Month: February 2025

Chicago (AFP) – Virginia Halas McCaskey, principal owner of the NFL Chicago Bears and the daughter of team founder George Halas, died Thursday at age 102, the Bears announced.

New York (AFP) – Rapper Kendrick Lamar, one of the big success stories of the Grammys last week, said Thursday his fans should expect “storytelling” at the Super Bowl halftime show this weekend.

Quito (AFP) – Ecuador’s dueling presidential hopefuls made a last-ditch pitch to late-deciding voters Thursday, wrapping a bitter campaign dominated by surging cartel violence and economic crisis.

London (AFP) – England will play Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy later this month despite calls from British politicians to boycott the match over the Taliban regime’s curtailment of women’s rights.

Paris (AFP) – ChatGPT developer OpenAI said Thursday that it would allow some European customers to store and process data from conversations with its chatbots within the European Union, rather than on its infrastructure in the United States or elsewhere.

Montreal (AFP) – Spaniard Jordi Fernandez, head coach of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, will not return as coach of Canada’s men’s national team, Canada Basketball announced on Thursday.

Panama City (AFP) – Panama on Thursday rejected the United States’ claim of securing free passage for its government vessels through the Panama Canal, while bowing to US pressure to quit a key Chinese project.

New York (AFP) – Cleveland added forward De’Andre Hunter and Phoenix traded Bosnian big man Jusuf Nurkic to Charlotte, according to multiple reports, as Thursday’s NBA trade deadline passed.

Rotterdam (Netherlands) (AFP) – Stefanos Tsitsipas saved a match point and battled from a set down to advance into the quarter-finals of the Rotterdam Open Thursday with a gruelling win over local hope Tallon Griekspoor.

Paris (AFP) – French cosmetics giant L’Oreal said Thursday its profits rose last year despite the declining Chinese market and it made bullish statements about its hopes for 2025.