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Who Won AGT 2020? Poet Brandon Leake was crowned the winner of America’s Got Talent 2020. Leake blew the audiences and judges away every week with his spoken word act, becoming the first spoken word poet to appear on the show. From the beginning, it was clear Leake was one to watch, especially after he won the Golden Buzzer Award in the first round from judge Howie Mandel. His stand-out performances include pieces about his sister who died, his father, daughter, and Black Lives Matter....

The rivals in the U.S. Senate election in Florida argued over issues including abortion, firearms and foreign policy during the testy 60-minute exchange, in the only scheduled debate between the pair. Newsweek has spoken to a number of political commentators, from both right and left, to assess who emerged from the debate victorious. Rubio held the advantage over Demings, by 47 percent of the vote to 41 percent, according to a poll released earlier this month by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy....

Restaurants in this country are no longer content to serve one type of food. They can’t even bring themselves just to be restaurants and respect dishes that have been good enough for centuries. Now you’re likely to be handed a menu listing everything from Thai-ish soup to Frenchified dessert in some establishment billing itself as a brasserie/cantina/grill where the chef is mixing and matching curry and pizza and sushi–on the same plate....

“I will probably die trying to pet someone shouldn’t. Just a random camel in the streets of Hammamet,” she wrote. “And of course I HAVE to pet it! Forget the obvious danger. Lol @tlc_90day_zied is trying to tell me. Hurt you baby! Hurt you!” The post garnered hundreds of views from her 20,000 followers within minutes of being posted. The day before, Rebecca posted a side-by-side photo of herself and Zied at similar ages....

The movie, out now, sees a group of experimental performance artists create unique sounds using the sounds of food and catering. The off-kilter dark comedy stars Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones) as the host of the collective and Asa Butterfield (Sex Education) as one of the group’s members. A recurring theme throughout the movie sees a visiting journalist (Makis Papadimitriou) struggle to hold in his increasingly painful gas, living in fear that he’ll make a scene....

In Season 3 of YOU, Joe tries his hardest to settle into married life with his new wife Love Quinn, played by Victoria Pedretti, who is equally as dangerous and twisted as Joe, and their newborn son Henry. In the real world, Bagley has been married for four years and has a young son named James with his wife Domino Kirke, and Newsweek has everything you need to know about them....

Love is Blind season 2 is going to set its contestants on a date where they cannot see each other. Contestants will have a wall between them as the show is based on falling in love minus physical attraction. Once two contestants develop mutual feelings and decide to start a relationship, only then do they get to see each other. Salvador Perez in Love is Blind season 2 Salvador Perez is a 31-year old-gentleman who is going to appear on Love is Blind season 2....

Sara Wilson is one of the participants of CBS’s Survivor Season 41 and she believes her intelligence, physicality, and social awareness will be the key to her winning a million dollars and the title of the Sole Survivor. She said: Who is Sara Wilson on Survivor? Wilson is a 24-year-old healthcare consultant who hails from Sherman Oaks, CA and currently lives in Boston, MA. She describes herself as “astute, resilient, and witty....

Lee performed particularly well in the U.S. Olympic Trials last year, coming runner up in the all-around behind Simone Biles. Here are some interesting facts about the 18-year-old U.S. gymnast. Sunisa Lee’s Gymnastics Lee began gymnastics when she was only six years old, drawing inspiration from YouTube videos. She made her senior debut at the 2019 City of Jesolo Trophy, helping Team USA to win gold in the team final and individually winning gold in the all-around....

Kicker Chris Boswell is not available for the contest. He has been the team’s starter at the position since 2015, but he hasn’t played since Week 7 because of a nagging injury. As a result, the Steelers have moved on to their third different kicker of the 2022 NFL season. Initially, the team signed Nick Sciba to fill in for Boswell. Now, it is relying on a more seasoned player....

When Philly hosts the New York Giants, it’ll be without a number of their best players due to injury. But Fulgham will be out there, the Eagles’ top target, just four weeks after almost no one knew his name. Carson Wentz will have almost no choice but to count on Fulgham, who’s had 16 catches across the last two weeks. It’s been quite the rapid rise for someone who didn’t play football until he was a junior in high school....

Former Yankees and Astros pitcher Andy Pettitte was on hand to watch Vick take on some of the world’s best golfers in Brookline, Mass. You see, Pettitte and fellow former MLB All-Star Lance Berkman coached Vick on the diamond when he was in high school in Houston. In the years since, Pettitte has become something of a mentor to Vick, who is now a golf star at the University of Texas....

Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson led the NFL in passing yards with 4,823 yards. Watson had a career year this past season, but the Houston Texans finished 4-12. Watson only dipped below 200 yards once this season, and he recorded 300+ yards in 10 of his 16 of his appearances. He is the first Texans QB to lead the NFL in passing yards. WR Brandin Cooks was one of Watson’s favorite offensive weapons....

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general for the WHO, said during the conference that the organization expects global cases of COVID-19 to surpass 200 million within the next two weeks. He stated that the world has all the tools and capability it needs to end the virus, but it “will end when the world chooses to end it.” Ghebreyesus also spoke about the persistence of vaccine inequity that the WHO began expressing concern about nearly a year ago....

How Was WhatsApp Founded? WhatsApp was founded by former Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009. The pair spotted the app industry’s potential thanks to the App Store on iOS and began formulating a plan to create an instant messaging app. The app was launched exclusively on the App Store for iPhone owners in August 2009 before being released for Android in August 2010. By February 2013, it had around 200 million active users and was valued at $1....

The 49ers host the Bills (kind of, with the game in Arizona) in the originally scheduled Monday night game on ESPN at 8:15 p.m. ET. But it’ll be preceded by the Steelers hosting the Washington Football Team at 5 p.m. ET on Fox. That game was pushed back a day thanks to Pittsburgh’s struggles to get in its Week 12 game against the Ravens. There are playoff implications on the line in all four matchups....

Here is how various pundits, players and managers reacted after yesterday’s match: Barcelona manager Luis Enrique tried to remain positive after a disappointing loss. “These are games that are very difficult to play and the team came up with a magnificent response,” “We played a very complete first half, but we were unlucky and we needed it to win the game.” “I remain positive about our level of play, we were very superior, but not so effective,” he said after a game in which Barça managed one goal despite seven shots on target while Valencia scored twice on just three shots on target....

The accused has been identified as 33-year-old Argenis de Jesus Baez Pizano of the Bronx. He is charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon and was due in court on Tuesday. The violent killing was the outcome of a fight between the two. When things heated up, Arianna Reyes-Gomez called a relative, who dialed 911 and sent police to the location, officials said. Even neighbors admitted to hearing an argument....

Heath was a psychologist who lived from 1915 until 1999. In 1970, according to The Journal of Neurosurgery, he used a method called “deep brain stimulation” to try to perform conversion therapy on a subject. Electrodes were placed in different areas of the subject’s brain. “After electrode placement, researchers provided patient B-19 with a button to push that would send a current through the electrodes to his ‘pleasure site.’ As Heath and his colleagues recorded the patient’s cerebral activity, patient B-19 was instructed to push the button repeatedly while watching heterosexual erotic films and masturbating until orgasm,” the JNS wrote....