NBA official Bill Kennedy taken off court in wheelchair after injury James H. Williams, USA TODAYJanuary 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM 0 Veteran NBA official Bill Kennedy suffered a noncontact injury during a game between the Orlando Magic and the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, Jan. 9. Kennedy is known within the NBA community for his entertaining challenge verdicts during basketball games. Several of his verdicts had gone viral throughout the early part of the season.

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Veteran NBA official Bill Kennedy suffered a non-contact injury during a game between the Orlando Magic and the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, Jan. 9.

Kennedy is known within the NBA community for his entertaining challenge verdicts during basketball games. Several of his verdicts had gone viral throughout the early part of the season.

Kennedy was seen running up the court late in the first quarter as the 76ers were running up the court after stealing the ball from the Magic. He left the game in a wheelchair.

Michael Smith and James Williams continued to officiate the game. A backup official was not named to fill in for Kennedy in a brief statement by the verified NBA Official account on X.

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49ers LT Trent Williams questionable, but 'confident' he'll face Eagles Field Level MediaJanuary 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM 0 November 24, 2025; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) during the first quarter against the Carolina Panthers at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle TeradaImagn Images (Kyle TeradaImagn Images) San Francisco left tackle Trent Williams is tracking toward playing, but the 12time Pro Bowl selection will be a gametime decision for Sunday's wildcard matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles.

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November 24, 2025; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) during the first quarter against the Carolina Panthers at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images (Kyle Terada-Imagn Images)

San Francisco left tackle Trent Williams is tracking toward playing, but the 12-time Pro Bowl selection will be a game-time decision for Sunday's wild-card matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles.

"Definitely more confident," Williams said when asked about his chances of playing. "Honestly, I'm kind of pushing the limits on how much (time) is required for it. So it will probably be in the back of my mind for a little bit. But once I get out there and get the juices flowing and the adrenaline going, I don't think it should be a big problem."

Williams practiced on a limited basis both Thursday and Friday and said he feels good enough to suit up, even as he acknowledged he's accelerating the timeline on a hamstring strain suffered Dec. 28 while chasing down a Chicago Bears defender on the first snap.

His availability looms large: since 2020, the 49ers are 61-32 with Williams and 4-13 when he's out.

Wideout Ricky Pearsall is a tougher call. He didn't practice this week after aggravating a knee injury against the Bears and sitting out Week 18. Pearsall has battled ailments all season, appearing in nine games with 36 catches for 528 yards. He's listed as questionable.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan left the door open for Pearsall despite the missed practice time, noting the second-year receiver did some side work Thursday before being held out Friday.

Five other 49ers are listed as questionable: linebackers Dee Winters (ankle) and Luke Gifford (quadriceps), defensive lineman Keion White (groin/hamstring), receiver Jacob Cowing (hamstring) and CB Renardo Green (ankle).

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USA TODAY and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. This US figure skating pair repeated as national champs while in Olympic limbo Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY January 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM 0 ST. LOUIS — There's so much Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov don't have answers for in this period of uncertainty, but they do know one thing: They are the U.S. champions once again. The duo defended their U.S. title, winning the 2026 pairs championship after another strong performance in the free skate on Saturday.

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ST. LOUIS — There's so much Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov don't have answers for in this period of uncertainty, but they do know one thing: They are the U.S. champions once again.

The duo defended their U.S. title, winning the 2026 pairs championship after another strong performance in the free skate on Saturday.

They entered the night with a healthy lead, only needing to avoid major mistakes in the free skate to secure the win. It was a shaky start when Mitrofanov stumbled during their double Axel sequence, throwing them off the rhythm and leaving the audience in a gasp as they wondered if there was trouble.

Luckily for them, it was smooth after that. The lifts were executed with precision, and they shared an embrace once their program was complete.

1 / 10See the emotions: Figure skaters compete to represent the USKatie McBeath and Daniil Parkman perform in the pairs short program during the 2026 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Enterprise Center on Jan. 7, 2026 in St. Louis, Mo.

Turns out, they didn't even need the seven-point lead they entered the night with. Efimova and Mitrofanov scored 132.40 on their free skate, the best of the competition. They won with a combined score of 207.71, more than 10 points ahead of the second place team in Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea (197.12). Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman overcame a fifth place finish in the short program to finish third overall with a score of 187.45.

Efimova and Mitrofanov have proven themselves as the top American pair. Now they'll hope they can prove it on the biggest stage.

As of Friday, Efimova is still awaiting to receive her American citizenship, rendering the team ineligible at the moment to represent the U.S. at the 2026 Winter Olympics. They are under a tight deadline with the Olympic team announcement scheduled for Sunday afternoon.

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Mark Scheifele scored two goals, Vladislav Namestnikov and Jonathan Toews both ended lengthy goal-scoring droughts, and the Winnipeg Jets ended their 11-game losing streak with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night.

The Jets were winless (0-7-4) since a 5-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Dec. 13. It was their longest skid since the team moved to Winnipeg from Atlanta in 2011.

Namestnikov ended a 29-game goal drought, while Toews halted a 26-game scoring slump. Cole Koepke also scored for the Jets and Gabriel Vilardi had two assists. Eric Comrie made 23 saves.

Quinton Byfield scored for the Kings. Darcy Kuemper stopped 11 of the 16 shots he faced before he was replaced by Anton Forsberg to start the third period. Forsberg made three saves.

Namestnikov, who was a healthy scratch Thursday against Edmonton, tipped in a shot at 1:31 of the first period.

Koepke's one-timer with 1:55 left in the period made it 2-0, then Toews tapped in his fourth goal of the season 2:07 into the second frame to make it 3-0.

Byfield's goal seven minutes later was unsuccessfully challenged by Jets coach Scott Arniel for interference.

Scheifele scored on the power play at 12:35 when his pass from behind the net bounced off Byfield's skate and past Kuemper, giving Winnipeg a 4-1 lead. He followed up with his team-leading 22nd goal of the season with 43 seconds remaining in the game.

Winnipeg's Nino Niederreiter picked up an assist for his first point in 18 games. Kyle Connor extended his point streak to five games with an assist. Kings forward Anze Kopitar (lower body) missed his second straight game.

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Adding to his beloved *Wicked* score was never going to be easy, but Stephen Schwartz knew there was one thing he'd never have to worry about when crafting new songs for *Wicked: For Good* stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

"Both Cynthia and Ariana, of course, have extraordinary vocal instruments — and the ability to do just about anything with them that they want," the lyricist and composer tells **, "so it was just a matter of what would make each of them most comfortable in doing the songs."

So what made Erivo comfortable singing Elphaba's "No Place Like Home" and Grande performing Glinda's "Girl in the Bubble"?

"Cynthia asked for a couple of small word changes in 'No Place Like Home,' where she felt there was one too many syllables here or there," says Schwartz. "She asked if I could find a way to phrase some things a little bit differently, so she could take a breath."

"Then with Ariana, we just worked on vocal placement, because we felt that it was important," he shares. "Since this is the moment at which Glinda changes — that both Glindas, both the private self where she sings in chest voice, or whatever you want to call it, and her public persona where she sings in soprano.... She's going to give up both of those and become her authentic self. And therefore, we needed both of those voices in the song, so we found where would she do the soprano, and how would we do that in a way that was comfortable for her."

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"'The Girl in the Bubble' is such a beautiful and important narrative piece for Glinda, because that's when we see the final layer of her shielding bubble pop," Grande said in a recent video interview exclusive to EW. "It is a shift that happens for her where she realizes something's gotta change."

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The actress went on to say it was "a really surreal thing to be trusted with an original Stephen Schwartz song — but also to be responsible for showing the audience for the first time this very pivotal, sacred moment in Glinda's life."

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Erivo echoed those sentiments in another exclusive video: "'No place like home' is originally said by Dorothy [in *The Wizard of Oz*], and so to take those words and put them into the Wicked Witch of the West's mouth, it's a really big responsibility."

"I think it really becomes a beautiful song of resistance," Erivo concluded. "I loved singing it and when we did it on the Yellow Brick Road, which is really iconic and special, it felt really powerful. That home that she's known and loved this entire time might not want her but it doesn't mean that it makes it any less like home."**

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The X-Men are now officially on the Marvel chessboard.

Patrick Stewart's Professor Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen's Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, and James Marsden's Scott Summers/Cyclops headline their own *Avengers: Doomsday* teaser, which debuts in an official capacity after a week of online leaks.

The footage offers our first look at these stars reprising their superhero roles from the previous 20th Century Fox era of X-Men movies, now in the Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Following two teasers, one revealing Chris Evans' return as Steve Rogers and another all about Chris Hemsworth's Thor, this new preview reveals Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, a safe haven for young mutants, now in shambles.

There's the joyous sight of seeing longtime frenemies Xavier and Magneto playing chess again, their favored pastime from the original *X-Men* movies, but it's paired with a more haunting scene of Marsden's Cyclops. The leader of these superheroes rips off his protective visor and unleashes a catastrophic optic blast.

"Death comes for us all. It's all I know for sure," Magneto says. "The question isn't, 'Are you prepared to die?' The question is, 'Who will you be when you close your eyes?'"

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Fans should take note of the new X-suits for these characters. Cyclops dons a more comic-accurate blue-and-yellow uniform, while Xavier wears a black-and-red X symbol on his gray jacket. This particular design was the aesthetic for Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's 2001 *New X-Men* comics.

Other X-Men characters not seen in this first look but who are confirmed for roles in *Avengers: Doomsday* include Channing Tatum's Gambit, Alan Cumming's Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn's Mystique, and Kelsey Grammer's Hank McCoy/Beast.

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It's a move that's been in the works ever since Disney purchased Fox in a splashy studio-restructuring deal in 2019. Though, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told ** in 2024, "It took a long time between whenever [the acquisition] was announced to it all getting done, so [the characters] weren't really in our sandbox for a very long time after that first announcement happened."

In the lead-up, we've seen Grammer's Beast pop in for *The Marvels*' post-credits scene, Stewart's Xavier prominently featuring in *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness*, and *Deadpool and Wolverine* bring a whole host of mutant characters to the MCU.

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*Avengers: Doomsday*, directed by Marvel golden children Joe and Anthony Russo, will feature characters from across the multiverse breaking realities in a story involving Robert Downey Jr.'s Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom. The plot continues with *Avengers: Secret Wars*, which Feige said "really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men."

At that point, Marvel made known plans to recast X-Men characters as part of a "reset."

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The Best Growth Index ETF to Invest $100 in Right Now Todd Shriber, The Motley FoolJanuary 10, 2026 at 3:08 AM 0 Key Points For $100, investors can grab a few shares of this growth index ETF. It sports a long track record of beating its rivals. A light expense ratio makes the ETF inviting for buyandhold investors. 10 stocks we like better than Schwab Strategic Trust Schwab U.s.

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For $100, investors can grab a few shares of this growth index ETF.

It sports a long track record of beating its rivals.

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With a substantial assist from the rapidly evolving, high-flying artificial intelligence (AI) investment thesis, growth stocks are in the midst of a multiyear stretch of outperforming their value counterparts.

That theme is palpable in large-cap and megacap territory, where some of the best-performing stocks of the past decade reside. That group includes story stocks such as Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), confirming that investors reaped significant rewards if they selected the right stocks.

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Tantalizing as the long-term returns by those stocks and others are, some investors don't want the hassle of stock-picking and opt for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to tap growth stocks. The Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (NYSEMKT: SCHG) is one of the largest funds in the category and an excellent idea for investors looking to put $100 to work today.

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This $53.34 billion ETF embodies an easy-to-understand index fund. The Schwab fund tracks the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Growth Total Stock Market index, which has a track record spanning over two decades.

That gauge scans the universe of domestic large-cap companies, searching for those that meet specific growth criteria, including earnings and sales growth. The result is a basket of nearly 200 stocks weighted by market capitalization. It's a no-frills approach that has served investors well, as Schwab has outpaced several of its primary rivals over the past decade.

Stretching even farther back, this growth ETF outpaced the category average through its first 15-plus years on the market, lagging the group only twice.

This ETF's status as a passive, cap-weighted fund is pertinent to investors because in the fast-paced world, large- and megacap growth stocks change quickly. Oftentimes, it's difficult for active managers to keep up. For the 10 years ending in February 2025, only 10% of active growth managers outperformed the Russell 1000 Growth Index, and they didn't fare much better over the trailing one, three, and five-year periods.

That doesn't mean that there aren't some fine active managers in the growth realm. There are, but it's also clearly hard to consistently beat benchmarks. With this Schwab ETF, investors minimize the risk of disappointment because, minus its annual fee, the fund is expected to deliver performance in line with its underlying index.

The odds of this ETF sticking to its index are short because it has rules in place to keep portfolio turnover low, representing another advantage over active rivals that frequently move in and out of growth stocks.

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The Schwab ETF checks other boxes that investors covet. For example, it's one-stop shopping for "Magnificent Seven" exposure as all seven of those stocks rank among the fund's top 10 holdings, combining for nearly half the fund's portfolio.

This ETF is also appealing to cost-conscious investors because its annual expense ratio is just 0.04%, or $4 on a $10,000 investment. Combine that low fee with broad exposure to AI leaders, and buy-and-hold and newbie investors may find a lot to like with this growth ETF.

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Mega Millions winning numbers for Jan. 9 drawing: $199M jackpot Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAYJanuary 10, 2026 at 3:00 AM 0 The jackpot for the Mega Millions drawing continued to rise ahead of the Friday, Jan. 9 drawing, with a prize pot of $199 million, with a cash value prize of $90.5 million. If someone were to get lucky tonight and win the jackpot, they'll have two options: take home a onetime, lumpsum cash payment or receive an immediate payment followed by annual checks, each 5% larger than the previous year.

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The jackpot for the Mega Millions drawing continued to rise ahead of the Friday, Jan. 9 drawing, with a prize pot of $199 million, with a cash value prize of $90.5 million.

If someone were to get lucky tonight and win the jackpot, they'll have two options: take home a one-time, lump-sum cash payment or receive an immediate payment followed by annual checks, each 5% larger than the previous year.

Last year saw six different winners of the Mega Millions; the latest one happened on Dec. 2 in New Jersey, where one player took home a $90 million jackpot.

With the Mega Millions jackpot only hours away, here is what you about Friday's drawing.

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USA TODAY will post the winning numbers after the lottery drawing at 11 p.m. ET.

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When is the next Mega Millions drawing?

The next Mega Millions drawing is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 11 p.m. ET.

What is Mega Millions?

Mega Millions is a lottery played in 45 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Each ticket costs $5, and players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers - five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Ball) - or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick.

You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers in a drawing. In the event of multiple jackpot winners, the jackpot prize will be shared.

Thomas Cook and Joseph Feeney of Wisconsin agreed years ago to split future lottery winnings. Cook followed through on that promise when he won a $22 million prize on June 10, 2020.

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1 / 17See Powerball and Mega Millions winners who hit the jackpotTennessee Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul, left, walks with an excited Janis Goodwin, middle and Frances Davenport as they prepare to pick up their million-dollar Powerball check at the lottery headquarters in Nashville on Oct. 3, 2005.

More: The $1.8B Powerball jackpot winner can stay anonymous. For now.

Top 10 Mega Millions Jackpots -

$1.602 billion on Aug. 8, 2023 in Florida

$1.537 billion on Oct. 23, 2018 in South Carolina

$1.348 billion on Jan. 1, 2023 in Maine

$1.337 billion on July. 29, 2022 in Illinois

$1.269 billion on Dec. 27, 2024 in California

$1.128 billion on Mar. 26, 2024 in New Jersey

$1.05 billion on Jan 22, 2021 in Michigan

$983 million on Nov. 14, 2025 in Georgia

$810 million on Sept. 10, 2024 in Texas

$656 million on Mar. 30, 2012 in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland

How to play the Mega Millions

To play the Mega Millions, you have to buy a ticket. You can do this at several locations, including your local convenience store, gas station or even grocery store. In some states, Mega Millions tickets can be bought online.

Once you have your ticket, you need to pick six numbers. Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70. The gold Mega Ball ranges from 1 to 24.

If you're feeling especially unlucky or don't want to go through the hassle of picking, you can ask for a "Quick Pick" or an "Easy Pick." These options let the computer randomly generate numbers for you.

Mega Millions tickets now include a built-in multiplier, which increases non-jackpot prizes by two, three, four, five, or 10 times. Before, players had to pay an extra dollar to add the "Megaplier."

Where can you buy lottery tickets?

Mega Millions tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores, and grocery stores. Some airport terminals may also sell lottery tickets.

You can also order tickets online through Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network, in these U.S. states and territories: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.

Jackpocket is the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Gannett may earn revenue for audience referrals to Jackpocket services. Must be 18+, 21+ in AZ and 19+ in NE. Not affiliated with any State Lottery. Gambling Problem? Call 1-877-8-HOPE-NY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY); 1-800-327-5050 (MA); 1-877-MYLIMIT (OR); 1-800-981-0023 (PR); 1-800-GAMBLER (all others). Visit jackpocket.com/tos for full terms.

Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at [email protected] and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.

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