Growing tensions in the Caribbean could lead to a confrontation between U.S. combat aircraft and Venezuela’s hodgepodge of air defense systems.

For all the data at their fingertips, when Chelsea won the Club World Cup, there was no crystal ball for telling them the impact that summer success would have on this current campaign.

Bill Frisell, one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, was puzzled. At the conclusion of the first of his two Oct. 1 shows at the rebranded, reengineered and reborn New Orleans Jazz & Blues ...