13+ min ago (329+ words) 100 days out from the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, here's what makes this Olympics one for the history books. There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the'Milan Cortina Winter Games'is not ready on time. Construction on the arena that is set to welcome'NHL players back to the Olympics'for the first time in more than a decade is behind schedule and its completion is going'right down to the wire. A test event at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena " the new, 16,000-seat venue on the outskirts of Milan " had to be moved, and new test events aren't scheduled until Jan. 9-11. "So necessarily we have to be able to organize the competition in an impeccable manner at Santagiulia." The first scheduled Olympic hockey game at the arena is a women's preliminary round match on Feb. 5, one day before the opening…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago (196+ words) The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is adding to its collection. The Fort Worth museum acquired nearly 50 works by an interdisciplinary and intergenerational group of artists in 2025, enabling the ... Amon Carter Museum of American Art acquires nearly 50 works in 2025 Among the acquisitions is Chuck Ramirez's full series, "The Seven Days," featured in the museum's current exhibition "Seven Days: The Sill Lifes of Chuck Ramirez," on view through January 4. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is adding to its collection. The Fort Worth museum acquired nearly 50 works by an interdisciplinary and intergenerational group of artists in 2025, enabling the museum to expand its storytelling around American art and the evolution of American creativity. Watch NBC 5 free wherever you are Spanning over 150 years of artmaking, the acquisitions include works by Edmonia Lewis, Cecilia Beaux, Elizabeth Catlett, John Rhoden. The museum also…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago (614+ words) Tailgaters gather outside MetLife Stadium before an NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, in East Rutherford, N.J. The United States Soccer Federation proposed 14 American sites among 20 possible venues to host games for the 2031 Women's World Cup, including seven U.S. stadiums to be used for next year's men's tournament. FIFA released the bid books Friday for the 2031 and 2035 women's tournaments. There is only one bidder for each, a U.S.-Mexico-Costa Rica-Jamaica proposal for 2031 and a United Kingdom plan for 2035. FIFA is to formally confirm the bids at its congress on April 30. Twenty-six additional U.S. stadiums were mentioned as suitable venues for a 48-nation tournament the bidders project would draw 4.5 million fans and generate about $4 billion in revenue, up from $570 million for 2023 in Australia and New Zealand and a projection of $1 billion for the 2027 tournament in Brazil. Proposed…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago (466+ words) Next week we expect a big decision from the U.S. Supreme Court when it comes to controversial new congressional maps. Republican lawmakers passed maps earlier this year that could give the GOP five more seats in Congress. The final court decision for this election may come in the days ahead. Next week, the Supreme Court may rule on controversial new congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Without a ruling, justices may need to take the rare step of extending the filing period or delaying the early-March primary election. Republican lawmakers passed maps earlier this year that could give the GOP five more seats in Congress. Right now, Texas plans to use the new 2025 maps after Justice Samuel Alito put them in place while the U.S. Supreme Court decides what to do next. A federal district court ruled they were unconstitutional racial…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago (102+ words) Multiple apartments were damaged after a fire in Dallas on Friday morning, officials said. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, units were dispatched to a call regarding a fire in a restroom at an apartment located at 4503 Lake Avenue shortly before 5 a.m. Fire-Rescue officials said firefighters responded to the scene and declared the fire extinguished at 5:18 a.m. The fire damaged two apartments and displaced six residents and two cats, officials said. According to officials, the American Red Cross was notified to assist those who were displaced. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, officials said....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago (102+ words) Multiple apartments were damaged after a fire in Dallas on Friday morning, officials said. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, units were dispatched to a call regarding a fire in a restroom at an apartment located at 4503 Lake Avenue shortly before 5 a.m. Fire-Rescue officials said firefighters responded to the scene and declared the fire extinguished at 5:18 a.m. The fire damaged two apartments and displaced six residents and two cats, officials said. According to officials, the American Red Cross was notified to assist those who were displaced. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, officials said....

2+ day, 39+ min ago (135+ words) Officials are investigating the cause of a fire at a shopping center in Dallas on Thursday night, Dallas Fire-Rescue said. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, units responded to a 911 call regarding a fire at Oprah Beauty Supply, located at 3530 Sunnyvale Street, at 11:58 p.m. on Thursday. Officials said firefighters reported seeing light smoke coming from the eaves of the one-story commercial occupancy. When firefighters entered the shopping center, they found that the fire had spread extensively throughout the interior, officials said. A second alarm was requested shortly after firefighters arrived at the scene. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, approximately 55-60 firefighters worked for over an hour before bringing the fire under control. No injuries were reported in connection with this incident. The investigation into the incident is ongoing....

2+ day, 5+ hour ago (740+ words) A construction site in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district caught fire on Thursday night. Hong Kong firefighters found dozens more bodies Friday in an intensive apartment-by-apartment search of a high-rise complex where a massive fire engulfed seven buildings, and authorities arrested another 8 people involved in the towers' renovation. The death toll in one of the city's deadliest blazes rose to 128, and many remain unaccounted for. First responders found that some fire alarms in the complex, which housed many older people, did not sound when tested, said Andy Yeung, the director of Hong Kong Fire Services, though he did not say how many were not working or if others were. The blaze jumped rapidly from one building to the next as foam panels and bamboo scaffolding covered in netting apparently installed by a construction company caught fire. Authorities on Friday…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago (918+ words) When the federal government passed legislation to reopen, Hemp-derived THC products took a residual hit. The bill rolled out the idea of a federal hemp-derived THC ban in 365 days if other regulation isn't rolled out first. The production lines at Indeed Brewing moved quickly, the cans filling not with beer, but with THC-infused seltzer. The product, which features the compound that gets cannabis users high, has been a lifeline at Indeed and other craft breweries as'alcohol sales have fallen'in recent years. But that boom looks set to come to a crashing halt. Buried in the bill that'ended the federal government shutdown'this month was a provision to ban those drinks, along with other impairing beverages and snacks made from hemp, which have proliferated across the country in recent years. Now the $24 billion hemp industry is scrambling to save itself before the…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago (351+ words) Newly-released videos are providing the most detailed look at the chase and search that led up to the death of a Dallas Cowboys football player.Marshawn Kneeland took his own life earlier this month. The hours of video released by the Texas Department of Public Safety take place over about a three-hour time frame.It begins at about 10:30 p.m. on November 5 on the Dallas North Tollway, where, according to an arrest report, a trooper saw a black Dodge Charger speeding northbound near Keller Springs Boulevard. Another trooper begins to follow and reports seeing the car making several unsafe lane changes a speeds'faster than 145 miles per hour, the report said. "He passed me going about a buck 32," one officer is heard saying on camera.Another says, "He got above 160 when I was chasing him." The Charger exits the Tollway at Headquarters Drive,…...