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Lead After Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime performance, social media circulated a claim that five-year-old Liam Ramos — detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota on Jan. 20, 2026 — appeared in the show. That assertion was amplified by several outlets and posts but proved incorrect. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed … Read more
Lead: Japan’s snap election produced a decisive result: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) captured a historic landslide in the House of Representatives, winning 316 of 465 seats and securing a two‑thirds majority. Markets reacted immediately — the Nikkei briefly crossed 57,000 and Japanese stocks hit record highs on Monday while the yen … Read more
Coinbase returned to the Super Bowl with a deliberately minimal 60-second spot styled like a bar karaoke screen, projecting lyrics to the 1997 Backstreet Boys song “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and opening with the line “Oh my god we’re back again.” The company designed the ad to feel intentionally low-tech — basic computer animation and simple … Read more
Lead On Feb. 7 in Charlotte, N.C., the Atlantic Coast Conference fined the University of North Carolina $50,000 after unauthorized fans stormed the court following UNC’s 71-68 victory over Duke. The penalty was assessed under the ACC’s event security policy, which aims to protect players, coaches, officials and spectators. UNC accepted the sanction, saying it … Read more
Lead Brenton Tarrant, the Australian who killed 51 people at two Christchurch mosques in March 2019, told New Zealand’s Court of Appeal on Monday that harsh prison conditions rendered him irrational and compelled him to admit guilt in March 2020. A three-judge panel in Wellington will hear up to five days of evidence on his … Read more
Lead On Feb. 8, 2026, NASA and SpaceX confirmed a four-person replacement crew—Commander Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev—will lift off Wednesday atop a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:01 a.m. EST. The team is scheduled to rendezvous with the International Space Station Thursday and … Read more
Lead: On 9 February 2026, former BBC presenter Andrew Marr told LBC he expects Prime Minister Keir Starmer to step down within days after Morgan McSweeney resigned as Downing Street chief of staff. The resignation followed criticism over Starmer’s knowledge of Lord Peter Mandelson’s continued contact with Jeffrey Epstein at the time of Mandelson’s appointment … Read more
Lead This week’s high-profile lawsuits against Meta and YouTube (Google), part of a wider set of claims that also named Snap Inc and TikTok, allege that major social platforms seriously harmed children’s mental health and contributed to conditions including depression, self-harm and suicide. The first trial — brought by a plaintiff identified as KGM, now … Read more
Sam Darnold, the Seahawks quarterback, capped an unlikely journey by becoming a Super Bowl champion in Super Bowl LX, a 29-13 Seattle victory over the New England Patriots. Once the No. 3 overall pick, Darnold was traded by the Jets three years after his selection and cycled through the Panthers and 49ers before his sixth … Read more
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi scored a decisive victory in a snap election held on Feb. 8, 2026, winning a clear mandate in national voting across Japan. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) captured at least 310 of the 465 seats in the House of Representatives, up from 198 seats ahead of the vote, according to public … Read more
Feb 8, 2026 — In Santa Clara, Calif., Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker III was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl LX after Seattle defeated the New England Patriots 29-13. Walker rushed for 135 yards on 27 carries and added 26 receiving yards on two catches, anchoring a game in which he produced more … Read more
Lead Stephen Miller, a long-time Trump confidant, has emerged as a central architect of the administration’s hardline immigration and Western Hemisphere policies in early 2026. His high-energy, confrontational approach has helped shape a mass-deportation plan and an intensified enforcement posture that the White House says responds to public concerns about crime and drugs. The tactics … Read more
Netflix dropped an unexpected teaser for The Adventures of Cliff Booth during Super Bowl LX’s first-quarter commercial break on Sunday, bringing Brad Pitt back as the stuntman Cliff Booth. Directed by David Fincher and scripted by Quentin Tarantino, the roughly one-minute spot teased a film set later than 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. … Read more
Lead: On Feb. 8, 2026 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny delivered a 13-minute Super Bowl halftime performance that foregrounded Latino culture and, for the first time in the game’s 60-year history, was performed largely in Spanish. The set blended street scenes, a wedding, sports imagery and nods to Puerto … Read more
Lead On [date of sentencing], a Hong Kong court sentenced 78-year-old media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison after convicting him on three charges: two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the National Security Law (NSL) and one count of publishing seditious material under a colonial-era statute. The ruling follows … Read more
