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Arc Raiders' Shrouded Sky update teases beards and a hurricane condition

A new teaser for the Arc Raiders Shrouded Sky update sheds some light on the next stage of the game's early 2026 roadmap. The sky looks unsurprisingly shrouded by storms, and your raider's face may be shrouded by a beard. The trailer focuses on a new

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Jacksepticeye apologizes for criticizing Life Is Strange 2's politics

YouTuber Seán William “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin apologized for remarks he made about Life Is Strange 2’s political commentary during a 2019 playthrough. Don’t Nod’s episodic game follows two Mexican‑American brothers, Sean and Daniel, who flee after a Seattle cop kills their father and Daniel’s emerging telekinetic

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Leon Botstein Had Epstein Ties and Is Seen as a Campus Savior

Trustees chose Leon Botstein, then 28, to lead Bard College when the school faced extinction. Over more than half a century he grew the endowment to $1 billion, expanded into K-12 schools around the country, opened campuses abroad and started degrees for prisoners, and his persona became inseparable from the

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20 Greatest Disney Movie Masterpieces

Disney has long been a leading studio for approachable, feel-good stories, building an aura of familiarity and charm across more than a century of filmmaking. The studio’s output under the Walt Disney banner includes classic 2D animation, live-action Walt Disney Pictures releases and Pixar films, while offerings from Marvel

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A solo trip for my 29th birthday taught me to prioritize joy

Friends were unavailable for my 29th birthday, so I booked my first solo trip to an all-inclusive in Cancún. I didn't want to pause my happiness just because other people were busy, and the decision ended up being exactly what I needed. The first day felt awkward. It

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Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Reboot Promises Game-Like Action

Zach Cregger has shifted from his early work with The Whitest Kids U’Know into a noted career in horror, following 2022’s Barbarian and last year’s Weapons. With Weapons star Amy Madigan now in the awards conversation, Cregger’s next project is a reboot of Resident Evil that

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Is The Hunting Party New Tonight, February 19, 2026?

Season 2 of The Hunting Party is underway. Its first five episodes have featured guest stars Eric McCormack, Niecy Nash‑Betts and Elizabeth Gillies, while team members Bex Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh), Jacob Hassani (Patrick Sabongui), Shane Florence (Josh McKenzie) and Jennifer Morales (Sara Garcia) follow twisty leads as they track

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Brooke Candy gets divorced

Singer Brooke Candy and her husband of seven years, Kyle England, have divorced. The paperwork was finalized a couple of weeks ago; the pair married in Las Vegas in 2019 after meeting when she hired him to tattoo her. Both Candy and England work as professional tattoo artists. Candy has

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Pokémon TCG Pocket adds Paldean Wonders booster pack

Pokémon TCG Pocket is getting a Paldea-themed booster pack called Paldean Wonders on Feb. 26, adding more cards built around monsters from Scarlet and Violet. The set includes Gholdengo, which is being immortalized as a new ex card. All three Scarlet and Violet starters — Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly — appear on

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Watershed: a floating sauna on Lake Whakatipu

Watershed is a sauna that floats on Lake Whakatipu in Queenstown, about a five-minute walk from the town centre. The founders, former TV presenter Dominic Bowden and entrepreneur Andrew Glenn, picked the site for uninterrupted southwesterly views across the Remarkables. The purpose-built pontoon opened this past December and was designed

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Madison LeCroy praises Trendy Queen $10 white tee

Madison LeCroy highlighted budget-friendly basics during an Amazon Live, drawing attention to a Trendy Queen Basic T‑Shirt she wore and praised as comparable to Skims. The short-sleeved top is made from a stretch-blend fabric, comes in two dozen colors in sizes 3XS-4XL, and reviewers note it is not overly

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Brendan Fraser plays General Eisenhower in Pressure

Brendan Fraser dons the four stars and bald pate of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Pressure, a film that chronicles what the movie calls the most consequential weather forecast in history. The new trailer places viewers amid World War II as the Allies plan the largest amphibious landing in the

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Bethenny Frankel calls Almay concealer an 'outrageous' drugstore win

Bethenny Frankel shared a beauty hack on Instagram this week, showcasing clean beauty finds from the drugstore. The "Just B" podcast host called the picks "at the level" and raved about the complexion‑perfecting Almay Ageless Hydrating Concealer. She punned "Ageless is outrageous!" while

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This Is Not a Test Review: Olivia Holt Anchors a Hopeful Zombie Coming-of-Age

Olivia Holt leads This Is Not a Test, an adaptation of Courtney Summers' novel that strands a handful of teenagers in their high school as the town around them descends into a bloody outbreak. Holt plays Sloane, a withdrawn teen left with an abusive father after her mother and

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11 of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's best fashion moments

Before her death in a plane crash, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy became known as a fashion icon, often photographed alongside her husband John F. Kennedy Jr. Her minimalist looks — a quiet-luxury palette of black, white, beige, and navy — helped define a '90s aesthetic that still resonates. She mixed classic pieces in

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Why There Aren't New Episodes of Law & Order and SVU Tonight

Both Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are on a brief hiatus to make way for NBC's action-packed programming for the Milan Cortina Winter Games. From white-knuckled bobsled races to mind-boggling skating scores, viewers will be tuning in for Olympic coverage on NBC and

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8 Years Later, This 4-Part Sci-Fi Mystery Is Still a Perfect Weekend Binge

12 Monkeys premiered on Syfy on January 16, 2015, created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett as an adaptation of the 1995 film that starred Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer. Critical reception improved markedly after the first season: the debut season of 13 episodes holds a

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Fans spot The Duskbloods ad after Switch 2 eShop listing

Fans have spotted a new advert for The Duskbloods, the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive action RPG, following the appearance of its eShop listing. Australian Switch 2 owners noticed the listing on the eShop website and on their consoles. The entry lacks a price, pre-order option and anything more precise than

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Kyle Richards compares under-$60 boots to Prada and The Row

Kyle Richards, a regular at Aspen hotspots, hosted an "après chic" Amazon Live where she showcased luxe-leaning pieces including the ZJGZF Platform Ankle Boots she said she "could not love more." "These are the cutest, cutest boots," she told fans. "I absolutely love

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Cathy’s blush signals what she cannot say in the new ‘Wuthering Heights’

In Emerald Fennell’s new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Margot Robbie’s Cathy is almost constantly flushed: redness rises in her cheeks whether from sexual pleasure, annoyance, grief, envy or shame. Makeup designer Siân Miller leaned into that involuntary tell — “Flush is this amazing physiological thing — it’s hormonal,

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Tommy Shelby Returns in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man Trailer

The first trailer for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man has arrived, bringing Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby out of a self-imposed exile and into wartime Birmingham. Set in 1940, the film pushes the Shelby family back into political and personal crossfire as Barry Keoghan appears as Tommy’s renegade son.

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2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Major Themes, Minor Lengths

This year’s live-action nominees range from dive-bar patrons to Regency paramours, and from chilly science fiction to Middle Eastern politics, and they are almost uniformly striking visually. Sam A. Davis’s The Singers is an unexpectedly uplifting visit to a blue-collar bar, based on a 19th-century short story, dense

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Bunnie Xo loves memoirs written by powerful and 'misunderstood' women

Bunnie Xo loves a good memoir — specifically ones written by women. The author, whose new book “Stripped Down” is out now, says she has always been drawn to stories about women who were misunderstood, sexualized, underestimated and still found a way to take their power back. She wants a memoir

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I romanced a hunky British man with a shotgun for a head in Polyarmory

Developer Scope Creeps warns, as I boot up Polyarmory: High Calibre Love, that the team is very much dedicated to the bit. The options menu makes that clear: alongside a toggle for BDSM clowns there are settings for those oh-so-scary pronouns. Turn on USA pronouns and the game swaps them

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Lively v. Baldoni Tests What Crosses the Line on a ‘Steamy’ Movie Set

Footage of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni slow dancing on the set of It Ends With Us has become central to a civil suit that pits her claims of harassment and retaliation against his insistence that the moment was an appropriate, improvised beat in a scene about a couple falling