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Aston Villa: Morgan Rogers is looking to prove his worth for club and country

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: "Unique. I can be anything."Morgan Rogers refuses to be pigeonholed, and while the Aston Villa star talks about his positional flexibility, rather than boasting about his quality, his confidence is well placed.The 23-year-old is third-placed Villa's top scorer this season during their surprise Premier League title challenge.Unai Emery's side are also in third place in the Europa League stage, having won five of their six matches, ahead of Thursday's trip to Fenerbahce. Rogers' good form means he has been selected ahead of Real Madrid's Jude…

Trump cancels threat to impose tariffs on Greenland, says NATO agreed to ‘framework’ for future Arctic agreement

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🚀 Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: davos,Donald Trump news,greenland,NATO ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DAVOS, Switzerland - President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will cancel tariffs on U.S. allies in Europe over U.S. control of Greenland after he and the NATO leader agreed to a “framework for a future agreement” on Arctic security. The surprising shift came hours after Trump insisted he wanted "Greenland, including the right, title and ownership", but said he would not use force to do so while mocking European allies and vowing that NATO should not try to impede…

We’re not nostalgic for 2016 — we’re nostalgic for the Internet before all that decline

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🔥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Social,Instagram,internet culture,trends 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: For the new generation, 2016 is now known as the “last good year.” Since the new year, Instagram has been obsessed with a 2016 “Add Your Photos” poster, which prompts users to post old photos from 2016. Users have posted more than 5.2 million responses, creating enough buzz to spread to other platforms. On Spotify, user-created “2016” playlists have increased 790% since the new year, and the company now boasts in its Instagram bio that it is “romanticizing 2016 again.” In fairness, 2016 seems…

Why this Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: FORTAZELA, Brazil — In this historic city by the sea in northeast Brazil, burn patients look as if they've emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia. Doctors here are testing the skin of the popular fish as a bandage for second- and third-degree burns. The innovation arose from an unmet need. Animal skin has long been used in the treatment of burns in developed countries. But Brazil lacks the human skin, pig skin, and artificial…

GYMNASTICS: Britain’s Alice Kinsella is aiming for a rare return to elite competition as a mother

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✨ Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Kinsella does not want to put a time stamp on her return but hopes to make a "full return" by the end of 2026, with the world championships taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in October.Next year's world championships in China are a qualifier for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and come after a busy summer for the sport with the European Championships and Commonwealth Games within weeks of each other.“I'm taking things day by day right now, but everything is moving in the right direction,”…

‘I can never hope to equal it again’: Geoffrey Archer announces that his next novel will be his last | Jeffrey Archer

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Jeffrey Archer,Books,UK news,Culture,Fiction,Publishing 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Novelist Geoffrey Archer has announced that his next novel, Adam and Eve, will be his last, coming out 50 years after his first was published.The 85-year-old author has sold more than 300 million books worldwide since publishing his first novel, "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less," in 1976, according to his publishers. His 1979 novel, Ken and Abel, was his biggest success, selling more than 34 million copies in 119 countries and 47 languages, and being reprinted more…

House committee votes to hold Clinton in contempt of Congress in Epstein investigation

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Bill Clinton,epstein files,Hillary Clinton,house oversight committee,jeffrey epstein 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel on Wednesday advanced resolutions to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, opening the possibility of the House using one of its strongest sanctions against a former president for the first time. In a bipartisan vote, the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee approved the contempt of Congress charges, setting up a potential vote in the House. Democrats…

Premier League: Why does Chelsea want another centre-back?

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Manchester City signed Mark Guehi for £20m this week - a fee that looks good value for the active England international.However, City beat off interest from rivals by moving early, completing the deal six months before his contract expires while offering what sources describe as “free agent terms”. This means the total package costs significantly more than the main fee, with significant agent costs, sign-on bonuses and an advertised wage of £300,000 per week.If Chelsea had matched those wages, Guehi would have become the…

OpenEvidence has reached $12 billion, with a new round led by Thrive, DST

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Biotech & Health,Startups,TC,DST Global,In Brief,openevidence,Thrive Capital 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The venture capital firms that backed OpenEvidence appear to be unconcerned about the new health information products from OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup announced Wednesday that it has raised an additional $250 million in Series D funding at a $12 billion valuation, co-led by Thrive Capital and DST. That's double the valuation from the last increase in October: $200 million at a valuation of $6 billion, led by total value. The company says it has now raised a total of…

From Stealth Blackout to Whitelisting: Inside the Iranian Shutdown

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SubscribeIran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.For nearly two weeks, Iran has been enduring one of the most severe internet shutdowns in modern history. The theocratic regime’s decision to restrict communications coincided with a violent nationwide crackdown on a growing protest movement driven by…