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T SharefXin✉ Regan Hutsell is Miss America 2027. The 25-year-old Houston native was crowned Sunday September 6 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, the first time Miss America has been held in South Florida, a location the organization has now committed to through 2028, becoming the 99th woman to wear the crown and sash and winning $50,000 in tuition scholarship money. Hutsell's path to the crown is not a typical one.

THE NOTION Two women are in federal prison for an agreement. Not for what they did. For what a jury decided they agreed to do. The government said so, in writing, before the trial began. It said so again, in closing, after the last witness stepped down. THE COMPANY OneTaste was not, at least formally, a church, commune or secret order. It was an educational company. Nicole Daedone started it in San Francisco in 2004 around a practice called orgasmic meditation, or OM. It lasted fifteen minutes.

A SharefXin✉ Christian Gonzalez and the New England Patriots reached agreement late Monday night on a four-year, $135 million extension with $102 million guaranteed, the richest contract in Patriots franchise history and the largest ever given to a cornerback in the NFL, topping Devon Witherspoon's $132 million deal with Seattle signed last month. Gonzalez's $33.75 million average annual value sets the new market. "THANK YOU LORD! PATS NATION LETS GO," he posted on Instagram.

V SharefXin✉ Alex Van Halen gave an interview to Brazilian music journalist Marcelo Vieira, who translated Alex's memoir Brothers for its Brazilian edition, and when asked about Sammy Hagar's 2011 autobiography Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, he did not mince words. "I don't know what he wrote, and I don't wanna know. In my opinion, Sammy Hagar is a complete idiot." That was the full quote. No context. No elaboration. The two have not spoken in more than 20 years.

The UEFA Champions League 2026-27 league phase begins Wednesday with 36 teams chasing the most famous club trophy in football, and defending it is Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Arsenal on penalties in the final in Budapest in May to win their second consecutive title. The question every power ranking agrees on: can anyone stop a three-peat? ESPN's pre-Matchday 1 rankings have Arsenal at No. 1, the consensus pick among their voting panel despite the penalty shootout heartbreak in May.

A SharefXin✉ The Enes Kanter Freedom saga reached two new milestones this week.

T SharefXin✉ Pamela Anderson, 59, received amfAR's Award of Courage at the organization's annual Gala Venezia on Sunday September 6 at the Venice Film Festival, and used the moment to publicly discuss her hepatitis C diagnosis for one of the most extended times she ever has. "Back in the late '90s, when I was diagnosed with hepatitis C, there was no cure," she told the audience. "It was a death sentence." She said her doctor told her she had approximately 10 years to live.

V SharefXin✉ Darius Slayton is no longer a New York Giant. The organization released the 29-year-old wide receiver Monday, the longest-tenured player on the team, a fifth-round pick from the 2019 draft class that also brought in Daniel Jones and Dexter Lawrence, six days before the Week 1 opener against the Dallas Cowboys. Slayton outlasted three head coaches, two general managers and the entire roster he came in with.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky formally abandoned a claim built on an accuser's recantation Tuesday, telling a Centre County judge by video from prison that he understood he was giving up the issue for good in order to move his fight for a new trial toward federal court. The brief proceeding before Senior Judge Maureen A. Skerda replaced what had been scheduled as an evidentiary hearing on the recantation of Ryan Rittmeyer, identified at Sandusky's 2012 trial as Victim 10.

President Trump escalated his trade war with Canada on Monday night by calling for a ban on Bombardier, the Montreal-based aerospace company that makes business jets and regional aircraft, from selling its planes in the United States. "NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Their products aren't good enough!" He charged that the company relies on American buyers, airports and service infrastructure while Canada blocks American banks and companies.