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Rory McIlroy insists he’s still in contention after reaching the halfway mark at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, six shots behind the lead.The defending champion, who finished the second round at Pebble Beach with a 67, moved to nine under par with his last birdie, chasing second round leaders Akshay Bhatia and Ryo Hisatsune. American duo Rickie Fowler and Sam Burns are two strokes clear of the group that includes Austria’s Sepp Straka and one stroke behind the lead. Matt Fitzpatrick is in a large group among players at McIlroy’s level with fellow Brit Tommy Fleetwood at 10 under.McIlroy got…

When U.S. figure skaters Amber Glenn, Alisa Liu and Isabeau Levitt take to the ice to compete in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, they’re all wearing dresses designed by the same woman.The designer’s name is Lisa McKinnon, and she dressed all three women competing on Team USA in the singles figure skating competition, as well as two American ice dancers and two Korean skaters for this year’s Olympics. The seven athletes will compete wearing at least 13 costumes from Lisa McKinnon Designs, the Los Angeles-based studio McKinnon founded in 2014.McKinnon told CNBC Make It that she works 40 to 60 hours…

F1 testing has always been a mystery as to which team actually has the fastest car, but the 2026 pre-season mystery is shaping up to be one of the most confusing and complex in the sport’s history.Two-thirds of the extended testing schedule has been completed, dispelling any notion of a complete shake-up of the established pecking order, but who is the fastest of the ‘big four’ is still up for debate. Listed in order of winning the constructors’ championship last year, McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari all claim that they are not the fastest, and that at least one…

A worker stocks beef fillets in the meat section of a Washington grocery store.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesEconomists said inflation slowed in January as price pressures eased across a wide range of consumer staples such as food and gasoline, but prices for some items such as electricity and heating remained rising. The Consumer Price Index, a key inflation measure, rose 2.4% in January compared to 12 months earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. This was lower than expected, down from 2.7% in December.Inflation remains above the goal of Federal Reserve policymakers, who aim for…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has determined it is safe for Yemenis to return to their home country despite the ongoing conflict.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished February 14, 2026February 14, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe U.S. government has ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Yemen and ordered more than 1,000 Yemeni refugees and asylum seekers living in the country to leave the country within 60 days or face arrest and deportation.Friday’s action comes as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown, affecting people fleeing dangerous lives in war-torn countries.Recommended stories list of…

Sky Sports weighs the key issues ahead of the second round of the 2026 Six Nations…Return of ItojeCaptain Maro Itoje will make an emotional return for the 15th match when England take on Scotland on Saturday. Itoje missed part of England’s pre-tournament training camp to attend his mother Florence’s funeral in Nigeria. He was limited to a supporting role in last weekend’s win over Wales at the Allianz Stadium. “It’s great to be back on the team,” Itoje said. “It’s great to be with my teammates, coaching and support staff in this environment that I love so much.“Throwing yourself into…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a welcoming ceremony with Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China Li Qiang prior to a meeting at the Great Hall of the People during his visit to China, January 29, 2026, in Beijing, China. Karl Cote | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesGeopolitical plates are shifting again, and early tremors are already being seen in many parts of the world, with profound implications for the realignment of traditional alliances, global markets, and state power. What we are witnessing in the first quarter of 2026 feels increasingly like one of historic seismic moments,…

After all, Bangladesh’s 13th parliamentary elections were not a revolution. It was a calculation.When the votes were counted, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a decisive victory, returning to power after years of political wilderness under Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule.Most headlines featured this as a dramatic comeback, and rightly so. But behind the scenes, this was a carefully navigated trend rather than a wave of voter choice. This was a contest built on frustration and First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) arithmetic.To understand why the BNP took off, we first need to dispel the lazy narrative that this was a wasted Jamaat moment. When…

Canada’s decision to reduce barriers to Chinese electric vehicles is part of a major shift away from dependence on the United States. Canada’s government is looking to develop joint ventures with Chinese and South Korean companies and revive its manufacturing base with tax breaks in the face of strained relations with the United States and decades of decline in Canadian auto manufacturing. In January, the country announced that it would allow the import of 49,000 Chinese-made EVs at a tariff rate of 6.1%. This is a significant reversal of the 106% tariff imposed in October 2024. According to Canadian research…

Alibaba’s booth at the World Congress on Artificial Intelligence held at the Shanghai Expo Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, on July 5, 2024.Null Photo | Null Photo | Getty ImagesWhile the U.S. market is focused on the impact Anthropic and Altruist’s tools will have on software and financial services, the Chinese tech giant this week released an AI model that shows advances in robotics and video generation.alibabaTikTok creator ByteDance and short video platform Kuaishoreleased a new AI model highlighting how Chinese companies are catching up with their U.S. counterpartsThis was announced after Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, told…