*Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators faced off in streets blocked by burning barricades in several provincial cities on Thursday as protests escalated against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government. At least five people have died since the violence broke out last week, the most serious unrest since Maduro was narrowly elected …

*U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman — President Barack Obama’s top trade official — ventured into it Tuesday evening, meeting with a group of liberal leaders in a ritual known as Common Purpose — an off-the-record weekly gathering that features an administration official and representatives of the Democratic coalition, from labor …

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The United States intervening in China’s Internet censorship practices. That’s what a group of Chinese reporters/bloggers called for in a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the US Embassy in Beijing. They asked Kerry to help ‘tear down the firewall.” That’s the Great Firewall …

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SB Nation’s puppet broadcast team is here with Wednesday’s medal count. Let’s talk about the event where the U.S. won gold, shall we?

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The NFL Combine is a weird animal: it makes for bad television and what gets televised isn’t all that important, but the event is a vital cog in the NFL offseason. Here’s what to expect this weekend. Photo Credits: Brian Spurlock/USA Today Sports Dale Zanine/USA Today Sports Jeff Blake/USA Today …

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