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Elena Rybakina wins Australian Open for 2nd Grand Slam title
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Elena Rybakina was crowned Australian Open champion after storming from behind in the deciding set of Saturday’s final to overcome top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
After splitting the first two sets at Rod Laver Arena, Sabalenka appeared to have made a decisive move in the third set when she broke Rybakina for just the second time in the match and raced to a 3-0 lead.
But Rybakina, the world No. 5, responded by winning five consecutive games to wrestle back control. She calmly served out the match with an ace to clinch her second Grand Slam title, avenging her losses to Sabalenka in the 2023 Australian Open and 2021 Wimbledon finals.
Following championship point, the pair shared an embrace at the net. Rybakina then clapped her left hand on the strings of her racket and held her arm up triumphantly to the packed grandstands roaring in delight.
“It’s amazing to hold this trophy,” said Rybakina, who was born in Russia but represents Kazakhstan. “I knew that today if I get a chance to lead that I will need to try some risky shots and just go for it … not wait for any mistakes or even get to the long rallies.
“It was tough to come back in the third. I’m happy that being down, I was able to calm myself down, not being frustrated anymore, and just focus on each point and stay close. I’m super happy.”
Saturday’s 2-hour, 18-minute final was a tale of razor-thin margins — as evidenced by both players finishing the night having won exactly 92 points — but in the key moments it was Rybakina who stepped up.
Rybakina won 64% of points with the score locked at either 30-30 or 40-40 and 75% when facing a break point. She made 72% of her third-set service returns land in play, a contrast to Sabalenka, who managed only 59%.
Another key to victory for Rybakina was her ability to successfully combat the four-time Grand Slam champion’s combination of power and aggression with her own brand of heavy ballstriking and fearless tennis.
She signaled that intent early on, breaking the first Sabalenka service game with high-risk, high-reward tennis, despite the world No. 1 landing seven of eight first serves.
It was an approach that carried her throughout the back-and-forth contest and to the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup, which was presented by 2001 and 2002 Australian Open champion Jennifer Capriati.
“I played great until [a] certain point, and then I couldn’t resist that aggression that she had on court today,” a defeated Sabalenka said. “I don’t know if I have any regrets. Maybe I should have tried to be more aggressive on my serve, knowing that I have a break, and put pressure on her, but she played incredible. Today she was a better player.”
The Australian Open title caps a monumental return to the top for Rybakina, who will be elevated to world No. 3 when the WTA’s latest rankings land Monday.
Rybakina, 26, ended last year with semifinal appearances in both the Toronto and Cincinnati WTA 1000 events before being crowned champion at the season-ending WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Since Wimbledon last year, Rybakina has achieved a tour-best 37-6 record, while her latest triumph over Sabalenka extends her consecutive win streak over top-10 opponents to a career-best 10 matches.
“I always believed that I [could] come back to the level I was,” Rybakina said. “Of course, we all have ups and downs. I think everyone thought maybe I will never be again in the final or even get a trophy, but it’s all about the work.
“When you get some wins, big wins against top players, then you start to believe more. You get more confident. That was the kind of way.”
The loss is the second in succession for Sabalenka in an Australian Open final. Last year, she was upset by American Madison Keys, also in three sets. Each of the two years prior, she was crowned champion at Melbourne Park.
Sabalenka had entered the 2026 final against Rybakina having won 12 consecutive matches and 22 consecutive sets to begin the year.
“It’s tennis, you know. Today you’re a loser; tomorrow you’re a winner,” Sabalenka said. “Hopefully I’ll be more of a winner this season than a loser.”
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Israel strikes in Gaza kill at least 30 Palestinians, one of the highest tolls since ceasefire began
At least 30 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza, hospital officials said, marking one of the highest death tolls since a ceasefire began in October.
The strikes, which came a day after Israel accused Hamas of new ceasefire violations, hit multiple locations throughout Gaza, including an apartment building in Gaza City and a tent camp in Khan Younis, officials at hospitals that received the bodies told the Associated Press. An airstrike also hit a police station in Gaza City, killing at least 14 and wounding others, Shifa Hospital director Mahamed Abu Selmiya said.
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The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that the strikes were in response to what it said was a violation of the ceasefire agreement by Hamas after the army killed at least four terrorists emerging from a tunnel in an Israel-controlled area of Rafah.
“The terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip systematically violate international law, brutally exploiting civilian infrastructure and the Gazan population as human shields for terrorist activities,” the IDF said, adding that it will continue to act against any violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Nasser Hospital said the strike on the tent camp caused a fire to break out, killing seven, including a father, his three children and three grandchildren. Meanwhile, Shifa Hospital said the Gaza City apartment building strike killed three children, their aunt and grandmother on Saturday morning, while the strike on the police station killed at least 14 — officers, including four policewomen, civilians and inmates held at the station. The hospital also said a man was killed in a strike Saturday in the eastern side of Jabaliya refugee camp.
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Hamas called Saturday’s strikes “a renewed flagrant violation” and urged the United States and other mediating countries to push Israel to stop strikes.
Saturday’s strikes are a reminder that the death toll in Gaza is still rising even as the ceasefire agreement inches forward.
Israel’s military, which has struck targets on both sides of the ceasefire’s dividing line, said its attacks since October have been responses to violations of the agreement.
The number reported killed on Saturday was several times higher than the daily average since the ceasefire began. As of Friday, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry had recorded at least 520 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since the start of the ceasefire on Oct. 10. The ministry maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.
Saturday’s strikes also came a day before the Rafah crossing along the border with Egypt is set to open in Gaza’s southernmost city. All of the territory’s border crossings have been closed throughout almost the entire war. Palestinians see Rafah as a lifeline for the tens of thousands in need of treatment outside the territory, where the majority of medical infrastructure has been destroyed.
The crossing’s opening, limited at first, marks the first major step in the second phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Reopening borders is among the challenging issues on the agenda for the phase now underway, which also includes demilitarizing the strip after nearly two decades of Hamas rule and installing a new government to oversee reconstruction.
12 STONES Return With First New Music In Six Years, Release Reflective New Single “Golden Child”
After six years of silence, 12 Stones are officially back. The Louisiana-bred hard rock outfit have released “Golden Child,” their first new song since 2019, marking a new chapter via a joint venture between Judge & Jury Records and SV Records.
Notably, both 12 Stones and Judge & Jury are credited as primary artists on the release, signaling a deeper creative partnership rather than a standard label deal. Founded by multi-platinum producer Howard Benson and Three Days Grace drummer and songwriter Neil Sanderson, Judge & Jury brings heavyweight production, songwriting, and promotional firepower to the table — a natural fit for a band built on emotional heft and radio-ready intensity.
Lyrically, “Golden Child” leans into introspection and emotional reckoning. Frontman Paul McCoy explained the song’s core message:
“The song is about realizing that in some relationships people never actually know each other because they were left clinging to a good memory of a better time, to the point that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Sometimes the truth is right in front of us. We just have to open our eyes and take notice of who we’ve become.”
Musically, the track balances 12 Stones‘ signature post-grunge grit with a polished modern edge, reinforcing why the band’s sound has endured for over two decades. McCoy, of course, is widely recognized beyond 12 Stones for his Grammy-winning guest vocals on Evanescence‘s “Bring Me to Life,” a song that has surpassed one billion streams and remains a defining moment of early-2000s rock.
Formed in 2000 in Mandeville, LA, 12 Stones originally emerged with a lineup of McCoy, guitarist Eric Weaver, drummer Aaron Gainer, and bassist Kevin Dorr. Across their career, the band has released five full-length albums and two EPs, while touring extensively with rock heavyweights including Creed, 3 Doors Down, and Sevendust.
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Teofimo Lopez vs. Shakur Stevenson fight predictions: Expert picks for title bout
Don’t let the goofball theatrics or any of Teofimo Lopez Jr’s attempts to get inside Shakur Stevenson’s head this week distract you from the fact that Saturday’s junior welterweight showdown is a showcase of everything that’s right about the sport of boxing.
Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs) will defend WBO 140-pound title against the three-division champion Stevenson (24-0, 11 KOs) inside a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York (DAZN PPV, 6 p.m. ET) in the main event of a must-see “Ring 6” card presented by Turki Alalshikh. This sizzling matchup between two of the top 10 pound-for-pound fighters on the planet has also featured no love lost between the two competitors.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, who now fights out of Las Vegas, the 28-year-old Lopez spent most of Thursday’s final press conference clowning Stevenson with childish verbiage in an attempt to get inside his head. It was par for the course for Lopez, who has longed relied upon mental warfare to convince opponents and critics that he’s unfocused or mentally unfit before delivering the kind of breakthrough performances — often as a betting underdog, which he is once again on Saturday — that his legacy has been built upon.
Despite his glossy record, Lopez can be wildly inconsistent inside the ring, especially when facing opponents not up to his level. But it has been his ability to step up his game when the lights are the brightest, including victories over lineal champions Vasily Lomachenko at lightweight (2020) and Josh Taylor at junior welterweight (2023), that have made the athletic counterpuncher so dangerous.
In a rare moment of clarity on Thursday, Lopez talked openly about how important the addition of new trainer Stacy McKinley, who will assist his father, Teofimo Lopez Sr., in the corner, was to his camp.
“No media, no documentaries this time around. No cameras, no people,” Lopez said. “I tried to change that around this time just to see how it would do and I kid you not, so much more work has been done. I’ve been switching things around. I feel very good, excited and determined. I can’t wait to display it Saturday night.”
The 28-year-old Stevenson, a native of nearby Newark, New Jersey, who now fights out of Houston, took Lopez’s antics in stride, save for a crass comment that Stevenson inadvertently interpreted as a joke about his mother caused him to get out of his seat and attempt to attack Lopez on the dais until security intervened. Stevenson, however, brought his own ammunition to the event in the form of a brown-bag bottle of alcohol meant as a gift to Lopez’s father, who was absent at the press conference, in reference to members of Stevenson’s team claiming to have seen him inebriated the night before in the hotel lobby.
“No, it ain’t nothing personal, it’s all business,” Stevenson said. “When it gets personal, it’s when people get emotional and I haven’t really felt that way. I’m 100% focused, I’m ready and Saturday night he’s going to see.
“Make sure you all tune in because I’m going to beat this boy’s ass.”
Despite winning a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and then claiming world titles between 126 and 135 pounds, Stevenson found himself heavily criticized in recent years for boring performances as the biggest names in his divisions continued to avoid him. The narrative appeared to swing back in Stevenson’s favor last July when he stood in the pocket against unbeaten William Zepeda and scored an exciting and wide decision win.
Not only will the winner of Lopez-Stevenson likely find themselves catapulted into a crowded top five of the P4P rankings, he will also be in the driver’s seat for any number of big fights involving boxing’s biggest names between 135 and 147 pounds.
The undercard on Saturday also features the return of Keyshawn Davis when the former lightweight champion makes the move up to junior welterweight and takes on Jamaine Ortiz. Davis, 26, is looking to erase any lingering doubts about his ability after a debacle last summer when he failed to make weight for his scheduled title defense against Edwin De Los Santos in his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia by over 4 pounds. The two teams could not come to an agreement on compensation and the fight was canceled. Then, Davis was part of a melee when his brother, Kelvin, lost to Nahir Albright and Keyshawn, along with his second brother, Keon, allegedly jumped Albright in the backstage area. Keyshawn and his family were subsequently ejected from the arena. Keyshawn then declared he would take time away from boxing to get back on track.
Plus, WBC featherweight champion Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington is back in action when he defends his title against Carlos Castro. Carrington, 28, has been spectacular through 15 pro fights. He’s scored nine knockouts to date. He earned the interim WBC title last July when he outpointed Mateus Heita in New York.
“This is a dream come true. To all the fans that have been watching me for the start of my pro career, they’ve been waiting for this,” Carrington said at the final press conference. “To all my fans in Brownsville, this is a long time coming. For me to be a part of that list of Brownsville fighters, it means the world to me. This is my moment and I feel like I have to do it. I’ve been doing so much to make sure I’m overly prepared. I cannot wait until Saturday and you don’t want to miss the Shu Shu show.”
Let’s take a closer look at the rest of the fight card with the latest odds from DraftKings Sportsbook before getting to a prediction and expert pick on the main event below.
Fight card, odds
Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook
- Shakur Stevenson -300 vs. Teofimo Lopez (c) +230, WBO and Ring junior welterweight title
- Keyshawn Davis -700 vs. Jamaine Ortiz +450, junior welterweights
- Bruce Carrington (c) -800 vs. Carlos Castro +500, WBC featherweight title
Where to watch Lopez vs. Stevenson
- Date: Saturday, Jan. 31 | Location: Madison Square Garden — New York
- Start time: 6 p.m. ET
- Where to watch: DAZN PPV | Price: $69.99
Prediction
With advantages in speed, footwork and technique, it’s understandable why the southpaw Stevenson, who has been viewed for years as a future P4P king in waiting, is a 3-to-1 betting favorite coming in. That doesn’t mean, however, that the result of this fight is a foregone conclusion.
For as much as Stevenson has been brilliant to date in outclassing the biggest names he has shared the ring with, he has yet to fight an opponent of Lopez’s size, experience or athleticism as a quick-twitch puncher with legitimate pop. Stevenson is also moving up in weight to a fourth division against an unorthodox and explosive opponent who is anything but slow and plodding.
The big question will become whether Stevenson can have success in boxing Lopez from the outside or whether he will field the pressure — similar to the Zepeda fight — of being expected to be exciting. Lopez, due to the threat of his leaping counter shots, can often lower the output of his opponents, which can make rounds more difficult to score for ringside judges due to the lack of compelling shots landed.
Either way it goes, this matchup brings together two of the most skilled and physically gifted fighters of this era, similar to how we now view, in retrospect, Lopez’s 2020 victory over Lomachenko. The difference between the southpaw Lomachenko, who was giving up size to Lopez, and Stevenson, however, is that Stevenson throws much more volume and likely won’t wait until the midpoint of the fight to start making adjustments, which was what ultimately hurt Lomachenko when he ran out of time after rallying back.
While few boxers in history can claim to be as unique and dynamic as Lomachenko, Stevenson might be in a class of his own from the standpoint of a pure and complete boxer and the closest boxing has seen to follow in the lineage of great thinkers and technicians like Floyd Mayweather, Andre Ward and Terence Crawford. And it’s pure boxing that remains the only part of Lopez’s game, especially when he abandons his jab, that sometimes allows inferior opponents to hang with him on the scorecards.
Even with Lopez’s advantage in power, Stevenson will likely prove to be too skilled to find himself in any trouble and too smart to get lured into any attempts at short-range trading that might favor Lopez. Stevenson, like Lopez, is the type of boxer who looks and performs better when he’s facing elite and dangerous competition.
The biggest difference, however, is that Stevenson is more complete.
Pick: Stevenson via UD12
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Dog alerts Missouri homeowner to fire, likely saving his life
A late-night house fire in Missouri left a 66-year-old man hospitalized for smoke inhalation — and his dog is being credited with helping save his life.The Johnson County Fire Protection District was called to a home in Warrensburg shortly after 9:45 p.m. Monday. Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and fire throughout the single-family home. The homeowner had already made it outside.Fire investigators believe it started in the basement near a pellet stove, then spread into the attic and through the rest of the structure. Crews from three fire stations worked for about 90 minutes to get the fire under control and stayed on scene for nearly six hours to fully extinguish hot spots.Firefighters said icy, narrow roads and bitter cold temperatures slowed the response and suppression efforts.The homeowner was taken by ambulance to a local hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. No firefighters were injured. According to fire officials, the resident told crews he was awakened by his dog, Red, as smoke began filling the home. He said Red’s warning gave him enough time to escape.Because the man was transported to the hospital, Fire District Lt. Tim Caudill took Red home for the night. The dog was checked at Lifetime Animal Clinic, where no signs of smoke inhalation were found. Red will remain with Caudill until the owner is released.”This call could have had a very different outcome,” Fire District Capt. Joe Jennings said. “The resident’s quick evacuation, prompted by his dog, made all the difference. It’s a reminder of how important early warning can be in any fire situation.”
A late-night house fire in Missouri left a 66-year-old man hospitalized for smoke inhalation — and his dog is being credited with helping save his life.
The Johnson County Fire Protection District was called to a home in Warrensburg shortly after 9:45 p.m. Monday.
Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and fire throughout the single-family home.
The homeowner had already made it outside.
Fire investigators believe it started in the basement near a pellet stove, then spread into the attic and through the rest of the structure.
Crews from three fire stations worked for about 90 minutes to get the fire under control and stayed on scene for nearly six hours to fully extinguish hot spots.
Firefighters said icy, narrow roads and bitter cold temperatures slowed the response and suppression efforts.
The homeowner was taken by ambulance to a local hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. No firefighters were injured.
According to fire officials, the resident told crews he was awakened by his dog, Red, as smoke began filling the home.
He said Red’s warning gave him enough time to escape.
Because the man was transported to the hospital, Fire District Lt. Tim Caudill took Red home for the night.
The dog was checked at Lifetime Animal Clinic, where no signs of smoke inhalation were found.
Red will remain with Caudill until the owner is released.
“This call could have had a very different outcome,” Fire District Capt. Joe Jennings said. “The resident’s quick evacuation, prompted by his dog, made all the difference. It’s a reminder of how important early warning can be in any fire situation.”
Danish veterans stage protest outside US Embassy
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Hundreds of Danish veterans — many of whom fought alongside U.S. troops — and thousands of supporters staged a silent protest Saturday outside the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen in response to the Trump administration’s threats to take over Greenland and Trump’s belittling of their combat contributions.
Veterans first gathered at Copenhagen’s Kastellet historic fortress, which includes a public park and places still used by the Danish military, and then marched to the nearby U.S. Embassy, carrying several large Danish flags.
“Denmark has always stood side by side with the USA — and we have showed up in the world’s crisis zones when the USA has asked us to. We feel let down and ridiculed by the Trump Administration, which is deliberately disregarding Denmark’s combat side by side with the USA,” Danish Veterans & Veteran Support, the organizers of the protest said in a statement.
“Words cannot describe how much it hurts us that Denmark’s contributions and sacrifices in the fight for democracy, peace and freedom are being forgotten in the White House,” it said.
Before observing several minutes of silence, attendees ceremoniously planted 52 Danish flags outside the U.S. Embassy. The flags bore the names of the 52 Danish servicemen who lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As the servicemen’s names were read out, some attendees shed a tear.
Danish veterans are furious at how the White House rhetoric disregards the right to self-determination of Greenland, a territory of NATO ally Denmark. They also strongly object to Trump’s claim that Denmark is incapable of protecting the West’s security interests in the Arctic.
“They have a feeling that they’ve been betrayed. And of course, they are angered by this. They deployed. They fought with the Americans. They fought with the Brits. They fought together. They bled together,” said Carsten Rasmussen, a 65-year-old Danish veteran and president of the Danish Veterans Association. “And as you have heard here in front of the American embassy today, 52 of them never returned.”
“We’ve never needed them, we have never really asked anything of them,” Trump said of non-U.S. troops in an interview with Fox Business Network in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday. “You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that, and they did — they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”
Søren Knudsen, a 65-year-old Danish veteran, said many soldiers lost a limb during their service. “We have some who are suffering from PTSD or the like. And we have a lot of veterans who are luckily not suffering from anything, but they are still feeling offended by the statements.” He added: ”Hence, very importantly, we wanted to give this message.”
Forty-four Danish soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, the highest per capita death toll among coalition forces. Eight more died in Iraq.
Tensions were further inflamed Tuesday when 44 Danish flags — one for every Danish soldier killed in Afghanistan — that had been placed in front of the embassy were removed by embassy staff.
Rasmussen said that action likely added “a few thousand people” to Saturday’s silent protest.
The State Department later said that, as a general rule, guard staff remove items left behind following demonstrations and other “legitimate exercises of free speech.” The flags were returned to those who left them, it said.
Greg Biffle Was Not Flying His Plane Before Fatal Crash
NASCAR champion Greg Biffle was not behind the controls of his airplane when it crashed in December of 2025, according to investigators.
What Caused Greg Biffle’s Plane Crash?
According to the Associated Press, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that retired airline pilot Dennis Dutton was at the controls of the plane when it crashed in North Carolina on Dec. 18, killing everyone on board.
The initial findings also conclude that Dutton’s son, Jack, was co-piloting the aircraft and was not qualified to do so.
Biffle, Dutton and Dutton’s son were all licensed pilots.
However, neither Biffle nor the younger Dutton had the right endorsement on their licenses to co-pilot the plane, and Jack Dutton only had approximately 175 hours of flying experience.
Jeff Guzzetti —an aviation consultant who has investigated plane crashes for both the NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration — tells the AP that not having an experienced co-pilot could have been a major contributing factor in the crash.
“This airplane requires two trained pilots, and if things go wrong and you don’t have a trained pilot, then bad things can happen,” Guzzetti states. “The airplane might have been able to be landed safely if there were two qualified pilots up front.”
How Did Greg Biffle Die?
Biffle, his son Ryder, his 14-year-old daughter Emma and his wife Cristina were among the seven people killed on Dec. 18, when his plane crashed while trying to make an emergency landing at an airport north of Charlotte.
All seven were remembered during a public celebration of life on Jan. 16.
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Greg Biffle Cause of Death
Biffle died in a plane crash near Statesville Regional Airport outside of Charlotte, N.C.
The plane took off, and the aircraft was attempting an emergency landing 10 minutes later when it crashed into trees and light poles approximately one-third of a mile from the runway.
Several witnesses recalled hearing a “pop” upon takeoff. Poor weather may have also played a role in the crash.
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