Unsurprisingly, Georgia and Michigan held on to the top two spots after dominating the SEC and Big 10 conference championship games, respectively, Saturday.

Dan Belz suggests that Biden’s motivation may be motivated by “political self-interest” as his success in South Carolina’s primary “saved his candidacy.”

Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s East Java were on high alert on Monday after a violent eruption at the island’s tallest volcano prompted authorities to impose an 8-kilometer no-go zone and forced evacuations of entire villages.

Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a season-ending foot injury, perhaps derailing the San Francisco 49ers’ championship hopes. Lamar Jackson sustained a knee injury that could sideline him for weeks, a major blow for the Baltimore Ravens. 

Protesters in Iran called on Sunday for a three-day strike this week, stepping up pressure on authorities after the public prosecutor said the morality police whose detention of a young woman triggered months of protests had been shut down.

Russia is the world’s third-leading oil producer after the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, according to a March 2022 Nasdaq report, and relies on the sale of oil and gas to underpin its economy.

A motive for the Saturday night damage spree wasn’t clear, said Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields. Due to outages, schools will be closed Monday and potentially longer. Sunday church services and a well-known golf resort were disrupted.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday that she may water down plans to make it easier to settle small payments with cash rather than cards, following talks with the European Commission over the issue.