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Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet and One Battle After Another among top winners

Independent.co reports Timothée Chalamet thanked Kylie Jenner again after his first major win of the awards season, as Hamnet won the Golden Globe for Best Picture – Drama and One Battle After Another won Best Picture – Musical or Comedy. Paul Thomas Anderson secured Golden Globes for Best Director and Best

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Golden Globes 2026 adds podcasting; HFPA honors Mirren and Parker

Time reported that the 83rd annual Golden Globes kicked off the 2026 awards season, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association adding podcasting as a new category and staging a separate "Golden Eve" ceremony that honored Helen Mirren with the Cecil B. DeMille award and Sarah Jessica Parker with

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Crypto YouTube viewership drops to January 2021 lows amid fading retail interest

Viewership of crypto content on YouTube has fallen to its lowest level since January 2021 after a sharp retreat over the past three months, according to a 30‑day moving average of views shared on Sunday by ITC Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen. Cowen said, "So it’s not just

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China alleges US stole 127,271 Bitcoin from Chen Zhi in 2020

Beincrypto reports that China says US government hackers stole 127,271 Bitcoin from accused scam kingpin Chen Zhi in 2020 and later presented the funds as a law-enforcement seizure. According to Chinese state media and a technical report by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC), Chen’s Bitcoin-mining

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‘One Battle After Another’ wins best comedy at Golden Globes; ‘The Pitt’ takes best drama

The Golden Globes honored Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another with the award for best motion picture, musical or comedy, while HBO Max’s The Pitt won best television drama; lead acting prizes went to performers from Hacks and The Pitt. The film also picked up awards for

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Wagner Moura wins Golden Globe for Best Actor – Drama for The Secret Agent

Collider reports Wagner Moura has won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. He took the prize for a controlled, psychologically precise performance in The Secret Agent. The category brought together very different contenders, including Dwayne Johnson for The Smashing Machine; Jeremy

Health

Three die and dozens poisoned after wild mushroom consumption in California

Three people in California have died and more than two dozen others have been poisoned after consuming wild mushrooms, officials said, prompting state health authorities to discourage foraging. A Sonoma County resident died last weekend after eating wild mushrooms, the county’s Department of Health Services said. Sonoma County reported

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Fletcher suggests he will not keep Man United interim role after FA Cup exit

Darren Fletcher has hinted he will not be given the Manchester United job for the remainder of the season after his side were knocked out of the FA Cup, Goal reports. Fletcher has failed to win either of his games since being named interim boss following Ruben Amorim's

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Netflix advances two more Emily Henry adaptations, picking up Funny Story and Happy Place

Movieweb reports Netflix has moved forward with two more feature films based on Emily Henry novels, acquiring the film rights to Funny Story and converting the previously announced Happy Place from a planned television series into a feature; the deal was made on Jan. 8, 2026. People We Meet on

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OKX overhauls institutional unit; about one-third of sales team exits

Crypto exchange OKX has overhauled its institutional business as part of a broader restructuring, with approximately one-third of its sales team exiting, according to one source. The change was described by the source as an overhaul of the institutional unit linked to the wider restructuring effort. The estimate is approximate

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Erin Doherty wins Golden Globe after uncensored curse in acceptance speech

People reports that Erin Doherty won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television at the 2026 Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 11, and that she shouted out therapists during an acceptance speech in which a swear was bleeped by CBS but remained on air. Doherty,

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Down clues for cryptic crossword No 29,901

Cryptic crossword No 29,901 presents a set of down clues with their enumeration lengths. The down clues are: 1 down. Has garments but no top. 4 letters; 2 down. Bend in the road? 6 letters; 3 down. Followers fell over hard knot. 10 letters; 4 down. Dirty, gross husband

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Wanda Sykes thanks God and trans community while accepting Golden Globe for Ricky Gervais

Independent.co reports that Wanda Sykes thanked God and the transgender community while accepting a Golden Globe on behalf of Ricky Gervais during Sunday’s ceremony. Sykes, 61, presented the award for best stand-up comedy on television; Gervais had been nominated for his special Mortality alongside Bill Maher, Brett Goldstein,

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Memecoins drive record 11.6 million crypto token failures in 2025

Crypto market turbulence decimated memecoins in 2025, driving the number of crypto project failures to over 11.6 million last year, according to a report by CoinGecko research analyst Shaun Paul Lee released on Friday. The fourth quarter of 2025 was among the worst, with 7.7 million tokens listed

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The Pitt and Adolescence take top TV drama prizes at 2026 Golden Globes

Collider reports that The Pitt won Best Television Series (Drama) at the 2026 Golden Globes while Adolescence took Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television. Individual winners named in the piece include Noah Wyle for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading

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HBO Max’s The Pitt wins best TV drama at the 83rd Golden Globes

HBO Max’s medical drama "The Pitt" won the Golden Globe for best television series, drama at the 83rd annual Golden Globes. The show, which had already been named best drama at the Emmy Awards and Critics Choice Awards, was praised in coverage for its precise medical procedures

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Toronto FC offer $18 million for Norwich striker Josh Sargent

According to Goal, Toronto FC have reportedly submitted an $18 million bid for USMNT striker Josh Sargent. Multiple reports say negotiations remain ongoing and no agreement has been reached, with Toronto optimistic despite resistance from Norwich. Sargent missed Norwich’s FA Cup match after informing the club he was focused

Health

Kennedy issues new U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, cutting routine shots from 17 to 11

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and political appointees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a revised U.S. childhood vaccine schedule that reduces the number of diseases for which all children are routinely immunized from 17 to 11. The changes remove six vaccines from the routine

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Sebastian Stan says he nearly landed a role in 2011's Green Lantern

Movieweb reports that Sebastian Stan, who is said to be circling a key role in next year's sequel to The Batman, has revealed he almost played the Green Lantern in the 2011 film Green Lantern. Stan recounted on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he walked into the

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Amy Madigan channels 1996 look at 2026 Golden Globes in Thom Browne tux

People reports Amy Madigan, 75, echoed a 1996 Golden Globes look on the 2026 red carpet, arriving in a Thom Browne tuxedo that recalled her earlier suit; she had a matchy-matchy moment with husband Ed Harris, and their daughter Lily Dolores wore a blue dress. Madigan is nominated for Best

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Polymarket and Kalshi traders shrug off Fed chair exit risk

Traders on Polymarket and Kalshi are shrugging off the idea that a criminal investigation into the chair of the Federal Reserve would have him removed from his role early. The comment refers specifically to traders on those two platforms and their reaction to the possibility of early removal. The provided

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Crossword editors test dictionaries’ words of the year; Rhea Seehorn and cheese feature

The Guardian crossword editor says a January test checks whether dictionaries’ words of the year have entered general use via puzzles. Of 2025’s winners, VIBE CODING (Collins) and PARASOCIAL (Cambridge) are not appearing in crosswords, the editor reports. The editor expects to see SLOP (Merriam-Webster) in its new AI-generated

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Golden Globes 2026 winners announced at Beverly Hilton

The 83rd Golden Globe Awards were held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills tonight, Independent.co reports. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another dominated the film nominations, with Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme also in contention. Winners

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Kate Owens's Cooking With Kathryn skewers church sexism in Soho show

In 2026 Kate Owens’s Cooking With Kathryn opens at the Soho Theatre in London, a comic take on sexism in the Christian church in which a Bible-belt woman hosts her late mother’s community cooking show. Owens was nominated for the best newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe for

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KPop Demon Hunters wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Motion Picture

Collider reports that KPop Demon Hunters won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Animated at the 83rd Golden Globes. The Netflix release, produced by Sony Pictures Animation under a co-production agreement with Netflix, was co-directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans and was released June 20, 2025 with a