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Super Bowl 60wrapped up just a few days ago, but the Backstreet Boys are already looking to get involved in Super Bowl 61.

During a performance by the group at the Las Vegas Sphere, AJ McLean floated the idea to the crowd on hand.

"What do you guys think? Backstreet Boys: 2027 Super Bowl halftime,"McLean said.

It wasn't entirely clear whether McLean was joking, but his suggestion was unsurprisingly met with a chorus of cheers from the crowd on hand. That prompted him to continue pitching the possibility.

"Let's make it happen then," McLean said. "I mean, you know, why not, right? Why not? It's in L.A. It's right down the street. Let's go."

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The Backstreet Boys have performed at the Super Bowl before, but they have never headlined the halftime show. The quintet was offered an opportunity to do so at Super Bowl 35 between theBaltimore RavensandNew York Giantsin 2001, but they instead opted to sing the national anthem, asNick Carter told Entertainment Tonight in 2021.

NSYNC and Aerosmith instead combined to headline the halftime show that year, which also featured appearances by Mary J. Blige, Britney Spears and Nelly.

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Any Backstreet Boys fans will have to wait a while to see if the NFL listens to the group's plea. The league typically doesn't announce its Super Bowl halftime entertainment until its regular season begins.

Last year, Bad Bunny was revealed to be the Super Bowl 60 halftime performer on Sept. 28, 2025.

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Nate Tice & Charles McDonald dive into the 2026 NFL Draft with 6 prospects who are flying up draft boards so far. Nate highlights OT Max Iheanachor, OT Monroe Freeling and CB D'Angelo Pool, while Charles breaks down EDGE Rueben Bain Jr, DL Caleb Banks and QB Garrett Nussmeier. Nate also touches on a fascinating wide receiver class that stands to make big moves in Indianapolis at the Combine.

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Mick Jagger's fiancée, Melanie Hamrick, was allegedly "physically attacked"outside a club in London.

On Tuesday, the 38-year-old took to social media to detail the scary ordeal and give praise to those who jumped in to protect her.

"This is incredibly hard to share, but I was physically attacked at Annabel's Mayfair tonight," she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, perPage Six.

"I'm so thankful to my friends for protecting me. Two people grabbed me from behind and thank god for good people who stepped in to help me," she added. "I'm shaken, sad and heartbroken that people can treat each other this way."

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said, "We are aware of an Instagram story alleging an assault in Mayfair on Tuesday 10 February, and encourage the victim to report this to us.""The Met is committed to tackling crime in the West End, including violence against women and girls, and recognise the traumatic impact incidents of this nature can have on victims," the statement continued. "By increasing visible patrols in identified hotspots, we have already reduced theft in the area by 30 percent since last April, while personal robbery is down by 20 percent, meaning thousands fewer victims."

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A representative for Jagger did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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Hamrick and Jagger began dating in 2014 andwelcomed sonDeveraux "Devi" Octavian Basil Jagger, in 2016.

During an interview with the French magazine Paris Match in 2025, Hamrick revealed she had been engaged to Jagger for a few years.

"We've been engagedtwo or three years," Hamrick said, via an English translation of the article.

However, Hamrick told the outlet she is uncertain whether she and Jagger will ever tie the knot.

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"Maybe one day we'll marry, maybe not. We are so happy in our current life that I would be too afraid to change anything," the "First Position" author said.

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The search is intensifying for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, who investigators say appears to have been kidnapped from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 1.

The FBI this week released photos and videos of an armed person in a mask in front of her home, appearing to tamper with a security camera.

Anyone with information is urged to call 911 or the Pima County Sheriff's Department at 520-351-4900.

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Feb 12, 2:16 PMGloves among 'several items of evidence' recovered

The Pima County Sheriff's Department said "several items of evidence" have been recovered, including gloves. The evidence is being analyzed, authorities said.The sheriff's department also said it is using Ring's Neighbors app to reach out to residents in the area. The department said it's requesting any video footage from Jan. 1 to Feb. 2 "that includes vehicles, vehicle traffic, people/pedestrians, and anything neighbors deem out of the ordinary or important to our investigation."

Feb 12, 1:38 PMAuthorities investigating video circulating online

The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff's Department are looking into a video posted online that shows a man in a backpack about 5 miles from Nancy Guthrie's house shortly before her abduction, sources told ABC News.The backpack on the video may be different from the backpack in the doorbell camera footage from Nancy Guthrie's house, sources said.

-ABC News' Aaron Katersky and Trevor Ault

Feb 12, 11:20 AMPolice tent briefly set up at Nancy Guthrie's home

Investigators arrived at Nancy Guthrie's home on Thursday morning to briefly erect a white tent -- typically used for privacy -- outside her front door.Investigators took the tent down after about an hour and drove away in unmarked vehicles with a large pelican case labeled "video forensics." They also carried what appeared to be a laser measuring device.

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Feb 12, 10:58 AMSavannah Guthrie posts old home video: 'We will never give up on her'

In a new Instagram post on Thursday, Savannah Guthrie shared an old home video from her childhood, showing her and her sister with their mother, Nancy Guthrie. The video is followed by a still photo of all three siblings with Nancy Guthrie."[O]ur lovely mom," Savannah Guthrie wrote in the caption. "we will never give up on her. thank you for your prayers and hope."

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Feb 12, 9:03 AMGuthrie neighbors asked to look for video footage from Jan. 11, Jan. 31

The Pima County Sheriff's Department is now asking Nancy Guthrie's neighbors to check their home security cameras for footage from an earlier timeframe than the early morning of Feb. 1, when she was likely abducted.

Investigators on Thursday asked homeowners for video footage from Jan. 11 between 9 p.m. and midnight. They did not specify why.They also asked for footage from Jan. 31 between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Authorities said there was a suspicious vehicle on a nearby street around 10 a.m.The request came through the app Neighbors.-ABC News' Aaron Katersky

Feb 11, 3:33 PMSheriff says 18,000 tips have come in on Nancy Guthrie case

The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI said on Wednesday they are continuing to follow up on all 18,000 calls to investigators related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.Up to 4,000 calls to investigators have been made since the FBI released doorbell-camera images and video of an "armed individual" apparently tampering with a security camera at the front door of the 84-year-old woman's house near Tucson, Arizona, authorities said.

"We thank the media and the public for the thousands of tips submitted through the various tip lines," the sheriff's office and the FBI said in a joint statement.Several hundred detectives and agents are assigned to this case, and authorities said, "You will continue to see increased law enforcement activity throughout Pima County as the investigation expands."-ABC News' Aaron Katersky

Feb 11, 2:30 PMMan detained in Guthrie case was under surveillance before images were released: Sources

The individual detained for questioning in connection with the disappearance and abduction of Nancy Guthrie had been on the radar of the FBI and Pima County Sheriff's Department before Tuesday's public release of the images of a masked subject at her front door, law enforcement sources told ABC News.The individual, who identified himself as Carlos, was detained for questioning in Rio Rico, Arizona, south of Tucson, after the FBI identified him by using a series of electronic investigative tools, including cell phone usage information and traffic data, the sources said, without specifying the exact techniques.

A local judge from Santa Cruz County, Arizona, signed the warrant for the search of Carlos' house, which was carried out overnight.Carlos was questioned for several hours before being released without charge. He is under no law enforcement restrictions.Separately, investigators are studying every pixel of the new video the FBI released publicly on Tuesday to try to find any identifying feature, including the apparent weapon and characteristics of what the subject was wearing, according to the sources.-ABC News' Aaron Katersky and Trevor Ault

Feb 11, 2:20 PMFBI conducting 'extensive search' in Nancy Guthrie neighborhood

The FBI agents are conducting an "extensive search" on Wednesday along multiple roads in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood surrounding Nancy Guthrie's Tucson-area home, the bureau's Phoenix office said."We are asking the media and motorists to follow all traffic laws and to remain especially cautious when passing law enforcement near roadways," FBI Phoenix said in a statement.The FBI said it continues to offer a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Nancy Guthrie.

Feb 11, 11:42 AMDelivery driver speaks out after being detained in Guthrie abduction

A delivery driver who said he was detained by investigators in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance claimed in an interview that law enforcement officers had been following him.The man, who only wanted to be identified as Carlos, said he was driving his Nissan Rogue on Tuesday evening in Rio Rico, Arizona, about 50 miles south of Tucson, when he noticed he was being trailed by a law enforcement vehicle."They were following me," Carlos told ABC Phoenix affiliate station KNXV. "And once I saw they were following me, I pulled over. They didn't even have to [make] a traffic stop. I got out of the car and they arrested me as soon as I got out of the car."

Carlos said he was not immediately told why he was being detained. But when an FBI agent and a Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff arrived at the scene, "They told me I was being detained for kidnapping.""And I asked them, kidnapping of who?" said Carlos, adding that he was told of Nancy Guthrie.He said that after being detained for several hours and having his vehicle thoroughly searched, he was released."Deputies detained a subject during a traffic stop south of Tucson," the Pima County Sheriff's Office said in a statement, confirming the man was "questioned in connection to the Nancy Guthrie investigation."A woman who described herself as Carlos' mother-in-law told KNXV that investigators, armed with a search warrant, swarmed her home on Tuesday night, claiming they got a tip that Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, was inside her house."I told them, 'You can go in and search my house,'" the woman said. "There's nobody there."

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James Van Der Beekpreviously opened up about how he got "almost nothing" fromDawson's Creekresiduals, which helps explain why his family is currently struggling financially in the wake of his death.

"There was no residual money," Van Der Beek toldTODAY.comin 2012. "I was 20. It was a bad contract. I saw almost nothing from that."

Van Der Beek starred as the titular teen onDawson's Creekfor all six seasons, from 1998 through 2003. He revealed in that same 2012 interview that he decided to star inDon't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23"when the [Dawson's Creek] money ran out," and he realized he needed to "buckle down" and sign on to projects to provide for his wife, Kimberly, and six children.

"It is very easy if you have all the money in the world to just sit back and coast," Van Der Beek said at the time. "But if you realized that you are going to have to start providing for yourself and for your family, it really forces you to buckle down."

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Kimberly announcedVan Der Beek died Wednesday at age 48after battling stage 3 colorectal cancer.

"Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning," said her statement, which she shared on his social media accounts. "He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace. There is much to share regarding his wishes, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. Those days will come. For now we ask for peaceful privacy as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother, and friend."

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According to theCDC, colorectal cancer has the second-highest treatment cost of any cancer, amounting to 11.6 percent of all cancer treatment costs. In addition, individual patient costs are the highest for the last year of life ($110,100 on average).

Friends set up aGoFundMethat same day on behalf of the family detailing the "significant financial strain" of Van Der Beek's medical costs and the "uncertain future" for his wife and six children in the wake of his death.

In just one day, nearly $1.8 million had been raised to pay for the family's essential living expenses, bills, the children's education, and to "stay in their home."

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Before his death, Van Der Beek spent monthsauctioning off items from some of his most iconic roles,includingDawson's CreekandVarsity Blues,to help pay for his medical care.

"I've been storing these treasures for years, waiting for the right time to do something with them, and with all of the recent unexpected twists and turns life has presented recently, it's clear that the time is now," the actor toldPEOPLEin November 2025. "While I have some nostalgia tugging at me as I part with these items, it feels good to be able to offer them through Propstore's auction to share with those who have supported my work over the years."

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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A judge ordered Thursday that Guatemalan journalistJosé Rubén Zamorabe returned to house arrest again while awaiting trial after spending nearly a year in jail in his latest stint of incarceration.

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Zamora, the 69-year-old founder of El Periodico newspaper, had spent more than two years behind bars awaiting trial before a judge granted him house arrest in October 2024. Prosecutors immediately appealed and won rulings thatsent him back to jail in March 2025.

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Zamora had been imprisoned since July 2022, when he was charged with money laundering, amounting to around $38,000, and in June 2023 he was sentenced to six years in prison. The sentence was overturned by an appeals court because of errors in the process.

The journalist and free press advocates maintain that the prosecution is revenge for the investigative work of his newspaper against the administration of ex-President Alejandro Giammattei.

Current President Bernardo Arévalo last year called the prosecution "absolutely spurious" and said it was another example of the Attorney General's office prosecuting people who reported corruption.

The Trump administration on Thursdayrevoked a scientific findingthat climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called "a scam." But repeated scientific studies say it's a documented and quantifiable harm.

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Again and again, research has found increasing disease and deaths — thousands every year — in a warming world.

The Environmental Protection Agency finding in 2009, under the Obama administration, has been the legalunderpinning of nearly all regulations fighting global warming.

"It boggles the mind that the administration is rescinding the endangerment finding; it's akin to insisting that the world is flat or denying that gravity is a thing," said Dr. Howard Frumkin, a physician and professor emeritus of public health at the University of Washington.

Thousands of scientific studies have looked at climate change and its effects on human health in the past five years and they predominantly show climate change is increasingly dangerous to people.

Many conclude that in the United States, thousands of people have died and even more were sickened because of climate change in the past few decades.

For example, a study on"Trends in heat-related deaths in the U.S., 1999-2023" in the prestigious JAMA journal shows the yearly heat-related death count and rate have more than doubled in the past quarter century from 1,069 in 1999 toa record high2,325 in 2023.

A 2021 study inNature Climate Changelooked at 732 locations in 43 countries — including 210 in the United States — and determined that more than a third of heat deaths are due to human-caused climate change. That means more than 9,700 global deaths a year attributed to warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

Anew study published this weekfound that 2.2% of summer deaths in Texas from 2010 to 2023 were heat related "as climate change brings more frequent and intense heat to Texas."

Research is booming on the topic

In the more than 15 years, since the government first determined climate change to be a public health danger, there have been more than 29,000 peer-reviewed studies that looked at the intersection of climate and health, with more than 5,000 looking specifically at the United States, according to the National Library of Medicine'sPubMed research database.

More than 60% of those studies have been published in the past five years.

"Study after study documents that climate change endangers health, for one simple reason: It's true," said Frumkin, a former director of the National Center for Environmental Health appointed by President George W. Bush.

In a Thursday event at the White House, Trump disagreed, saying: "It has nothing to do with public health. This is all a scam, a giant scam."

Experts strongly disagree.

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"Health risks are increasing because human-cause climate change is already upon us. Take the2021 heat domefor example, that killed (more than) 600 people in the Northwest,'' said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a physician who directs the Center for Health, Energy and Environmental Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The newclimate attribution studiesshow that event was made150-fold more likely dueto climate change."

Patz and Frumkin both said the "vast majority" of peer-reviewed studies show health harms from climate change. Peer-reviewed studies are considered the gold standard of science because other experts pore over the data, evidence and methods, requiring changes, questioning techniques and conclusions.

More than just heat and deaths

The various studies look at different parts of health. Some looked at deaths that wouldn't have happened without climate change. Others looked at illnesses and injuries that didn't kill people. Because researchers used different time periods, calculation methods and specific aspects of health, the final numbers of their conclusions don't completely match.

Studies also examineddisparities among different peoplesandlocations.A growing field in the research are attribution studies that calculate what proportion of deaths or illness can be blamed on human-caused climate change by comparing real-world mortality and illness to what computer simulations show would happen in a world without a spike in greenhouse gases.

Last year an international team of researchers looked at past studies to try to come up with ayearly health cost of climate change.

While many studies just look at heat deaths, this team tried to bring in a variety of types of climate change deaths — heat waves, extreme weather disasters such as 2017's Hurricane Harvey, wildfires, air pollution, diseases spread by mosquitos such as malaria — and found hundreds of thousands of climate change deaths globally.

They then used the EPA's own statistic that puts a dollar value on human life — $11.5 million in 2014 dollars — and calculated a global annual cost "on the order of at least $10 billion."

Studies also connect climate change towaterborne infections that cause diarrhea,mental health issuesandeven nutrition problems, Frumkin said.

"Public health is not only about prevention of diseases, death and disability but also well-being. We are increasingly seeing people displaced by rising seas, intensifying storms and fires," said Dr. Lynn Goldman, a physician and dean emeritus at the George Washington University School of Public Health.

"We have only begun to understand the full consequences of a changing climate in terms of health."

Cold also kills and that's decreasing

The issue gets complicated when cold-related deaths are factored in. Those deaths are decreasing, yet in the United States there are still13 times more deaths from cold exposure than heat exposure,studies show.

Another studyconcludes that until the world warms another 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) from now, the number of temperature-related deaths won't change much "due to offsetting decreases in cold-related mortality and increases in heat-related deaths."

But that study said that after temperatures rise beyond that threshold, and if society doesn't adapt to the increased heat, "total mortality rises rapidly."

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