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Kyle BonaguraCloseKyle BonaguraESPN Staff WriterCovers college football.Joined ESPN in 2014.Attended Washington State University.Mark SchlabachCloseMark SchlabachESPN Senior WriterSenior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of GeorgiaNov 9, 2025, 12:45 PM ETThe Big Ten provided the biggest thrills in Week 11, with Indiana and Oregon both narrowly fending off upsets in dramatic fashion.But Texas Tech delivered the biggest win of the weekend in terms of College Football Playoff implications, handing BYU its first loss of the season and securing its standing as the team to beat in the Big 12.As with last season’s inaugural…

EPA/ ShutterstockFlight delays and cancellations continue to snarl US air travel for a third day as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned air traffic will be “reduced to a trickle” if the US government shutdown continues.Roughly 1,400 flights to, from, or within the US were cancelled and 2,700 delayed on Sunday morning, according to flight tracker FlightAware. The longest delays were reported in Newark, New Jersey – more than two hours on average.In a hopeful sign, lawmakers are working on a possible deal to reach a compromise on government funding and end the shutdown, according to US media reports. The Senate…

US President Donald Trump on Friday asked the Justice Department to investigate meat-packing companies over their possible role in driving up beef prices.Trump, on social media, accused the industry of contributing to the high cost of beef for US consumers “through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation”.His call for a probe focused on potential antitrust violations comes as soaring beef prices have become a political problem, threatening to undercut his promises to bring down food costs in the US.The announcement also follows Republican losses in key elections this week, where voters’ concerns about the cost of living and Trump’s…

When Jeff Bezos decided Amazon needed to get in the smartphone game, he went all in. And the resulting device, the Fire Phone, wound up more densely packed with big ideas than just about any gadget you’ll find anywhere. There was just one tiny problem: they were mostly bad ideas.The Fire Phone shipped in 2014 with a feature list a mile long. The screen had a 3D effect! There were, like, 400 cameras! There was a whole home screen filled with something called “delighters!” But the Fire Phone was, above all, a way to buy things on Amazon. That was…

Noor NanjiCulture reporterPA MediaThe BBC’s leadership is treating allegations over “systemic bias” with “the seriousness that this demands”, the culture secretary has said.Lisa Nandy’s comments on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme came after reports that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.BBC chair Samir Shah will provide a response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday. The…

My first time in Venice was just after the pandemic travel restrictions were lifted. Like many, I felt the need to make up for lost time and was eager to get home to Italy after months of forced exile.Being confined to my apartment made me want to see all the places I’d put off visiting until then, and as an Italian—and travel writer—who had never been to one of the world’s most visited cities, my first stop had to be Venice. Then, the city was empty of tourists, a scene so surreal it made La Serenissima feel like a sci-fi…

Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad have plunged below 3%, according to reports, as the country suffers from severe water shortages. Director of the United Nations University for Water, Environment and Health, Kaveh Madani, gives his insights on this critical drought in Iran.

Magical thinking is indispensable to understanding Team Trump’s economic policymaking. The White House often seems to believe two opposing policies can work together while one policy can do two or three contradictory things.A heavy dose of hocus pocus will be needed to make the administration’s dollar policy work in the interest of the United States, for it appears that they want to end the US dollar’s supremacy in global finance.At least some part of it does. True, Donald Trump has warned countries not to replace the dollar, or else. And, reportedly, some members of the administration want to encourage more…

Compare the Top 8 Pizza OvensTips and FAQWho We Are and How We TestedAccordionItemContainerButtonWIRED reviewer Adrienne So has tested many pizza ovens and made more than a thousand pizzas over the past seven years. WIRED reviewer Matthew Korfhage is a longtime food writer who’s written about pizza on both coasts over 15 years, from sausage slices in Portland to the story of Mexican pizza in Philadelphia.We test each pizza oven over the course of a few weeks, using homemade dough (Adrienne likes Ooni’s classic pizza dough recipe), fresh dough balls procured from local pizzerias, store-bought fresh dough, and frozen pizzas.…

Whew. Dan Trachtenberg is the hero of the hour as his new movie, Predator: Badlands, has ended the drought at the domestic box office and kicked off November in high style. The movie opened well ahead of expectations to top the domestic box office chart with a franchise-best $40 million (prerelease tracking had it opening to $25 million). Overseas, it likewise took in $40 million for a global start of $80 million. The pic scored the top opening of the sci-fi franchise domestically after stealing the crown from AVP: Alien vs. Predator, which debuted to $38.4 million in 2004, not…