James McCourt hit a 39-yard field goal as time expired to give the Illini (3-4) a potential program-building win. The Badgers (6-1) suffered an unfortunate loss that alters the Big Ten West and College Football Playoff race. Here are the ripple effects of Illinois’ upset against Wisconsin: MORE: Scores, highlights from Saturday’s top-25 games Ohio State-Wisconsin takes a hit Ohio State-Wisconsin was supposed to be a battle of unbeatens at Ohio Stadium on Saturday: a top-10 showdown with maximum eyeballs on the conference....

After being selected with the 11th overall pick in the 2010 MLB Draft by the Blue Jays out of Georgia Tech, it appeared to many around baseball that the right-hander was on the fast track to the big leagues. That notion seemed to be confirmed when, in his first full professional season, he made it to Double-A, something that takes most draft picks a few seasons to accomplish. MORE: Projected MLB playoff bracket...

All over the globe, your favorite celebrities will also be celebrating the festive period with their families in style, often sharing adorable snaps of their festivities on social media. So, how do your favorite celebrities spend Christmas? Newsweek has everything you need to know from the likes of the Kardashian-Jenner family to Beyoncé. How Do Celebrities Spend Christmas? The Kardashians Kris Jenner famously hosts an annual holiday party, which may be on the cards this year....

Fielding Yost The legendary Michigan coach led the Wolverines to wins against Notre Dame in 1902 and 1908, but the Irish upset Michigan in 1909. Yost, however, canceled the 1910 meeting with the Irish, which ignited a feud with Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne. The schools didn’t play again until 1942. Frank Leahy Leahy won five national titles at Notre Dame, the last in 1943 with the help of a win against No....

Astronomers have long suspected that beneath the icy surface of Europa exists a vast ocean of water. This has led Europa, one of 76 moons around Jupiter, to be considered one of the most likely places in the solar system other than Earth to find life. The discovery could pave the way for future investigations of Europa, the sixth-largest moon in the solar system, larger than the dwarf planet Pluto, and the Jovian system (Jupiter, its rings and moons) in general....

The Red Devils come into the game having suffered a disappointing defeat to Newcastle United last weekend and they will also be keen to banish those demons with a convincing performance. United have lost once and won once against the Terriers this season, enduring a shock 2-1 defeat at the John Smith’s Stadium back in October before beating them 2-0 at Old Trafford earlier this month. For Jose Mourinho, the FA Cup is one of two realistic hopes for silverware this season (along with the Champions League) and he will be determined to deliver, particularly after crashing out of the Carabao Cup to Bristol City at the quarter-final stage....

It said the oil terminal had been hit at around 8:10 a.m. Thursday, sending black smoke high into the sky, visible throughout the under-siege city. The tanks reportedly contained 3,000 cubic meters of diesel fuel. Nine firefighting teams of 25 people were sent to the depot to extinguish the flames as information on the victims and injured was still being clarified, the SES said. It warned that the number of casualties could grow as rescuers search the debris....

Videos posted on social media showed huge lines of vehicles outside the Barnett Park drive-thru testing site in Orlando on Sunday. As reported by Spectrum News, people were in line to get tested at around 6 a.m., hours before the site opened at 9 a.m. Barnett Park has also had to close early in recent days because it had already reached its capacity. “Earlier, everybody was wearing masks and everything,” Orange County resident Malcolm DeNeal told Spectrum News....

WPDE ABC15 shared a photo of the snake on its Facebook page on Tuesday. The local news outlet covers the Myrtle Beach, Florence and Lumberton areas of North and South Carolina. “WHAT?! First an alligator and now a snake on the beach? Marsha Paul spotted this snake on Sunset Beach this morning,” the local news outlet wrote in the post. The post had racked up 245 comments and 575 shares at the time of publication, with many users expressing concern about going in the water after the sighting—especially since it arrived just days after an alligator was spotted on the shore just 30 minutes away....

Aftermath Columbus, located at 1921 Channingway Center Drive, is accused of improper conduct and disorderly activities in violation of its liquor permit after undercover agents from the Ohio Investigative Unit attended the night on Saturday, December 5. According to a news release, seen by The Columbus Dispatch, there were no efforts to keep apart the hundreds of people attending the Trey Songz concert on the dance floor or stage area, with the bartenders also not wearing masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus as required by state law....

Low water levels in the James River, along with the fish suffering from a lack of oxygen because of snow cover, are believed to be to blame for the strange phenomenon, Sioux Falls TV station KELO reported. The James is home to a variety of fish species, including carp and alligator gar. This east-central part of South Dakota has been experiencing a drought, and while Huron’s is considered moderate, according to the U....

At least 750 of the ISIS affiliates, including women and children, escaped from the Ain Issa camp, The Guardian reported, after rioting in the wake of a Turkish offensive, which moved forward after Trump acquiesced to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region last week. The controversial decision from the White House has been slammed by leading Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Washington, who have argued that the withdrawal could lead to the resurgence of ISIS and embolden other U....

President Joe Biden’s son spoke to the BBC in an interview published on Tuesday. His memoir, Beautiful Things, is due to be released today and he’s made several appearances to promote it. Hunter Biden worked for Burisma while his father was vice president and the manner in which he got the job became a focus of former President Donald Trump’s campaign. Biden told the BBC he took responsibility for “creating a story… that anyone conscious would know would be a tabloid sensation” but said that his life “is not a tabloid....

The House Oversight Committee, led by Kentucky Representative James Comer, will likely take the reins by looking into both Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden. Comer and other Republicans have questioned Hunter’s “questionable foreign business dealings in Russia and Ukraine” for well over a year. Previous probes launched by Comer and company have included questions about Hunter Biden’s company allegedly receiving over $3 million in 2014 under a consultancy agreement with a Russian oligarch....

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) said that it was holding some of the squirrels as evidence pending a court adjudication. According to an MDC Facebook post on Tuesday, locals spotted the non-residential squirrel hunters “in and around the Current River Conservation Area”—29,000 acres of Ozark forest commonly used for hunting, wildlife viewing, fishing, etc. The group had been hunting for two days, and in that time, harvested 471 squirrels; however, this number exceeded the legal harvest limit by 151....

Delta strengthened rapidly over the past 24 hours and increased its wind speed by about 55 miles per hour. Environmental conditions mean that it will likely continue to increase in strength, and may only slow if an eyewall replace cycle begins, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm’s wind speeds could gather an additional 34 miles per hour before reaching the Yucatan Peninsula, where it is expected to make landfall within the next 12 to 24 hours....

On Thursday morning, photos shared to social media showed the Confederate statue, known as the South’s Defenders Monument, incurred significant damages overnight as a result of the hurricane. “Lake Charles and Calcasieu Parish has been filled with controversy and tension after our parish government by a vote of 10–5 refused to take down the Confederate South’s Defenders Monument,” wrote Davante Lewis, director of public affairs at The Louisiana Budget Project, alongside pictures of the toppled structure....

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued an update early Tuesday morning, announcing that a stretch of coast from the western Florida Panhandle to far southeastern Mississippi is expected to see heavy amounts of rain. The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) expects the hurricane to bring 10 to 30 inches of rain across the region, with “historic flooding possible.” “Very heavy rainfall will accompany this system, which is likely to produce widespread life-threatening flash flooding,” the WPC tweeted early Tuesday....

“The Heart” is a powerful, if inconsistent, collection that reads roughly like a memoir. LeRoy says he wrote the stories as therapy between the ages of 14 and 17, and the resulting book feels like a dry run for “Sarah.” In “Disappearances,” Jeremiah is 4 and living with a foster family when his teenage mother, once again named Sarah, blows into town, reclaims him and drags him out for a horrific life on the road....