EAST LANSING, Mich. — Former Michigan State hockey player and director of hockey operations Dan Sturges died unexpectedly Monday at age 40.
An athletic department spokesperson said the school was informed of Sturges’ death by his family. No other details were provided.
Sturges played for the Spartans from 2005 to 2009 and helped them win the national championship in 2007. He had worked for the program in East Lansing since returning in 2019.
″Dan Sturges was a beloved member of the Michigan State hockey family, and our entire community is stunned at this devastating news,” coach Adam Nightingale said, adding that Sturges worked every day to make the program the best it could be. “His passion, dedication and impact will leave a lasting legacy.”
Athletic director J Batt said Sturges “cared deeply about the student-athletes and staff in the hockey program and built genuine relationships with people throughout the department. To lose him so suddenly is a shock to all. The department’s top priority at this time will be providing supportive resources to members of the hockey program and athletic department as they grieve.”
Lily Allen shares cryptic message on Brooklyn, Victoria, David Beckham drama
Lily Allen has seemingly weighed in on the growing rift between Brooklyn Beckham and his famous parents, David and Victoria Beckham, just hours after Brooklyn publicly got candid with his grievances in a lengthy Instagram statement.
The singer’s subtle but timely social media post quickly caught attention, with many interpreting it as a show of support for the 26-year-old amid the ongoing family drama.
On Monday, January 19, Allen, 40, shared a painted portrait of Brooklyn wearing a blue polka-dot outfit on her Instagram Stories.
The artwork closely mirrored the cover of her West End Girl album, where Allen is depicted in the same ensemble and illustrated style.
The original album artwork was created by Spanish painter Nieves González, adding another layer of intention behind the post. While Allen offered no caption or explanation, the timing alone sparked conversation online.
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Allen’s post came shortly after Brooklyn broke his silence about his damaged relationship with his parents.
In a direct and emotional message, he said, “I have been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed.”
He also made his stance clear by adding, “I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”
Much of Brooklyn’s frustration centered on how his parents allegedly treated his wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham.
He claimed they had been “endlessly” trying to damage his relationship with her since before their April 2022 wedding, referencing disputes over her wedding dress and allegedly pressurising him to sign away rights to his name.
While Allen did not directly comment on Brooklyn’s claims, her own history of speaking openly about personal struggles has not gone unnoticed.
The singer previously shared that her October 2025 album was inspired by difficulties in her marriage to estranged husband David Harbour, noting that while her experiences were real, they were not “all gospel.”
Her quiet show of solidarity has since fueled discussion among fans, many of whom praised Brooklyn for setting boundaries, while others reflected on how complicated parent-child relationships can be when fame and expectations collide.
Rachel Reeves will use her appearance at the summit of the world’s most influential politicians and investors to turn Donald Trump’s global turmoil into an opportunity for the UK.
The chancellor and business secretary Peter Kyle will both be attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos with a message to investors that in a time of uncertainty, the UK “offers the stability” that businesses need.
With President Trump once again threatening to disrupt world trade with a series of tariffs linked to his demands over the US taking ownership of Greenland from Denmark, Ms Reeves will make a series of pointed remarks as she arrived at the gathering in Davos, Switzerland.
“In a volatile world Britain stands out”, she will say. “This government is making sure Britain is home to the stability, talent and capital that businesses and investors want and that drive greater growth.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves earlier said the government is ‘pretty relaxed about what form’ of ID is used to prove a right to work in the UK (PA)
“Some countries give you a platform, but Britain gives you momentum. My message at Davos this week is clear: choose Britain – it’s the best place in the world to invest.”
Meanwhile, Mr Kyle used an interview with the Press Association to underline that the “normalisation” of disruption which Trump represents could be an opportunity for the UK.
While he said that tariffs are a “lose-lose” policy and “the stakes are always very high”, he added that there are also “opportunities in adversity” for British exporters.
He continued: “The risks are very, very clear, but our country in adversity has benefited more than others, and I want to – now adversity is being normalised in a global economy – I want us to really look deeply into that and see where the opportunity is for British businesses, exporters, innovators, but also how we as a country can be more entrepreneurial, fleet of foot, bolder when it comes to seeing global opportunities amidst the uncertainty and upheaval.”
It came amid warnings that the new export levy could wipe 0.1 per cent off Britain’s GDP – increasing to as much as 0.3 per cent if the tariff is increased to 25 per cent as Mr Trump has threatened – a hit that could tip the UK’s ailing economy into recession.
One land of opportunity for British businesses could be China, where the prime minister is expected to visit early this year to boost trade links.
Asked if China was now a better trading partner than the US, Mr Kyle said: “Every country that we have relationships with is unique, unique opportunities, as well as issues that need to be handled.
“In China, because of the scale of the opportunity and the nature of the issues that need handling, it is a more extreme example.
“That means we need to be careful, clear-sighted, but also not lose sight of the fact it is the second biggest economy in the world, it is the largest manufacturer in the world and its products will find their way into our economy.”
Peter Kyle said there are ‘opportunities in adversity’ (PA)
The same interview saw him admit that the UK’s relationship with Mr Trump’s US administration is being tested by the Greenland crisis.
While Mr Kyle said UK ministers have “good, strong relationships” with their US counterparts, noting that the government is in regular contact with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and US trade representative Jamieson Greer, he admitted: “At moments like this, relationships are tested. And yes, of course, we’re having frank conversations.
“But in my experience, all of the key protagonists in the administration thrive on frank conversations and wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Mr Trump has said he will impose 10 per cent tariffs on imports from the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland from February 1, rising to 25 per cent from June, unless a deal is reached for the “complete and total purchase of Greenland”.
In an emergency address from Downing Street on Monday morning, Sir Keir Starmer described the crisis as a “moment for the whole country to pull together”, and insisted the “right way to approach an issue of this seriousness is through calm discussion between allies”.
But in a sign of the seriousness with which the government appeared to be taking the threats from the US, Ms Reeves was among the senior Cabinet ministers sat in the audience at the prime minister’s announcement, having pulled out of a Monday morning event at the London Stock Exchange.
Sir Keir also abandoned plans for a Monday cost-of-living related visit at the 11th hour to make the announcement, with the PM promising to speak with the US president about Greenland again in the coming days after the two spoke on the phone on Sunday night.
European car giants risk becoming obsolete like Blockbuster unless they fully embrace battery electric vehicles (EVs), the boss of green energy firm Octopus has warned.
This caution comes as lobbying by carmakers in Europe has led to Brussels watering down plans for the transition to electric vehicles.
Octopus boss Greg Jackson said European manufacturers should be prepared to compete with EVs from China.
He added that wider EV adoption would help address storing renewable energy from intermittent sources like wind, as “power could be drawn from electric car batteries when they are not in use”.
The UK government has pledged to outlaw sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, with only zero-emission models permitted from 2035.
In December, the European Commission watered down its total ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, with the UK government under pressure from critics to follow suit.
Octopus CEO Greg Jackson (The Independent)
The new plan for the EU is for 90 per cent of new cars sold from 2035 to be zero-emission.
Mr Jackson told the Press Association: “What’s happening in Europe is you’ve got a small number of very powerful companies that are not very good at making EVs.”
He warned: “Unless Europe gets with the plot and really accelerates its capabilities on battery electric vehicles, we won’t have a car industry, because the reality is the Chinese cars are not cheap because of subsidies or because of cheap labour, they’re cheap because they’ve invested in the research and development and the modern manufacturing.
“And we saw what happened to Blockbuster, to Borders books, to Kodak. We don’t want that to happen to the car companies, but they have to save themselves. Nokia – I remember when Nokia saw the iPhone, instead of working out how do they build an equivalent, they kept trying to tell us that buttons were more important.
“The reality is, these technologies are out there. The genie is out of the bottle for these technologies and Europe has to get to grips with it, because they can’t stop it. They will do a lot better by trying to compete than trying to deny.”
The UK government has pledged to outlaw sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, with only zero-emission models permitted from 2035 (Alamy/PA)
Mr Jackson said plans for the UK energy grid did not take account of the falling cost of batteries to store power generated by renewable technologies such as wind and solar farms.
“The cost of grid-scale batteries is plummeting,” he said. “Our UK grid plans don’t take account of that, which is why we could replace an awful lot of the planned new infrastructure with cheap batteries.
“Even better than that, electric vehicles contain a battery that’s big enough to power a house for the best part of a week. The more electric cars we get, the more we can soak up that generation when it’s cheap.
“Octopus alone has about two-and-a-half gigawatts of storage in electric cars that we can shift to grab that cheap power. The UK is a 50 gigawatt system, so you’re already at the point where a significant proportion of our existing system can do this, and electric cars are only 5 per cent of cars.
“When they get to 100 per cent you’ve literally got an entire system’s worth of storage for free.
“The problem is too many of our grid plans spend money because they’re not taking account of that, and the job now is to urgently reassess all of those plans and stop spending money, except where we really, really need to.”
In the UK, registrations of pure battery EVs were up 23.9 per cent year-on-year to 473,348 in 2025, a market share of 23.4 per cent of new cars.
Gary Cohn advised Trump on the economy in his first term
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Donald Trump will not be able to force Greenland to change ownership, a former top adviser to the US president has told the BBC.
IBM’s vice chairman Gary Cohn, who advised Trump on the economy in his first term, said “Greenland will stay Greenland” and linked the need for access to critical minerals to his former boss’s plans for the territory.
Cohn is one of America’s top tech bosses, a leader in the race to develop AI and quantum computing, and served under Trump as director of the White House National Economic Council.
In a sign of how seriously business leaders are taking the crisis, he warned “invading an independent country that is part of Nato” would be “over the edge”.
He also suggested the president’s recent comments about Greenland “may be part of a negotiation”.
“I just came from a US congressional delegation meeting, and I think there’s pretty uniform consensus with both Republicans and Democrats that Greenland will stay Greenland”, he said.
Greenland would be happy for the US to increase its military presence on the island, he said, with the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean “becoming much more of a military threat”.
The US could also negotiate an “offtake” agreement for Greenland’s vast yet largely untapped supplies of rare earth minerals, Cohn suggested.
“But I think, you know, invading a country that doesn’t want to be invaded – that’s part of a militaristic alliance, Nato – seems to me to be a little bit over the edge at this point”, he said.
Cohn indicated the president may be overstating his demands as part of a negotiating tactic – something he says the president has done successfully in the past.
“You’ve got to give Donald Trump some credit for the successes he’s had and he’s many times tried to overreach to get something in a compromise situation,” he said.
“He has overreached in advertising something to end up getting what he actually wants. Maybe what he actually wants is a larger military presence and an offtake.”
The start of this year’s World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos has been overshadowed by the president’s increasingly aggressive stance on the arctic territory, with many political and business leaders alarmed about the potential geopolitical and economic impact. Trump is due to address delegates at the gathering on Wednesday.
While Cohn expressed reservations about some of the president’s actions, he said the US administration had “various different motives” for what they were doing.
He said Trump’s decision to intervene in Venezuela was “a path” to disrupt the country’s relationship with China, the biggest market for its oil, as well as Russia and Cuba.
Cohn also thinks that the president has become increasingly focused on the importance of rare earth minerals, noting that “Greenland has quite a supply” of the resources.
Those minerals are critical to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum computing – also a major talking point in Davos.
In a message to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump blamed the country for not giving him the prize and said he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace.
Bessent said: “I don’t know anything about the president’s letter to Norway, and I think it’s complete canard that the President will be doing this because of the Nobel Prize.
“The president is looking at Greenland as a strategic asset for the United States. We are not going to outsource our hemispheric security to anyone else.”
AI ‘to be part of every business’
Developments in quantum computing and AI are seen as critical not just for the US economy and productivity, but for US strategic influence in the world.
“IBM is dead centre in what’s going on in quantum today. We have the largest amount of quantum computers in use today” Cohn said, highlighting that his company has put many of these computers into use across America in firms from the banking industry to medicine.
“AI is going to be the backbone for data that feeds into quantum to solve problems we’ve never been able to solve”, he added.
“Where we’re heading is AI is going to be part of everyone’s enterprise. AI and quantum are going to be working in the enterprise behind the scenes to make every company more efficient. And we’re just at the beginning of that sort of long road, and that’s going to take probably another three to five years to get there.”
After a long season, the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship is here.
The CFP’s final game presents a clash of two teams that have taken different paths to the championship. Indiana, which entering this season was the sport’s all-time losingest team at the Division I level, is looking to provide one of the most remarkable turnarounds in history with a remarkable ending. After an 11-2 first season under coach Curt Cignetti, the Hoosiers have blown through the college football circuit in his second campaign. They’re entering the title game as the No. 1 seed with a 15-0 record and an average margin of victory of 34.5 points across their first two playoff games.
Miami is hoping to bring one of the sport’s most storied programs back to the mountaintop. “The U” won five national titles across the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, boasting future NFL stars such as Ray Lewis and Reggie Wayne. In contrast to Indiana’s dominance, Hurricanes alum Mario Cristobal has brought his alma mater back to the championship game with a string of clutch performances. Miami was one of the last teams to be selected for the bracket, and in each of its three playoff games has either scored or prevented a game-changing touchdown in the final minute.
Though the Hoosiers are 7.5-point favorites on DraftKings, the Hurricanes will have at least one advantage — they’ll be playing in familiar territory, with the championship taking place at Miami’s home venue, Hard Rock Stadium.
With a get-in price of over $3,000, it’s clear the demand from both fan bases to witness the title clash is sky-high. Here are all the best sights and sounds from south Florida ahead of the 2026 title game.
A Florida man accused of killing three tourists near Magic Kingdom had a lengthy criminal and mental health history, including a prior attempted first-degree murder case in which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, according to court records.
Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, 29, had multiple prior encounters with the criminal justice system before Saturday’s deadly shooting, including a 2021 case in which he was charged with attempted first-degree murder with a firearm and aggravated battery after allegedly shooting at a person and random vehicles in a Kissimmee gas station parking lot. Court records obtained by Fox News Digital show Bojeh was later found not guilty by reason of insanity in that case.
Additional records show Bojeh had prior arrests for felony drug possession and misdemeanor resisting an officer without violence, reflecting years of repeated contact with law enforcement.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier referenced Bojeh’s prior case in a statement following his arrest, criticizing how the prosecution was handled at the time.
“Prior to State Attorney Worrell’s suspension, Ahmad Jihad Bojeh was acquitted of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm and aggravated battery,” Uthmeier said. “It appears she didn’t put up a fight to Bojeh’s use of the insanity defense, and he was allowed to go free.”
Osceola County Sheriff Christopher Blackmon described Bojeh as a “frequent flyer” with his agency and “a threat to the neighborhood all the time,” citing repeated calls for service involving the suspect.
Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, 29, was booked into the Osceola County Jail on three counts of premeditated murder.(Osceola County Jail)
Despite that history, investigators say Bojeh was living next door to a rental home where three tourists were staying when the deadly shooting occurred.
Bojeh is accused of fatally shooting the three men outside the rental property Saturday afternoon in what Blackmon called a “horrific and senseless” act of random violence.
“It was cold-blooded, it was premeditated, there was absolutely no issues,” Blackmon said. “There was no conflict between these people. This was just random. And this happened to be the person who lived next door.”
Bojeh was arrested in connection with a previous shooting incident in 2021, but was later “acquitted by reason of insanity,” according to court records obtained by WKMG-TV.(Osceola County Sheriff’s Office)
Deputies responded around 12:13 p.m. Saturday to reports of a shooting in a subdivision near Kissimmee, where they found three adult men dead outside the home, each suffering apparent gunshot wounds. Investigators said the victims had extended their stay by one day after experiencing vehicle trouble.
Two of the victims were identified as Robert Luis Kraft, 69, of Holland, Michigan, and his brother Douglas Joseph Kraft, 68, of Columbus, Ohio. The third victim was identified as James Puchan, 68, a friend from Ohio, FOX35 Orlando reported.
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Deputies located Bojeh inside his nearby home about an hour later and took him into custody. Online jail records show he is facing three counts of premeditated murder and one count of resisting arrest without violence and is being held at the Osceola County Jail without bond.
The investigation remains ongoing.
Fox News Digital’s Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
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Nicole Kidman ‘calm’ and focused after Keith Urban split
Nicole Kidman is reportedly filled with optimism and fresh energy ahead of a year filled with new projects.
Days after finalizing divorce with ex husband Keith Urban, the Babygirl star and her girls, Sunday, 17, and Faith, 15, are adjusting back to their normal routine.
A source told People, “Nicole spends a lot of time with her girls. She loves family time.”
Nicole “is refreshed and optimistic about the new year” after spending the holidays in Australia, as the insider reported. Now she is back in Nashville with her daughters.
“They’re all settling back in to their routine. Things have been calm,” the insider continued.
And all set to hop onto several new projects upcoming days, “She’s looking ahead to a busy and exciting year professionally too, with several projects coming up,” the tattler noted.
Nicole’s forthcoming projects include the much-anticipated sequel to Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock, Prime Video’s Scarpetta with Jamie Lee Curtis, Season 3 of Paramount+’s Lioness with Zoe Saldaña, Apple TV’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles with Elle Fanning and many more.
For those unversed, Nicole filed for divorce from Keith in late September after 20 years of marriage and they finalized their divorce earlier in January.
A group of software engineers were showered with insults and accused of being pedophiles after they were mistakenly accused of being U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while trying to eat lunch in Minneapolis.
The men – all White males dressed casually in sweatshirts and jackets — were eating lunch at Clancey’s Deli when one of them got an alert on an anti-ICE Signal chat telling members that plainclothes agents were at the restaurant, Alpha News reported.
The person who got the message on the “SW Minneapolis Rapid Response” chat is aligned politically with the anti-ICE cause, one of the engineers who gave his name as Lee told the outlet.
Federal agents deal with agitators outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 14, 2026. The presence of ICE agents in the region has resulted in confrontations with anti-ICE agitators.(Jamie Vera/Fox News)
“My friend was shocked. He’s on the [anti-ICE] side politically. He lives nearby. He’s eaten there before. And suddenly he’s seeing messages saying we’re ICE,” Lee said.
After the alert was shared, dozens of anti-ICE agitators flocked to the restaurant and peered into the window, according to a video filmed by one of the men.
Once the group left, they were met on the street with derision from the crowd.
“You’re a f—— bootlicker b—-!” one of the agitators can be heard.
“Get out of our f—— neighborhood!” screamed another.
“Next thing we know, people are yelling, ‘I hope you die,’ and calling us pedophiles,” said Lee.
Protesters gather in front of the Minnesota State Capitol in response to the death of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn.(Abbie Parr/AP Photo)
One of the men tried explaining that they were software engineers trying to have a meal.
“We do custom apps for a whole bunch of companies around Minnesota and the country,” he said.
Still, the crowd appeared unconvinced.
“Do I look like an ICE agent?” one of the men asked, prompting one woman to reply with: “Yeah, you look like a f—— ICE agent.”
“Get the f— out” one person is heard saying as whistles are heard in the background.
“This is what’s wrong with your guys’ cause,” the man said.
A woman asks, “Would you support [us]?”
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“The way you guys are acting? No. And I don’t support ICE either,” one man said. “I’m just trying to enjoy my lunch!”
A U.S. Navy veteran, who was reportedly sailing in international waters until Russian authorities forced him to dock his yacht with a firearm onboard, has been sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling weapons, court officials announced Monday.
The court system of Krasnodar Krai identified the man as Charles Wayne Zimmerman, 58, whom U.S. officials had reported missing before Monday’s announcement. A website set up in support of Zimmerman described him as a U.S. Navy veteran, a father of two and an electrician, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
According to local authorities, Zimmerman docked his yacht in the Russian port city of Sochi on June 19, 2025, after departing from North Carolina in July 2024 and sailing through several European countries. During border control in Sochi, Zimmerman allegedly failed to declare a firearm onboard. Authorities said an inspection later uncovered the weapons and ammunition, which they claimed had been purchased by Zimmerman prior to entering Russia.
At the subsequent court hearing, “the defendant pleaded guilty in full,” the court system in Krasnodar Krai said. Records show Zimmerman was convicted in October and that the Sochi court’s verdict was upheld two months later by the Krasnodar Regional Court, the AP reported.
A general view of the Seaport in Black Sea resort on May 14, 2015, in Sochi, Russia.(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Zimmerman’s sister, Robin Stultz, claimed that her brother was wrongfully detained in Russia, saying that Russian authorities forced him to pilot his vessel to Sochi from international waters, according to the AP.
He was “sailing in international waters when he was intercepted by the Russian Navy and forced to motor 22 hours to Sochi,” Stultz added in a statement to CBS News.
Zimmerman reportedly disclosed his weapons but was charged anyway, Stultz said, claiming that his arrest was a strategic move by Russia to use him as leverage in a potential U.S. exchange.
A picture taken from a helicopter shows a view of the Black Sea coast near Sochi, Russia, on October 26, 2010.(MIKHAIL MORDASOV / AFP via Getty Images)
“He was sailing from the U.S. to New Zealand, so of course, he had a firearm on board,” she told the AP in a statement. “You can’t just call 911 if something goes wrong out at sea. He voluntarily disclosed it to them and they charged him with arms smuggling. This is an obvious set-up to get another American they can trade. He needs to be declared wrongfully detained.”
His sister added that she “wouldn’t trust any ‘confession’ the Russians claim he’s given,” and alleged that Russian authorities had denied her brother access to U.S. diplomatic representatives since his arrest.
Washington has accused Moscow of imprisoning U.S. nationals to use them as bargaining chips for Russian spies held abroad. Since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, dozens of Westerners, including Americans, have been detained in Russia, with many later released in prisoner exchanges.
A general view of the Sochi seaport on June 22, 2017, in Sochi, Russia.(Alex Grimm – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
Russian authorities reported that Zimmerman decided to sail to Sochi on his own after reportedly meeting a Russian woman online. While he reportedly did not know it was illegal to store weapons on his yacht when docking, authorities said that “ignorance of the law does not exempt from liability.”
“He met a girl online who lives in Kazan and decided to join her in Russia on his yacht,” the Krasnodar Krai court system said. “Before setting out, he didn’t bother to research Russian laws and assumed that the weapons he kept on board for self-defense should simply remain on board at all times.”
A video released by the regional court shows a docked yacht, a single black hunting rifle in a case and two boxes of Remington rifle-caliber cartridges.
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On Sept. 6, 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard’s East region issued a missing person alert for 57-year-old Charles Zimmerman, who had departed North Carolina aboard his 35-foot green-and-white-hulled vessel, named the Trude Zena. He was reportedly heading to New Zealand, with planned stops in the Mediterranean Sea.
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