“Venezuela’s government began to release political prisoners from two notorious prisons on Thursday in the first ostensible gesture of change by the new administration since the United States captured President Nicolás Maduro and said it would control the country,” the New York Times reports.
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Hear from Venezuelans after Maduro's captureAlmost a week after the US captured Nicolás Maduro, the response from citizens in Venezuela has remained largely quiet. Journalist Mary Triny Mena went out in the country’s capital, Caracas, to try to get a better sense of how Venezuelans are feeling right now.
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The charred remains of the historic Pacific Palisades Business Block cast a shadow over a once-bustling shopping district along West Sunset Boulevard. Empty lots littered with debris and ash line the street where houses and small businesses once stood. The Starbucks, Bank of America, and other businesses that used to operate in the century-old Business Block are gone. Remnants of the the Pacific Palisades Business Block, which was completed in 1924 and burned in the Palisades fire. AdvertisementRuby Nails & Spa, located near the Business Block, was closed for eight months before reopening in September.
EXCLUSIVE: L.A. Times Short Docs has acquired streaming rights to the Oscar-shortlisted documentary On Healing Land, Birds Perch days ahead of the start of nomination voting. On Healing Land, Birds Perch will debut February 2 for free on the Los Angeles Times YouTube channel and at latimes.com/shortdocs, as part of the L.A. Times Short Docs series. Watch a clip from On Healing Land, Birds Perch below. In a statement she said, “I am proud that our film has been selected to be part of L.A. Times Short Docs. Huan Nguyen in ‘On Healing Land, Birds Perch’ L.A. Times“On Healing Land, Birds Perch offers a rare and deeply human reexamination of a photograph that has long shaped how the world remembers the Vietnam War,” observed L.A. Times Executive Editor Terry Tang.
Trent and Caitlin check in with The Handbasket’s Marisa Kabas about the year that has been the first week of 2026. What are we doing in Venezuela, and why is corporate media being so weird about it? What are the ethics of publishing scoops that involve military actions? Why are we doing our war crimes from a resort ballroom in Florida? Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, and elsewhere via its RSS feed.
Hear from Venezuelans after Maduro's captureAlmost a week after the US captured Nicolás Maduro, the response from citizens in Venezuela has remained largely quiet. Journalist Mary Triny Mena went out in the country’s capital, Caracas, to try to get a better sense of how Venezuelans are feeling right now.
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AdvertisementInvestigators later searched the Ephrata home and storage unit of Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34, and reported finding more than 100 human skulls, long bones, mummified hands and feet, two decomposing torsos and other skeletal items. Some of them were pieced together, some were just skulls on a shelf,” Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said. Grave markers at the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia. It’s considered the country’s largest abandoned burial ground, according to Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, which helps maintain the 160-acre landmark in Yeadon that’s home to an estimated 150,000 grave sites. Gerlach told investigators he took about 30 sets of human remains and showed them the graves he stole from, police said.
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Hear from Venezuelans after Maduro's captureAlmost a week after the US captured Nicolás Maduro, the response from citizens in Venezuela has remained largely quiet. Journalist Mary Triny Mena went out in the country’s capital, Caracas, to try to get a better sense of how Venezuelans are feeling right now.
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U.S. forces boarded an oil tanker on Friday in a pre-dawn action, the U.S. Southern Command announced. This view shows the bulk carrier Ithaca Patience (R) and the crude oil tanker Nord Star, both from Panama, anchored on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela on Jan. 7, 2026. "Early this morning, the [U.S. Coast Guard] executed a boarding and seizure of the Motor Tanker Olina in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea. As another "ghost fleet" tanker ship suspected of carrying embargoed oil, this vessel had departed Venezuela attempting to evade U.S. forces," Noem wrote on X . The Coast Guard will seize sanctioned oil tankers, enforce U.S. and international law, and eliminate these funding streams for illicit activity including narco-terrorism," Noem added.
