Three Time NBA All-Star Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns) opens his home to Architectural Digest to give a special tour of his desert abode. He shines light on more than his home as he gives a little insight into his more humble beginnings.
Devin Booker Shows Off His Impeccable Desert Home
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“We Might Just Get Hit With a RICO": Drake’s Lawsuit Era.
Drake is currently a defendant in a civil RICO class‑action lawsuit in the United States, centered on his relationship with the online gambling platform Stake.us and alleged manipulation of his music streams. The complaint, filed in federal court in Virginia, claims Drake, streamer Adin Ross, Australian national George Nguyen and Stake.us formed an “enterprise” that promoted illegal online gambling and used the site’s internal tipping system to move money in ways that broke state and federal law
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Kidnapped or Captured? Venezuelan President Whisked Away by U.S. Forces
U.S. forces’ capture of Nicolás Maduro has become one of the most contested moments of Donald Trump’s second term, with supporters calling it a long‑overdue arrest and critics describing it as a cross‑border kidnapping of a sitting head of state. The operation, launched in the early hours of January 3 under the name Operation Absolute Resolve, combined airstrikes on Venezuelan air‑defense and military sites with a special‑forces raid on a compound outside Caracas where intelligence agencies beli
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Remembering James Van Der Beek: Dawson’s Creek Star Passes Away at 48
James Van Der Beek, best known for playing Dawson Leery on Dawson’s Creek, has died at 48 after a years‑long battle with colorectal cancer. His wife, Kimberly Van Der Beek, announced that he “passed peacefully this morning,” saying he met his final days with “courage, faith, and grace,” and asked for privacy for their family in an Instagram post titled “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning.” Van Der Beek revealed in November 2024 that he had been diagnosed with st
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After Sonya Massey’s Death, An Illinois Jury Delivers a Rare Murder Verdict
In July 2024, Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson responded to a 911 call from 36‑year‑old Sonya Massey, a Black woman in Springfield, Illinois, who had reported a possible intruder at her home. Body‑camera footage shows deputies asking her to check a pot of hot water on the stove, warning “we don’t need a fire while we’re here,” then Grayson shouting that he would shoot her “right in the face” before ordering her to drop the pot and firing as she ducked and apologized; investigators l
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Seventeen’s Tiny Desk Proves K‑Pop Has Officially Cracked the “Serious Music” Canon
Seventeen just made Tiny Desk history as the first K‑pop group to perform an in‑office concert at NPR, delivering a nine‑song medley with a live band squeezed behind the famous shelves. The set, which Music Connection highlighted in its January “Song Biz” column, strips away arena‑scale production in favor of tight harmonies, reworked choreography for a cramped stage and arrangements tailored to Tiny Desk’s intimate, musician‑forward format. With only part of the group present and an audience o
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The Max Mara Art Prize for Women Goes Global, Starting With Jakarta
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is entering a new phase, bringing in New York–based curator Cecilia Alemani to oversee its 10th edition and adopting a nomadic format that debuts with Jakarta’s Museum MACAN. As noted in ArtAsiaPacific’s “Weekly News Roundup: January 26, 2026”, the prize, launched in 2005 for women artists working in the UK and long tied to London’s Whitechapel Gallery, will now travel to a different country for each edition while still offering a six‑month residency in Italy and
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