There was only really one way for Miami Heat veteran Kevin Love to describe the team’s loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night.

Miami led Los Angeles 48-43 at the half and then allowed 66 points in the second half to eventually lose 109-98. The loss snapped Miami’s three-game winning streak. The team had a three-game losing streak before that.

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Love played 15 minutes and scored nine points and grabbed three rebounds. He used OnlyFans model Bonnie Blue to describe the team’s performance. He posted a photo of her holding a sign with the number 1,000 on it. 

For Blue, it signified how many men she slept with. For Love, it described the Heat’s defense.

"When someone asks me how f---ed our 2nd half was last night…" he captioned the photo.

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Love has been using his Instagram to joke about some of the Heat’s issues over the last few weeks. Most notably, the team has been dealing with Jimmy Butler’s trade request and team president Pat Riley’s unwillingness to deal the star forward.

Miami has been able to stay above water in tumultuous times. The Heat dropped to 20-18 with the loss.

The Heat sit in the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference – only a half-game behind the Milwaukee Bucks to avoid the play-in tournament.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday that flags at the U.S. Capitol will be raised to full-staff next Monday, Jan. 20, to mark President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

The move comes despite the official order by President Biden after the Dec. 29 death of former President Jimmy Carter that flags across the country would fly at half-staff for a 30-day mourning period.

"On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump. The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter," Johnson said in a statement.

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Johnson is a strong supporter of Trump, and the president-elect's recent backing of him helped Johnson diffuse opposition by some far-right Republicans to his re-election as speaker in the new Congress. 

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According to the U.S. flag code, U.S. flags are flown at half-staff for a 30-day period to mark the passing of a current or former president, at federal government buildings, military installations and vessels and at U.S. embassies and other facilities around the world.

Trump earlier this month claimed on social media that "Democrats are all ‘giddy’" about flags being flown at half-staff during his inauguration.

"Nobody wants to see this," Trump argued. "No American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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The U.S. flag code is not mandatory, which means that Trump could technically override it once he is inaugurated as president.

The Associated Press observed that a flag at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, was flying at full height on Monday.

The flag had been flying at half-staff but was raised in the days after Carter's funeral service at National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and burial in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, both of which took place on Thursday.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that flags at the state Capitol building in Austin and at all state office buildings would also be raised to full-staff next Monday to mark Trump's inauguration.

Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was interrupted by at least three protesters during his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. 

"Veterans are committing suicide and are homeless, but we send money to bomb children in Gaza," one female protester wearing fatigues shouted as she was escorted from the hearing, Fox News Digital video shows. 

Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday morning, when he was grilled by lawmakers ahead of a committee vote and final confirmation vote on his nomination as secretary of Defense. 

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An elderly man who was handcuffed with zipties was also seen being escorted out of the hearing. Another man, also appearing to wear fatigues, was seen being carried out by Capitol Police. 

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Hegseth, a former Fox News host, has spent his days in recent weeks on Capitol Hill meeting with senators to rally support as he battled allegations of sexual misconduct, excessive drinking and mismanaging a veterans nonprofit organization. Hegseth has denied the allegations and vowed that he won't drink "a drop of alcohol" if confirmed to Trump's Cabinet.

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked Hegseth about the protesters during his hearing, including regarding the war in Israel that has been ongoing since 2023. 

"Another protester, and I think this one was a member of Code Pink, which, by the way, is a Chinese communist front group these days, said that you support Israel's war in Gaza. I support Israel's existential war in Gaza. I assume, like me and President Trump, you support that war as well," Cotton said. 

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"I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas," Hegseth responded. 

"And the third protester said something about 20 years of genocide. I assume that's our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do you think our troops are committing genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan?" Cotton continued. 

"Senator, I do not. I think … our troops, as you know, as so many in this committee know, did the best they could with what they had. … And tragically, the outcome we saw in Afghanistan under the Biden administration put a stain on that, but it doesn't put a stain on what those men and women did in uniform, as you know full well, Senator," Hegseth responded. 

Diamond Comics Distributors, one of the biggest companies involved in getting graphic novels into physical retailers for purchase, is filing for bankruptcy and scaling its business back as the industry braces itself for a new wave of economic challenges.

In a letter sent to comics retailers and publishers today, Diamond president Chuck Parker announced that the company has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and plans to sell off its Alliance Game Distributors arm to Universal in order to “protect the most vital aspects of our business.”

“This decision was not made lightly, and I understand that this news may be as difficult to hear as it is for me to share,” Parker explained. “The Diamond leadership team and I have worked tirelessly to avoid this outcome but the financial challenges we face have left us with no other viable option.”

Founded in 1982 by Stephen A. Geppi (who still serves as CEO), Diamond became a heavyweight in the comics business by securing a number of exclusive distribution agreements with various publishing houses like DC, Marvel, and Image. For decades, Diamond — which also publishes its Previews magazine showcasing upcoming titles — was instrumental in bringing comics to market and played a huge role in determining a book’s success because of how Previews influenced retailer orders.

News about Diamond’s bankruptcy comes weeks after the company suddenly shuttered its flagship fulfillment center in Plattsburgh, NY, which the company’s VP of retailer services Chris Powell described as a necessary step to address longstanding operational issues that made its distribution process unsustainable.

“Ideally, changes would have been planned and tested while we continued to operate as we had been at Plattsburgh,” Powell said. “With that no longer an option, we must make changes and test them with live data and shipments while trying to minimize the impact on retailers.”

In recent years, many of Diamond’s bigger name publishing partners have dropped them as the company failed to meet expected delivery deadlines to retailers, which left stores struggling to meet customer demand. Given the tough time Diamond has been having as of late, the announcement that it’s filing for bankruptcy isn’t entirely surprising. It sounds like the company’s leadership very much wants to stay in the comics game as long as possible, but as it stands now, it seems like all Diamond can really do is to staunch the bleeding as much as it can.

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• Jeff Bezos sorts decisions into two categories — those you can walk back, and those you can't.
• The concept of "one-way door" and "two-way door" decisions is meant to help big companies move quickly.
• AWS CEO Matt Garman recently talked on a podcast about the decision-making framework.

Have you ever wondered how Amazon calculates risky decisions? Founder Jeff Bezos famously simplified the process by sorting decisions into two camps — one-way doors, and two-way doors.

The concept, intended to help a big company categorize decisions and move quickly, appears to be alive and well within Amazon four years after Bezos announced he was stepping down as CEO.

Matt Garman, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, broke down how he applies Bezos's decision-making model on a recent episode of The Verge's "Decoder" podcast.

"Well, part of my job is to make the one-way door decisions," Garman said. "So I think that framework is, it's a useful one to think about. And just to clarify, in case you're not aware of it, largely that's how you go fast. You try to define what those decisions are."

Bezos has previously said that a common pitfall for companies is employing a "one-size-fits-all" model — sacrificing speed by not knowing what to run up the flagpole, and when. Ideally, two-way-door decisions require minimal executive oversight, if any.

Garman agrees.

"You want the people that are owning those teams at the edges of the organization that really own those products to make important decisions because they know best about their product," Garman said. "But they're also decisions that could be undone if we decide that it wasn't the right thing to do."

Garman said he's rarely the expert on any particular subject AWS is working on — and doesn't try to pretend otherwise, instead devoting time to absorbing their views.

"And so I make sure that I listen and leave space for those experts who spend all of their days thinking about that to weigh in as to how they've come up with their recommendation, how they think about what we should do," Garman said.

The cloud services CEO also asks questions. Garman said he sees his "non-expert" point of view as essential to the decision-making process, as a zoomed-out focus can help him bridge knowledge gaps between one area of the business and another.

"I try to make sure that, as an organization, we've connected those dots and then ask the right sets of questions," Garman said.

Garman said his role leading AWS, ultimately, is to keep things moving by handing down the final word. After all — speed is of the essence.

"And then if there's a tiebreaker decision I'll have to do it so that we can move fast," Garman said. "I think the place we don't want to be in is to sit there and just debate forever. At some point, you need a tiebreaker decision, and that's what I view my job as doing as well."

• Brittany Mahomes is the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
• They have been together since 2012, marrying in 2022.
• They have three children.

As the Kansas City Chiefs head into the divisional round of playoffs for the 10th consecutive year, there's one fan in the stands who's continued to garner attention all season long — well, two if you count Taylor Swift.

That's none other than Brittany Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

While Brittany Mahomes has been a sideline staple since Patrick's early days in the league (he was drafted by Kansas City in 2017), she's also been the subject of continued online scrutiny for her behavior on game days, friendship with Taylor Swift, and alleged support of Donald Trump.

Still, Brittany's continued to share her life on social media, and on Monday, she documented the Mahomes family's latest milestone: the birth of their daughter, Golden Raye Mahomes, on Sunday, January 12, whose arrival fittingly aligned with the Chiefs' first round bye week.

Now, as the Mahomes family balances life with their latest addition and hopes for the first-ever Super Bowl three-peat, here's everything you need to know about Brittany Mahomes.

• Apple's global market share of smartphone sales slipped in 2024.
• Apple's AI, Apple Intelligence, isn't available in Greater China, impacting sales.
• Chinese competitor Xiaomi grew the fastest, according to Counterpoint data.

Apple's 2024 was defined by significant launches like the Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence, but the iPhone lost ground to smartphone competitors last year.

While some of its competitors saw fast growth in 2024, Apple's global market share fell to 18% — a one percentage point drop year over year, according to data from Counterpoint. The amount of phones it sold fell 2%, while the overall market grew 4%.

The iPhone 16, which Apple described as its first model built for AI, was released in September, and some analysts expected it to be a driver of sales as people upgraded to get all the benefits of Apple Intelligence. Wedbush Securities' Dan Ives coined it a "golden" upgrade cycle — but it hasn't happened yet.

Apple Intelligence isn't available in a key market for Apple: Greater China. The iPhone maker is reportedly working to collaborate with a local tech company to bring its AI to smartphones in the region. Counterpoint said Chinese competitor Xiaomi grew handset sales the fastest in 2024.

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Samsung had the largest global market share with 19% in 2024. That was due, in part, to its AI-enabled S24 series, which outperformed models that came before it, Counterpoint said.

Apple was notably late with its entrance into AI. Apple Intelligence came months after competitors like Meta and Microsoft launched their genAI features and years after OpenAI's ChatGPT took the tech industry by storm in 2022.

The Apple Intelligence features that have rolled out so far have been met with mixed reviews, and its availability is limited to iPhone 15 Pro models or later. Apple said users can expect to see more AI-powered tools come out in April.

Apple has laid the foundation of its AI push, but the challenges it faced in 2024 are still present in 2025.

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