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Today’s headlines: Artificial Intelligence, Marcos, Pepsi Paloma Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:  China’s DeepSeek AI pushes pro-China propaganda on certain geopolitical issues. A Social Weather Stations survey says 59% of…

MONTREAL – An international young man of skating mystery and prowess sat in a hotel lobby Tuesday evening, a smile on his forever boyish face and who knows what surprises his 19-year-old mind has in store for the world championships.…

Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps lead the pairs competition after the short program at the World Figure Skating Championships. Stellato-Dudek, 40, could be the oldest world champion in any event in decades. Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps scored a personal best…

MONTREAL – 2023 U.S. champion Izabeau Levito was duly excited, finishing second with a near-flawless performance and a personal-best score. Her compatriot, new US champion Amber Glenn, was shocked by the mistake that left her in ninth place. Leona Hendrickx…

Loena Hendrickx leads the women’s short program at the World Figure Skating Championships and is looking to become the first Belgian to win the singles title. Hendrickx, 24, who won silver and bronze (Belgium’s first singles medals) at the last…

MONTREAL – Pair skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek is the grande dame of figure skating and, at 40, is trying to become the oldest female skater to win a world title in any discipline. “You know,” she said, “there’s no point in…

MONTREAL – When Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto finished second at the 2005 World Championships in Moscow, the U.S. ice dance team won its first world medal in 20 years. Who would have guessed that this would be the beginning…

Madison Chock and Evan Bates repeated as ice dance world champions to complete their first undefeated season in their 13th year together. Shock, 31, and Bates, 35, scored 222.20 points between Friday’s rhythm dance and Saturday’s free dance in Montreal,…

Top 10 and American results from the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal … WomenGold: Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) — 222.96Silver: Isabeau Levito (USA) — 212.16Bronze: Kim Chae-Yeon (KOR) — 203.594. Loena Hendrickx (BEL) — 200.255. Kimmy Responds (SUI) —…

Ilia won Mali’s first world title by achieving the best collection of jumps in one program in the history of figure skating. The 19-year-old American performed a quadruple Axel, a quadruple Lutz, a quadruple twist, a quadruple Salchow, another quadruple…