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Lead On Saturday at Breslin Center in East Lansing, No. 5 Illinois saw its 12-game winning streak end in an 85-82 overtime defeat to No. 10 Michigan State. Jeremy Fears Jr. carried the Spartans with 26 points (including 11 in OT) and a game-high 15 assists, while Illinois freshman Keaton Wagler was held to 16 … Read more
Investors and policymakers face a compact, consequential week as two major U.S. economic releases arrive within days of each other. The January jobs report is scheduled for Wednesday and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Friday, a timing shift caused by a recent partial government shutdown that delayed both releases. The back-to-back cadence compresses the … Read more
Lead James Harden arrived in Cleveland and made an immediate impact as the Cavaliers completed a fourth-quarter comeback to beat the Sacramento Kings 132-126 on Saturday night at Golden 1 Center. Harden scored 15 of his 23 points in the fourth and added eight assists in 32 minutes, while Donovan Mitchell finished with 35 points. … Read more
This weekend, a low-pressure system moving near New England is forecast to bring measurable snowfall to Massachusetts, with some locations receiving as much as one foot. National Weather Service guidance and local forecasts indicate the heaviest snowfall will fall at varying times over the weekend, depending on the storm track and coastal temperature gradients. Municipalities … Read more
Lead On Feb. 6, 2026, scientists aboard the South Korean icebreaker Araon, operating in the Amundsen Sea, used airborne tactics to sample waters beneath the fractured floating tongue of the Thwaites Glacier. Teams could not reach a half‑mile‑deep borehole through the main ice mass, so they instead lowered sensors into narrow rifts between giant ice … Read more
Andrei Arlovski bludgeons Ben Rothwell to claim BKFC heavyweight crown at KnuckleMania 6 Andrei Arlovski, 47, defeated Ben Rothwell, 44, on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026, at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia to win the BKFC heavyweight title. The trilogy matchup — their third fight overall after two MMA meetings — ended in the third round … Read more
Lead Mario Bautista halted Vinicius Oliveira’s rapid rise in the bantamweight ranks with a second-round submission in the UFC Vegas 113 headliner at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Bautista secured a rear-naked choke at 4:46 of Round 2 to stop Oliveira and snap the Brazilian’s six-fight win streak. The victory advanced … Read more
Lead Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, 31, says he was assaulted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Jan. 8 in St. Paul, Minnesota, suffering eight skull fractures and five brain hemorrhages. He was hospitalized at Hennepin County Medical Center and later held at the ICE facility at Fort Snelling before a federal judge ordered his … Read more
On Feb. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump posted a racially charged video clip targeting the Obamas on his social feed while traveling on Air Force One and removed it after a wave of bipartisan outrage. The episode unfolded as midterm campaigns intensified, prompting an unusually chaotic White House response and a rare public retreat by … Read more
Lead Mass‑market paperbacks, a nearly century‑old staple of American reading culture, are rapidly disappearing as retailers and suppliers abandon the compact format. The decline accelerated after ReaderLink, the largest distributor to airports and big‑box stores, stopped stocking the titles, and sales plunged from about 103 million units in 2006 to below 18 million last year. … Read more
Lead Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrives in Australia on Monday to attend memorial events after the Dec. 14 Bondi Hanukkah attack that left 15 people dead, a visit the federal government frames as solidarity with a grieving Jewish community. The trip is unfolding amid large, planned pro-Palestinian demonstrations in as many as 30 cities, reflecting … Read more
Lead: Apple appears poised to release an M5-powered MacBook Air that, based on current signs, will mostly be a modest specification refresh rather than a radical redesign. Recent Apple launches, including the M4 iPad Pro and iPhone 17 Pro, have focused heavily on thermal engineering to control heat on fanless devices. The MacBook Air, redesigned … Read more
On Feb. 7, 2026, about a dozen people gathered in front of San Francisco’s Civic Center for a self-styled “March for Billionaires,” a small demonstration intended to oppose a proposed one‑time 5% levy on the state’s billionaires. Organizers framed the action as a sincere protest against the Billionaire Tax Act; the event drew a handful … Read more
Thailand held a national election on 8 February 2026 that pits a resurgent reform movement against entrenched conservative forces. Voters across the country went to the polls amid economic strains, a referendum on a military-era constitution and legal challenges targeting the reform movement’s leaders. The People’s Party — the latest incarnation of Thailand’s progressive reform … Read more
Lead The Super Bowl on February 9, 2026, remains one of the rare occasions in the U.S. when friends and family gather around a single screen to watch live—teams, halftime performer Bad Bunny and the broadcast draw the crowd. Ahead of kickoff, many shoppers are looking to upgrade aging sets or finish a home-theater refresh, … Read more
