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The Pistons vs Hornets matchup took a dramatic turn Monday night as a third quarter brawl led to four player removals before the Detroit Pistons held on for a 110-104 victory over Charlotte.Cade Cunningham led Detroit with 33 points and nine rebounds as the Pistons snapped the Hornets’s nine game winning streak in a physical contest that escalated midway through the third quarter. Jalen Duren sparked the confrontatoin after being fouled by Moussa Diabate on a drive to the basket. The two players went face to face before Duren struck Diabate with an open right hand, sparking a prolonged altercation…

February 11, 2026 — 5:28amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAANew York: Donald Trump told Palm Beach police in 2006 that “everyone” knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors, and called Epstein’s close friend Ghislaine Maxwell “evil”, according to investigation records made public in the so-called Epstein files.The revelations stem from a report that documents a 2019 FBI interview with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter, who recounted his recollection of a…

Stan ChoeFebruary 11, 2026 — 5:12amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAStocks are flirting with records on Wall Street following a mixed set of profit reports from big US companies, as Hasbro jumps but Coca-Cola slips. Hopes are also building that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates later this year to boost the economy following a discouraging report on the strength of US shoppers.The S&P 500 rose 0.1 per cent, and at one…

‘FBI’ star Juliana Aidén Martinez tease her return to ‘Law and Order: SVU’ after quittingFBI newcomer Juliana Aidén Martinez recently got candid and opened up about her return to Law and Order: SVU after exiting the show. In a talk with Us Weekly, the 35-year-old American actress said, “It was such a great time that I had with the SVU cast. I would never say never.” “It was a really wonderful experience that I got to have with everyone there,” Martinez, who played Junior Detective Kate Silva, added. The Griselda star did not completely reject the idea of her return…

OpinionStephen HeydtJewish Australian, retired psychologistFebruary 11, 2026 — 5:00amFebruary 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAWorld-renowned psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, in his 2014 bestseller The Body Keeps the Score, writes that traumatic experience is not just a historic event; its impression is left on our brain and body. Perhaps that explains my visceral reaction to the images of NSW Police in Sydney aggressively charging and punching those protesting visiting Israeli…

“We were training with the Waratahs from six in the morning until six at night, and I’ve never been so tired,” Burke said. “I’d also never been more bruised on my elbows.“You were so tired that you missed the door frames and you’d hit your elbow against them. You’d have a pool session around four times a week, but it was also incredible. I played a hobby for a living and got paid for it.”The second-rower who crossed the NullarborTwo years before Super Rugby was born, John Welborn had driven from his home in Perth to Sydney to pursue his…

OpinionShane WrightSenior economics correspondentFebruary 11, 2026 — 5:00amFebruary 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAMy folks own two hectares of land that was once an Australian Army base.Up to 80,000 men went through the base, which became a migrant camp after World War II.When my parents bought the block two decades ago, there were three signs of its military past: a concrete cricket pitch, a bitumen road and a particularly green…

February 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAWe all know that there’s a housing crisis and home ownership is slipping out of the reach of young Australians, right? But what if I told you that while younger generations were delaying buying their first home, they were rapidly catching up to those older than them?That is what the home ownership figures published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare suggest. The…

February 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAAn Albanese government-appointed official stripped politically explosive sections from a landmark corruption report, removing findings that Victoria’s Labor government turned a blind eye to CFMEU graft and organised crime on infrastructure projects, including federally funded sites, at a cost to taxpayers of $15 billion.In an extraordinary development on Tuesday evening, after this masthead asked CFMEU administrator Mark Irving, KC, if he or his administration…

Which is kind of the whole point.Breaking Barriers has a simple premise: select an unspectacular grassroots soccer club and attempt to guide them up the Australian soccer pyramid, all the way to the top. But the promotion mechanism in English soccer, which lends Welcome to Wrexham its romantic core, is not and has not been in place in relation to the A-League – and may never be.Can a humble grassroots club plot a course all the way to the A-League?Credit: Getty ImagesThere are many good, sensible and prudent reasons why the A-League is a “closed shop” competition: financial sustainability, broadcaster…