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The first batch of 2026 NBA All-Stars have been revealed. The starting fives for each conference were officially announced Tuesday in the midst of the MLK Day quadruple-header on NBC and Peacock. Here’s a look at the 2026 All-Star starters: Eastern Conference Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks (10th All-Star appearance) Jaylen Brown, Boston Celtics (5th) Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks (3rd) Cade Cunningham, Detroit Pistons (2nd) Tyrese Maxey, Philadelphia 76ers (2nd) Western Conference Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors (12th) Nikola Jokić, Denver Nuggets (8th) Luka Dončić, Los Angeles Lakers (6th) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder (4th) Victory Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs (2nd) NBA Jan 12 LeBron James to wear commemorative jersey patch for remainder of regular season NBA Dec 3, 2025 Giannis Antetokounmpo discussing future with Bucks amid trade rumors: Report The All-Star starters are determined based on a combination of voting by fans (50% of the vote), current NBA players (25%) and a media panel (25%). The seven reserves for each conference will be selected by NBA head coaches, with that group to be unveiled at a later date. Jokić and Antetokounmpo were the top scorers in the combined vote for each conference. The players who just missed the cut included Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards and Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell. Here’s a look at the full results: This year’s All-Star Game will look a little different than past years, with a revamped U.S. vs. World format. There will be two U.S. teams and one World team competing in a round-robin tournament featuring four 12-minute games. The 2026 NBA All-Star Game is set for Sunday, Feb. 15, airing on NBC and Peacock. All events from All-Star Weekend, including the Slam Dunk Contest and Three-Point Contest, will be on NBC for the first time since 2002. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

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Welcome back to Monday Barf Bag. In the latest chapter of Bari Weiss running CBS News into the ground, the New York Times on Saturday revealed the details of a conversation between White House Propaganda Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the network’s new MAGA-thumping anchor, Tony Dokoupil. “He [Trump] said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full,’” Leavitt told Dokoupil and his colleagues on Tuesday, minutes after they finished filming a 13-minute interview with the president. They discussed Iran, grocery prices, and why Trump is suing former Fed Chair Jay Powell. “Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” Dokoupil replied, to which Leavitt responded, “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” Executive Producer Kim Harvey then replied, “Oh, great, OK!” and Dokoupil said, “He [Trump] always says that!” Nothing says we live in a healthy and functioning democracy like the president and White House press secretary openly threatening the media! --> NYT: Karoline Leavitt warned Tony Dokoupil and the CBS News team to air their Donald Trump interview in full, or “we’ll sue your ass off.” [image or embed] — Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) January 18, 2026 at 12:33 AM The NYT writes that some of the CBS staffers thought Leavitt was joking, but while you can hear some nervous chuckles in the recording, she remains silent. (Not to be that person… but can she laugh? Like, will her face physically let her?) And barring the fact that normally, it’d be incredibly alarming for an administration to be caught red-handed threatening big media, these threats feel stupidly unnecessary for CBS, which—since Weiss took over as editor-in-chief in October—has proven more than happy to become a state-sponsored news network. Last week, the outlet published a piece claiming that the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good suffered internal injuries, only citing two anonymous “US officials” as the source. While other networks and publications treated the administration’s propaganda with skepticism, CBS published it as breaking news. The Guardian reported that the decision drew “huge internal concern.” Leavitt, for her part, and like everyone else in MAGA, has always hated the press. During an interview with TikTok creator Kate Mackz in October, she showed off a meme hanging in her office of a man refusing a brain and saying, “No thanks, I won’t be needing that. I believe everything the legacy media shows.” Some of her latest hits include giving MAGA activist Riley Gaines a seat in the Press Briefing Room on Friday, defending Trump when he called a journalist “piggy” for asking about the Epstein files, and going off on a columnist at The Hill, and calling him a “left-wing hack” after he asked a question about Good’s death. Currently, Trump is embroiled in lawsuits against the NYT, the Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. He infamously sued CBS’ parent company, Paramount, in 2024, over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris—they settled with him for $16 million in July. In a statement to the NYT, Leavitt defended the threats to CBS by saying, “The American people deserve to watch President Trump’s full interviews, unedited, no cuts. And guess what? The interview ran in full.” CBS also defended its spinelessness, saying in a separate statement, “The moment we booked this interview, we made the independent decision to air it unedited and in its entirety.” Sure, Jan. More barf: Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and other manosphere losers carpooled to a party in Miami, Florida, over the weekend. On their aux? Kanye West’s “Heil Hitler.” [Miami Herald] Elon Musk funneled $10 million into Kentucky’s Senate race. [Axios] ICE is using a new AI tool. Somehow, it’s even stupider than the recruits. [NBC News] Trump has added Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Tony Blair, and Jared Kushner to his “Board of Peace,” whatever that means. [The Times] Under Kash Patel, the FBI has “added payback to its…

At the end of 2025, Japanese auto manufacturer Nissan announced, to relatively little fanfare, that after almost 20 years in production it was discontinuing its smallest and most affordable model of sedan, the Nissan Versa. It was not exactly mourned by the types of auto hobbyists who read car magazines: If you’d ever driven a Versa rental car, you’d probably understand. It was a tiny thing even by subcompact standards, and not rich in features, style or horsepower. But what it was, was a relatively cheap and affordable new sedan you could purchase in the United States. And that has now become an essentially extinct thing. With the death of the Nissan Versa, there is now not a single new car in the U.S. that has a sticker price—even for a base model, with no frills—of less than $20,000. The Versa was the last, with its $18,585 base price for the 2025 model clocking in notably lower than any other vehicle positioned at the value side of the market. The next cheapest cars from Nissan, for instance, are the Sentra sedan or the Kicks compact SUV, and you can expect to pay at least $23,000, if not more, for a new one of either. The result is a market where new, cheap cars intended for value-conscious consumers have ceased to exist, replaced by a constant drive toward premiumization. If that feels like a familiar thing to be witnessing, then your sense of déjà vu is warranted—it’s the basis of the K-shaped economic recovery theory. We’ve discussed the idea of the K-shaped economy before, in greater detail than I’ll go into here, in pieces like Jacob Weindling’s astute analysis of economic sentiment and the “vibecession.” In short, it describes the concept of an economic recovery where two different groups—high-earners and low-earners in America—experience very different senses of “recovery.” The high-earning group, which has the advantage of say, having money invested in the stock market and assets to appreciate, finds themselves lifted upward into greater prosperity during the economic recovery. The lower-earning masses, meanwhile, find themselves with less spending power, unable to build wealth and generally feeling hopeless about the prospect of affording everyday necessities. And in America, a nation that is by and large the antithesis of “walkable,” where the ideal scenario of having all your necessary services and businesses within walking distance somehow gets turned into a MAGA conspiracy theory about the horrors of “15 minute cities,” a car is sadly one of those necessities. And cars, like so many other things, just continue to get more expensive: Kelley Blue Book reports that new car buyers paid an average of $50,326 for their vehicles in December, which was an all-time record high. This is reflective of the sticker prices on those new cars rising, but also the fact that cheaper new car options just keep being discontinued. Before the axing of the Versa, both the Mitsubishi Mirage and Kia Forte were discontinued in 2024. Both retailed new for less than $20,000. Raising car prices. Tariff the cheap car to death, leaving more expensive cars for sale. #Tariffs #Trumpflation --> [image or embed] — rgbose.bsky.social (@rgbose.bsky.social) Jan 16, 2026 at 12:05 PM The obvious move is that consumers trying to save money will pivot to buying used cars instead of new ones, but even used car prices will inevitably rise when, over time, the pool of used cars is made up exclusively of brands that started out with higher MSRPs. Ask anyone who’s bought a used SUV for $25,000 or $30,000. This pushes the more cash-strapped consumer—who represents the vast majority of Americans, by the way—toward ever older, junkier, less reliable vehicles, because none of the manufacturers are producing vehicles actually aimed at this massive demographic. One might wonder, why is it not worthwhile for the auto manufacturers to continue producing these higher value models? Why leave money on the table and ignore a large percentage of the market? On some…