A Japanese ramen restaurant has ignited controversy by slapping a ban on Chinese customers, accusing them of being troublemakers. Iekei restaurant in the Western city of Osaka announced on social media on January 4 that it had banned all Chinese people. It said a Chinese person had caused trouble in the restaurant, forcing it to…
If you thought we were , the hunger for memory and GPUs is making many companies reassess their priorities. YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed discovered ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. Both GPUs are 16GB models, making them more expensive to manufacture in the…
Bill ConnellyJan 16, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019. The 2025 college football season was odd from the start. Texas quarterback Arch Manning began the season as the least statistically proven Heisman favorite of all…
Ryan O’HanlonJan 16, 2026, 06:59 AM ET Close Ryan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.” Last year, it wasn’t great. Now, when I first started trying to rank the prospects of America’s top, um, prospects a couple years back, it was…
Brooke Pryor Close Brooke Pryor ESPN Staff Writer Brooke Pryor is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN who has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. She previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and the University of Oklahoma for The Oklahoman. Jeremy Fowler Close Jeremy Fowler senior NFL national reporter…
Courtney CroninJan 16, 2026, 06:06 AM ET Close Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever and GameNight on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on…
Lori CarnochanDumfries and Galloway reporter BBC The Johnstone family say if they cannot find a way to make their milk production profitable, then they will be forced to sell their farm When Adam and Lucy Johnstone took over a dairy farm in the south-west of Scotland two years ago, they were able to make a…
As armedfederal agentsroam the streets of American cities and amidthreatsto declare the Insurrection Act and use military force to quellprotestsin Minneapolis, PresidentDonald Trumpsaid once again that the next elections should be canceled because he expects his party to lose. “It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,”…
The US Navy is betting that a new modular, multi-mission missile can stretch shrinking magazines and blunt China’s missile advantage in a Taiwan fight—but critics warn that unless it is cheap and mass-produced, versatility alone may not be enough to change the outcome. This month, Naval News reported that the US Navy is developing a…
