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A Toyota Racing driver won NASCAR’s biggest event in a car he co-owns with an NBA Hall of Famer.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished February 16, 2026February 16, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareMichael Jordan, a six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion, is also now a Daytona 500 champion.Tyler Reddick won the “Great American Race” with a final-lap pass at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, sending Jordan into a wild celebration. The NBA Hall of Famer gave Redick a bear hug in victory lane and then joined the 23XI Racing driver in hoisting the Harley J. Earle…

A woman smokes a cigar during a humidor auction held as part of the closing ceremony of the 25th Habanos Festival on February 28, 2025 in Havana. Yamil Raji | AFP | Getty ImagesThe annual five-day cigar festival in late February in Cuba’s capital, Havana, has been canceled until further notice due to the worsening economic crisis.The postponement comes as the island nation’s communist-run government endures its biggest challenge since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Cigar trade fair organizer Habanos SA announced on Saturday that it had canceled the festival “with the aim of maintaining the highest standards of…

Basketball star praises media workers in Gaza, where nearly 300 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished February 16, 2026February 16, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareBasketball superstar Kyrie Irving wore a shirt with the word “PRESS” written on it. The NBA All-Star Game honors journalists who covered Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.The tag on the shirt the Dallas Mavericks point guard was wearing Sunday read, “Dedicated to our beloved journalists in Gaza who show the world the truth,” according to reports.Recommended stories list of…

Shandi Sullivan became a ‘con artist’America’s Next Top Model Cycle 2 finalist Shandi Sullivan, who had a boyfriend back home, was photographed in bed with a male model who was partying at a contestant’s house in Milan on the March 16, 2004 episode of “The Girl Who Cheat.” Shandy said she felt drunk and passed out on the 2026 Netflix series “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” and thought producers should have intervened. “I think after I got out of the bath and what happened after that,” Shandy said on the show. “I think they should have said, well,…

A pedestrian stands in front of an electronic market board displaying Nikkei average stock price figures at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on February 3, 2026 in Tokyo.Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty ImagesJapan’s economy grew by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to the previous three months, narrowly avoiding a technical recession.Although this was a reversal from the 0.7% contraction seen in the third quarter, gross domestic product fell short of the 0.4% expansion expected by economists polled by Reuters.A technical recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of recession. On an annualized basis, production increased by…

A sign at the ByteDance office in Beijing, China, June 30, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChinese tech giant ByteDance has announced tougher protections for its new artificial intelligence video creation tool following accusations of copyright theft from the entertainment giant. The Seedance 2.0 tool allows users to create realistic videos based on text prompts. But a viral video shared online appears to show the likeness of copyrighted characters and celebrities, raising intellectual property concerns in the US. “ByteDance respects intellectual property rights and has heard your concerns regarding Seedance 2.0,” a company spokesperson said in a statement shared…

Five years ago, Logan Paul set a world record by purchasing a Pokemon card for $5.275 million. It proved to be a sound investment, with the influencer and wrestler selling for an astonishing $16.492 million, along with a diamond-encrusted necklace. A rare Pikachu illustrator card, one of only 39 made for a Pokemon illustration contest in the late ’90s, was sold at Goldin Auctions on Monday. The WWE star is believed to have made more than $8 million, excluding auction fees, and he called the sale “absolutely insane.” The auction, which had been running for 42 days, ended on Monday…

The Macquarie Group Ltd. logo is displayed on the facade of the Macquarie Group Building on Friday, April 27, 2012 in Sydney, Australia.Ian Waldie | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesShares in Australian ports and logistics company Cube Holdings soared to record highs on Monday after the company agreed to be acquired by a consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management for an enterprise value of about A$11.7 billion (about $8.26 billion).cube holdings It rose 3.6% to over A$5.The offer represents a 27.8% premium to Qube’s last closing price of A$4.07 on November 21, the last trading day before the company announced it…

People buy fruit at a grocery store in Manhattan, New York City, December 13, 2025. Charlie Tribalew | AFP | Getty Images Friday’s U.S. consumer price index provided some relief to investors who had been suffering from a market decline due to concerns related to artificial intelligence. Consumer inflation rose 2.4% year-on-year in January, below December’s 2.7% and back to levels after President Donald Trump imposed tariffs globally in April 2025. Core CPI was 2.5%, the lowest level since April 2021. Economists had expected 2.5% for both numbers.”This will be welcome news for the market and for incoming Fed Chairman…

Andrew Patterson Photographer’s Choice RF | Getty ImagesCryptocurrency payments to suspected human trafficking syndicates will soar 85% in 2025, with hundreds of millions of transactions tracked on public blockchains, according to a new report from Chainalysis.The US-based blockchain analysis firm said most of the activity is related to a growing criminal ecosystem in Southeast Asia, where fraud conglomerates, illegal online gambling operations and Chinese-language money laundering networks operate simultaneously. Cryptocurrency trackers said cryptocurrency activity by human traffickers falls into three main categories: Labor brokers and scammers. and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) vendors. Data on the blockchain shows that while…