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Lead: Wayne Gretzky joined a Discover Face-Off Panel outside loanDepot park in Miami on Friday ahead of the 2026 Discover NHL Winter Classic, addressing a large crowd of Florida Panthers and New York Rangers fans. The event marked the NHL’s first regular-season outdoor game in Florida and was part of the Enterprise NHL PreGame Outdoor … Read more

In New Orleans on Thursday night, No. 6 Ole Miss defeated No. 3 Georgia 39-34 in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Quarterback Trinidad Chambliss threw for 362 yards and two touchdowns while Lucas Carneiro converted a 47-yard field goal with six seconds remaining to break a 34-34 tie. A final-play … Read more

Lead: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Friday that California’s broad prohibition on openly carrying firearms in most counties is unconstitutional, finding it conflicts with the Second Amendment as interpreted by the Supreme Court in 2022. The panel voted 2-1 for gun owner Mark Baird, who … Read more

Lead San Francisco carries a 7–1 record in its last eight meetings with Seattle — including playoff games — into a Saturday night regular-season finale that will decide the NFC’s top seed for the 2025 postseason. Seattle enters with the better overall mark, 13–3, and is listed a 1.5-point favorite. Both clubs arrive on six-game … Read more

On January 2, 2026, a female hiker was fatally attacked by a mountain lion on the Crosier Mountain trail in Larimer County, Colorado, state officials said. The victim’s identity has not been released; authorities describe the incident as the first confirmed fatal mountain lion attack in Colorado since 1999. Hikers in the area reported throwing … Read more

State investigators said on Jan. 2, 2026, that nine Minnesota child-care centers named in a viral video were visited this week and found to be functioning when regulators conducted on-site checks. The video, posted late December by YouTuber Nick Shirley, alleged that nearly a dozen publicly funded day-care locations were not actually providing services. Minnesota’s … Read more

Lead Over the past year, a number of Silicon Valley startups have rolled out informal workplace perks — from “no shoes” policies to stocked nicotine pouches and etiquette classes — as they readjust after calling staff back to offices. Companies including Cursor, Notion, Gusto, Supercell and several AI startups have been named in reporting as … Read more

On Friday, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck near San Marcos in Guerrero, southern Mexico, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first press briefing of the year as seismic alarms sounded across the capital and coast. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the quake at a depth of 21.7 miles (35 kilometers) and about 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rancho Viejo, … Read more

Lead: A state review released on Friday, January 2, 2026, found that Minnesota child care centers targeted in a viral video alleging widespread fraud were operating as expected when inspectors visited. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) said children were present at all but one site, which had not yet opened for the … Read more

In January 2026, a previously healthy 18-year-old who worked as a welder nearly died after infection with a Bacillus-group bacterium that produces the anthrax toxin. Public health investigators say the new case fits an unusual cluster first highlighted by CDC researchers in 2022: since 1997 there have been multiple toxin-producing Bacillus infections concentrated among metalworkers. … Read more

The 2025-26 College Football Playoff runs from Dec. 19, 2025, through the CFP National Championship on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The bracket, released on Dec. 7, is the second season of the expanded 12-team format; opening-round games began Dec. 19-20, quarterfinals were played Dec. 31–Jan. 1, and … Read more

Lead On Jan. 2, 2026, Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin unveiled the 25-player U.S. men’s hockey roster for Milano Cortina 2026, saying team chemistry — especially the group that competed at last February’s 4 Nations Face-Off — guided his selections. Twenty-one of the 25 named played in the 4 Nations, where the United States … Read more

Lead At CES 2026, Clicks unveiled its first smartphone, the Communicator, and a companion MagSafe-compatible accessory, the Power Keyboard. The Communicator is a 4-inch, Android 16 handset built around a tactile physical keyboard and hardware-level encryption, positioned as a ‘communication, not consumption’ secondary device. Clicks opened reservations for the phone at $399 (rising to $499 … Read more

Jan. 6, 2021 — A federal magistrate judge on Friday denied a request to free Brian J. Cole Jr. before trial after prosecutors accused him of placing two pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters just hours before the Capitol riot. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh concluded that no set of conditions could … Read more

Netflix’s Stranger Things series finale hit both the streaming platform and roughly 600 cinemas on New Year’s Eve and held encore screenings on Jan 1, generating an estimated $20 to $25 million at the box office and providing a rare holiday lift for U.S. theaters. The show’s simultaneous theatrical release relied on mandatory food and … Read more