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Lead On Feb. 8, 2026 (3:00 PM UTC), shares of major gambling companies slipped as the Super Bowl approached and investors weighed a shift in where bettors place stakes. Flutter Entertainment Plc — operator of FanDuel — entered an eight-week slide, its longest stretch of losses in 23 years. Rival DraftKings traded near its lowest … Read more

Updated Feb. 8, 2026 / 9:59 AM EST Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez won a Louisiana state House special election Saturday night, defeating Republican Brad Daigle 62% to 38% in a district President Donald Trump carried by 13 points in 2024. The contest filled a vacancy created when the prior Democratic representative was appointed by Republican … Read more

Lead On Feb. 8, 2026, The New York Times podcast The Daily turned its Sunday episode into a primer for this year’s Super Bowl, framing the matchup between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks as a contrast of temperament: the established, methodical Patriots versus the kinetic underdog Seahawks. Host Michael Barbaro, a self-described … Read more

Lead: Jason Wood, 40, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, says a simple pitta bread mistake triggered a breakdown after years of obsessive health tracking and costly treatments aimed at extending his life. His routine — strict diets, twice-daily workouts, regular IV vitamin drips and repeated biomarker tests — collapsed under mounting anxiety. Clinicians and rehab clinics … Read more

Lead On Saturday night, Feb. 7, 2026, Houston coach Kelvin Sampson spoke after his Cougars defeated BYU 77-66 at the Marriott Center in Provo. The victory extended Houston’s run over BYU to four wins in the past three years and moved the Cougars to 21-2 overall and 9-1 in Big 12 play. Sampson singled out … Read more

Lead On February 8, 2026, this week’s Retro Recap gathers the most notable developments from the vintage gaming scene: Namco’s Rave Racer is finally receiving a home-console release, a newly announced SNES shoot ’em up aims to stretch the Super Nintendo’s limits, and composer Nobuo Uematsu reflected on the influence of Quintet’s ActRaiser. Other headlines … Read more

Apple is preparing an early‑2026 product push that will include a new iPhone 17e model alongside refreshed entry‑level and Air iPads and updated Mac laptops, sources reported on Feb. 8, 2026. CEO Tim Cook used a recent all‑hands meeting to discuss immigration, artificial intelligence and Apple’s 50th anniversary, according to the report. The company has … Read more

Lead: On 8 February 2026, two AI researchers told podcaster Lex Fridman that a ‘996’ style schedule — roughly 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — is becoming more common among AI teams in San Francisco. Nathan Lambert of the Allen Institute for AI and Sebastian Raschka, an AI lab founder, described … Read more

Lead World Liberty Financial, the Trump family–linked issuer of the USD1 stablecoin, reached $5 billion in circulation last month, largely concentrated on Binance. The surge followed a string of Binance promotions and a post-pardon rapprochement between Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and the Trump administration. Roughly 85 percent of USD1 tokens are held on Binance accounts, … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 8, 2026 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Olympic alpine legend Lindsey Vonn crashed during the women’s downhill on the Olympia delle Tofane and was airlifted from the slope after medics treated her on site. Vonn had ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) nine days earlier but still started 13th in an attempt to … Read more

Lead: Newly released legal files and photos have cast fresh light on Jeffrey Epstein’s vast Zorro ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, a property he owned from 1993 and where survivors say abuse took place. The 9,900–10,000 acre (about 4,000 hectare) estate included a 26,700 sq ft main house, a private runway and hangar, stables … Read more

Lead On Feb. 8, 2026 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Paul Thomas Anderson won the Directors Guild of America’s top feature-film prize for One Battle After Another, a victory that significantly strengthens his position in the Oscar race. The award is widely watched because 18 of the previous 20 DGA feature winners went … Read more

Lead Thailand's incumbent prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, declared victory on Sunday after television projections showed his conservative Bhumjaithai Party winning nearly 200 seats in the 500-seat lower house. The announcement came as Thais also voted in a constitutional referendum and amid economic strains and border tensions with Cambodia. Opposition leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut conceded that his … Read more

Lead: President Donald Trump has signaled he prefers policies that keep or raise home values for existing owners rather than aggressively boosting new construction, a stance he reiterated to his Cabinet on Jan. 29 in Washington. That approach defies calls from many economists, local officials and renters who argue more supply is the clearest route … Read more

North Korea’s state media says the ruling Workers’ Party will hold a congress in late February where leader Kim Jong Un is expected to announce his domestic and foreign policy priorities for the next five years. The political bureau set the timing under Kim’s supervision, though the exact date and agenda have not been published. … Read more