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🇯🇵 Toyota taps Kenta Kon as CEO after profits slide. Toyota said Kenta Kon, 54, will take over on April 1st. He replaces Koji Sato, who is set to become chairman. Toyota Motor Corporation ($TM) reported October to December profit fell 43% to ¥1.25T. Quarterly sales dipped 0.3% to ¥12.53T as demand cooled. For April through December, profit fell 36% to ¥3.68T. Executives said United States tariffs erased ¥1.45T of profit in that span. Kon has run overseas operations and now inherits a rougher trade map. Rivals are racing on batteries, software, and supply chain slack. Toyota is betting a leadership switch can outrun a policy switch.

🇳🇿 Brenton Tarrant seeks to withdraw guilty pleas in New Zealand. Brenton Tarrant, 35, is serving life in prison without parole in New Zealand. He pleaded guilty in 2020 to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and a terrorism charge. Now he is asking the Court of Appeal to let him undo those pleas. His lawyers say prison conditions left him irrational and unable to decide freely. The March 2019 attack targeted worshippers at two Christchurch mosques. Investigators said he livestreamed the shooting, turning slaughter into propaganda. Prosecutors argue the pleas were voluntary and the sentence is final. Survivors and families say reopening the case would re-open wounds, not facts. The legal fight is over competence, not confession. The country is watching whether closure can be appealed.

🏠 Housing voters want relief, but Trump hypes higher prices. Polling shows housing costs are chewing through budgets and patience. President Donald Trump has argued higher prices mean stronger wealth and confidence. That logic flatters the 81% of American households who already own a home. It punishes everyone else, because first-time buyers pay the spread. New construction is not catching up fast enough to bail out demand. Federal data show building permits fell 9.4% in June to a 876K annual rate. Builders say financing costs and labor bottlenecks keep projects from penciling out. Trump’s message lands like a pep talk to sellers and a dare to renters. Economists warn affordability can implode even when paper wealth climbs. In an election year, a price chart can become a ballot box.

💉 Mehmet Oz pushes vaccines as measles outbreaks expand. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, urged Americans to vaccinate. His plea comes as South Carolina’s outbreak grew into the hundreds. Officials said it has already surpassed last year’s Texas tally. Separate cases are also being tracked near the Utah and Arizona border. The virus spreads through the air and can linger after an infected person leaves. Doctors say two doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine provide strong protection. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long questioned vaccine policy. Oz, once a television doctor, is now using government authority to sound the alarm. Hospitals are preparing for preventable complications that arrive fast. Public health cannot debate biology, it can only outpace it.

🏈 Seahawks bury Patriots 29-13 as defense wins Super Bowl LX. Seattle head coach Mike MacDonald watched his “Dark Side” unit hunt all night. Cornerback Devon Witherspoon set the tone with hits that arrived on schedule. Linebacker Uchenna Nwosu turned a fumble recovery into a touchdown dagger. Witherspoon later dislodged a pass and Nwosu ran the interception back 45 yards. Quarterback Sam Darnold threw a touchdown pass to AJ Barner to stretch the margin. Running back Kenneth Walker III ran for 135 yards and squeezed the clock, winning the night’s MVP. Kicker Jason Myers made all five field goals, a Super Bowl record. Patriots quarterback Drake Maye was pressured into three turnovers as the pocket collapsed. Seattle called it a team win and played it like one. In Santa Clara on February 8th, defense did not bend, it collected.

🎙️ Bad Bunny turned halftime into a Puerto Rico history lesson. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio opened with “Titi Me Pregunto”, debuting the track in prime time. He slid into other chart-topping singles, letting the beat breathe. Then came the night’s choreography, dancers moving like it was a neighborhood block party. He kept going, leaning into pop sheen without losing grit. The Benito Bowl ended with a flag-filled anthem turned civic sermon preaching strength through Latin diversity. He wore a white uniform that evoked colonial-era dress, then flipped the meaning onstage. A Puerto Rican flag appeared with him, stitched into the spectacle. Between hooks, he reminded viewers through bold symbolism and imagery that Puerto Ricans are fully American. Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin joined him for moments that widened the show’s cultural bandwidth. The production centered Spanish lyrics on the biggest football broadcast of the year, treating history as living memory, not trivia. The point was diversity as fact, not as marketing. In 13 minutes, halftime became a lesson plan that still danced.

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