Today is Sunday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2026. There are 354 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Jan. 11, 2010, Mark McGwire admitted to The Associated Press that he’d used steroids and human growth hormone when he broke baseball’s home run record in 1998.

Also on this date:

In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to declare its secession from the Union.

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In 1908, the Grand Canyon was established as a national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt. The move protected it from mining and other activities until it became a national park in 1919.

In 1935, aviator Amelia Earhart began what would be the first solo flight from Hawaii to California, completing the 2,400-mile flight across the Pacific to Oakland in just under 19 hours.

In 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry issued “Smoking and Health,” a report that concluded that “cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate.”

In 2002, the first al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

In 2021, House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” after the attack on the U.S. Capitol building five days earlier.

In 2024, U.S. and British forces bombed more than dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, in a massive retaliatory strike for the militant group’s attacks on international cargo ships and other targets in the Red Sea.

Today’s birthdays:

Filmmaker Alfonso Arau is 94.
Golf Hall of Famer Ben Crenshaw is 74.
Jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour is 74.
Olympic swimming gold medalist Tracy Caulkins is 63.
Filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee is 56.
Singer Mary J. Blige is 55.
Actor Amanda Peet is 54.
Actor Devin Ratray is 49.
Actor Aja Naomi King is 41.
Singer and former competitive swimmer Cody Simpson is 29.

CHICAGO (AP) — Caleb Williams came through in his playoff debut, throwing a go-ahead, 25-yard touchdown pass to DJ Moore with 1:43 remaining, and the Chicago Bears rallied from an 18-point deficit to beat the rival Green Bay Packers 31-27 in a wild-card playoff game on Saturday night.

The NFC North champion Bears extended their resurgent first season under coach Ben Johnson with their seventh fourth-quarter comeback victory. They split two down-to-the-wire games with Green Bay in the regular season, and this one turned out to be a thriller when it looked like it would be a breeze for the Packers.

Chicago trailed 21-3 at halftime and 21-6 through three quarters, only to outscore Green Bay 25-6 in the fourth on the way to its first playoff win in 15 years.

Williams found a wide-open Moore along the left sideline to give Chicago a 31-27 lead with 1:43 remaining.

Jordan Love then led Green Bay into Chicago territory. But on third down at the 28, Jaquan Brisker broke up a pass in the end zone as time expired, setting off a wild celebration — and a curt handshake between Johnson and Packers coach Matt LaFleur.

The Bears will host a divisional-round game next weekend.

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Simon Holmstrom scored his second goal of the game in overtime as the New York Islanders ruined the Wild’s 2026 homecoming, coming from behind three times to hand Minnesota a 4-3 loss on Saturday night in St. Paul.

The Wild led 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2, but New York had an answer all three times, spoiling an impressive show by Minnesota defenseman Quinn Hughes, who set up all three of the team’s goals in their first home game since before Christmas.

Ben Jones scored his first career goal for Minnesota, which got 23 saves from Filip Gustavsson, along with early goals from Matt Boldy and Kirill Kaprizov, but split their two-game season series with the Islanders. It was the fourth time in the past six games that the Wild have needed more than 60 minutes to settle the score.

They lost forward Ryan Hartman for a time in the latter half of the third period when he blocked an Islanders shot that appeared to hit Hartman on the side of his skate. He limped off the ice and had to be helped down the tunnel, but returned a few shifts later.

Playing in his 49th NHL game, and his first since being recalled from Iowa earlier in the day, Jones finally made his way into a game summary when he redirected a perfect cross-ice pass from Brock Faber to open the scoring.

But the Islanders tied the game just 87 seconds later on a messy play in front of the Minnesota net. Gustavsson made the initial save on a long-range shot by defenseman Tony DeAngelo, but the puck sat loose in the Wild crease for just a bit too long. When Wild forward Marcus Johansson tried to swat the puck into the corner, it instead slid over the goal line, with Islanders center Jean-Gabriel Pageau getting credit for the goal.

When the New Yorkers ran into penalty trouble later in the first, Minnesota got 29 seconds of a 5-on-3 advantage — and only needed 26 of them for Boldy to blast a shot past the Islanders goalie. It was the 27th goal and 50th point of the season for Boldy, making him just the third player in Wild history to record 50 points or more in four consecutive seasons. Mats Zuccarello and Kirill Kaprizov are the others.

The Islanders answered early in the middle frame when Holmstrom beat Gustavsson with a seeing-eye shot from the left circle. New York got a key save from goalie Ilya Sorokin early in the second as well, when he stopped Kaprizov’s solo rush to the net with a deft glove.

He couldn’t stop Kaprizov’s next shot, and the Russian star made it 3-2 following a cross-ice pass from Daemon Hunt. The goal moved Kaprizov into second place on the franchise’s all-time scoring list with 438 points. Mikko Koivu holds the record with 709.

But New York again had an answer, tying the game in the final minute of the period on a 2-on-1 shorthanded rush to the net.

Sorokin had 33 saves for New York, who the Wild beat 5-2 in early November on Long Island.

The Wild played Saturday without second line center Joel Eriksson Ek, who was injured in Thursday’s win in Seattle and missed the third period and overtime. Speaking to reporters before meeting the Islanders, Wild coach John Hynes said Eriksson Ek is day to day and the injury is not considered serious.

The Hughes family reunion comes to Grand Casino Arena on Monday, as the Wild defenseman will face brothers Jack and Luke for the first time in a Minnesota sweater. The New Jersey Devils’ lone visit to St. Paul this season faces off at 7 p.m. CT.

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The third-ranked Minnesota women’s hockey team led, then trailed, then rallied for victory in a 4-3 win at No. 12 Minnesota State University in Mankato. With the triumph, the Gophers swept the Mavericks in this weekend’s series and avenged a November sweep at the hands of MSU at Ridder Arena.

First-period goals from Abbey Murphy and Annafella Fanale got Minnesota off to a good start with a 2-0 lead by the 16:01 mark of the opening period.

However, the Mavericks sandwiched the first intermission with a trio of goals to take a 3-2 edge by 3:52 of the second stanza.

Undaunted, the Gophers rallied to tie on an Ava Lindsay tally at 11:35 of the second before Fanale struck for the game-winning score at 16:57. The final 23 minutes of play passed without further incident as Minnesota held on for the one-goal triumph as Minnesota goaltender Layla Hemp stood tall with 31 saves.

Minnesota improved to 18-4 overall and 12-4 in WCHA play with the win. The Gophers wrap the weekend holding onto third place in the conference with 36 points. Wisconsin currently leads the circuit for 41 points, while Ohio State is second with 38 points and Minnesota-Duluth is fourth with 26 points. Minnesota State fell to 11-10-1 overall and 5-10-1 in the conference with the loss; the Mavericks are fifth with 17 points in the WCHA standings.

Next up for Minnesota is a trip to Bemidji State for a two game set next Friday (7 p.m. start) and Saturday (3:30 p.m.). Both games will be televised on BTN+.

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