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Defense wins championships and Super Bowl LX showed it can get ratings too. NBCβs Sunday telecast of the Seattle Seahawksβ 29-13 win over the New England Patriots averaged 124.9 million viewers according to Nielsen data, falling short of the record of 127.7 million set last year on Fox. Seattleβs smothering defense preventing New England from…
Francis Ford Coppola wants an offer he canβt refuse β on his timepieces. The Academy Award-winning director is selling seven watches from his personal collection, including his custom F.P. Journe FFC Prototype, estimated to sell for more than $1 million, according to a statement from Phillips, the New York City-based auction house. Phillips will hold…
The Artemis II astronauts safely splashed down off the coast of San Diego at 5:07 p.m. Friday after a historic 10-day mission around the moon, finally letting the crew and NASA officials breathe a sigh of relief. NASA regarded the high-energy reentry β streaking through the atmosphere in a nearly 5,000-degree-Fahrenheit fireball at more than…
Three takeaways from the Lakers’ 119-109 loss to the Golden State Warriors in their season opener on Tuesday night.
Cards on the table, when I first read a story heavily suggesting the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s mobile phone was somehow connected to requests for messages about Lord Mandelson, I thought to myself: that is an absurd conspiracy theory. After all, what are those “raising an eyebrow” at this affair saying happened? Was Number 10’s…
When is AI not artificial intelligence? When it refers to ammonia inhalants, aka smelling salts. When are these AIs in the news? When it was reported that the NFL banned their use, San Francisco 49ers star George Kittle protested, and the NFL walked back the ban a day later. The leagueβs players association clarified that…
Union leaders are demanding no eleventh-hour retreat by the government on workers’ rights now their champion Angela Rayner is no longer in the cabinet. As delegates gather in Brighton for the TUC’s annual conference, the movement’s leadership is claiming four million people – one in eight of the UK workforce – are in “pervasive” insecure…
Nothing puts the so-called “special relationship” between the UK and the United States under strain like the Americans going to war. At Prime Minister’s Questions, after Donald Trump’s “no Churchill” jibe, Sir Keir Starmer insisted the relationship was still alive and well. He was challenged by a Conservative MP, Gareth Bacon, on whether his “dithering”…
Snoopy is the superstar of the βPeanutsβ world, but Ben Folds is loyal to Charlie Brown. βIβm going to have to go with Chuck because heβs so emotionally compressed,β the singer-songwriter said when asked for a favorite. Folds didnβt grow up poring over the Charles M. Schulz comics or memorizing the TV specials β βI…
Rap star Soulja Boy appeared to be all smiles β and some song β as he celebrated the latest update in his recent weapons possession case in Los Angeles. The 35-year-old βCrank That (Soulja Boy)β hitmaker hinted at his release from police custody on Tuesday, sharing an Instagram story that sees him happily singing the…
