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Protesters gathered outside the Alaska State Capitol this morning, calling on U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan to oppose what organizers described as growing authoritarianism at the federal level.
“Juneau for Democracy is a group of Juneau residents who get together in care and resistance.” Said Volunteer Anjali Grantham, “We really are a network of people trying to live our democracy and protect our democracy.”
The rally’s theme was “We the People Do Not Consent.” Participants held signs and delivered speeches criticizing Sullivan’s positions on immigration enforcement, federal spending and voting requirements.
“We are finished with the silence, we are finished with complicity, we demand a leader who will fight for us, we demand courage.” Said Erin Jackson-Hill of Stand up Alaska.
Grantham said protesters were urging Sullivan to support additional congressional oversight of immigration enforcement agencies and to oppose policies they believe undermine constitutional rights, such as the deployment of federal officers in U.S. cities, and increased funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
“We’re going to make sure that Sullivan knows it’s despicable that he has voiced support for the SAVE act.” Grantham said, this is federal legislation that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship, like a passport or birth certificate, to cast a ballot.
“Can you imagine what that would mean for Rural Alaskans? In addition to many women who have changed their name after getting married.” She said.
Voting by noncitizens has been found to be exceedingly rare nationwide and in Alaska.
“He’s an attorney, and he has not only watched but actually facilitated the erosion of our First Amendment rights, our Fourth Amendment rights, our Fifth Amendment rights and our Eighth Amendment rights. He’s a military officer, but he’s also justified the deployment of troops to U.S. cities. He’s a senator, and he’s totally abandoned the role of the legislative branch. He’s had the audacity to tell Alaskans that we should be grateful to the regime, meanwhile, the federal government has become predatory on its own people.” Grantham said.
The rally was held before Dan Sullivan delivered his annual speech to the Alaska Legislature.
“We want him to be someone who is standing against authoritarianism and not paving the way for authoritarianism.” she said.
Megan Moroney is approaching the release of her third studio album, Cloud 9, with zero fear. There’s no denying that her fanbase is loyal to the core, and thanks to their unwavering support, the country star says she isn’t afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve and allow them to hear all of the vulnerable stories on the upcoming project.
Serving as a co-writer on each of the 15 tracks, Moroney dives into experiences and emotions that were all pulled from real moments. Whether the Georgia native opening about love or heartbreak or the realities of life, she offers raw authenticity, something she knows her fans appreciate.
“I said this whole album with my chest,” she told Audacy’s Katie Neal. “I’m just like, it is what it is. I feel like I know I’ve got the best fans in the world, and they make me confident enough to where they’re going to get behind my songs, and they know that it’s coming from an honest, authentic place. And that just has given me more confidence as a songwriter to not give a crap what people are going to say about it.”
Prior to its February 20 release, listeners have gotten a few glimpses into the 15-track collection through songs like “Wish I Didn’t,” the GOLD-certified Country radio No. 1 smash “6 Months Later,” the Billboard Hot 100-charting Country radio hit “Beautiful Things,” and the title track.
Between these songs and the unreleased tracks Moroney has previewed across social media, it’s safe to say that fans are already getting eager to start singing them back to her on the upcoming Cloud 9 Tour.
The massive international headline trek will take Megan Moroney to some of the biggest arenas across North America, Europe, and the UK. She expressed a lot of excitement surround the run, teasing that the production will be on a completely new level.
“I can say that the thrust is in the shape of a nine. So that’s really fun. It’s so fun to, I’m like, what do you mean that I get to just ask for stuff and it gets done? I’m like, ‘how crazy would a nine thrust be?’ And they’re like, ‘oh, we could do that, easy.’ I’m like, ‘okay, period.’”
She went on to say that the atmosphere at every show will be best described as “dreamy” and “whimsical,” with plenty of exciting outfit changes to match. While there are still a few details to finalize, like the setlist, she promises fans it will be her “biggest and best tour yet.”
Moroney also recognizes the fact that the energy of her shows wouldn’t be the same without the room full of fans screaming back at her every night.
“My fans are just the best,” the “6 Months Later” singer gushed. “So getting to sing these songs every single night with them, even when I write the songs, one of my first thoughts is, ‘my fans are going to love this.’ And I think it’s an amazing connection that we have. I feel like my fans target audience is reached, you know what I mean? I have found my people.”
She continued, “I’m so excited. I love touring, and they make it really amazing. If they weren’t like they are, I don’t know if I could enjoy it as much as I do, just because touring is exhausting, mentally draining and you’re never home and you miss things, but they make it worth it. A hundred percent.”
Cloud 9, Megan Moroney’s third studio album, will arrive on Friday, February 20. To celebrate she has announced the Meet Me on Cloud 9 limited run, which will find her performing in nine cities in nine days, bringing the brand-new collection of songs to life each night surrounded by her biggest supporters.
She will kick things off with an album release show in New York City and continue with stops in Richmond, Nashville, Athens, Newport, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City and Scottsdale with tickets at just $9 a piece.
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Earlier this month, Olympic athlete Lindsey Vonn suffered a terrible crash during an event.
Medics airlifted her off of Cortina d’Ampezzo. She has undergone multiple surgeries since then.
Unfortunately, things were even worse for her than the medical side of things.
Within hours of her crash, her beloved dog died.
Two tragedies within hours of each other
On Wednesday, February 18, Olympic athlete Lindsey Vonn took to her Instagram page to share her heartbreak.
“Leo Vonn,” she began her caption. “2013-2/9/2026.”
Vonn wrote: “Leo has passed away and joined Lucy and Bear up in heaven.”
She expressed: “This has been an incredibly hard few days. Probably the hardest of my life.”
Vonn then admitted: “I still have not come to terms that he is gone.”
“The day I crashed, so did Leo,” Vonn pointed out, referring to her crash during the downhill at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Her complex tibial fracture required multiple surgeries before she even returned to the US.
“He had been recently diagnosed with lung cancer,” she shared, adding: “(He survived lymphoma a year and a half ago) but now his heart was failing him.”
Vonn acknowledged: “He was in pain and his body could no longer keep up with his strong mind.”
She recalled: “As I [lay] in my hospital bed the day after my crash, we said goodbye to my big boy.”
Vonn lamented: “I had lost so much that meant something to me in such a short amount of time. I can’t believe it.”
Leo will always be part of her story
“My boy has been with me since my second ACL injury, when I needed him most,” Vonn detailed.
“He held me on the sofa as I watched the Sochi Olympics,” she wrote. “He lifted me up when I was down.”
Vonn gushed: “He [lay] by me, and cuddle me, always making me feel safe and loved..”
She acknowledged: “We have been through so much together in 13 years.”
Vonn admitted: “It’s going to be a while before I emotionally process things but I know he will always be with me.”
“I know he’s up there with Lucy and Bear and my mom and grandparents and so many people I have lost in the past few years,” Vonn affirmed.
“And I takes solace knowing he’s not in pain anymore,” she added.
“There will never be another Leo,” Vonn mourned. “He will always be my first love.”
She then shared an update, that she would be: “Heading in for more surgery today.”
Vonn concluded: “Will be thinking of him when I close my eyes I will love you forever my big boy.”
Our hearts go out to her at this time. Though she will always feel this loss, we wish her a rapid and full physical recovery so that she can continue to process her grief.
Lindsey Vonn Reveals Her Beloved Dog Died Just Hours After Olympics Crash was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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The Daytona weekend had plenty of decisions — by both drivers and officials — that led to debate across the garage. So let’s dive in and get to the bottom of it. Here are my thoughts on six pressing decisions (including one which directly impacted the finish of the Daytona 500) across all three series: 6. Justin Allgaier move causing big wreck This one isn’t all that debatable, as Allgaier took full blame for the incident where he went for a lane that closed up with Denny Hamlin getting a fast run. The 2024 O’Reilly Series champion said there is a difference between how the runs come in that series (his full-time job) and the Cup Series. “I hate it for everybody else, but I’ll stand here and take the blame square on my shoulders,” Allgaier said. “The runs are just different [in Cup]. The willingness for guys to be aggressive in those moments are probably a little bit different on the Cup side. “Denny wins a lot of these races for a reason, and he’s great at what he does. I’m not upset he went there because he did what he thought he needed to do to put himself in the best position. I just wish I would have done it a little bit differently.” There is rarely a superspeedway race where no driver has a block or move gone bad. This one was on Allgaier’s shoulders. 5. NASCAR decision not to throw the caution NASCAR didn’t throw the caution on the final laps, despite wrecks in both the trucks and Cup races, allowing the races to end under green. Michael McDowell was involved in both. After the truck race, he told me he had no problem with the call as far as his car, since he never stopped moving. In the Cup race, more cars were involved in the wreck early in the final lap but cars either continued to move or were well on the apron. NASCAR didn’t throw the caution until the wreck at the front of the field was coming to the finish. The biggest question for NASCAR is how to remain consistent. With another drafting race coming up at Atlanta, that could be more difficult. A 1.5-mile track (laps are much shorter) with less runoff area means less time to allow the track to clear and less time to potentially start moving safety equipment before the pack returns to that spot. This will also bring up the debate on what warrants a caution on the final lap. I still believe that the final lap should be treated differently because fans come to see a race to the finish. As long as that can be done safely (and, of course, those parameters can be viewed differently). NASCAR needs to continue what it did this past weekend. 4. Cleetus McFarland truck approval NASCAR approved Cleetus McFarland to run the truck race at Daytona. He had run two superspeedway events in ARCA, including finishing the race at Talladega. But it was his first race in a truck. Mini Tyrrell had never raced ARCA or a truck but was approved as the Ram “Race for the Sea” winner. He just had to do the ARCA test and practice (and race, but the race was after the truck race). Tyrrell has several years of stock-car racing experience. McFarland had a handful of stock-car starts but is also a popular personality, especially on YouTube. Additionally, he owns a racetrack where he has events. Both drivers did make laps at Rockingham the week before Daytona in trying to learn more about the truck. And both of them were involved in wrecks in the truck race, but McFarland’s was viewed more for a lack of experience. NASCAR is in a tough spot with these decisions, as the marketing factors are difficult to ignore. It wouldn’t want to anger McFarland and his fans — the fans that NASCAR desperately wants and needs to grow the sport. And it wants to be open to new ideas from incoming manufacturers. I was OK with both. Significant stock-car experience, no matter the level, or at least some superspeedway experience, should be required for approval. And let’s face it, there are drivers out there who have raced for years who still have similar issues and questions about whether they are competent. 3. Fuel-mileage racing Only the diehard race fan who loves strategy enjoys fuel-mileage racing. Most fans want their driver to be all out. So watching Daytona and Talladega can be frustrating. The key is how to get the handling bad enough that drivers can make moves and pass but yet not so bad that it creates an unsafe situation. More horsepower? Less downforce? The fact that the end of the stages and the race are exciting makes this one of those situations where it would be great to fix. But it can’t come with major consequences of even more wrecks and more devastating wrecks at higher speeds. 2. Natalie Decker gets into Sam Mayer This one is the most perplexing. The wreck happened in the O’Reilly Auto Parts. Then, it was more than 10 seconds after Sam Mayer was involved in the accident before he slid up the track. Natalie Decker, in the high lane, ran into him. It certainly looked bad for Decker and it looked like she could have slowed more to potentially avoid hitting Mayer as he slid up the track, which would be unexpected. But Mayer didn’t blame her at all. And Mayer isn’t one to typically shy away from blaming someone. “The hood was up so I didn’t know which direction I was facing and my steering was gone,” Mayer said. “I couldn’t turn and I was trying to brake up the hill. I just couldn’t. … I hate it for her because she was clear of the wreck.” Decker’s struggles (she has seven lead-lap finishes in 46 national series starts) don’t encourage giving her the benefit of the doubt, but this one might look worse than it actually was. 1. Riley Herbst move at the finish line Brad Keselowski and his team were critical of Riley Herbst. Riley Herbst and his team were matter of fact that a driver makes moves to win the Daytona 500 and Keselowski has made moves in the past with that philosophy that caused wrecks. This is one where the optics look like “how in the world was that going to work,” but those type of moves are also the ones that we celebrate when they do work. Herbst told me he was trying to win the Daytona 500 (and it also appeared he didn’t want to push Chase Elliott by his teammate). Keselowski thought it was a stupid move. The worst part about it for Herbst is that it overshadowed a little bit of his contribution to his teammate’s Tyler Reddick’s win for 23XI Racing. The stupid moves are the ones that don’t work. The incredible moves are the ones that do. Which leads me to this question that is tough to answer: Is it possible to have a stupid move be acceptable when trying to make an incredible one? 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The defending Super Bowl champions are up for sale. After weeks of speculation and rumors, the Seattle Seahawks will be sold, the team announced on Wednesday. “The Estate of Paul G. Allen today announced it has commenced a formal sale process for the Seattle Seahawks NFL franchise, consistent with Allen’s directive to eventually sell his sports holdings and direct all Estate proceeds to philanthropy,” the team announced. “The Estate has selected investment bank Allen & Company and law firm Latham & Watkins to lead the sale process, which is estimated to continue through the 2026 off-season. NFL owners must then ratify a final purchase agreement.” The Seahawks have been in the Allen family since 1997, when Paul Allen bought the Seahawks for $194 million from then-owner Ken Behring. Since Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, died in 2018 from complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 65, the Seahawks and NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers have been owned by his sister, Jody. The estate agreed in September to sell the Trail Blazers to an investment group led by Tom Dundon, owner of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes. In the week leading up to Super Bowl LX, ESPN reported that it was anticipated that the Seahawks would go up for sale. They wound up defeating the New England Patriots, 29-13, to capture their second Super Bowl win in franchise history. With the Seahawks fresh off a Super Bowl title and becoming the latest team to hit the market, there’s been some speculation that this sale could be the richest in professional sports history. The sale of the Los Angeles Lakers in 2025 broke the record for the richest sale in sports history at $10 billion. As for the richest sale in NFL history, the Washington Commanders were sold for $6.05 billion in 2024. The 2022 sale of the Denver Broncos is the second-richest sale in NFL history at $4.65 billion. The Seahawks were valued at $6.7 billion by Forbes in August, making them the 14th-highest valued NFL team. The Associated Press contributed to this report.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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We have a shocking story to report out of Indiana today.
According to the Union City Police Department, a 31-year-old school secretary named Alicia Hughes has been arrested for having sex with a minor.
And it seems that she was caught by her own husband — on Valentine’s Day, no less.
Hughes’ alleged misconduct came to light earlier this week, after police were called in response to a domestic violence situation.
The secretary had reportedly been battered by her husband, but shortly thereafter, she was the one who found herself in legal trouble.
Hughes’ husband caught her having sex with an 18-year-old student.
But investigators soon discovered that she had also (allegedly) had at least five sexual encounters with a 17-year-old male.
Hughes was arrested and charged with five counts of child seduction related to the sexual relationship with the minor.
She was transported to Randolph County Jail, where she is being held on a $25,000 bond.
School superintendent Neal Adams declined to say whether Hughes had been fired, revealing only that she “has been removed from all duties with students pending the outcome of the legal process.”
“Because this is an active criminal investigation, and to protect the privacy of students and the
integrity of the process, RESC will not comment further on specific details at this time,” Adams said.
“We will continue to follow all legal and personnel procedures required under state law and board policy.”
It’s unclear at the moment if Hughes’ husband will be charged in connection with the assault, or if the
The couple reportedly have three children.
The New York Post says it has reached out to both the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office and the Union City Police Department for comment, but has not received a response.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
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A documentary about Gordon Ramsay’s impressive career gave the chef time to reflect. He calls this restaurant’s kitchen the most brutal one he has known.
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As he celebrates over three decades in country music, Trace Adkins is being honest with fans about the fact that his 30th Anniversary Tour might be one of their last chances to see him live on the road.
He embarked on the headline trek in January as a way to celebrate his milestone anniversary in the business all year long with performances across Los Angeles, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Wyoming, Colorado, and more. Throughout the trek, fans can join him each night in honoring his catalog of hits that have grown since the release of his PLATINUM-certified debut album Dreamin’ Out Loud in 1996.
While speaking with Entertainment Tonight about the tour, Adkins admitted he’s still a little shocked that, all these years later, he’s not only making music and playing shows across the country, but that he’s still “relevant” among the fans.
“I’m just proud to be here and I’m glad that I’ve have fans that have stuck with me all these decades and I’m going to give them another year,” he shared.
He jokingly added that he doesn’t have another 30 years of touring in him, and he’s not even sure what his career will look like once he wraps up the 30th Anniversary Tour in September. The Louisiana native even revealed there’s a chance 2026 could be his final year of touring.
“I don’t have another 30 in me…I’m going to give ’em this year. I’m on tour hard this year, but then I can’t promise you anything after that,” he stated.
When asked how he will know that it’s time to take a step back and officially retire from the road, Adkins joked that he “knew 10 years ago,” but his accountant told him it was too soon to quit.
The 30th Anniversary Tour has already seen overwhelming demand, prompting the country legend to add more dates in cities across the U.S. Standout stops on the run include two nights at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium (May 22 and 23), along with iconic venues like Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth (March 7), The St. Augustine Amphitheatre in St. Augustine, Florida (April 16), Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming (July 22), and the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas (September 11).
Along with embarking on this run, fans can see Adkins returning to the big screen with the new film, I Can Only Imagine 2, premiering in theaters nationwide on February 20. Inspired by true events, I Can Only Imagine 2 picks up where the award-winning blockbuster I Can Only Imagine left off in 2018.
In this sequel, Adkins returns as Scott Brickell, the manager of the Oklahoma-bread rock band, MercyMe, whose iconic song “I Can Only Imagine” became the most-played song ever on Christian radio. The film dives into the story behind the band’s single “Even If,” amid a heartfelt journey of faith and family.
Joining Trace Adkins on the star-studded cast is John Michael Finley and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Milo Ventimiglia, stepping in as MercyMe’s newest member.
I Can Only Imagine 2 marks the latest addition to Adkins’ already impressive acting resume. He previously took on a recurring role on the iconic sitcom King of the Hill and appeared in critically acclaimed films like The Lincoln Lawyer, Deepwater Horizon, and most recently, 2025’s western action thriller Day of Reckoning, which co-starred Adkins and featured his original song “That Someday.”
From unforgettable nights on the 30th Anniversary Tour to his role in I Can Only Imagine 2, there are plenty of ways fans can witness Adkins’ talent in 2026. More information regarding the tour, including a full list of dates and how to purchase tickets can be found on his official website.
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