Christmas came early for Atlanta-based real estate developer and avid golfer Michael Barnouin, who was recently gifted back his stolen cowhide wallet that he bought in Montana. The culprit – a gull scavenger with white feathered arms, webbed feet and thin beak – often roamed in bunches near Pebble Beach Golf Links, a public golf course at Pebble Beach Resort ...

The 2025-26 college basketball season has started off with a bang for some, with some teams like Michigan, Arizona, Iowa State and plenty more asserting themselves as national championship candidates. But not every team has had such a hot start, and there’s some real concern hovering around as conference play begins. Whether it was stumbling in a Feast Week tournament, ...

In a sign of the times, the Bears received a commitment from James Nnaji, a 7-foot center from Nigeria who was selected in the 2023 NBA Draft. The 21-year-old will be eligible to play immediately for Scott Drew and will have four years of eligibility remaining, a Baylor spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. The Bears is 9-2 this season. ...

Happy Holidays – the penultimate week of the 2025 NFL regular season is upon us. However you might not exactly enjoy what’s underneath the tree on Christmas – the Yuletide’s three streaming contests (Cowboys-Commanders, Lions-Vikings and Broncos-Chiefs) not exactly crackling with compelling subplots or playoff implications despite their intra-divisional pairings. Saturday’s couplet is a bit more compelling, Texans-Chargers a rematch ...

It was February 2025 when the cracks in the facade of Sherrone Moore’s reign began to appear, or at least were put on display for his entire coaching staff to see. In a meeting called by the then-Michigan football coach on a cold afternoon in Ann Arbor, Moore delivered a vitriolic outburst featuring tears and tossed papers in a virtual ...

It’s never a dull moment in Washington during the holiday season — with multiple holiday celebrations at the White House itself for lawmakers and Cabinet secretaries.  The White House has hosted Christmas parties dating back to 1800 when President John Adams and first lady Abigail Adams hosted several government officials and their families to celebrate on behalf of their granddaughter, ...

A Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled just days after the White House announced that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the iconic performing arts institution in Washington, D.C. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, who has led the holiday ‘Jazz Jams’ at the Kennedy Center since 2006, said he called off his performance ...

A group of 19 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a declaration that aims to restrict gender transition treatment for minors. The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; and its inspector general comes after the declaration issued last week described treatments such as ...

Nasry Asfura has won the 2025 Honduras presidential election, delivering victory for the right-of-center National Party of Honduras (PNH) and shifting the political landscape of Central America.  The 40.3% to 39.5% result in favor of Asfura over Liberal Party candidate Salvador Nasralla arrived after the vote-counting process had been delayed for days by technical glitches and claims by other candidates ...

The Department of Justice said Wednesday it may have more than a million more documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein that it needs to review and that the process could take weeks to complete. The DOJ said two of its components, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, had just handed over ...