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No team has won the division in consecutive seasons since the Philadelphia Eagles won it four times in a row between 2001 and 2004 and the Dallas Cowboys are doing their best to ensure they don’t buck the trend. After jumping off to a 3-0 start, the Cowboys lost three straight games to let the Eagles back into the running. Dallas trashed Philadelphia in Week 7, but has lost four of its next six games and extended its losing streak to three games with a 31-24 loss in Chicago on Thursday Night Football....

Yep. Sold her tiny Manhattan pad and bought a whole brownstone–“over there.” That Miranda is a fictional character should in no way undercut the significance of this New York minute. In America, all cultural revolutions–from Bill Cosby revealing the existence of an educated black middle class to Ellen DeGeneres leaping from the closet–are ushered in not by social commentators in prestigious journals but by TV scriptwriters. Miranda’s move across the East River is just such a watershed moment....

How could they do that, you ask? By getting other rational brands to split the costs, obviously. MORE: Couric, Gumbel in BMW Super Bowl ad | Rex Ryan in Pizza Hut Super Bowl ad | Super Bowl MVPs Well, the dream is now a reality. Newcastle and 36 other brands came together to create a hilarious and jam-packed ad everyone can be proud of. This has got to be the most fiscally responsible ad the Super Bowl has ever seen....

The Magpies have lost just once in their last six league games but have drawn four of the other five, leaving them two points above the bottom three. Liverpool, on the other hand, are still unbeaten at home this season and will be confident in sending Newcastle home without a share of the points. Here, Goal takes a look at everything you need to know ahead of the game....

“Our Town” (for those of you who skipped your high school’s production) follows the comings and goings of the good people of Grover’s Corners, N.H., circa 1901. Thornton Wilder wrote the play in 1938, with the country in the midst of the Depression and on the brink of war, so you’d expect his themes of family, community and the need to appreciate every day to resonate now. But for a work that’s a study in quiet intensity, this “Our Town” just feels quiet....

Oh, I’m not sure about that. I’ve been to the Oscars five times. It was definitely very different. For me, it was glamorous. A lot of people hated it. Of course not. This year, my husband, Rene, is going to wear the white hat. The first year, I did 200 shows, five nights a week. I couldn’t talk to my husband or son. Two days of taking a break vocally....

You ’ re the biggest star in the movie. Did you have the biggest trailer? No, I think Tyler’s was bigger than mine. Were you second biggest? Probably. The Us Weekly cover about your weight loss was a huge seller. Why? Because it’s an issue that everybody has, everybody can relate to. What ’ s your guilty pleasure? Probably caramel apples. Don ’ t you find your teeth sort of stick together?...

While Sellers expected the segment on “cancel culture” and Lindell’s Twitter accounts recently being suspended, Lindell continued to push baseless theories that voting machines from the company Dominion Voting Systems allowed widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential elections. “We were supposed to discuss Twitter’s decision to ban him and the impacts of cancel culture on his business, but there was some confusion and Mike thought that we were to talk about vote fraud in the recent election,” Sellers said during a Wednesday broadcast of the Newsmax show American Agenda....

Coastal Carolina moved up to No. 12 in this week’s Newsweek Top 20, and BYU slipped to No. 15. Coastal Carolina trails only Cincinnati for the best-ranked team in the Group of Five conferences. The top team from the Group of Five gets an invitation to play in one of the New Year’s Six bowl games. Cincinnati travels to play a tough Tulsa squad this weekend. The top six teams won again on Saturday, all of them looked very impressive and all of them did it on the road except Notre Dame....

Even as he closes in on the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Sen. Barack Obama is facing lingering problems winning the support of white voters–including some in his own party. In a new NEWSWEEK Poll of registered voters, Obama trails presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain 40 percent to 52 percent among whites. Sen. Hillary Clinton, Obama’s challenger for the Democratic nomination, also trails McCain among white voters but by a smaller margin, 44 percent to 48 percent....

On Thursday, White House lawyers filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies are unconstitutional and unfair. More than two-thirds of Americans polled said they don’t think colleges and universities should give preference in admissions based on race or ethnicity. They also felt strongly that preferential treatment should be denied to children of alumni, athletes and even musicians and other artists. However, 65 percent would approve of affirmative action based on income, giving preference for college admissions to applicants from low-income families, regardless of their race or ethnic background....

Sixty-one percent of those polled say they approve of the way the president is handling his job, down 4 points from the beginning of May, when Bush first announced that major military action in Iraq had ended, and down a full 10 percent from mid-April, when Baghdad first fell to U.S. troops. In the early months of 2003, prior to the beginning of the war, Bush’s ratings had fluctuated between 53 percent and 61 percent....

On that very question the course of civilization may rest. In the face of the coming onslaught of pollutants from a rapidly urbanizing China and India, the task of avoiding ecological disaster may seem hopeless, and some environmental scientists have, quietly, concluded that it is. But Americans are notoriously reluctant to surrender their fates to the impersonal outcomes of an equation. One by one—and together, in state and local governments and even giant corporations—they are attempting to wrest the future from the dotted lines on the graphs that point to catastrophe....

We have believed that China is a fragile, peaceful, developing country that is trying to shed outdated, backwards policies and philosophies. We believed it wanted to participate in global markets and ultimately become freer and more open. We believed all of this because it was our strategy for avoiding potential future conflict with the massive, ancient and re-emerging power. Simply put, if the Chinese leadership evolved away from being an oppressive Communist totalitarian dictatorship—and played by the same rules on the world stage—we could all get along and mutually benefit....

The modern left’s outlook is radically different from—and deeply hostile toward—the classic definitions of American liberty and history. In trying to fully understand the differences, I kept coming back to the greatest articulator of American freedoms, President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had to use words to explain to his fellow Americans why it was worth enduring four years of war for the cause of personal liberty. As someone who had been born poor and largely self-educated, Lincoln knew how rare it was in human history to have a system that enabled everyday folks to govern themselves, rise, and genuinely pursue happiness as Thomas Jefferson had described in the Declaration of Independence....

Neymar, Richarlison, Vinicius Junior and company are now heavy favourites with the bookmakers to win the 2022 FIFA World Cup by coming through their next three games in Qatar. An inconsequential late 1-0 loss to Cameroon to round out the group stage is their only defeat since the 2021 Copa America final, and they have not conceded more than once in their past 29 matches, keeping 20 clean sheets along the way....

The 26-year-old suffered a broken metatarsal during a Ligue 1 fixture with Marseille on February 25. It was established, after some initial confusion, that he would require surgery and could be sidelined for up to three months. His readiness for this summer’s global showpiece in Russia was immediately cast into doubt, but Dr Rodrigo Lasmar says any initial fears have been calmed. He told L’Equipe: “He became very sad when he found out the seriousness of the injury and learned he needed surgery....

Neymar 11/1 to be CL top scorer Neymar was shown a second yellow card the space of two minutes in Le Classique for knocking down Lucas Ocampos after the Argentine fouled him by the halfway line. It was by no means the first time the Brazilian had been on the end of a rash tackle from a Marseille player, with Marco Verratti saying after the game he would have snapped long before his team-mate....

On Wednesday evening, N.C. State held a moment of silence for the three young Muslim students who were senselessly murdered in a shooting in Chapel Hill on Tuesday. MORE: Tark’s 10 best players | Memorable photos | Syracuse ban is a disgrace N.C. State freshman Abdul Malik-Abu wrote a long, heartfelt Instagram tribute to two of the victims, his friends Deah Barakat and his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, who were among those slain....