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These furry soccer players are ready to hold the ball! After all, February 8th won’t begin with the 2026 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. Instead, some younger players will be on the field first. The 22nd Annual Puppy Bowl features 150 dogs from 72 shelters competing for the coveted “Lombalkie” trophy. Airing on Animal Planet, Discovery, TBS, truTV, HBO Max, and Discovery+ at 2pm ET/11am PT, the broadcast will feature three straight hours of precious pup moments. So who exactly is on the roster? Team Fluff, the reigning champions, will be led by Benito, a…
The sport incorporates a certain kind of shenanigans: running headfirst on a small sled down a winding road at speeds of 90 miles per hour. But Lowe, the first American athlete to medal in skeleton in 12 years at the 2025 IBSF World Championships, admittedly didn’t think it was for her at first. “My coach walked me to the line and let me go, and all of a sudden I was going so fast I couldn’t see anything, I couldn’t process anything,” she told The Athletic in December, recalling her first taste of the sport in 2016 when she was…
listen to this article | 4 minutesinformationMUMBAI, India — For much of a warm, crisp Sunday afternoon in Mumbai, Wankhede Stadium felt closer to Kathmandu than the southern Indian metropolis, as thousands of Nepali fans sang, danced and dreamed as their cricket team took on powerhouse England in the 2026 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.A sea of red and blue replica shirts filled every inch of the iconic 33,000-seater venue as supporters turned the famous Indian Stadium into a second home.A banner reading ‘Feel the Thrill’ was hung in the stands, perfectly capturing the atmosphere as chants, drums and Nepali…
When America sneezes, Europe may not catch a cold like it used to. The Stoxx 600 is near an all-time high, marking its seventh positive week in the past eight weeks, despite the tech-driven misery around it. On the other side of the pond, it was a different story. In a recent note, Deutsche Bank began drawing comparisons to the dot-com bubble of 2000, saying the recent selloff in AI and software stocks shows no signs of slowing. This week’s decline has sent the S&P 500 index down about 30% from its October 2025 high. Meanwhile, European stocks as a…
Just in time for a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek made the most expensive domain purchase in history, acquiring AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The transaction was paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller and broke previous records. (Larry Fisher, the broker who brokered the sale, is probably celebrating his good fortune.) Marszalek will debut the site during Sunday’s big game, giving consumers a personal AI agent for messaging, using apps, and trading stocks. “If you look at the long term, 10 to 20 years,[AI]is going to be one of the biggest…
Tel Aviv, Israel — Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, D.C., Israel took a series of drastic steps this week to tighten its grip on the occupied West Bank. On Sunday, Israel’s Security Cabinet approved measures that would expand the country’s executive powers and allow it to purchase land for settlement expansion, in a move that far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “fundamentally change the legal and civil realities” in the West Bank. This territory is held by the United Nations and the international community for a future Palestinian state. Israeli measures include increased Israeli…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
Sanae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party, at the party headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, February 8, 2026. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAccording to NHK’s initial forecast, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is likely to consolidate its majority in the House of Representatives, with the Liberal Democratic Party winning between 274 and 328 of the 465 seats. This is roughly in line with opinion poll predictions, with Nikkei Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun predicting that the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Japan Restoration Party, would secure more than…
Nicola Peltz Beckham reportedly shed tears as wedding guest Marc Anthony shouted Victoria BeckhamAdding fuel to the wedding drama fire: The newlyweds’ first dance didn’t go as expected, but it’s reportedly very unclear why. “Brooklyn and Nicola thought Marc Anthony had gifted them their first dance,” a source told E! News for May 2025. Instead, the singer “announced, ‘Welcome to the stage the most beautiful woman in the room, Victoria Beckham.'” Ms. Brooklyn was left in an awkward situation, with no idea what to do. ” The source added: “Nicola left the room in tears. She eventually returned and was…
listen to this article | 5 minutesinformationErling Haaland converted a penalty in stoppage time to give Manchester City a 2-1 win away to Liverpool and keep their Premier League title challenge alive.Haaland’s spot-kick secured a come-from-behind victory for Josep Guardiola’s side and restored the gap to leaders Arsenal to six points in a frenetic football match at Anfield on Sunday.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listCity’s chances of winning the title looked bleak when Dominik Szoboszlai hit a superb long-range free-kick against the post in the 74th minute.And when Bernardo Silva equalized 10 minutes later, second-placed City still looked…