Keon Coleman’s Response After Bills Owner’s Public Criticism

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Lead: Keon Coleman, the Buffalo Bills’ 2024 second-round pick, faced direct public criticism from owner Terry Pegula during an end-of-season press conference on Jan. 24, 2026. According to reporting from The Athletic, Coleman was initially surprised by the remarks but has continued to train and prepare for the 2026 season. He has not publicly asked … Read more

Mike McDaniel Withdraws From Bills Interview After Pegula-Beane Presser

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Lead Former Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel canceled a scheduled Friday interview with the Buffalo Bills, according to multiple reports. The meeting was to consider him as a successor to Sean McDermott, who led Buffalo for nine seasons. The decision follows a lengthy Wednesday press conference featuring Bills owner Terry Pegula and general manager … Read more

Browns use essays, homework and personality tests in coaching search

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Lead: The Cleveland Browns have expanded their coaching-evaluation toolkit, requiring essays, questionnaires and personality assessments during interviews, NBC Sports reported after a Friday appearance on The Rich Eisen Show. Tom Pelissero of NFL Network described the process as unusually data-heavy and iterative. The approach has coincided with the departure of chief strategy officer Paul DiPodesta, … Read more

Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar – The Verge

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Last week Google rolled out a beta feature called Personal Intelligence for Gemini that, when enabled, lets the model reference past conversations and pull data from Google services such as Gmail, Calendar, Photos and Search without an explicit per-prompt request. The capability is opt-in and currently limited to users on AI Pro and Ultra subscription … Read more

Robert Redford remembered for mentorship of emerging filmmakers at Sundance gala

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The Sundance Film Festival in Park City staged a star-studded tribute Friday to Robert Redford, whose death last year made the 2026 edition the first without him. Filmmakers and actors gathered at a gala to honor Redford’s decades-long role as a mentor and champion of independent cinema, and to celebrate the Sundance Institute programs he … Read more

Elvis Tipan Echeverria: 2-Year-Old Taken into ICE Custody and Flown to Texas, Lawyer Says

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Lead: A 2-year-old girl and her father, identified as Elvis Tipan-Echeverria, were taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Minneapolis on Thursday and flown to Texas the same evening, the family’s attorney said. The child was returned to her mother on Friday afternoon after an emergency court order sought her immediate release, … Read more

Man Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned by Border Patrol in Minneapolis Sparks Outrage

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Lead On Jan. 23, 2026, video and photographs circulated showing a man in Minneapolis being held face-down by federal Border Patrol agents while another agent sprayed pepper spray at close range. The images, captured during a broader deployment of thousands of federal personnel to Minnesota to detain undocumented immigrants, prompted immediate public alarm and political … Read more

With ‘Personal Intelligence,’ Google finally admits how much it knows about you. It’s scary-good. – Business Insider

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Lead: On Jan. 23, 2026, Google began rolling out a feature called Personal Intelligence inside AI Mode in Search and its Gemini chatbot that links a user’s Google account data—Gmail, Photos, Search, YouTube and more—to produce assistant-style answers. In hands-on demos at Google I/O in San Francisco and in a Business Insider test, the system … Read more

School closings: districts canceling, going virtual Monday

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Lead Attempts to view a WSBTv list of districts cancelling classes or switching to virtual instruction for Monday were blocked for users outside the United States. The page returned an “Error 451” notice saying access cannot be granted from the user’s location. Because the page is geo-restricted, the specific district list could not be verified … Read more

Australian Open heat rules did not favor Jannik Sinner, but tennis luck did – The Athletic – The New York Times

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Lead: In Melbourne on Jan. 24, 2026, Jannik Sinner fought through severe cramping and an extreme-heat stoppage to beat Eliot Spizzirri 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 at Rod Laver Arena. Temperatures approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) and the Australian Open’s Heat Stress Scale hit the threshold that forces a suspension of play, prompting a roof … Read more

NASA Schedules Briefings for SpaceX Crew-12 Mission to the ISS

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Lead NASA and international partners will hold two news conferences on Friday, Jan. 30, at Johnson Space Center in Houston to outline final preparations for the SpaceX Crew-12 rotation to the International Space Station. Mission leadership will present a launch and readiness overview at 11 a.m. Eastern, followed by a virtual crew news conference at … Read more

Samsung Galaxy S26: The 7 rumored features that could make me switch

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Lead: Samsung’s Galaxy S26 lineup is widely expected to arrive in late February running One UI 8.5, and a stream of leaks points to several features that could persuade an iPhone user to swap platforms. Rumored highlights include a Privacy Display, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, deeper Google Gemini integration, and a possible Galaxy … Read more

6 Podcasts About Medicine and Health Care – nytimes.com

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Lead: On Jan. 24, 2026, Emma Dibdin highlighted six podcasts that help listeners make sense of U.S. medicine and health care amid rising insurance costs, shifting policy debates and rampant medical misinformation. These shows blend reporting, expert interviews and patient stories to explain disease, treatment and the systems that shape outcomes. Together they offer listeners … Read more