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The NBA season is nearing the midway point. There are some surprises, good and bad 01/06/2026 06:00am • A year ago at this time, the Boston Celtics had a starting lineup of Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford and Jrue Holiday. The Celtics were in second place in the Eastern Conference. Brown is still starting for Boston. Every other name in that first unit has since changed. Tat Trump administration's capture of Maduro raises unease about the international legal framework 01/06/2026 05:08am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent such sprawling conflicts in the future. Now that world order — centered at the United Flash floods in Indonesia kill at least 16 people and sweep away homes 01/06/2026 05:07am • MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rain killed at least 16 people in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, officials said Tuesday. Days of monsoon rain burst riverbanks early Monday, triggering fast-moving torrents of water mixed with mud, rocks and debris that swept aw Flu season surged in the US over the holiday and already rivals last winter's harsh epidemic 01/06/2026 04:37am • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. flu infections surged over the holidays, and health officials are calling it a severe season that is likely to get worse. New government data posted Monday — for flu activity through the week of Christmas — showed that by some measures this season is already surpassing A snowmobiler dies after an avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada 01/05/2026 11:48pm • TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — An avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada on Monday buried a snowmobiler in snow and killed him, authorities said. Rescuers responded after a 911 call around 2:20 p.m. reported a possible avalanche near Johnson Peak and Castle Peak in Truckee. The snowmobiler was initiall Rubio, Hegseth brief congressional leaders as questions mount over next steps in Venezuela 01/05/2026 10:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top officials briefed leaders in Congress late Monday on the striking military operation in Venezuela amid mounting concerns that President Donald Trump is embarking on a new era of U.S. expansionism without consultation of lawmakers or a Maduro says 'I was captured' as he pleads not guilty to drug trafficking charges 01/05/2026 10:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself "the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela. “I was captured,” Maduro This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol 01/05/2026 09:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found. It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by law. Its whereabouts aren't publicly known, though Record $9.6 million fine for Third Coast after substantial oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 01/05/2026 09:30pm • Pipeline safety regulators on Monday assessed their largest fine ever against the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana in 2023. But the $9.6 million fine isn’t likely to be a major burden for Third Coast to pay. This single fine is cl Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP pick, drops bid for third term as Minnesota governor; Klobuchar considers 01/05/2026 09:25pm • ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term amid President Donald Trump’s relentless focus on a fraud investigation into the state's child care programs and its Somali community. Less than four months after annou US allies and adversaries use UN meeting to critique Venezuela intervention as America defends it 01/05/2026 09:07pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Both allies and adversaries of the United States on Monday used an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to voice opposition to the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela that captured leader Nicolás Maduro. Before the U.N.'s most powerful body, countries cr Jury seated in trial for ex-officer accused in police response to Uvalde school shooting 01/05/2026 09:02pm • CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge seated a jury Monday in the trial of a former school police officer in Uvalde who was part of the hesitant law enforcement response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history and has been charged with failing to protect children from the gunman. The Latest: Trump officials give nearly two-hour briefing to top lawmakers on Venezuela 01/05/2026 08:56pm • Top officials from President Donald Trump's administration briefed congressional leaders on the U.S. government’s plans for the future of Venezuela in a Monday evening meeting on Capitol Hill. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials discussed Venezuela wi Military action in Venezuela emerges as an issue in a closely watched GOP primary in Kentucky 01/05/2026 08:45pm • President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running Trump antagonist, and retired Navy SEAL officer Ed Gallrein, who has the president's backing. Massie, s Key moments in the US arrest of and case against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro 01/05/2026 08:10pm • After apparent months of planning, the U.S. strike that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro unfolded swiftly over the weekend, with American forces converging on Caracas to arrest Maduro and his wife. In subsequent days, Maduro would be spirited from a U.S. warship to a plane