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Lead: A gas-cylinder explosion at a house in Islamabad at 07:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Sunday killed eight people, including a newlywed couple, and injured more than a dozen, police said. The couple had been sleeping in the home after their wedding celebration the previous day when the blast caused the roof to collapse … Read more

Lead President Donald Trump has publicly warned Cuba to “make a deal” or face the end of Venezuelan oil and financial flows, following a US operation on 3 January that seized Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas. Mr. Trump said on Truth Social that shipments of roughly 35,000 barrels a day and other funds that … Read more

Lead Walmart and Google on Jan. 11, 2026 announced a partnership to let shoppers use Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, to discover and buy items from Walmart and Sam’s Club. The deal was revealed onstage by incoming Walmart CEO John Furner and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York … Read more

Lead Brendan Banfield, a former IRS agent, is set for a jury trial after prosecutors say he conspired with the Banfields’ au pair to kill his wife and a visitor at the family home in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 24, 2023. Police allege the scheme involved luring a man to the house, a staged 911 … Read more

Lead: A private aircraft crashed on Saturday, January 10, 2026, in the Paipa–Duitama area of Boyacá, central-eastern Colombia, killing all six people aboard, officials said. Among the dead was popular singer Yeison Jiménez, 34. The aircraft, registered N325FA, had been en route to Medellín when it went down; local authorities declared mourning and investigators have … Read more

Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, told the Big Shot podcast two weeks ago that the very best students at large public universities can match or exceed the top students from Ivy League schools. He pointed to colleagues who attended non‑Ivy institutions — Gary Cohn (American University) and David Solomon (Hamilton College) — to … Read more

Lead On Jan. 10, 2026 in Lexington, Ky., Kentucky rallied from a 12-point deficit to defeat Mississippi State 92-68. Otega Oweh led the Wildcats with 22 points and five of Kentucky’s season-high 14 steals while Malachi Moreno added a near triple-double with 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists. Mississippi State’s six-game winning streak ended; … Read more

Who: Tenor Andrea Bocelli and pop superstar Mariah Carey will perform. When: the opening ceremony is set for Feb. 6, 2026. Where: Milan’s San Siro stadium, with live segments beamed from Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo. What: a three-hour spectacle that will stage the Parade of Athletes, feature tributes and performances, and is expected to draw … Read more

Over the winter holidays, Linux creator Linus Torvalds published a new open-source project named AudioNoise, a GPLv2-licensed collection of random digital audio effects hosted under torvalds/AudioNoise on GitHub. The project attracted attention after a Phoronix reader pointed to README notes saying a Python audio visualizer was largely produced through so-called “vibe coding,” specifically citing Google’s … Read more

Lead Family members of 52-year-old Randall Gamboa Esquivel say he was deported from US immigration custody in a vegetative state and died weeks after returning to Costa Rica. Gamboa crossed into the United States in December 2024 and was detained by US authorities after re‑entering. Medical records reviewed by his relatives and The Guardian show … Read more

Lead On Saturday, third baseman Alex Bregman, 31, agreed to a five-year, $175 million contract with the Chicago Cubs, sources told ESPN, ending a second run at free agency one year after Chicago’s initial pursuit fell short. The contract carries a $35 million average annual value, includes a full no-trade clause and contains no player … Read more

The Green Bay Packers plan to meet with head coach Matt LaFleur shortly after the season ends to begin talks on a contract extension, sources say. LaFleur’s current deal runs through the 2026 season; he owns a 76-40-1 record and is widely regarded as one of the NFL’s stronger coaches. The team hopes to start … Read more

Lead President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that Ukraine will step up operations that reach into Russian territory, framing the moves as necessary to deter further strikes and protect Ukrainian civilians. The announcement, delivered from Kyiv, follows a string of cross-border incidents and a recent Russian missile test near the EU–NATO frontier. Kyiv presented the … Read more

Lead: In New York on Jan. 11, 2026, President Donald Trump unveiled two headline-grabbing housing proposals — a ban on large institutional buyers of single-family homes and a plan to have the government acquire $200 billion in mortgage bonds. Both moves were framed as ways to make housing more affordable and to paint Wall Street … Read more

Late one night in the summer of 2023 on Martha’s Vineyard, Belle Burden watched a web page finally load and felt the moment she had made public a private rupture. The 56-year-old author, whose first published piece had appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, used that viral essay as the springboard for … Read more