Have no doubt: Maduro’s masterful public relations campaign, including the airing of video confessions on live television, are all taken out of Cuba’s Cold War playbook. Although it’s unclear whether Cuba engineered this entire operation from its inception or simply learned of it through its network of informants, it successfully embarrassed Guaido and the United States and sent a clear message that the Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence services have eyes and ears everywhere....

title: “Out Of Bounds " ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-24” author: “Robert Campbell” title: “Out Of Bounds " ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-16” author: “Brent Vazquez” title: “Out Of Bounds " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-04” author: “Opal Faber”

POWELL: Were you beaten like other prisoners in the so-called filtration camp at Chernokorzovo? BABITSKY: I was hit [with truncheons], but not hard enough to cause any internal damage. Others were beaten and tortured severely. I’ve never heard such screams in my life.

As a convicted felon, I am someone with particular interest in this subject. In 1990, I was 19 years old and went to prison. I was too young to vote in the 1988 presidential election and was imprisoned by the time the ‘92 cycle came around. The first time I was able to vote for anything other than class president was in 2018 after completing four years of parole — following 24 years inside — to officially complete my restitution to the state of California....

Once you are outside, doesn’t this make you an environmentalist? True, you can have a home or office environment indoors, but the environment that’s creating all the hard feelings and political debate is the one out of doors. And that debate is beginning to drive me crazy. When I was a kid, my fourth-grade teacher described the environment as made up of air and water and trees. If you wanted to see the environment, all you had to do was look out the window....

As hip replacement surgery has evolved, techniques and protocols have been developed to make this procedure less invasive. The goal of any minimally invasive procedure is to try to make patients better, faster, and with less disruption to their life. Most recently, many patients are now choosing to have an anterior hip replacement, a surgery intended to have less muscle damage and a faster recovery. In an effort to further the ability to get patients back to normal as quickly as possible, some surgeons have started to perform hip replacement surgery as an outpatient procedure....

The cause for the small uptick in mood? Watching the Democrats cave on legislation demanding a timetable for withdrawal in return for increased funding for the war in Iraq. For months, President Bush has told aides that congressional Democrats would overreach on the war, with legislation that reached beyond the public’s discontent with policy. The president also predicted that Democratic candidates would stumble as they competed for the antiwar vote....

The Russian president announced the mobilization order in a televised address on Wednesday, with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu saying it will provide another 300,000 troops. The Russian-language petition against conscription, titled ‘Against partial and total mobilization,’ was created on the Change.org petition site by a user with the pseudonym ‘Soft Power.’ It says: “On September 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced the start of partial mobilization throughout Russia. Only those citizens who are in the reserve and, above all, those who served in the ranks of the armed forces, have certain military specialties, will be subject to conscription for military service....

International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokeswoman Safa Msehli said the new deaths have brought the death toll this year for the central Mediterranean route to about 1,500 migrants drowned. On Friday, a wooden boat capsized off Libya with at least 102 reported dead, Msehli said. At least eight people were rescued and returned to the shore. On Saturday, the Libyan coast guard discovered and retrieved at least 62 bodies of migrants from a second shipwreck that had occurred....

Fifty-two percent of those polled by The Wall Street Journal said they doubted Biden would seek a second term as president, with just 29 percent saying they think he would. Among those who identified themselves as Democrats, 41 percent said they believe he will run again, 32 percent said they didn’t think he would, and 26 percent were unsure. Biden and the White House have stated his intent to run in 2024, with some reports suggesting Biden will make a final decision on his 2024 candidacy around the midterm elections in November....

The virus, which was first reported in Wuhan, a city in China’s Hubei province, has spread to more than 766,000 people. More than 160,000 have recovered from infection, while over 36,800 have died around the world. Nearly 76,000 have recovered in China, while more than 3,300 have died. New York has been the state worst-hit by the outbreak, reporting more than 59,500 confirmed cases so far. There have been more than 33,700 cases reported in New York City alone, according to the latest figures from the office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo....

The number comes amid a time where the coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, has run rampant across the world. According to the tracker, over 1.9 million people have now been diagnosed with the virus, compared to the 500,000 recoveries. China, where the virus originated, remains the country with the most reported recoveries, with over 78,000, followed by Germany with over 72,000 and Spain with over 70,000. As the virus has continued to spread, becoming a global pandemic, the U....

Monday was set as the deadline for more than 3.5 million federal workers to get at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine without an option for frequent testing, the Associated Press reported. More than 90 percent of federal workers have received at least one vaccine dose ahead of the deadline, and the official said that the vast majority of the employees under the mandate are fully vaccinated. A smaller number of the workers have pending or authorized medical or religious exemptions....

Having been asked to assess whether some of history’s most-Oscared movies deserved all of their golden statues, my reportorial instincts told me to watch a few. But it takes more than a few hours in front of the TV to become as well versed in the history of the Academy Awards as Jim Piazza, co-author of “The Complete History of Oscar.” So I asked him for a little hindsight on “Ben-Hur” and “Titanic,” the two most-Oscared movies with 11 awards each; “West Side Story,” next with 10; and “Gigi” and “The Last Emperor,” both with nine....

However, the researchers stressed that their findings were not conclusive. More research, they said, needs to be conducted to confirm whether the correlation is directly caused by exposure to dogs, as well as to more clearly define the risk of developing psychiatric problems that may result from exposing children to pets. The study, published December 2 in the online journal PLOS One, was conducted to determine the relationship between the development of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and a person’s interaction with dogs and cats before age 13....

Club legend Dennis Bergkamp scored his 100th goal for Arsenal at their former home of Highbury on that occasion, contributing to a 2-0 win in a season when the Gunners retained the FA Cup. Mikel Arteta was almost nine years from making his debut for the club when Arsenal won that game, and one of his players returning for this game, Emile Smith Rowe, was two years old at the time....

That fixture took the Germany international to 100 Premier League appearances for the Gunners – with the occasion marked with an assist for Olivier Giroud’s match winner. Arsenal set PL record in WBA win He has been a regular source of creativity for Arsenal throughout his time in north London, with Arsene Wenger’s side often looking to him for inspiration. Ozil has not let them down, with 20 goals added to the cause over the course of three-and-a-half seasons....

The reward was Colorado’s best season since its 2010 MLS Cup win, and although it ended with Sunday’s Western Conference final loss to Seattle, there has been a lot for Mastroeni and the Rapids to be proud of, with much to build on moving into next year. This was Mastroeni’s third season in charge in Colorado and it’s fair to say the first two were challenging. After finishing second to last in the West in 2014, with the third-worst record in all of MLS, Mastroeni saw his side post a better points total last year but finish dead last in the conference, leaving the Rapids coach with a record of 17-33-18 after his first two seasons....