NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Saturday, January 3, 2026

Spoilers ahead! We've warned you. We mean it. Read no further until youreallywant some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of today'sNYT 'Connections' hints and answers for#937 on Saturday,January3, 2026.

If you've been having trouble with any of theconnections or wordsin Saturday's puzzle, you're not alone, and these hints should definitely help you out. Plus, I'll reveal the answers further down.

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Hints About Today's NYT Connections Categories on Saturday, January 3

1. Sir, yes, sir!

2. Pantaloons.

3. Chart toppers by a good girl gone bad.

4. Not dry.

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Ready for the answers? Scroll below this image (the image that represents your very appreciatedpatience!).

Today's Connections Game Answers for Saturday, January 3:

1.ARMY RANKS:CAPITAIN, GENERAL, MAJOR, PRIVATE2.LEGWEAR IN THE SINGULAR:JEAN, JOGGER, OVERALL, SLACK3.RIHANNA #1 HITS:DIAMOND, SOS, UMBRELLA, WORK4.WET___:BAR, BLANKET, NURSE, WILLY

How'd you do?

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Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Saturday, January 3, 2026

Move over,Wordle,Connections, andMini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times's recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on the NYT website and app.

With daily themes and "spangrams" to discover, this is the latest addicting game to cross off your to-do list before a new one pops up 24 hours later.

We'll cover exactly how to play Strands, hints for today's Spangram, and all of the answers for Strands #671 on Saturday,January3.

How To Play Strands

According to the New York Times, here's exactly how to play Strands:

Find theme words to fill the board.

• Theme words stay highlighted in blue when found.

• Drag or tap letters to create words. If tapping, double-tap the last letter to submit.

• Theme words fill the board entirely. No theme words overlap.

Find the "spangram."

• The spangram describes the puzzle's theme and touches two opposite sides of the board. It may be two words.

• The spangram highlights in yellow when found.

• An example spangram with corresponding theme words: PEAR, FRUIT, BANANA, APPLE, etc.

Need a hint?

• Find non-theme words to get hints.

• For every three non-theme words you find, you earn a hint.

• Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word's letter order.

What Is Today's Strands Hint for the Theme: "I've seen that before!"

A hint for today's Strands game: Not the old stuff.

What Are Today's NYT Strands Hints?

Warning: Spoilers ahead!In today's puzzle, there aresixtheme words to find (including the spangram). Here are the first two letters for each word:

• SE

• NO

• FR

• IN

• OR

• BR (SPANGRAM)

NYT Strands Spangram Hint: Is It Vertical or Horizontal?

Today's Spangram is a mixture of vertical and horizontal.

NYT Strands Spangram Answer Today

Today's Spangram answer on Today's NYT 'Strands' Hints, Spangram and Answers for Saturday, January 3, 2026, isBREAKNEWGROUND.

What Are Today's NYT Strands Answers, Word List for Saturday, January 3?

• SEMINAL

• NOVEL

• FRESH

• INVENTIVE

• ORIGINAL

• SPANGRAM: BREAKNEWGROUND

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NYT Connections Sports Edition Today: Hints and Answers for Saturday, January 3, 2026

Get excited—there's another New York Times game to add to your daily routine! Those of us word game addicts who alreadyWordle,Connections,Strandsand theMini Crosswordnow haveConnections Sports Editionto add to the mix.So, if you're looking for some hints and answers for today's Connections Sports Edition on Saturday,January3, 2026, you've come to the right place.

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What Is Connections Sports Edition?

Connections Sports Edition is just like the regular Connections word puzzle, in that it's a game that resets at 12 a.m. EST each day and has 16 different words listed. It's up to you to figure out each group of four words that belong to a certain category, with four categories in total.

This new version is sports-specific, however, as a partnership between The New York Times and The Athletic.

As the NYT site instructs, for Connections Sports Edition, you "group sports terms that share a common thread."

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Hints for Today's Connections Sports Edition Categories on January 3, 2026

Here are some hints about the four categories to help you figure out the word groupings.

• Yellow: Gridiron protection.

• Green: Fire it in there.

• Blue: The envelope, please.

• Purple: Scary weather.

Here Are Today's Connections Sports Edition Categories

OK, time for a second hint…we'll give you the actual categories now. Spoilers below!

• Yellow: PARTS OF A FOOTBALL HELMET

• Green: BASEBALL PITCHES

• Blue: OSCAR NOMINEES FOR PLAYING A BOXER

• Purple: ____ STORM

If you're looking for the answers, no worries—we've got them below. So, don't scroll any further if you don't want to see the solutions!The answers to today's Connections Sports Edition #467 are coming up next.Related:15 Fun Games Like Connections to Play Every Day

What Are the Answers to Connections Sports Edition Today?

• PARTS OF A FOOTBALL HELMET: CHIN STRAP, FACE MASK, PADDING, SHELL

• BASEBALL PITCHES: CHANGEUP, CUTTER, SLIDER, SPLITTER

• OSCAR NOMINEES FOR PLAYING A BOXER: DE NIRO, STALLONE, SWANK, WASHINGTON

• ____ STORM: COURT, HANNAH, RED, SEATTLE

Don't worry if you didn't get them this time—we've all been there.

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Fire engulfs Denver apartment building under construction, causing power outages

Jan 2 (Reuters) - A large fire broke out in an apartment complex under construction ​in southeast Denver near the Glendale area ‌on Friday evening, causing significant power outages in the community, ‌according to Glendale's police department.

Flames tore through the building's frame as thick smoke rose into the night sky, while fire trucks and flashing lights ⁠filled the street, ‌in images posted by Denver's fire department on X.

One firefighter was injured and ‍was taken to Denver Health, a local hospital, the fire department said in the post.

More than 100 firefighters ​were at the scene of the fire, Robert ‌Murphy, division chief of operations for Denver Fire told ABC affiliate KMGH TV.

"This fire is still not out. Our firefighters are still dumping water on it. It's, you know, deep-seated now ⁠within this building so we're ​trying to reach those deep-seated ​locations and we're going to be here a while and with us here, they're ‍going to ⁠keep Leetsdale (Drive) closed for sure," Murphy said.

Authorities have set up a temporary shelter at an ⁠event center in nearby Glendale, the police said.

(Reporting by ‌Ruchika Khanna and Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; ‌Editing by Susan Fenton)

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Jets and blasts shake Venezuelan capital

The U.S. launched military operations against Venezuela overnight on Jan. 3, according to media reports.

The blasts came after a United States military buildup in the Caribbean and threats by PresidentDonald Trumpagainst Venezuela's government and its president,Nicolás Maduro. Venezuelan state mediadistributed a statement from Maduro's governmentthat blamed the U.S. for the attacks in the capital of Caracas and in the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira.

The Pentagon and U.S. Southern Command declined to comment to USA TODAY, referring inquiries to the White House, which did not immediately respond to queries. The extent of the operation and its goals were not immediately clear.

The overnight explosions follow a wave of attacks by the U.S. military onalleged drug-trafficking vesselsin the Caribbean and Pacific that began in early September.

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A sizeable American flotilla has amassed in the southern Caribbean Sea, including multiple guided missile destroyers, a missile cruiser, and a Marine Corps amphibious ready group aboard Navy landing ships. The U.S. publicly moved the USS Gerald R. Ford – the world's largest aircraft carrier – into the region in recent months as well.

Just days before the apparent attack, President Donald Trump confirmed that theCIA conducted a land strikeagainst a dock facility in the country.

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The administration has attacked at least 35 boats traversing international waters, killing at least 115 people − many of them Venezuelans. Trump and other officials have defended the boat strikes as an attempt to stop illegal narcotics, specifically fentanyl, from flooding into the country.

"The Biden administration preferred the kid gloves approach, allowing millions of people — including dangerous cartels and unvetted Afghans — to flood our communities with drugs and violence," Defense SecretaryPete Hegsethsaid in a Nov. 29 post on X, when helashed out at a reportthat he ordered U.S. military officials to leave no survivors during one of the Caribbean sea strikes.

Lawmakers from both parties have criticized the Trump administration's military attacks for providing no intelligence briefings or other evidence about what the vessels are carrying. Some members of Congress, former military officials and legal analysts have said the strikes are illegal and amount to extrajudicial killings thatviolate international human rights law.

Some of those lawmakers also criticized Saturday's strikes and the administration's silence in their immediate wake.

"We have no vital national interests in Venezuela to justify war," said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii,on X. "We should have learned not to stumble into another stupid adventure by now. And he's not even bothering to tell the American public what the hell is going on."

Trump has described Maduro, who has been in power since 2013 after the death of populist Hugo Chávez, as running Venezuela like a"narco-terrorist" drug cartelthat is directly responsible for American deaths.

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Death toll rises to at least 10 in violence around Iran protests

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Violence surroundingprotests in Iransparked by the Islamic Republic's ailing economy killed two other people, authorities said Saturday, raising the death toll in the demonstrations to at least 10 as they showed no signs of stopping.

The new deaths followU.S. President Donald Trump warning Iranon Friday that if Tehran "violently kills peaceful protesters," the United States "will come to their rescue." While it remains unclear how and if Trump will intervene, his comments sparked an immediate, angry response from officials within the theocracy threatening to target American troops in the Mideast.

The weeklong protests, have become the biggest in Iran since 2022, when the death of22-year-old Mahsa Aminiin police custody triggered nationwide demonstrations. However, the protests have yet to be as widespread and intense as those surrounding the death of Amini, who was detained over not wearing her hijab, or headscarf, to the liking of authorities.

The deaths overnight into Saturday involved a new level of violence. In Qom, home to the country's major Shiite seminaries, a grenade exploded, killing a man there, the state-owned IRAN newspaper reported. It quoted security officials alleging the man carried the grenade to attack people in the city, some 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of the capital, Tehran.

Online videos from Qom purportedly showed fires in the street overnight.

The second death happened in the town of Harsin, some 370 kilometers (230 miles) southwest of Tehran. There, the newspaper said a member of the Basij, the all-volunteer arm of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, died in a gun and knife attack in the town in Kermanshah province.

Demonstrations have reached over 100 locations in 22 of Iran's 31 provinces, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported.

Iran's civilian government under reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian has been trying to signal it wants to negotiate with protesters. However, Pezeshkian has acknowledged there is not much he can do as Iran's rial has rapidly depreciated, with $1 now costing some 1.4 million rials. That sparked the initial protests.

The protests, taking root in economic issues, have heard demonstrators chant against Iran's theocracy as well. Tehran has had little luck in propping up its economy in the months sinceits June war with Israelin whichthe U.S. also bombed Iranian nuclear sites in Iran.

Iran recently said it wasno longer enriching uraniumat any site in the country, trying to signal to the West that it remains open to potential negotiations over its atomic program to ease sanctions. However, those talks have yet to happen as Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu havewarned Tehran against reconstituting its atomic program.

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32 Years Ago, This Now Rarely Seen Country Star Earned Her First No. 1

Music iconFaith Hillis a well-known name incountry musicthese days, but it wasn't until 1994, 32 years ago, that she began her rise in the industry, nabbing her first No. 1country songat the beginning of that year.

Hill's debut single, "Wild One," which came out in late 1993 on her first album,Take Me as I Am, was an almost instant hit.

The track quickly took over radio airwaves, and on Jan. 1, 1994, it took the top spot on theBillboardHot Country Singles & Tracks chart, becoming Hill's first No. 1 hit.

"Wild One" held the top position for four weeks, while other singles from the album weren't far behind. Only a few months later, on April 30, the track "Piece of My Heart" became her second No. 1 country song.

While there were no other No. 1 songs from the album, the title track, "Take Me as I Am," impressively reached No. 2 on theBillboardHot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

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Of course, this was only the start of Hill's long-lasting and successful country career, and throughout the 32 years since then, she has continued to release popular and memorablemusic.

Hill has had a total of nine No. 1 country songs so far. Along with the previously-mentioned tracks, this list also includes "Breathe," "The Way You Love Me," "This Kiss," "It Matters To Me," "Mississippi Girl," and "It's Your Love," the last of which is a duet with her husband, fellow country singerTim McGraw.

She has also hadsuccesson theBillboardHot 100 chart, with "There You'll Be," "It's Your Love," "The Way You Love Me," "This Kiss," and "Breathe" all entering the top 10. Her highest-charting song was "Breathe," which reached No. 1 on this chart.

While fans of Hill have plenty of great music from the past to listen to, many are hoping to see the singer return to music soon. In recent years, she's kept herlifequite private, only attending occasional events with herfamily.

Her last studio album to come out wasThe Rest of Our Life, her duet album with McGraw that was released on Nov. 17, 2017.

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