USA keeps rolling in women’s ice hockey with 5-0 win over Switzerland United States rolls to a 5-0 win over Switzerland behind a stellar debut performance from goaltender Gwyneth Philips at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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You’ll like the movie. The book was good.

Man, Walker's just an awesome back. Patience, vision, burst--the total package, with such a unique style. Dude has earned every bit of the paycheck coming his way this summer.

Rohan Nadkarni @RohanNadkarni This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real

That was fucking fantastic

Bad Bunny is KILLING THIS. So good!

Wait is that a Pedro Pascal sighting?!

Nice job by Green Day! 👏🏾👏🏾

Coco Jones looks and sounds absolutely incredible singing The Black National Anthem.

And her look is definitely a nod to Whitney Houston's iconic Super Bowl look from 1991. #SUPERBOWL

Coco Jones did that. #SuperBowlLX

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.

Here are some sayings we haven’t heard in a while:

-“Hold your horses!”
-“She really takes the egg.”
-“You’re the bee’s knees!”
-“Cash Money Records taking over for the 9-9 into 2000.”

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brochures Calling Medgar Evers’ Killer ‘Racist’ Still Available at Evers Home Brochures detailing the true history of the racist who killed Medgar Evers are available at his memorialized home in Jackson, Mississippi.

Visitor brochures that tell the unvarnished truth about the racist who murdered Medgar Evers are currently available to visitors at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, after a report early Thursday that said the National Park Service had removed them.

LaMonte McLemore, 5th Dimension Co-Founder And Photography Pioneer, Dies At 90 - That Eric Alper LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of the legendary vocal group The 5th Dimension and a trailblazing photographer, passed away on February 3, 2026, at his home in Las Vegas. He was 90 years old. Known for his smooth bass vocals, McLemore helped anchor the sophisticated harmonies that defined the group’s “champagne soul” sound, leading to […]

LaMonte McLemore, co-founder of The 5th Dimension and legendary photographer for Jet and Ebony, has died at 90. The "Aquarius" singer leaves behind a massive legacy in music and visual history. zurl.co/uBOJ9

every big NBA trade is like "we sent Washington every player we have and got ten dollars"

Speedskater Erin Jackson, bobsledder Frank Del Duca chosen as U.S. flagbearers for Winter Olympics Erin Jackson is the first Black woman to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Olympics. Frank Del Duca is the first bobsledder in 70 years to carry the U.S. flag.

Speedskater Erin Jackson and bobsledder Frank Del Duca have been chosen as the U.S. flagbearers for the Milan Cortina Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.

HUGE. A victory for more than a quarter million Haitians with Temporary Protected Status. A significant majority of them entered the United States legally and have never been out of status since.

Even the Trump admin isn't saying Haiti is a safe country for them to go back to.

Mavis Staples' “Beautiful Strangers” wins Best American Roots Performance at the Grammys

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“Oh! The Grammy goes to Luther Vandross!” - Cher

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

The MC Lyte has just become the standard bearer "voice of music award shows" is pretty damn awesome lol.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Happy 79th Birthday, Glynn Turman 🎉🎂🥳

“.. In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery .. condemned ‘the perfidious lust for unbridled power’ and ‘the imposition of cruelty.’”

@nytimes.com #Ramos
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A photo of a child wearing a hat

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.

Jan. 31, 1964: WWII Veteran Louis Allen Murdered Louis Allen, a WWII veteran who witnessed and was willing to testify about the murder of a voting rights worker in Mississippi, was murdered.

WWII vet Louis Allen was murdered in Mississippi, #tdih 1964. 💔

Why?

Allen was willing to testify about murder he had witnessed of African American NAACP member & SNCC supporter Herbert Lee by a white state legislator.

FBI refused protection for Allen. 🧵
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Judge Calls DOJ's Statements On Slavery Exhibit Display 'Dangerous' And 'Horrifying' Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe told the Justice Department's attorneys, "“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way.”

A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."

"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"

Catherine O’Hara Could Do Anything And she pretty much did everything. The only tragedy is that it feels like she was just beginning to get the recognition her decades-long career always deserved.

For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:

My first remarks since being arrested last night.