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Pedestrians stand in front of an electronic quotation board displaying the numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2026.Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty ImagesJapan’s economy grew 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the previous three months, narrowly avoiding a technical recession.While it was a reversal of the 0.7% contraction in the third quarter, the gross domestic product missed expectations of a 0.4% expansion by economists polled by Reuters.A technical recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction. On an annualized basis, output rose 0.2%, compared…

Ilia Malinin was born to skate. The child of two Olympic skaters—Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, who both competed for Uzbekistan—he first hit the ice at six years old. In the years since, he’s skyrocketed to fame in the skating world, dubbing himself the “Quad God” for his ability to do multiple quadruple jumps with ease in a single program.This week, Malinin lead the US figure skating squad to gold in the team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics. During that competition, his performance was notable for two reasons. One, he ended his short program with an astounding backflip. Two,…

Feb 15, 2026, 08:06 PM ETThe 2026 NBA All-Star Game, taking place at the Intuit Dome near Los Angeles, tipped off Friday with a plethora of superstar players arriving for a jam-packed weekend.Some fresh new faces of the league got things started with the Rising Stars showcase Friday. With No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg out through the All-Star break with injury, the young troupe was headlined by Rookie of the Year contender VJ Edgecombe, who took home MVP honors.On Saturday, the league’s top-tier talents demonstrate their skills in the 3-point contest, Shooting Stars competition and dunk contest. Most notably, Damian…

Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled symbols like:The scrambled text is so ubiquitous that it’s spurred conspiracy theories that it could be some kind of code. But as believable as it might be that a cabal of elite sex traffickers would communicate in a secret language, the reality is probably more boring: The symbols are likely artifacts from the way the Department of Justice converted the emails to PDFs.“The glyphs and symbols are probably some artifact of a poor conversion process,” said Chris Prom, professor and…

In honor of the upcoming Lunar New Year, Private Policy’s Haoran Li created his own melting pot and threw a party at New York’s Webster Hall to celebrate it. Guests were treated to boxes of Chinese food upon arrival—designers that show at dinnertime time take note!Up top, Li took inspiration from 19th-century Chinese immigrants, specifically those who built the first transcontinental railway, and interpreted them in the context of updated American workwear. Cowboy-inspired button-downs and Americana hues, like a washed green, canary yellow, and sandy brown, flooded the collection. If some of the shapes and motifs felt like Carhartt, it’s…

Neysa, an Indian AI infrastructure startup, has secured backing from U.S. private equity firm Blackstone as it scales domestic compute capacity amid India’s push to build homegrown AI capabilities. Blackstone and co-investors, including Teachers’ Venture Growth, TVS Capital, 360 ONE Assets, and Nexus Venture Partners, have agreed to invest up to $600 million of primary equity in Neysa, giving Blackstone a majority stake, Blackstone and Neysa told TechCrunch. The Mumbai-headquartered startup also plans to raise an additional $600 million in debt financing as it expands GPU capacity, a sharp increase from the $50 million it had raised previously. The deal…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Raegan Beers scored 21 points and Payton Verhulst added 17 to help No. 10 Oklahoma beat 23rd-ranked Alabama 79-71 on Sunday.Oklahoma led by double digits on three separate occasions, but each time Alabama cut the deficit down to four points or less.AdvertisementThe Sooners (19-6, 7-5 SEC) rallied behind freshman Aaliyah Chavez’s nine points in the fourth quarter to win the game. She finished with 15 points, six rebounds and six assists.Oklahoma had its struggles offensively, missing five of its first six shots from the field and only shooting 23% from 3-point range and 58% from the free…

At the start of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, US figure skater Amber Glenn spoke at a press conference about using her platform as an Olympian to support LGBTQ+ rights. “It isn’t the first time we’ve had to come together as a community,” she said. “I hope that I can use my platform and my voice throughout these Games to try to encourage people to stay strong.”A few days later, she posted an Instagram story saying she had received “a scary amount of hate/threats” following the comments on social media. “I’ve never had so many people wish me harm…

The Warner Bros. logo is displayed on a water tower at Warner Bros. Studio on September 12, 2025 in Burbank, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesWarner Bros. Discovery’s board is considering reopening sales talks with Paramount Skydance after recently receiving an amended offer with sweetened deal terms, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.Warner Bros. in December agreed to sell both its film studio and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix for $27.75 per share. Paramount, which owns CBS and MTV, in December launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros., promising its shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash…

The time has apparently come for Sony to take another swing at Charlie’s Angels once more. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the studio’s working on a new film in the woman-led franchise, with writer Pete Chiarelli (Crazy Rich Asians) brought on to help get the ball rolling with a script. Interestingly, THR’s reporting mentions a source that’s alleged Drew Barrymore will producing this new film, as she did when she executive produced the short-lived ABC series from 2011 and the 2019 film. Barrymore, along with Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz, made up the best-known modern day incarnation from the early 2000s. This…