A Timeline of Rising Tension Between the U.S. and Venezuela
The Trump administration has for months increased pressure on the Maduro government through a series of diplomatic and military maneuvers.
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Buccaneers have had an incredible fall off; is Baker Mayfield’s reckless play to blame?
It wasn’t supposed to be like this for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Over the first six weeks of the season, the Buccaneers were at the top of the NFC South and quarterback Baker Mayfield was in MVP discussions as he kept the Bucs offense afloat while All-Pro left tackle Tristan Wirfs, running back Bucky Irving and wide receivers…
I went to the Stranger Things finale in theaters and the strangest thing happened
The parking lot was packed. That’s the first Strange Thing. A little background. Just about every mall is struggling now, but the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania is more or less comatose. As Defector’s Dan McQuade, a lifelong Pennsylvanian and mall fan, wrote in his fond remembrance of the shopping center, the once bustling complex…
bitchy | George Clooney on Donald Trump: ‘He’s a big goofball. Well, he was. That all changed’
Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly has been on Netflix for several weeks already, so I don’t know why George Clooney agreed to a Variety cover interview, which was published earlier this week. I guess some late promotion was in order because the movie perhaps wasn’t getting the response they wanted? Unfortunately, this piece came out after…
Trump Did Not Seek Congressional Authorization to Capture Maduro
Democrats raised constitutional concerns and said the Trump administration had misrepresented its goals in Venezuela, while most Republicans cheered the action.
Why Notion’s biggest AI breakthrough came from simplifying everything
When initially experimenting with LLMs and agentic AI, software engineers at Notion AI applied advanced code generation, complex schemas, and heavy instructioning. Quickly, though, trial and error taught the team that it could get rid of all of that complicated data modeling. Notion’s AI engineering lead Ryan Nystrom and his team pivoted to simple prompts,…
Prep talk: Garo Ohannessian of AGBU shows he can shoot threes
Garo Ohannessian is known as a “lifer” at AGBU, an Armenian K-12 school in Canoga Park. He’s been there from the start and now he’s making a name for himself in high school basketball with his three-point shooting skills. He set a school record making 13 threes and finishing with a career-high 45 points in…
Why Haven’t Trump’s Tariffs Had a Bigger Impact?
Steep import taxes have raised prices and affected U.S. businesses, but not quite as much as expected. A new report offers some reasons.
In South Florida, Venezuelans Revel in Maduro’s Capture
In Doral, Fla., where some 40 percent of people are of Venezuelan origin, music blared in celebration early on Saturday.
What to expect from Browns QB Shedeur Sanders’ final 2025 start
Daniel OyefusiJan 3, 2026, 06:00 AM ET Close Daniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN, he covered the Miami Dolphins for the Miami Herald, as well as the Baltimore Ravens for The Baltimore Sun. BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns’ season finale at the Cincinnati Bengals (6-10) on Sunday (1 p.m….