A day before the U.S. military captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump threatened Iran’s regime as protests there continued amid deteriorating economic conditions. Given the stunning success of the weekend raid in South America and the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities in June, speculation has grown that...
Happy 2026 everyone! I’m kind of reeling after reading in the New York Times about our President kidnapping another country’s President (and his wife) and vowing to “run Venezuala” in what looks like an act of unauthorized war on a sovereign country. So my shocked, scared, horrified, outraged parts wanted...
President Donald Trump announced early Saturday that U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro after a military operation in the country’s capital, Caracas. By midday, Trump stated from Mar-a-Lago that the U.S. would run the country until a “safe, proper and judicious transition.” While the international community watched the escalating...
Alexis Lafreniere is a bust. As a huge fan of Lafreniere (he is my favorite player on the New York Rangers), it’s taken me far longer to say that than most. I held out hope through an up and down first season. I held out hope through a rough second...
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp have raised new funding for their social media startup West Co. The startup launched an invite-only version of its first app, Tangle, in November. Now the Financial Times has pieced together more details from comments made by Stone and Sharp, as...
In This Article Money is often the biggest barrier standing between a rookie investor and their first deal, but there’s a creative way to buy a rental property that doesn’t require draining your savings or putting much down at all. We’re talking about seller financing. In today’s market, you may...
ReutersDenmark's prime minister has told Donald Trump to "stop the threats" about taking over Greenland.Mette Frederiksen said "it makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland", adding: "The US has no right to annex any of the three nations in the...
The Book Club has been reading Iain M. Banks’s The Player of GamesColin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images The New Scientist Book Club moved from the dystopian near-future imagined by Grace Chan in Every Version of You in November to the utopian far-future imagined by Iain M. Banks in The Player...
The Critics Choice Awards officially kicked off the 2026 award season Sunday night. A-listers including Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio braved the LA rain to attend the show at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. While plenty of great moments were seen onscreen — including a sweet...
Look, I’m not saying that TikTok is likely to be banned in the U.S. later this month, but… While reports just before Christmas suggested that a TikTok U.S. deal had been signed, ensuring that the app would remain in operation in America, with a local version of the platform to...
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