All the news you need to know from the week that was…<\/p>\n
PublishedJanuary 17, 2026 9:30 AM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 17, 2026 9:10 AM EST<\/p>\n
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It’s Saturday morning, which means it’s time to get caught up on the news of the week that you were too busy or too cool to follow, with a little help from The Punch-Up<\/a>!<\/p>\n And what a week it was\u2026<\/p>\n We had whole milk making a shocking comeback to America’s lunchrooms, Messi has so much power that his method of getting wine drunk faster helped Coca-Cola stock, and Angel Reese is going Hollywood.<\/p>\n There’s plenty more where that came from, so let’s dig right on in!<\/p>\n Comedian Chelsea Handler said she “loves drugs” and that any potential partner is “going to have to party.”<\/a> If you\u2019ve ever heard her talk, this tracks.WWE wrestler Izzi Dame says she received a ten-year ban from pro volleyball<\/a> after she signed with the company. It\u2019s such a shocking story: did you know they had pro volleyball?!In a recent podcast interview, Joe Rogan and John Mellencamp discussed the deaths of rock music and comedy films<\/a>. Believe it or not, both can be traced back to the 2010 movie,\u00a0Get Him to the Greek.Two teenagers in Wisconsin reportedly saw Bigfoot while setting off firecrackers in a state park<\/a>.\u00a0One thing they say they definitely weren\u2019t doing, though: drinking beer.Coca-Cola\u2019s market value jumped billions after soccer star Lionel Messi revealed he drinks Sprite because it helps him get wine drunk faster<\/a>. Big deal, suburban soccer moms have known that trick for decades.In a new interview, RFK Jr. said that President Trump\u2019s diet is so bad<\/a>, he\u2019s not sure how he\u2019s still alive. So you\u2019re saying Filet-o-Fishes and a Diet Coke can get you to 80 and beyond? I\u2019ll take it.Youth hockey players took part in a wild brawl during the intermission of a minor league hockey game<\/a>. In response, thousands of parents sick of suffering through dull soccer games signed their kids up for hockey.WNBA star Angel Reese will voice a polar bear in the upcoming animated film, GOAT. Not much is known about the character, but it\u2019s expected to lead all polar bears in rebounds.<\/p>\n Got all of that?<\/p>\n Good. See you back here next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the news you need to know from the week that was… PublishedJanuary 17, 2026 9:30 AM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-413584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}