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Super Bowl 56: Rams drive to last-minute touchdown for thrilling 23-20 victory over Bengals

The Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 on Sunday in Super Bowl 56 at SoFi Stadium. It was the Rams’ second Super Bowl title in franchise history, with the first coming in 2000. With a strong presence of Rams fans in the crowd of 70,048, the team became only the second to win the Lombardi Trophy in its home stadium. Last year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers became the first team to do it. At 36, Rams head coach Sean McVay became the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl. Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp was also named the Super Bowl 56 MVP, leading the NFL this year in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. 

US-Canada Ambassador Bridge reopens after police clear protesters

The busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing reopened late Sunday after protests against COVID-19 restrictions closed it for almost a week, while Canadian officials held back from a crackdown on a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa. Detroit International Bridge Co. said in a statement that “the Ambassador Bridge is now fully open allowing the free flow of commerce between the Canada and US economies once again.” Esther Jentzen, spokeswoman for the company, said in a later text to The Associated Press that the bridge reopened to traffic at 11 p.m. EST. Police on Sunday swept through the lingering protest that has brought a week of chaos to the massive bridge linking Detroit to Canada, arresting a few truckers and other protesters still attempting to block the nation's largest border crossing.

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Diplomacy continues as US warns Americans to leave Ukraine

President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke Sunday about the potential of a Russian invasion of the eastern European country. Biden reiterated during the 50-minute call that the U.S. would “respond swiftly and decisively” should Russian President Vladimir Putin send Russian forces into Ukraine, a White House statement said. Biden's top national security aide warned again Sunday that the Russian military has the capacity to invade Ukraine "this week" under the pretext of a "false flag" operation portraying Ukrainians as the aggressors. The Biden administration has bolstered the U.S. military presence in Europe as reassurance to allies, warning Americans in Ukraine to leave the country due to the threat of an invasion. Here's the latest on the crisis. 

Speedskater Erin Jackson makes history at Winter Games

With 37.04 seconds of brilliance, Erin Jackson won the women's 500 meters at the National Speed Skating Oval on Sunday night in Beijing – and, in the process, achieved a number of firsts. The 29-year-old is the first American to win an individual speedskating medal since 2010. The first American woman to do so since 2002. And, according to U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee historian Bill Mallon, the first Black woman to win gold in an individual sport at the Winter Olympics, period. "Hopefully it has an effect," Jackson said. "Hopefully we can see more minorities, especially in the USA, getting out and trying some of these winter sports."

Fauci: "Full blown" pandemic could end soon

Is this a light at the end of the "full blown" pandemic tunnel? Dr. Anthony Fauci said that it looks like the United States soon could reach immunity levels sufficient to limit the spread of coronavirus. When that happens, Fauci said local health agencies should feel comfortable ending mask mandates, adding that such restrictions could pass into history this year. Some of that optimism has been fueled by the steady decline in daily U.S. infections. The U.S. is reporting fewer than 200,000 COVID-19 cases a day for the first time since Christmas, a Paste BN analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. Case counts are now less than a quarter of the peak of the current omicron surge. The U.S., however, remains on track to reach 1 million COVID deaths in April. 

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This is a compilation of stories from across the Paste BN Network. Contributing: Associated Press.

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