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Saturday’s Week 18 slate opens with the Carolina Panthers visiting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an NFC South matchup that matters for seeding, followed by Seattle at San Francisco in the nightcap. This piece focuses on two player prop markets for the Saturday afternoon game: Buccaneers linebacker SirVocea Dennis and Panthers wide receiver Jalen Coker. … Read more

Lead: The San Francisco 49ers host the Seattle Seahawks Saturday night in Week 18 at Levi’s Stadium in a winner-take-all game that will decide the NFC West, the conference’s No. 1 seed, a first-round bye and home-field advantage. The team arrives for its third straight primetime contest focused on securing every postseason edge. Fans submitted … Read more

Lead Photographers around the globe captured the January 3, 2026 full moon known as the Wolf Moon, a supermoon that coincided with lunar perigee and appeared larger and brighter than usual. Images shared on the night showed the Moon rising behind city skylines, framed by natural landscapes and weather phenomena across multiple continents. The event … Read more

Lead On Jan. 3, 2026 in Fort Worth, Texas, 7-foot center James Nnaji made his Baylor debut as the Bears fell 69-63 to TCU in the Big 12 opener for both teams. Nnaji, the No. 31 pick in the 2023 NBA draft who spent the last two seasons in Europe, played 16 minutes and scored … Read more

About two weeks after disclosing a lung finding, singer Barry Manilow shared a short, upbeat update from a hospital setting on social media. The Grammy-winning artist posted an image that appears to show him in a hospital gown with a visible text bubble reading “Better Today!” and a smiling expression. Manilow originally revealed in December … Read more

Lead On Saturday, Saudi warplanes struck separatist-held sites near the port city of Mukalla and other locations in Hadramout as forces aligned with Riyadh moved to reclaim the area. Southern Transitional Council (STC) sources and local commanders reported strikes on the Barshid Brigade camp west of Mukalla and said more than 100 sorties hit multiple … Read more

Lead On January 3, 2026, Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) issued a formal statement accusing President Donald Trump of ordering an illegal invasion and coup in Venezuela. Wiener said the administration seized and bombed Venezuela’s capitol, appropriated oil assets and detained President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The senator declared the action unlawful, called for … Read more

Lead Tony Dokoupil will take the anchor chair on CBS Evening News two days earlier than planned, stepping in from KPIX in San Francisco on Saturday night as the United States conducts military strikes on Venezuela and reports indicate President Nicolás Maduro has been captured. Two people familiar with CBS’s scheduling told reporters the move … Read more

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, acknowledged in a lengthy Threads post in 2025 that AI-generated imagery has proliferated across feeds and that authenticity will become a central battleground in 2026. He warned that improving generative models are making synthetic work harder to spot and suggested platforms may need to verify real media rather than try … Read more

Lead On January 3, 2026, at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska stunned No. 9 Michigan State 58-56 in a defensive slugfest that pushed the Huskers to a school-record 14-0 start. The win came before 14,841 fans and followed a provocative pregame comment from Michigan State coach Tom Izzo that Nebraska amplified on social media. … Read more

Lead ASUS warned partners and customers this week that selected product combinations will see price adjustments from January 5, citing rising component costs tied to AI-driven demand. The advisory, first reported by Digitimes and picked up by VideoCardz, did not name specific models, but gaming hardware such as the ROG Xbox Ally is widely discussed … Read more

Lead Iran’s foreign minister called US President Donald Trump’s public warning that Washington would intervene if peaceful demonstrators were killed “reckless and dangerous” on Friday. The exchange came amid a week of unrest across Iranian cities sparked by a sharp fall in the rial, with at least eight people reported dead as of Saturday morning. … Read more

Lead: The United States experienced a marked rise in influenza cases in December 2025, following the 2024–25 season described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the most severe since 2018. By 20 December, the CDC estimated about 7.5 million flu cases and 81,000 hospitalizations, and data through the year ending August … Read more

Lead: South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) says a person with measles visited three public venues in late December, potentially exposing others. The locations were Nose Dive restaurant (116 S. Main Street, Greenville) and Best Buy (1125 Woodruff Road, Suite 1201, Greenville) on Dec. 24, and the Spartanburg County Public Library (151 S. Church … Read more

Lead: A preliminary magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck southern Mexico on Jan. 2, 2026, centered near San Marcos in Guerrero, briefly interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first news briefing of the year as seismic alarms sounded. The tremor was felt in Acapulco and Mexico City; Guerrero civil defense reported landslides on roads around Acapulco while initial checks found … Read more