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Penny the Doberman Pinscher was named Best in Show at the 2026Westminster Kennel Club Dog Showon Tuesday.

The competition as stiff, and as the seven finalists took one last lap around the arena, the tension was thick enough to cut with a knife.

The New York crowd seemed to reserve their loudest cheers for the four-year-old Doberman Pinscher, and in the end, she prevailed and became the 42nd female to win the prestigious Best in Show award. It marked the fifth time a Doberman has taken the top prize at Westminster.

Emerging from the Working group, Penny beat out2,499 other caninesspread across seven different groups containing 204 total breeds to win the coveted prize.

"She is as great a Doberman as I've ever seen," said Penny's handler Andy Linton, who was also the handler of the last Doberman Pinscher to win Best in Show at Westminster 37 years ago in 1989.

The 150th edition of the America's oldest continuously-held dog show (andsecond-oldest sporting eventin the country behind the Kentucky Derby) was once again staged in New York City at famed Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.

The Best in Show winner is chosen by a single judge. This year's judge, David Fitzpatrick, had to decide between the winners of the respective seven varying groups – Herding, Hound, Non-Sporting, Sporting, Terrier, Toy and Working.

Fitzpatrick awarded Reserve Best in Show to Cota the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, winner of the Sporting group.

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"You know they often say 'what a great lineup,'" Fitzpatrick said of the finalists. "But this is one that will go down in history."

The remaining group winners were:

Herding group:Graham the Old English Sheepdog

Hound group:Zaida the Afghan Hound

Non-sporting group:JJ (short for Jingle Juice) the Lhasa Apso

Terrier group:Wager the Smooth Fox Terrier

Toy group:Cookie the Maltese

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By Michael Georgy

Feb 3 (Reuters) - Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi went from his notorious father's heir apparent to a decade of captivity and obscurity in a remote hill town before launching a presidential bid that helped derail an attempted election.

Saif al-Islam's office said in a statement on Tuesday that he had been killed during a "direct confrontation" with four unknown gunmen who broke into his home.

The office of Libya's attorney general ​said investigators and forensic doctors examined Saif al-Islam's body and determined that he died from gunshot wounds and that the office was working to identify suspects.

Despite holding no official position, Saif al-Islam, 53, was once seen as the ‌most powerful figure in the oil-rich North African country after his father Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled for more than four decades.

Saif al-Islam shaped policy and mediated high-profile, sensitive diplomatic missions.

He led talks on Libya abandoning its weapons of mass destruction and negotiated compensation for the families of those killed in the ‌bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

Determined to rid Libya of its pariah status, he engaged with the West and championed himself as a reformer, calling for a constitution and respect for human rights.

Educated at the London School of Economics and a fluent English speaker, he was once seen by many governments as the acceptable, Western-friendly face of Libya.

But when a rebellion broke out against Gaddafi's long rule in 2011, Saif al-Islam immediately chose family and clan loyalties over his many friendships to become an architect of a brutal crackdown on rebels, whom he called rats.

Speaking to Reuters at the time of the revolt, he said: "We fight here in Libya, we die here in Libya."

He warned that rivers of blood would flow and the government would fight to the last ⁠man and woman and bullet.

"All of Libya will be destroyed. We will need 40 years ‌to reach an agreement on how to run the country, because today, everyone will want to be president, or emir, and everybody will want to run the country," he said, wagging his finger at the camera in a TV broadcast.

'I'M STAYING HERE'

After rebels took over the capital Tripoli, Saif al-Islam tried to flee to neighbouring Niger dressed as a Bedouin tribesman.

The Abu Bakr Sadik Brigade ‍militia captured him on a desert road and flew him to the western town of Zintan about one month after his father was hunted down and summarily shot dead by rebels.

"I'm staying here. They'll empty their guns into me the second I go out there," he said in comments captured in an audio recording as hundreds of men thronged round an old Libyan air force transport plane.

Saif al-Islam was betrayed to his rebel captors by a Libyan nomad.

He spent the next six years detained in Zintan, a far cry from the charmed life he ​lived under Gaddafi when he had pet tigers, hunted with falcons and mingled with British high society on trips to London.

Human Rights Watch met him in Zintan. Hanan Salah, its Libya director, told Reuters at that time that he did ‌not allege ill treatment. "We did raise concerns about Gaddafi being held in solitary confinement for most if not all of the time that he had been detained," she said.

Saif al-Islam was missing a tooth and said he had been isolated from the world and that he did not receive visitors.

He was, however, granted access to a television with satellite channels and some books, she added.

In 2015, Saif al-Islam was sentenced to death by firing squad by a court in Tripoli for war crimes.

He was also wanted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague, which issued an arrest warrant against him for "murder and persecution".

'YOU NEED TO COME BACK SLOWLY'

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi spent years underground in Zintan to avoid assassination after he was released by the militia in 2017 under an amnesty law. From 2016, he was allowed to contact people inside and outside Libya, said Mustafa Fetouri, a Libyan analyst with contacts in Saif al-Islam's inner circle.

Saif al-Islam received visitors almost every week and debated politics and the state of ⁠the country. Sometimes he received gifts and books.

Wearing a traditional Libyan robe and turban, he appeared in the southern city of Sabha in ​2021 to file his candidacy for the presidential elections.

He had been expected to play on nostalgia for Libya's relative stability before the 2011 NATO-backed uprising ​that toppled his father and ushered in years of chaos and violence.

However, his candidacy was controversial and opposed by many of those who had suffered at the hands of his father's rule. Powerful armed groups that emerged from the rebel factions that rose up in 2011 rejected it outright.

As the election process ground on in late 2021 with no real agreement on the rules, Saif al-Islam's candidacy ‍became one of the main points of contention.

He was disqualified because ⁠of his 2015 conviction, but when he tried to appeal the ruling, fighters blocked off the court. The ensuing arguments contributed to the collapse of the election process and Libya's return to political stalemate.

In an interview with The New York Times Magazine in 2021, Saif al-Islam discussed his political strategy. "I've been away from the Libyan people for 10 years," he said. "You need to come back slowly, slowly. Like a striptease. You need to play with their ⁠minds a little."

"After Saif al-Islam was freed a few years ago, he proved incapable of delivering speeches or producing public statements through the press or social media," said Jalel Harchaoui, a contributor to Britain's Royal United Services Institute think tank. "Yet his symbolic significance remained substantial. This symbolic stature constituted one ‌of the main factors preventing the 2021 elections from proceeding."

"Now that he has been slain, most pro-Gaddafi factions will experience both diminished morale and anger. At the same time, one obstacle to holding elections in ‌Libya has been removed," Harchaoui said.

(Reporting by Michael Georgy, Hani Amara and Ayman al-Warfalli; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Olivier Holmey)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the latest surge inmilitant attacks in southwestern Pakistanthat has killed dozens of people, mostly civilians, as security forces on Wednesday pressed their operations in the insurgency-hit region.

The authorities said scores of militants have been killed in recent days as Pakistani forces crack down on the insurgents in the volatile Balochistan province, where about a dozen coordinated attacks began on Saturday, targeting civilians and buildings housing police and security personnel.

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Federal and provincial officials said at least 36 civilians and 17 members of the security forces have been killed. Security forces so far killed 197 militants from the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, which has claimed responsibility for recent suicide bombings and gun attacks.

In a statement issued overnight, U.N. Security Council President James Kariuki said council members condemned in the "strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks across multiple locations" in Balochistan and expressed condolences to the victims' families and the government and people of Pakistan.

Balochistan has long faced a separatist insurgencyby ethnic Baloch groups seeking greater autonomy or independence from Pakistan's central government. Pakistan says it has quelled the insurgency but violence has continued.

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NEED TO KNOW

• Patrick Mahomes Sr., the father of NFL star Patrick Mahomes, had reportedly been arrested after he allegedly violated his probation

• The former MLB star pleaded guilty to his third DWI in 2024 and was allegedly caught consuming alcohol, multiple outlets reported Tuesday, Feb. 3

• If found guilty, he could face up to 10 years in prison

Patrick Mahomes Sr.has been arrested after an alleged probation violation, according to multiple reports.

On Tuesday, Feb. 3, the 55-year-old father of NFL starPatrick Mahomes, 30, was booked into the Smith County Jail in Texas for allegedly consuming alcohol, Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman toldKLTV.

Mahomes Sr.'s alcohol ankle monitor allegedly delivered a high reading on Jan. 1. He then took two urine test analyses, one on Jan. 5 and another on Jan. 9. They both allegedly came back negative at the time,TMZreported, citing court documents.

A motion has been filed to end the violation, and Mahomes Sr. can challenge the allegations, according toCBS 19.

PEOPLE reached out to Putman for comment.

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His probation stems from his thirdDWI arrestin February 2024. At the time, his blood alcohol content was 0.23 when an officer pulled him over in Tyler, Texas.

He was arrested just eight days before his son and theKansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ersin the Super Bowl that year.

The following August, the former professional baseball playerpleaded guilty to the driving while intoxicatedcharge and agreed to five years of probation and one year of "intense supervision," local news stationKETKreported at the time.

If found guilty of violating his parole, Mahomes Sr. could face a 10-year prison sentence, according toCBS 19.

A hearing date has not been set for Mahomes Sr., per theKansas City Star.

Since his father's third DWI, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback hasspoken outabout the incident.

"It was during that Super Bowl. It became a story, and so, I had to answer questions about it," Mahomes recalled during an August 2025 episode of ESPN's original seriesChiefs Kingdom.

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"I think just knowing that it hurt me woke him up to know that like, you can't keep doing the same things," thefather of threeadded.

Mahomes Sr. also weighed in, saying, "For him to have to answer questions about me was probably the most embarrassing thing I've ever been through in my life. I called him right after and I told him, I said, 'I'm sorry that it's taking away from your time and taking away from your focus.'"

That same month,PEOPLE had an exclusive sneak peakof the series, in which Mahomes Sr. opened up about raising the Super Bowl champion.

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"As soon as he came out, he's had a ball in his hand," he said of his son. "I don't know if he thought he was going to be a professional athlete, but he always lived his life like he was going to be one."

Before his 2009 retirement, the former MLB player was a pitcher from 1992 to 2003. He played for the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates and earned himself a spot in theSioux Falls Canaries Hall of Fame.

Reps for Mahomes Sr. could not immediately be reached by PEOPLE on Tuesday.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — In just his fifth collegiate game, freshman Alijah Arenas scored a career-high 29 points and Kam Woods scored 18 points and USC held off Indiana 81-75 on Tuesday night in a frenzied finish.

Arenas, who entered with 30 points scored this season, shot 9 of 23 — including 3 of 9 from 3-point range — and made 8 of 9 foul shots. Ezra Ausar added 12 points for the Trojans USC (17-6, 6-6 Big Ten).

Chad Baker-Mazara, who entered averaging just under 19 points per game, scored just seven in the first half before leaving due to injury.

Lamar Wilkerson was the only Indiana (15-8, 6-6) player in double-digit scoring and finished with 33 points on 55% shooting (11 of 20).

Tayton Conerway made 1 of 2 foul shots with 58 seconds left to get Indiana within 75-69. Off the miss, IU got the offensive rebound, Tucker Devries drew a foul on his layup attempt and promptly made both foul shots. Woods turned it over on USC's following possession, Conerway again converted a layup but missed the and-1 and USC maintained a 75-73 lead with 31 seconds left.

Jordan Marsh made two foul shots to give USC a four-point lead with 24 seconds left. Again, Conerway was on his way to the rim but Ryan Cornish came up with the block from behind.

Arenas made two foul shots with 14 seconds left to seal it.

USC seemed poised to run away with it when Woods buried a 3 with 11:42 left to give the Trojans a 55-41 advantage. The Hoosiers responded with a 14-5 run to get back in it.

Indiana: Hosts Wisconsin on Saturday.

USC: Travels to Penn State on Sunday.

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