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Lead On Jan. 10, 2026 in Lexington, Ky., Kentucky rallied from a 12-point deficit to defeat Mississippi State 92-68. Otega Oweh led the Wildcats with 22 points and five of Kentucky’s season-high 14 steals while Malachi Moreno added a near triple-double with 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists. Mississippi State’s six-game winning streak ended; … Read more
Who: Tenor Andrea Bocelli and pop superstar Mariah Carey will perform. When: the opening ceremony is set for Feb. 6, 2026. Where: Milan’s San Siro stadium, with live segments beamed from Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo. What: a three-hour spectacle that will stage the Parade of Athletes, feature tributes and performances, and is expected to draw … Read more
Over the winter holidays, Linux creator Linus Torvalds published a new open-source project named AudioNoise, a GPLv2-licensed collection of random digital audio effects hosted under torvalds/AudioNoise on GitHub. The project attracted attention after a Phoronix reader pointed to README notes saying a Python audio visualizer was largely produced through so-called “vibe coding,” specifically citing Google’s … Read more
Lead Family members of 52-year-old Randall Gamboa Esquivel say he was deported from US immigration custody in a vegetative state and died weeks after returning to Costa Rica. Gamboa crossed into the United States in December 2024 and was detained by US authorities after re‑entering. Medical records reviewed by his relatives and The Guardian show … Read more
Lead On Saturday, third baseman Alex Bregman, 31, agreed to a five-year, $175 million contract with the Chicago Cubs, sources told ESPN, ending a second run at free agency one year after Chicago’s initial pursuit fell short. The contract carries a $35 million average annual value, includes a full no-trade clause and contains no player … Read more
The Green Bay Packers plan to meet with head coach Matt LaFleur shortly after the season ends to begin talks on a contract extension, sources say. LaFleur’s current deal runs through the 2026 season; he owns a 76-40-1 record and is widely regarded as one of the NFL’s stronger coaches. The team hopes to start … Read more
Lead President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that Ukraine will step up operations that reach into Russian territory, framing the moves as necessary to deter further strikes and protect Ukrainian civilians. The announcement, delivered from Kyiv, follows a string of cross-border incidents and a recent Russian missile test near the EU–NATO frontier. Kyiv presented the … Read more
Lead: In New York on Jan. 11, 2026, President Donald Trump unveiled two headline-grabbing housing proposals — a ban on large institutional buyers of single-family homes and a plan to have the government acquire $200 billion in mortgage bonds. Both moves were framed as ways to make housing more affordable and to paint Wall Street … Read more
Late one night in the summer of 2023 on Martha’s Vineyard, Belle Burden watched a web page finally load and felt the moment she had made public a private rupture. The 56-year-old author, whose first published piece had appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, used that viral essay as the springboard for … Read more
Lead On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, setting off urgent diplomatic consultations across Latin America. Governments from Mexico to Brazil scrambled to define a public stance, exposing sharp ideological and strategic divisions. Left-leaning governments in the region criticized the U.S. operation, while several right-leaning administrations welcomed it or kept quiet. … Read more
Lead Greenland contains an estimated 1.5 million tons of rare-earth elements, but its remote Arctic setting, scant infrastructure and difficult geology have so far stopped any commercial mine from being built. In recent weeks President Donald Trump again framed Greenland as a geopolitical prize, arguing U.S. control could curb Chinese and Russian influence and help … Read more
Lead On Jan. 11, 2026, journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner found herself repeatedly returning to the Broadway musical Operation Mincemeat at the Golden Theatre — ultimately 13 times. What began as a press preview in March turned into a pattern of planned and impulsive matinees, trips with family and friends, and a now-visible fan culture clustered around … Read more
Inside GM’s New Detroit Headquarters: Midcentury Design, Artifacts and Easter Eggs Lead: On Jan. 6, 2026, General Motors opened a portion of its new world headquarters in downtown Detroit, a space that blends midcentury design cues with contemporary workplaces and visible artifacts from the automaker’s century-long history. The site, part of the Hudson’s Detroit development, … Read more
Lead On 11 January 2026, the military-backed general election entered its second phase while parts of eastern Myanmar remained effectively ungovernable. Hpapun, once a regional hub with an airport, banks and government offices, stood empty ahead of polling, with homes and shops burned or reclaimed by jungle. Voting planned for the town is confined to … Read more
In a Wild Card game at Soldier Field on Saturday night, the Green Bay Packers lost 31-27 to the Chicago Bears after surrendering a 21-3 halftime advantage and a 27-16 lead in the fourth quarter. The defeat eliminated the Packers from the 2025 playoffs and capped a season marked by recurring late-game collapses and key … Read more
