| What game? |
| You know who won. (The Eagles.) You know who performed. (Justin Timberlake, kind of.) But here are some things you didn't see watching the Super Bowl: |
| • "We have a couple hundred people up on this pole," and other baffling things overheard on the Philadelphia police scanner. |
| • Sensitive Homeland Security documents based on drills for a biological warfare attack at the Super Bowl were found in the seatback of a commercial plane by a journalist. |
| • MVP might need to go to Gisele Bündchen — super model and wife of Patriots QB Tom Brady. She congratulated every Eagles player she ran into as she exited the stadium, consoling her teary children along the way. That's sportsmanship. |
| • Super Bowl 'Selfie Kid' (aka 13-year-old Ryan McKenna) was staring at his phone during Timberlake's halftime performance for a very sensible reason. |
| • Want more? Here are 52 things we learned from Super Bowl LII. |
| Honestly, when are we supposed to take a bathroom break? |
| The game was tight and the commercials were, too. Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. had every woman over a certain age giggling with delight at their rendition of famous Dirty Dancing moves, but viewers chose "Alexa Loses Her Voice," as the USA TODAY Ad Meter 2018 winner. In the spot, some naughty celebrities fill in for Amazon's Alexa while she's out sick. Those commercials beat out a lot of other memorable ads, and at $5 million per 30 seconds, Super Bowl ads are all about making an impression — like Bud Light's viral "Dilly Dilly" moment. But there's always the risk of bad publicity: Ram Truck's commercial offended a lot of folks by selectively sampling from a Martin Luther King Jr. sermon. |
| 260 reports of abuse. Decades in prison. The cases against Larry Nassar are over. |
| Rachael Denhollander called police 527 days ago. Now after more than 260 additional sexual assault reports, 13 convictions and nine days of victim-impact statements , the criminal cases against Larry Nassar are over. An Eaton County, Mich., judge on Monday sentenced the disgraced former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor to 40 to 125 years in prison on three charges of sexually assaulting girls during medical appointments. That's the third decades-long prison sentence for Nassar. He'll have to watch his back in prison . And to protect gymnasts? USA Gymnastics is changing its chaperone requirements and pulling some international meets from its calendar. It's a start. |
| 4 stock tips to help you chill out after Monday's steep decline |
| Grab the brown paper bag and take slow breaths. This is no time to panic. The stock market's feverish fall Monday, punctuated by a nearly 1,600-point drop at one point for the Dow, prompted many investors to reassess their portfolios. But experts say overreacting in a critical moment is a one-way ticket to losing a fortune. Here are some options: 1. Don't panic. If you completely exit stocks now, you may miss out on potential gains ahead. 2. Consider buying the dip. 3. The market may rebound in a big way. Watch and wait. 4. Realize the sell-off may be a blip. The drop follows last year's 25% rise in the Dow. |
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| Supreme Court allowed Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map |
| The battles over gerrymandering are being waged both in the courts and at the polls, and the Supreme Court could make waves this spring on how districts shape up. The high court said Monday it won't intervene in a state court decision striking down Pennsylvania's election maps , which helped Republicans win 13 of 18 House seats in the political battleground state. The bigger impact could come in the next few months with Supreme Court rulings on partisan maps drawn by Republicans in Wisconsin and Democrats in Maryland. Those decisions, in turn, could affect many of the 37 states where state lawmakers, rather than commissions, draw the lines. And the biggest impact, ultimately, could come at the polls: Elections will determine who draws the maps — and who benefits from them — for the following decade. |
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