Lead Iran’s foreign minister called US President Donald Trump’s public warning that Washington would intervene if peaceful demonstrators were killed “reckless and dangerous” on Friday. The exchange came amid a week of unrest across Iranian cities sparked by a sharp fall in the rial, with at least eight people reported dead as of Saturday morning. … Read more
Lead ASUS warned partners and customers this week that selected product combinations will see price adjustments from January 5, citing rising component costs tied to AI-driven demand. The advisory, first reported by Digitimes and picked up by VideoCardz, did not name specific models, but gaming hardware such as the ROG Xbox Ally is widely discussed … Read more
Lead: South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) says a person with measles visited three public venues in late December, potentially exposing others. The locations were Nose Dive restaurant (116 S. Main Street, Greenville) and Best Buy (1125 Woodruff Road, Suite 1201, Greenville) on Dec. 24, and the Spartanburg County Public Library (151 S. Church … Read more
Lead: The United States experienced a marked rise in influenza cases in December 2025, following the 2024–25 season described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the most severe since 2018. By 20 December, the CDC estimated about 7.5 million flu cases and 81,000 hospitalizations, and data through the year ending August … Read more
Saturday’s matchup between the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers will determine whether Carolina ends a decade-long absence from the top of the NFC South or Tampa Bay extends a run of dominance. A Panthers win — or an Atlanta Falcons upset of the New Orleans Saints on Sunday — hands Carolina its first division … Read more
Lead: A preliminary magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck southern Mexico on Jan. 2, 2026, centered near San Marcos in Guerrero, briefly interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first news briefing of the year as seismic alarms sounded. The tremor was felt in Acapulco and Mexico City; Guerrero civil defense reported landslides on roads around Acapulco while initial checks found … Read more
Updated Jan. 3, 2026, 1:30 PM EST — President Donald Trump announced from Mar-a-Lago that U.S. forces carried out overnight strikes in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. Trump described the operation as an “assault like people have not seen since World War II,” said no U.S. service members were killed, … Read more
Lead On Jan. 3, 2026, Hannah C. Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, submitted her resignation to Governor Tony Evers after a federal jury last month convicted her on a felony obstruction charge. The conviction arose from an incident in which federal agents attempted to arrest an undocumented immigrant and prosecutors say Dugan intervened. … Read more
Week 18 decisions matter for playoff seeding, draft positioning and — for many readers — final wagering lines. This roundup covers straight-up winners, against-the-spread (ATS) calls and the author’s survivor pick for the 2025 regular season finale. Several games carry immediate postseason consequences (AFC South, NFC South and top seeds) while others are shaped by … Read more
Jan. 3, 2026 — A small web project called Foldy Bird, created by @rebane2001, converts a foldable phone’s hinge motion into the game’s sole control: fold or unfold to make the bird jump. The Chrome-based game runs only on Android foldables and is hosted at lyra.horse/fun/foldy-bird/. Early tests show it works on the Galaxy Z … Read more
On 3 January 2026, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, 63, was removed from power after a US special forces operation that seized him and transported him out of the country. Maduro, who led Venezuela for 13 years and eight months, now faces indictment in the United States on narcotics-related charges and a likely long prison term. … Read more
Lead: On 3 January 2026, former US president Donald Trump announced a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela in which troops, he said, captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores; both have since been indicted in New York on terrorism and drug charges. The claim that Maduro runs a “narco-terrorist organisation” was cited by US … Read more
Lead On Jan. 3, 2026, Virgin Voyages announced travel disruptions affecting sailors disembarking in San Juan after local authorities reported a temporary closure of Puerto Rico airspace to U.S. carriers due to military activity in Venezuela. The advisory affects U.S. airline flights into and out of San Juan and may disrupt connections for some passengers. … Read more
Lead: On January 3, 2026, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had executed a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The claim followed early-morning explosions in Caracas and images of smoke and fire in the night sky. Trump and U.S. officials said the operation relied on … Read more
The NFL’s end-of-regular-season churn has already begun, with trades, injuries and looming coaching decisions reshaping front offices and rosters ahead of the playoffs. In late December Micah Parsons declared he wanted out of Dallas; by weeks later he had been traded to Green Bay and then suffered an ACL tear on Dec. 14 that required … Read more
