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Rory McIlroy was eliminated from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after suffering a triple-bogey nightmare in the third round on Saturday.The defending champion got off to a good start with two birdies in the first three holes, but collapsed on the fourth hole. A combination of wayward drives, sloppy recoveries, and poor bunker shots resulted in a dreadful 3-over-par 7. With four more birdies, one bogey on the 10th, and a double bogey at the end, McIlroy reached break-even with a total of 19 under par, closing in on the lead held by American world No. 48 Akshay Bhatia by…
Sam Darnold (14 years old) of the Seattle Seahawks plays under center during the New England Patriots game against the New England Patriots on February 8, 2026 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.Jamie Schwabelow | Sports Illustrated | Getty ImagesThe Super Bowl ended last week, but plans are already being made for the 2026 NFL season.In the days leading up to the Feb. 8 game, the NFL announced that it would host regular-season games for the first time in Paris, Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro as part of next season’s nine overseas games (two more than in 2025).”Over the…
AP — The real threat facing Hungary is not Russia but the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a speech to supporters on Saturday, as the country’s nationalist parties intensified their anti-EU campaign ahead of national elections. With just eight weeks until the April 12 vote, Prime Minister Orbán and his Fidesz party face their most serious challenge since the right-wing populist leader took power in 2010. Most independent polls show Fidesz lagging behind the center-right Tisza party and its leader Péter Magyar, even though Orbán campaigned on the baseless premise that the EU would send Hungarians to…
For decades, the Palestinian cause has found its most receptive audience on the political left. Progressive movements, human rights organizations, and anti-colonial traditions have provided language, unity, and moral clarity. The adjustment made sense. That’s still the case today. However, in today’s political climate, we cannot make policy changes on our own.If policy is to be formed in areas dominated by security ideology and conservative forces, advocacy needs to reach those areas as well.In many parts of the Western world, decisions about military aid, diplomatic positions, and protest laws are shaped by security-oriented political calculations rather than activist pressure. The…
This fall, something strange happened on the campus of the University of California. For the first time since the dot-com crash, enrollment in computer science has declined. The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that the system as a whole is down 6% this year after falling 3% in 2024. Even though overall college enrollment increased 2% nationwide, students continue to rely on traditional CS degrees, according to January data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The only exception is the University of California, San Diego. It is the only UC campus to add a dedicated AI major this…
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in support of political prisoners on Prospekt Sakharova Street in Moscow, Russia, on September 29, 2019. Sefa Karacan | Anadolu | Getty ImagesFive European countries announced on Saturday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been poisoned by the Kremlin with a deadly toxin derived from poison dart frog skin.The foreign ministries of Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said that analysis of samples from Navalny, who died two years ago, “conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.” This is a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America, and is…
Grab your saddle, put on your riding boots, and let’s enter the Year of the Horse. The Lunar New Year, widely considered the most important event of the year in China and the Chinese community around the world, is approaching. The first new moon of the lunar calendar falls on February 17, 2026, marking the beginning of the 15-day Chinese New Year. Celebrations vary by country and region, but there are some common traditions. Whether you’re new to the event or need a refresher, this guide to welcoming the Year of the Horse will help. The incredibly complex Chinese zodiac…
England’s latest Murrayfield nightmare left more questions than answers as Scotland reclaimed the Calcutta Cup with a convincing Six Nations victory. Sky Sports looks at what went wrong when their 12-game winning streak came to a shocking halt.Bad discipline comes at a costEngland spent 30 of the first half’s 58 minutes and were reduced to 14 men following an early sin-bin for Henry Arundel’s failure to break a tackle, followed by a red card in the 20th minute for contact with Kyle Steyn in the air. England had little room to complain about referee Nika Amashkeli’s second decision, given how…
President Obama did not mention President Trump by name, but said that the majority of Americans “find this behavior very problematic.”listen to this article | 4 minutesinformationIn his first public address since President Donald Trump’s social media accounts depicted him and his wife Michelle as monkeys, former President Barack Obama lamented the deterioration of the country’s political discourse into a “clown show.””(What’s) true is that there’s no shame about this among people who used to feel like they had to have some kind of decorum and civility and respect for public office? That’s been lost,” President Obama said Saturday in…
Beijing — Minutes after top diplomat Marco Rubio declared in his conciliatory speech at the Munich Security Conference that the United States and Europe “belong as one,” a Chinese diplomat took to the stage to make his case. “China and the EU are partners, not rivals,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the audience on the same stage on Saturday. “To the extent that we firmly understand this point, we will be able to make the right choices when faced with challenges, prevent the international community from drifting toward fragmentation, and promote the continued progress of human civilization.” Rubio and…