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  • The Traitors star tipped as surprise finalist despite barely any airtime

    Former Traitors contestants Jaz Singh and Paul Gorton predict Alex Oleksy is "guaranteed" to make the final of series 3.

  • Don't believe what you hear: Georgia wanted quarterback Carson Beck to return in 2025

    Georgia, not Miami, was the first team to offer Carson Beck when he entered the transfer portal. But the quarterback chose not to return to Bulldogs.

  • Trump's energy department pick to call for more LNG and nuclear power

    Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Energy Department, will tell U.S. senators in his confirmation hearing on Wednesday his first priority is expanding domestic energy production including liquefied natural gas and nuclear power. Wright, 59, believes fossil fuels are the key to ending world poverty, which is a greater problem than climate change's "distant" threat, according to a report he wrote as CEO of oilfield services company Liberty Energy.

  • Can his legendary defensive skills carry Andruw Jones to the Hall of Fame?

    With 10 Gold Gloves, Andruw Jones was an elite defender in center field and hit over 400 home runs, but his career declined rapidly after age 30.

  • How late Colorado coach Bill McCartney faced his own mortality

    Years before his recent death, former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney had a memorable conversation with a reporter about his cruel condition.

  • T.J. Otzelberger, Iowa State basketball at historic high while staying 'locked into the moment'

    Iowa State has never been higher in the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll and is one spot from reaching No. 1 for first time in program history.

  • Trump CIA pick Ratcliffe to face Senate questions on politicized intelligence

    The Senate intelligence committee holds a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA director, John Ratcliffe, a former Republican lawmaker who was accused of using intelligence for political ends as the nation’s top spy during the incoming U.S. leader’s first term. Ratcliffe is all but certain to win the Republican-run Senate's approval to lead the premier U.S. intelligence agency as the United States grapples with China, Russia’s war in Ukraine and growing ties between the two nuclear powers, Iran and North Korea.

  • Temporary library replaces fire-hit service

    The new facility is opening in the building next to Barrow Leisure Centre.

  • Mozambique's new president sworn in despite opposition boycott

    Daniel Chapo's legitimacy has been questioned following protests against his victory.

  • Police arrest 22 people for drink and drug driving

    Operation Ripple Effect ran between 29 November and 4 January in a bid to target dangerous driving.

  • Snowy and icy roads lead to delays for some schools on P.E.I.

    Islanders woke up Wednesday morning to snow-covered roads with icy patches and slush, creating challenging travel conditions.Due to these conditions, all classes in the Westisle, Three Oaks, Kensington, Kinkora, Bluefield, and Charlottetown families of schools were delayed one hour. All other schools remained on their normal schedules.P.E.I.'s French-language school board also implemented a one-hour delay for all schools, except for La Belle Cloche in Rollo Bay, which operated as usual.CBC meteo

  • College Football Playoff expansion rescued Ohio State, Notre Dame, and we're better for it

    A four-team College Football Playoff would have omitted the nation's best team from the bracket. The bigger playoff saved this matchup.

  • Albanian premier surprises Italy's Meloni with birthday scarf and song

    Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama presented a gift of a scarf to his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni and serenaded her as she celebrated her 48th birthday on Wednesday. Rama, who is much taller than Meloni, went down on one knee to hand over the present and sang "tanti auguri" (happy birthday) as the two leaders attended the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. The lightweight scarf was the work of an Italian designer who had relocated to Albania, Rama explained to Meloni.

  • Germany's economy shrank for the second consecutive year in 2024

    The German economy shrank for the second straight year in 2024 as worried consumers held back on spending and Chinese competition ate into the country's traditional exports of cars and industrial machinery. “German exports saw themselves exposed to stronger international competition, not least from the People's Republic of China,” Brand said.

  • Man in court charged with murdering mother in Cavan

    A 31-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 55-year-old woman from County Cavan.

  • Irish parties secure 'comfortable majority' for new government

    DUBLIN (Reuters) -Talks between Ireland's two historically dominant centre-right parties and independent lawmakers have reached an agreement that will give a new coalition government a "comfortable majority," a negotiator for one of the parties said on Wednesday. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, who led the outgoing coalition, have been in talks since they fell one seat short in a Nov. 29 election of the 87 needed to govern. The parties had been aiming to finalise the deal before next week's inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, conscious that his pledges to cut corporate tax and impose tariffs pose a potentially major threat to Ireland's foreign multinational-focused economy.

  • Jared Kushner advises from afar as Ivanka Trump opts out of role in father's second term

    Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner enjoyed largely unfettered access to Trump in his first term and were influential on a vast portfolio including Middle Eastern peace negotiations and COVID-19 vaccine development. In the second Trump administration starting on Jan. 20, however, they say they will not take official roles, and will instead be some 1,000 miles (1,600 km) away from Washington D.C. in their Miami home. Kushner, originally a real estate scion, now runs a private equity firm fueled by investments from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

  • Cocaine use in France doubles as workplace pressures drive demand

    The number of cocaine users in France has nearly doubled to 1.1 million, with employees increasingly using the drug to cope with workplace pressures, a government report revealed on Wednesday. The spike in consumption has pushed France to seventh place among European nations for cocaine use, according to the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Trends (OFDT). "The evolution of working conditions has led to active workers using it to cope at work, either to handle intensive schedules in rest

  • How accurate is BMI when measuring obesity? Experts weigh in

    We hear from doctors and weight experts about whether BMI calculations should be considered a thing of the past or not.

  • Ukraine's Zelenskiy visits Poland after progress in World War Two dispute

    WARSAW (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was visiting Warsaw on Wednesday, following what Poland has called a breakthrough in a historical dispute about wartime exhumations that has stood between the allies. The issue of securing the exhumation and proper burial of victims looks set to be important in a May presidential election in which a conservative historian who heads the National Remembrance Institute (IPN) is running as the main nationalist opposition candidate. Although Poland has been one of Ukraine's staunchest backers since Russia invaded in 2022, ties between the neighbours have been strained for generations by the Volhynia killings that took place from 1943 to 1945.