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YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8 PM Eastern time and reached 338,000 reports on Downdetector before starting to taper down. More users reported having issues accessing the app, but I personally lost access to the web homepage first.As of 9:22 PM, users are still reporting being unable to access YouTube on Reddit. As of 9:33 PM, users are complaining that they still can’t access the service, though others…

Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico speaks during a U.S. Senate campaign launch rally in Round Rock, Texas, Sept. 9, 2025.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesStephen Colbert ripped CBS for barring him from airing on his late-night TV show an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate.”You know who’s not one of my guests tonight? That’s Texas Representative James Talarico,” Colbert told his show’s studio audience for Monday night’s broadcast of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.””He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers,…

The curling ice at the Winter Olympics is often full of shouting—but not like this. Last Friday, in a match that Canada won 8-6, a verbal altercation broke out between the third throwers from each team. Near the end of the match, after a debate over minor rules reached its crescendo, Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson passive-aggressively accused Canadian vice-skip Marc Kennedy of cheating. Kennedy promptly declared that he “didn’t give a shit,” twice telling Eriksson to “fuck off.”Within hours, the dustup had been covered by nearly every major news outlet and had blown up on social media, inspiring scores of people…

If third base is the position you have to worry about most (and if you’ve read my third base strategies, you know it is), shortstop is the position you have to worry about least. That comes with a caveat, but it won’t apply to 90 percent of you. Granted, shortstop has had a reputation for being the most star-studded position in Fantasy for darn near a decade now, but it hasn’t always been deep to the point that you can’t really mess it up. That’s how it stacks up now, though. In addition to all the early-round standouts remaining more or…

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from broadcasting an interview with James Talarico, a Democratic representative from Texas. During his opening monologue on Monday night, Colbert says the network’s lawyers told him in “no uncertain terms” that he couldn’t have Talarico on the show, forcing him to post the interview on YouTube instead, hours after news broke that Anderson Cooper is leaving his position at the network as a 60 Minutes correspondent.“He [Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we…

Today in “I am officially unc” news, Disney announced that the beloved sitcom Hannah Montana would be celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special on Disney+. This makes me… roughly 70? Eighty? All I know is I used to watch this show while sending AIM Instant Messages on a dial-up connection.So what’s in store for us millennials and zillennials dying to throw it back to the aughts and tune in? Below, find everything you need to know about the Hannah Montana 20th anniversary special.What will happen during the Hannah Montana 20th anniversary special?All we really know so far is that…

Meta has struck a multiyear deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia’s Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. While Meta has long been using Nvidia’s hardware for its AI products, this deal “represents the first large-scale Nvidia Grace-only deployment,” which Nvidia says will deliver “significant performance-per-watt improvements in [Meta’s] data centers.” The deal also includes plans to add Nvidia’s next-generation Vera CPUs to Meta’s data centers in 2027.Meta is also working on its own in-house chips for running AI models, but according to the Financial Times, it has run into “technical challenges and rollout…

Myron MedcalfFeb 17, 2026, 12:57 PM ETClose Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, MankatoMultiple AuthorsJon Scheyer said he “could have said even more” in response to a local district attorney’s claims that there was “zero evidence” to support the Duke coach’s initial claim that Blue Devils staffers were punched in a recent court storming at rival North Carolina.Jeff Nieman, the district attorney for Orange County — which includes Chapel Hill, North Carolina — disputed Scheyer’s account of the Feb. 7 court-storming incident and added that Scheyer “should exercise more discretion” in his public comments.Scheyer…

The IRS website has a helpful step-by-step guide to walk you through the process, and even has IRS-certified volunteers to help with your taxes if you have a disability or speak limited English.Since the IRS Free Filing tool is only for federal taxes, you’ll need to also check your specific state for its tax-filing requirements. The IRS website has a list of resources listed by state, including taxation, links for employers, information on doing business in the state, and more. Although this list hasn’t been updated since 2023, it’s also a good jumping-off point to find tax resources and forms…

Containers at a shipping terminal in Yokohama, Japan on Oct. 18, 2021. Japan’s trade deficit surged in September as imports overwhelmed export growth.Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJapanese exports climbed 16.8% year on year in January, sharply beating market expectations and growing at their fastest rate since November 2022 as shipment to Asia and Western Europe surged, government data on Wednesday showed.Growth was higher than December’s 5.1%, and beat Reuters-polled economists’ estimates of 12%. Value of exports to China, Japan’s largest trading partner, jumped 32%, after rising 5.6% in December at a time when the two countries are locked…