The best actor Oscar almost never goes to young men, though the 30-year-old has his best chance yet with “Marty Supreme.”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/movies/timothee-chalamet-michael-b-jordan-oscar-curse.html
Timothée Chalamet and Ariana Grande also scored nods. Cynthia Erivo and the stars of “Jay Kelly” were left out.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/movies/actor-award-sag-nominations-list.html
The opposition leader’s uncompromising style explains her political rise. But will that brand of politics work as well when it comes to running a country?https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/opinion/venezuela-maria-corina-machado-maduro.html
Will anyone be in charge?https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/opinion/trump-economy-inflation-tariffs.html
Jimmy Kimmel said it was good President Trump would be in charge of Venezuela’s oil sales: “That way we know it will be spent honestly.”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/arts/television/late-night-trump-oil-venezuela.html
The star of “The Hills,” whose house burned in the Palisades fire, has used his social media profile to hammer Mayor Karen Bass and other California Democrats over the past year.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/spencer-pratt-mayor-los-angeles.html
He said he would retire from writing and public speaking.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/philip-yancey-affair.html
Known as “Mr. Goalie,” he created the so-called butterfly style and played in a record 502 consecutive games, without wearing a mask. He received 300 stitches.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/sports/glenn-hall-dead.html
While many European leaders’ reactions to the Venezuela raid were muted, there have been forceful rebukes of the Trump administration’s greediness on Greenland.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/trump-us-europe-greenland/
Delcy Rodríguez is Venezuela’s new president, but the country’s powerful defense and interior ministers could decide the future of Chavismo — and the nation.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/venezuela-us-maduro-capture/
The separatist Southern Transition Council said its leader, Aidarous al-Zubaidi, remained in the port city of Aden after Saudi Arabia accused him of fleeing to an unknown destination.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/yemen-saudi-arabia-aden-uae/
A Russian-flagged vessel was boarded in the North Atlantic. Another ship was apprehended near the Caribbean.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/07/us-intercept-oil-tanker-russia-venezuela/
The USS Iwo Jima and the USS San Antonio have been relocated to waters north of Cuba, and the Air Force also has withdrawn some aircraft from the region.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/07/navy-armada-venezuela-maduro/
Denmark’s leader warned that any use of force by Washington to seize Greenland, as Trump officials have suggested, would render the postwar NATO alliance defunct.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/trump-us-greenland-explainer-denmark/
The U.S. intervention in Venezuela distracts attention from Ukraine and signals a new era of great-power politics in which Russia can seek its own sphere of dominance.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/russia-venezuela-great-power-politics/
The saga of Playa Bagdad, just over the border from a SpaceX launchpad, highlights the unintended environmental and social impacts of the global space race.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/05/mexico-spacex-rockets-musk-trump/
The sizable death toll adds meaning to President Donald Trump’s public remarks that the operation he approved was “effective” but “very violent.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/06/maduro-raid-death-toll/
European officials constantly invoke the rules-based order. But after Venezuela, the Trump administration seems to believe that might makes right.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/06/venezuela-greenland-trump-stephen-miller/
Venezuela’s government launched a far-reaching crackdown after Maduro’s ouster, detaining journalists and civilians and sending armed gangs to the streets.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/06/venezulea-maduro-rodriguez-government-repression/
María Corina Machado emphasized support for the opposition in Venezuela despite President Donald Trump saying it would be “very tough” for her to lead post-Maduro.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/06/us-venezuela-trump-maduro-machado/