Pittsburgh Penguins Summary

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- Greenland: new shipping routes, hidden minerals and a frontline between the US and Russia? <p>Key maps show the growing strategic importance of Greenland as Arctic ice melts under global heating</p><p>Lying between the US and Russia, Greenland has become a critical frontline as the Arctic o...

- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy review Holly Hunter is a transgressive thrill in this horny high-school spinoff <p>This hormone-fuelled tale of the training college for space voyagers is like Grange Hill, with phasers and it has a female lead unlike any captain before</p><p>The original Star Trek TV series debu...

- Whats behind the phenomenon of gamer brain <p>If youve ever refused to knock down a games difficulty level, or chased a purposefully pointless achievement, you might have this pernicious but pleasurable affliction</p><p> <a href="https://www.t...

- Trump administration opens 18 new probes over trans athletes New York Citys school system and 14 other districts face investigations for allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls and womens sports. Three colleges also face probes....

- Gadgets are getting worse and more expensive at the same time The paper clip problem always seemed too absurd to me. Also known as the paper clip maximizer, this is the thought experiment by philosopher Nick Bostrom that imagines how a superintelligent AI with t...

- Josh Hawley Asked Can Men Get Pregnant? 11 Times at Abortion Hearing At the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensionss abortion pills hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri spent the whole of his allotted time reiterating disinformation abou...

- Nolte: Mark Ruffalo Opens Himself Up to Trump Defamation Suit Convicted Rapist <p>By lying about President Trump being a convicted rapist and pedophile, actor Mark Ruffalo has opened himself up to what all decent people hope will be a crippling and costly defamation suit.</p> <p...

- Koepkas $85 million Penalty Gives DeChambeau Leverage in LIV Talks Money, power, legacy at stake as PGA Tour opens season as aggressor....

- Trump's new push for lower rates <p>Interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve aren't coming fast enough for President Trump. He's imposing <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/trump-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-congress" target="_bl...

- More visa suspensions for CARICOM nations GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Caribbean Life The State Department is slapping sweeping immigrant or permanent visa processing suspensions on dozens of countries around the world, including the entire group of E...

- After 3 years of repairs, Highway 1 through Big Sur fully reopens <p>After landslides and rockfalls repeatedly damaged and buried sections of California's Highway 1, the scenic roadway fully reopened for the first time in three years.</p>...

- 'No one walks alone': Logan Heights church opens immigrant resource center The Pope Francis Center, an offshoot of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Logan Heights, offers legal, psychological, and financial resources to the immigrant community....

- Cop's record raised alarms before he fatally shot partner <img alt="" src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9ea7060/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1600+0+0/resize/840x672!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazo...

- Dear Abby: Brother-in-law's new squeeze is a familiar face <img alt="" src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b8177db/2147483647/strip/true/crop/948x630+0+0/resize/840x558!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazona...

- Weed smokers make case for gun rights before high court <img alt="A man smokes marijuana in lower Manhattan outside the first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York in 2022. Nineteen states are urging the Supreme Court to uphold the federa...

- Looking for a pen? Shoppers overwhelm Chicago stationery shops as social media touts 'return to analog' <img alt="Customers browse stationery, pens and stickers at Paper &amp;amp; Pencil in Andersonville, at 1480 W. Berwyn Ave." src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/107634e/2147483647/strip/t...

- What to know if youre one of 170,000 people in Illinois behind on student loans <img alt="Earlier this month, the Trump administration resumed the practice of withholding wages from student loan borrowers who have defaulted on their loans. That comes as many borrowers are also de...

- Chicago police brass rejected troubled cop's move to elite unit before he fatally shot partner <img alt="Officer Carlos Baker fatally shot his tactical team partner, Krystal Rivera, during a foot pursuit on June 5." src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/240117b/2147483647/strip/true/...

- Horoscope for Thursday, January 15, 2026 <img alt="" src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/db31843/2147483647/strip/true/crop/870x630+0+0/resize/840x608!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazona...

- Bulls' Josh Giddey to begin ramp-up period this week <img alt="The Bulls' Josh Giddey drives to the basket against Naz Reid of the Timberwolves on Dec. 29, 2025, at the United Center." src="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a957137/2147483647/...