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Luka Doncic was a fan favorite in this year’s voting for the NBA All-Star game starters. The Lakers guard amassed more than 3.4 million fan votes in earning his sixth NBA All-Star honor, edging out the Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (3.2 million) for most fan votes. The 10 starters for the Western and Eastern conferences were announced Monday. Full rosters for the All-Star Game, scheduled for Feb. 15 at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, will be announce at a later date. NBA Jan 19 NBA All-Star Game starters announced: Here's who made the teams for 2026 NBA Jan 15 Luka Dončić's top plays from the first half of the NBA season Here’s a vote breakdown for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game starters. How were the NBA All-Star starters determined? Fans accounted for 50% of the vote with NBA players and media accounting 25% each. Players were ranked in each conference with the three voting groups, then each player’s score was tallied using a weighted rank. The five players with the best weighted scores were named starters in each conference. Who had the most 2026 NBA All-Star fan votes? Doncic and Antetokounmpo led the way with Denver’s Nikola Jokic (2.99 million), Philadelphia’s Tyrese Maxey (2.94 million), New York’s Jalen Brunson (2.85 million) and Golden State’s Steph Curry (2.81 million) among other top fan vote-getters. Antetokounmpo will be making his 10th All-Star appearance, two behind Curry for most among this year’s starters. Who had the most 2026 NBA All-Star player votes? Among the players, Detroit’s Cade Cunningham led the way with 159 votes, 12 ahead of Antetokounmpo (147). Boston’s Jalen Brown (138), Brunson (137) and Jokic (135) also fared well among their peers. Cunningham will be making his second All-Star appearance. Who had the most 2026 NBA All-Star media votes? Last year’s NBA MVP, Oklahoma City guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, finished with the most media votes at 99, followed by Brown (98), Cunningham (97), Doncic and Jokic (both 95). When is the 2026 NBA All-Star game? The 2026 NBA All-Star Game is set for Sunday, Feb. 15, airing on NBC and Peacock. All events from All-Star Weekend, including the Slam Dunk Contest and Three-Point Contest, will be on NBC for the first time since 2002.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal agents “make mistakes sometimes” in enforcing his immigration crackdown, an acknowledgment that comes after weeks of violent confrontations— including the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good — in the streets of Minneapolis. “ICE is going to be too rough with somebody, or, you know, they’re dealing with rough people,” Trump said of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a lengthy White House press room briefing focused mostly on highlighting the milestones of the first year of his second presidency. “They’re going to make some mistakes sometimes,” he said. “It can happen. We feel terribly.” Trump’s rare appearance at the press briefing marked one year since his inauguration. He expressed exasperation that Americans have been more focused on clashes between immigration agents and the public than on allegations that members of Minnesota’s Somali-American community have participated in schemes to defraud the government. It was one of many subjects on which his frustration — directed at everyone from the media, to world leaders to his own communications team — bubbled to the surface during more than an hour of uninterrupted remarks followed by a question-and-answer session with reporters. Trump also spoke specifically of Good, who was shot by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7, after Ross and other agents approached her stopped car and she began to drive. “I felt horribly when I was told that the young woman, who was — had the tragedy,” he said, adding that he heard her father was a Trump supporter. “It’s a tragedy. It’s a horrible thing. Everybody would say it. ICE would say the same thing.” Donald Trump 5 hours ago Trump speaks at White House press briefing to mark one year in office Trump administration 4 hours ago Trump's ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it In an interview with The New York Times hours after the shooting, Trump appeared to blame Good for her own death, citing video that he said showed Good was trying to hit Ross with her car. “She behaved horribly,” Trump said to the Times. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over.” His social media post hours after the shooting also claimed Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.” Videos from that day contradict his version of events. On his Truth Social platform Tuesday, Trump also lamented that the Department of Homeland Security and ICE weren’t getting enough support, saying they needed to talk more about the “murderers and other criminals that they are capturing.” Trump started his briefing room appearance by noting that he believes he’s not getting enough credit on the economy, an issue where polls show the American public has lost faith in his leadership. “Maybe I have bad public relations people,” he said from the lectern where White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt normally addresses the media. “I think we’re doing a much better job than we’re able to promote. We’re not promoting. … It’s one of the reasons I’m doing this news conference.” Trump, who listed economic data points to argue that Americans are prospering under his leadership, said he does not believe he is repeating the error of his predecessor, President Joe Biden, who touted economic accomplishments when many voters felt squeezed by prices. “No, I hope I don’t make the same mistakes as him,” Trump said. The president spoke at length about foreign policy, giving a virtual tour of a globe that he hopes to remake and lamenting, again, that he did not win a Nobel Peace Prize for work done in his first year back in the White House. He said he believed he should have received the prize for “each…

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Two more women have accused actor Russell Brand of rape and sexual assault, and a judge in London granted Brand bail ahead of a Feb. 17 hearing.

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