título mundial. Paraguay y Gustavo Alfaro quieren dar otra sorpresa tras echar a Alemania.

Defeat by South Africa can, and does, happen to any team in world rugby, but England need to stop their losing streak soon.

President Trump ushered in America’s 250th anniversary with a darkly political speech that swerved from the typically apolitical, unifying speeches past presidents have given to mark Independence Day.

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Cars have been a unique highlight of American culture ever since the Model-T first rolled off the factory line.

“Americans have always measured freedom in miles per hour,” Jesse Palmer says.

Roque Santa Cruz y Alejandro Bedoya consideran que Paraguay ha venido de menos a más y su mejora demuestra la mentalidad del equipo. Santa Cruz considera que Paraguay no tiene nada que perder, cuando Francia tiene obligación de ganar siendo favorita.

Back in April, Cardi B officially entered the beauty business with the launch of her first-ever haircare line, Grow-Good Beauty. But, going from Grammy Award-winning rapper to brand owner didn’t just work overnight (even though her hair masks do!)

“I was tired of having chopped up hair,” she told The Naked Beauty podcast’s Brooke DeVard just hours before her debut ESSENCE Festival performance. 

Growing up in the Bronx, she says she used to get a blowout at the Dominican salon, sometimes twice a week. “I had an obsession with keeping my hair straight,” she says. But her hair would still frizz up. So, at eight years old, she begged her mother to perm her hair. Then, eight months later, her hair started to break off and fall out. “The struggles I had when I was a kid, I didn’t want my kids going through,” Cardi B says. “When I was younger, people didn’t know how to manage my hair.” 

Grow-Good isn’t just developed with her in mind. The star says all of her kids have different textures. Her 7-year-old daughter, Kulture, has curly, breakage-prone hair; her 4-year-old son, Wave, has thick, tangly hair that’s prone to dryness; 1-year-old, Blossom, has soft, fine hair; and her newborn son is still growing into his hair texture. “I had to make sure I make a product that works for everybody,” she says, exclusively using Grow-Good on all of her children. 

Whipping up ingredients in her kitchen, like sugar, garlic, and avocado, she grew up with old school Dominican recipes left to marinate in her grocery bag-covered hair. Then, in 2020, her homemade hair mask—made with mayonnaise, eggs, honey, castor oil, and olive oil—went viral. But selling a hair mask straight from ingredients in her fridge wasn’t enough for Grow-Good. So, she headed to the lab. 

“I’m Cardi B. If I say buy this, people are going to buy it,” she said. “But, if they don’t like it, they’re not going to buy it again.” Luckily, once her hair mask, enriched with Fiberlace™ technology, officially launched, it sold out in 10 minutes four times. She used to hate wash day, but now, when she uses her hair mask, it’s an opportunity to slow down. “Your hair is like fine china,” she says. “You should treat it like a piece of jewelry.”

With all of her products priced under $20, items continue to sell out. Although she says she got rich at 24 years old, “I used to go to the beauty supply store and only had $40 dollars,” she recalled. That experience inspired the price point and accessibility of her now thriving brand. “I put myself in my old shoes.”