With the 2026 Comic-Con drawing to a close, we’re all still digesting Saturday night’s big Marvel panel news… or what little there was of it, really. Sure, we got a new Ghost Rider movie announcement, to star Ryan Gosling, as well as official confirmation that not only is Black Panther III coming from Ryan Coogler, but it will star Alien: Romulus’ David Jonsson as T’Challa’s now-adult son Toussaint. There were various other bits revealed about Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, yes, but not only did the one big announcement that many fans were hoping for never come, we really shouldn’t have even expected it in the first place: Yes, the X-Men big-screen reboot went unmentioned.

Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.

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Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before today’s NYT Connections hints, here’s what you missed on Sunday.

Luke Littler defended his World Matchplay title in sensational style - and smashed Phil Taylor's tournament and final average records in the process.

The 19-year-old beat seventh seed Gerwyn Price 18-9 in Blackpool to become just the fourth person to win back-to-back Matchplay titles.

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Six weeks after Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was abruptly hospitalized for what his office said was a fall and a mild case of pneumonia, the former top Senate Republican remains absent—fueling speculation about his health and whether or not he will attend funeral services this week for his longtime ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Garmin Cirqa

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The Garmin Cirqa was unveiled this week. It is yet another fitness tracker from a company that has made a huge number of them.

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The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 124,000 equivalent album sales

It’s official — Gracie Abrams‘ latest release Daughter From Hell has debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, marking her first-ever Number One album. The singer-songwriter earned 124,000 equivalent album sales.

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Universal has stepped in after a high-quality upload of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey leaked on X/Twitter.

While viewers headed to theaters to catch the Greek epic on its second weekend at the box office, some stayed home to watch it instead. All two hours and 53 minutes of the blockbuster movie managed to leak onto social media over the weekend, giving thousands access to an astonishingly high-quality (but still inferior) version of the film to watch from the comfort of their homes or, god forbid, their phones.

A clip of Robert Pattinson yelling "Somebody get these beggars out of here!” has taken social media by storm, sparking a variety of memes.

Your gut has been giving you information your whole life. Most people have never learned to read what kind.

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IQ tests were built to catch an important but narrow thing: reasoning you can time with a clock and grade against a right answer. They were never built to catch the other kind of intelligence — the read on a room before anyone’s spoken, the decision that arrives whole with no visible math behind it.