Get MMA Junkie staff member predictions for all 14 fights at UFC on ESPN 66 The UFC is back in one of America’s great Midwestern cities with welterweight rising stars at the top of the card. UFC on ESPN 66 (ESPN2, ESPN+) takes place Saturday at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo. Get pick results…
While many acts chase after synthetic perfection, The Jimmy Dixon Group is charting a different path—one grounded in authenticity and raw emotion. With the release of their second album, The Rough Demos II, the Brew City-based collective delivers a compelling 11-track project that embraces analog grit and an unwavering commitment to truth over polish. Released…
Founded by Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, the Hilton Foundation is one of the biggest financial backers of Catholic sisters’ work around the world, and has given roughly $28.5 million to Vatican-led initiatives, including Vatican departments, since 2020. Francis saw donors as vital partners. He looked to them not only to fund the causes dear…
The honor of delivering the first reading at Pope Francis’ funeral Mass on Saturday fell to Kielce Gussie, an American who works as a reporter with Vatican News. It was, she said on social media, “a great way to say goodbye” to the pontiff. In a strong, resonant voice before the many thousands of mourners…
How could we learn about our solar system? How did the planets form, their ends, how did life form on Earth, and are there other life forms in the universe? The key to these questions lies in understanding exoplanets. Exoplanets, by definition, mean planets outside the solar system orbiting another star. The first exoplanets were…
The Minnesota Wild will try to increase their series lead on the Vegas Golden Knights in a 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs Game 4 showdown on Saturday. Minnesota entered the series as the underdog, but have taken a 2-1 series lead as Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy lead all postseason players with four goals a piece. Puck…
For months, New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson has been playfully campaigning on social media to convince his wife, Ciara, that it’s time to welcome baby number five into their growing family. Well, the “Defy Gravity,” singer is finally reacting to the campaign, calling her husband out. The 39-year-old recently sat down with Access Hollywood…
Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41. Ms. Giuffre (pronounced JIFF-ree) died by suicide, according to…
The life and legacy of Pope Francis — a pontiff who defied easy definition and led the Roman Catholic Church through a dozen years of different phases and contradictions — are not easy to fit into a single homily. But that was the task for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of…
Astronomy has long been dominated by expert amateurs but with geospatial data everywhere, thanks to widely available internet and smartphones, it is not just that directions that were once only available in a paper map are now updated on your phone in real time to account for traffic. It is changing the relationships of science also….
