Snow and dangerously bitter cold are expanding across the U.S. Great Plains as the country’s largest winter storm prompts cascading travel disruptions and threatens widespread power outages. Read More

The repressive Taliban government is suspicious of the internet. But a start-up in the country is building blockchain-based tools to transform humanitarian aid.

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New plan prioritises security in the region and a renewed focus on the western hemisphere

After a wildly disappointing 2025, David Stearns vowed to make significant changes to the team, and the players and coaches who show up to Port St. Lucie in a few weeks will look a lot different than last year.

US policy document suggests South Korea take primary responsibility, as Pentagon prioritises defending US homeland

The Pentagon foresees a “more limited” role in deterring North Korea, with South Korea taking primary responsibility for the task, a Pentagon policy document released on Friday said, in a move likely to raise concern in Seoul.

South Korea hosts about 28,500 US troops in combined defence against North Korea’s military threat and Seoul has raised its defence budget by 7.5% for this year.

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© Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images

A middle school basketball game in Kentucky descended into chaos this week when a fight broke out on the court.

Brooklyn fought its way through not one but two overtimes, coming up just short 130-126 against the Celtics on Friday night before a sellout crowd of 17,727 at Barclays Center.

Brown earned Korn Ferry Tour status last year and was in the Bahamas for a tournament that didn’t end until Wednesday.

James Carville claims that Rep. Jasmine Crockett can't be a viable candidate due to her controversial statements that will cost her elections in the near future.

Family confirms boy has died, describing him as possessing the ‘most kind and generous spirit’

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A 12-year-old boy has died in hospital after being mauled by a shark in Sydney Harbour last weekend, his family has confirmed.

The boy, named as Nico Antic in an online fundraiser, had been fighting for his life after being bitten on both legs on 18 January at a harbour beach in Vaucluse, in Sydney’s east.

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© Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Joson Sanon isn’t scared of the moment.

The player appeared in Queens County Criminal Court on the gun charge and was released on his own recognizance.

Beating up on the Nets was a good way to lift the vibes around the Knicks, if at least for a few days.

The model and aspiring chef married in a lavish Florida ceremony in 2022.

This is what baseball has been waiting for. 

Olivia Wilde, Ethan Hawke, Tessa Thompson and more celebrated independent film at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

After being let go by the Jets, Douglas joined the Eagles in a senior scouting role ahead of the 2025 season.

“We all have a reason that we believe so strongly in this principle and my life story is that one,” Johnson told attendees at the 53rd annual March for Life rally in the nation’s capital. 

Sundance film festival: two teenage girls find their friendship put to the test in a witty and charmingly odd British comedy

If you know, you know that first best friendship is a world unto itself – lush, rugged and expansive, nutritive and intoxicating, vulnerable to freak changes in the weather. Its specific terrain stays invisible to outsiders; only the two within it know, and they themselves are likely to lose it in time. So goes the perilous trekking in Extra Geography, Molly Manners’ nimble and frequently funny debut film, which astutely maps the peaks and valleys of one charged friendship between two adolescent girls at an English boarding school.

Minna and Flic, played by remarkable newcomers Galaxie Clear (coming for Chase Infiniti’s name game) and Marni Duggan, begin year 10 sometime in the early 2000s, in a sunny meadow of boundless, heady entanglement. They move in playful unison, share beds and mannerisms, hold common goals (Oxbridge) and disdain (for boys, and those who covet them). Manners, a Bafta nominee for her work on the better-than-it-should-be Netflix series One Day, is particularly attuned to the energizing rhythm of platonic-ish intimacy; the first third of this brisk, 94-minute film is a mesmerizing symphony of female mind-meld, the girls slamming lockers, opening notebooks, flopping on the floor and hatching plans to a swift, synchronous beat.

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© Photograph: Clementine Schneiderman

© Photograph: Clementine Schneiderman

The Giants and their hungry fan base will hope that John Harbaugh is their Vince Lombardi.

A car plowed into a terminal at the Detroit Metro Airport in Michigan Friday night – and the driver bellowed nonsense as he was dragged away from the scene, according to shocking footage and...

Underwood was previously accused of stalking and harassing his ex Cassie Randolph in 2020.

Design drama takes center stage on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 18, Episode 4, and “Werk Room Weekly” is breaking it all down. Hosts Jason Cerin and Brian Faas recap the “Red Carpet Mashups” challenge, where besties pair up to design original looks inspired by two legendary fashion moments… and then face off over who wore...

Extra-precaution is needed in Colorado.