January 19th, 2026

• ​Gaza Palestinian technocratic committee says it will pursue 'peace, democracy, justice' - Panel tasked to run daily affairs says mission is to 'rebuild Gaza not just in infrastructure but also in spirit,' embraces peace as path 'to true Palestinian rights, self determination'
• Trump invites leaders of Egypt, Turkey, Argentina to join Gaza peace board
• Jordanian Foreign Ministry: King considering Trump invitation to join Peace Council
• Pakistan and Jordan confirm being invited to sit on Trump's Gaza Board of Peace - Islamabad says it is committed to finding a 'lasting solution to the Palestine issue,' as Trump's various Gaza committees take shape with several anti-Israel countries involved
• Six countries confirm US invitations to Gaza peace board - Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Pakistan, Hungary and India among nations invited
• World leaders show caution on Trump's broader 'Board of Peace' amid fears for UN - 'It's a 'Trump United Nations' that ignores the fundamentals of the UN charter,' one diplomat says of initiative currently focused on Gaza
• 'Don't let it happen': As Board of Peace formed, last hostage's parents say they're forsaken - Itzik and Talik Gvili say Trump administration 'rushing to rebuild Gaza without forcing Hamas to uphold its part of the deal'
• Israel far-right ministers reject US-backed postwar Gaza panel - Finance minister says Netanyahu should back annexation and settlement, and attacks Turkey and Qatar's role on Gaza 'executive board'
• Government says High Court has no authority to force state inquiry into October 7
• Israelis hit by soaring food prices as producers, grocers feast on wartime windfall - Manufacturers and supermarkets have been feeding off a captive public worried about missiles rather than rising Krembo costs
• Ministerial committee advances bill to make AG take lie detector test every 2 years - Bill says 'trust in law enforcement is very low' due to leaks, selective enforcement, personal interests, as Otzma Yehudit MK continues coalition push against Gali Baharav-Miara
• Pennsylvania's Shapiro: Harris team asked if I'd ever been 'a double agent for Israel'
• Settlers beat Palestinians and activists, set fire to homes in West Bank Bedouin camp
• Rapid escalation, caught off guard: Part of why Netanyahu asked Trump to slow down on Iran - Reports indicated that Israel may have been taken by surprise that Trump had been aloof at first, but was suddenly contemplating an attack on Wednesday
• 'All options on the table': US boosts presence in Middle East as Iran strike remains possibility - Netanyahu on Sunday convened several ministers within the senior defense echelon to discuss recent developments in the region. Israeli officials believe that a "US strike on Iran is still an option."
• Iran's President Blames U.S. for Nation's Crises, Threatens 'All-Out War' over Any Move Against Khamenei
• Iran's leader Khamenei accuses Trump of inciting deadly protests
• In Iran, Streets Full of Soldiers and Warnings From Loudspeakers - Protests are replaced by virtual martial law as regime reasserts control after quelling an uprising aimed at ending its rule
• Report: Iran accused of killing 16,500 in sweeping 'genocide' crackdown - 'Utter slaughter' described as accounts of gunfire, blindings and executions by hanging make their way out of Iran
• 'New level of brutality': Iran doctors put death toll in suppressed uprising at over 16,500 - Network of physicians say at least 330,000 injured by regime forces; eyewitnesses tell UK newspaper of IRGC pouring gunfire into crowds
• Iran admits over 5,000 killed in protests, doctors say death toll more than triple
• Iran's supreme leader admits thousands were killed in protests supported by 'criminal' Trump
• Iranian security forces deployed chemical substances on freedom protestors: U.K. report
• Iranian state television hacked, screens broadcast pro-protest messages
• Iranian regime elites allegedly move millions of dollars out of country amid sanctions - Capital flight emerges as Trump administration targets regime leaders behind violent crackdown on protesters
• Thousands march in Los Angeles to denounce Iranian 'genocide in the making'
• Senator Ted Cruz: "There is a very real possibility, that in the next six months the regimes in Iran, in Venezuela, and Cuba will all fall"
• Kurdish commander urges US to intervene in Syria, says he'd welcome Israeli help
• Syria's military has seized swathes of Kurdish-held territory
• Syrian army continues advance against Kurdish-held towns despite US calls against it
• Syria agrees ceasefire with Kurdish-led forces after two weeks of clashes
• Syria declares ceasefire with Kurdish-led SDF after intense military push
• US lauds ceasefire in Syria after gov't forces overrun large parts of Kurdish-held territory
• Syrian army extends hold over north, capturing areas held by Kurds for over a decade
• Syrian forces take over major oil fields in eastern Syria
• US says it killed ISIS-linked operative tied to deadly ambush on its troops in Syria
• Hezbollah leader says Israeli strikes 'cannot continue' - "We will not surrender; we will not accept the continuation of attacks in the country without doing anything—there must be a limit to everything," said Naim Qassem
• Iraq announces full withdrawal of US-led coalition from non-Kurdish regions - Baghdad says former US military sites to 'come under the full control of Iraqi security forces,' some two years after the US reached a deal to pull forces from Iraq
• Kremlin Sacks Formerly Favored General for 'Meatgrinder' Assaults
• Source: Russia plots major strike on Europe's largest nuclear plant power lines - Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and critical substations to reportedly be targeted as part of broader pressure strategy
• Drone Strikes Cut Power to 200,000 Homes in Russian-Occupied Ukraine
• Ukraine Winter Despair: Kiev Only Has Half the Electricity It Needs to Function, According to Mayor Klitschko
• India And Russia Will Take Bilateral Trade To $100 Billion: Putin
• 'India, Russia Agree On Program To Expand Trade Till 2030': PM Modi
• Geological survey in Texas uncovers 1.6 billion barrels of oil
• The US has officially started selling Venezuelan oil
• Trump has authority for Venezuela strikes without Congress, but power is constrained, legal experts
• Nobel Foundation says peace prize can't be symbolically passed on after Machado gave hers to Trump
• Melting ice may raise Greenland's value. Trump's fight may be just the start.
• McCaul: US invading Greenland would mean 'war with NATO itself'
• Heckler Shouts, 'Leave Greenland Alone' During US Anthem at London NBA Game
• Europe promises united response to Trump's Greenland tariffs
• Trump's Greenland tariffs spark calls for unprecedented EU 'bazooka' countermeasure - France's Macron said leading push to apply Anti-Coercion Instrument, which allows for curbing imports of goods and services; European ambassadors to hold emergency meeting Sunday
• Greenland row: EU considers its response to Trump - EU ambassadors convened an emergency meeting in Brussels after Donald Trump threatened tariffs on eight European countries in a dispute over Greenland. France wants the block to use its so-called trade "bazooka."
• Hit back at Trump? Europe mulls unthinkable options as Greenland threats ramp up tensions
• EU trade ministers plan countermeasures to Trump's 'unacceptable' 30% tariffs
• Eu puts forth counter tariffs worth 93 billion euro if US talks fail
• Trump Tariffs Over Greenland Draw Kremlin Praise
• Sen. Paul: 'No Emergency' to Justify Trump's Greenland Tariffs
• Bessent: Tariffs, Trump's 'Signature Economic Policy,' Won't Be Overruled
• World stock markets brace for turbulence after Trump's latest tariff shock - Losses on stocks likely with precious metals forecast to spike even higher after move to impose 25% levies on European allies
• Long lineups in central Alberta to sign petition for province to leave Canada
• Global Leaders Gather in Switzerland to Ponder the Future of a Messy World - At its 56th annual meeting in Davos, the World Economic Forum will wrestle with war, economics, artificial intelligence and other pressing issues
• Trump set to lead largest-ever US delegation to World Economic Forum in Davos next week
• Despite promises, Minnesota Democrats kept some of their fraud-linked Somali donations
• In Somali fraud scandal, Republicans probe evidence of a blue state election scheme
• Schumer vows to restore all funds cut by DOGE if Dems take midterms
• Trump threatens to sue JPMorgan Chase for 'debanking' after Jan. 6 Capitol riots under Biden admin pressure
• Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026
• Long-duration X1.9 solar flare erupts from Region 4341, Earth-directed CME likely
• 5.9 magnitude earthquake hits near Barishal, Pakistan
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Bluff, New Zealand
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Ohonua, Tonga
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Hihifo, Tonga
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits the West Chile Rise
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 18,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 16,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Marapi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 12,000ft
• South Africa declares a national disaster over flooding and severe weather
• State of Emergency declared for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky after extreme snow kills 2, Russia
• Rare snow falling in Florida as winter storm targets the South with more to come for Georgia, Carolinas
• Western US faces worsening snow drought, with California being the rare exception
• Chile fires kill at least 18 as firefighters battle extreme heat, winds
• Chile wildfire spreads rapidly, 20,000 evacuated
• Deadly high-speed train derailment kills 21, injures 100 more in Spain: report
• Factory explosion in China's Inner Mongolia region kills 2 and hospitalizes 84
• Guatemalan inmates riot at three prisons, taking 46 people hostage
• 8 police officers killed in attacks in Guatemala after prison crackdown on gangs
• Germany: Military-Aged Iraqi Migrant Under Deportation Order Avoids Prison After Murdering 16-Year-Old Ukrainian Refugee by Throwing Her in Front of a Train
• Four MS-13 Gangsters Arrested in Maryland After Murdering 14-Year-Old Boy as Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen Claims Illegals "Pose no Public Threat Whatsoever"
• Locals in Mexico Riot as Soldiers Shut Down Town Party Honoring Cartel Boss
• Illinois Gov JB Pritzker signs 'Clean Slate' law to automatically seal millions of criminal records
• Kristi Noem says 70% of detained illegal immigrants face charges or convictions
• NYC socialists mobilize thousands of anti-ICE activists for 'rapid response' battalions
• Pure Projection: Gavin Newsom Says 'Trump is Trying to Stoke a Civil War'
• Maryland Democrat Pushes Plan to Punish ICE Veterans with Job Ban
• Trump Reportedly Puts Over 1,000 Active Duty Soldiers on Standby For Deployment to Minnesota After Threatening to Invoke Insurrection Act - White House Responds
• Trump's Border Czar's Advice to Minnesota, 'Stop Being a Sanctuary State, Let Us into the Jails!'
• Viral video shows ICE agent telling agitators they're disrupting arrest of child sex offender in Minnesota
• "We're Here to Arrest a Child Sex Offender!" - Fed Up ICE Agent Calls Out Media as Activists Impede Operations in Minnesota: "That's Who You Guys Are Protecting. Insane!"
• DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in St. Paul Cancels Room Reservations For ICE, Boots Agents From Rooms
• Bruce Springsteen Dedicates Song to Renee Good, Denounces 'Gestapo Tactics' of ICE Agents
• 'Sanctuary City' Radicals Invade Church Sanctuary
• Anti-ICE mob storms Minnesota church over pastor's alleged ties to immigration enforcement - Agitators chanted 'Justice for Renee Good' inside Cities Church sanctuary, claiming a pastor is connected to ICE
• Trump DOJ investigating after far-left anti-ICE mob storms Minneapolis church, shuts down Sunday service
• Don Lemon Live Streams as Anti-ICE Protestors Storm Church in St. Paul, Shout Down Pastor, Harass Parishioners
• Don Lemon faces serious accusations after Minneapolis anti-ICE protestors storm Cities Church mid-service
• Crazed Leftist Attacks CBS Reporter in Minneapolis - Don Lemon Intervenes
• Somali Woman Robs Independent Journalist Nick Sortor in Minneapolis Then Drives Off, Dragging Him Down the Street Before Leftists Surround and Threaten Him
• Kieth Ellison Says Renee Good Died "On Behalf of the Most Vulnerable Members of Our Community" and It's "Beautiful"
• DOJ Launches a Criminal Investigation into Renee Good's Widow for Her Alleged Role in ICE Self-Defense Shooting: Report
• Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rips ICE's immigration crackdown during blistering CNN interview: 'Invaded by our own federal government'
• Mayor Frey: Protests Aren't Only About Resistance; They're About Love
• Minneapolis mayor calls DOJ probe into him 'deeply concerning' as feds investigate over ICE obstruction
• Trump accuses Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar of using ICE protests to distract from massive state fraud
• Ilhan Omar calls America 'the US Godd*mn states' during Minnesota hearing on ICE - "I do not want to curse, but those of us who escaped places like that, the one place where we thought we would never experience this is the US godd*mn states."
• ICE Director Todd Lyons Weighs in on Operations in Minneapolis, Calls Out Elected Officials for Dangerous Rhetoric
• Senator Chris Van Hollen Calls for ICE to be Defunded - Says Illegals Pose "No Public Threat Whatsoever" and "ICE Agents Are the Ones Breaking the Law, Not the Peaceful Protesters"
• Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego Calls for ICE to be "Totally Torn Down" - Calls ICE Trump's "Goon Squad" that's Not Going After Criminals
• The Resurgence of the Black Panthers - Armed Resistance Against ICE
• White House Credits Mass Deportations for Tumbling Home and Gas Prices in Major Cities
• '60 Minutes' airs report on Trump deportations that was suddenly pulled a month ago
• White House press secretary tells CBS 'we'll sue' if they don't air full Trump interview
• Princess Eugenie Reportedly Cut off All Contact With Disgraced Father Andrew Over Epstein Scandal
• Demographic Winter: France Sees More Deaths Than Births for First Time Since WW2
• Deadly Measles Cases Explode Following RFK Jr. Vaccine Guidance - The disease outbreak has doubled in the past week
• Emails show Fauci, Collins plotting to circumvent 'impressive' data for COVID natural immunity