January 23rd, 2025

• Shocking: Freed Israeli Hostages Say Hamas Used U.N. Facilities to Hide Them
• Freed hostage Emily Damari's wounded hand swiftly becomes symbol of Israeli defiance
• Amid ceasefire: Gaza terror tunnel discovered near Israel
• Report: Smotrich held meeting to plan public campaign to resume Gaza war
• Rubio stresses 'need to continue implementation' of Gaza ceasefire as he talks to Emirati FM, MBS
• Trump Mideast Envoy Witkoff Hails Cease-fire, Says Israel-Saudi Normalization Viable Only if War Ends
• Israel downplays PA role in postwar Gaza, denies promising Saudis a Palestinian state
• Hamas presence in Gaza during truce is a message the terror group is still in charge
• Economy minister says Israel wants peace in Gaza, unsure about reconstruction funding
• 'All I want is a grave for them': Gazans seek loved ones under rubble
• Top Iran official says Tehran didn't know about Oct. 7, doesn't control 'proxy groups'
• Israel: We Will Control Gaza-Egypt Crossing
• Israel to allow 50 Hamas members, 200 Palestinians into Egypt daily for treatment
• Israeli Gov't Orders the Blocking of Dozens of West Bank Roads Through End of Hostage Deal
• Commentary: Why is Israel launching a crackdown in the West Bank after the Gaza ceasefire?
• IDF says Palestinian gunmen behind deadly West Bank terror attack killed near Jenin
• Israeli forces surround Palestinian hospital and refugee camp in West Bank
• Minister says Israel applying 'lessons' from Gaza in West Bank operation - Israel's defence minister says military applying 'method' from Gaza war in major raid on occupied West Bank's Jenin
• West Bank mayor warns of 'man-made disaster,' as Israel says it took 'lessons' from Gaza war
• Al Jazeera says correspondent arrested by Palestinian Authority over coverage of IDF Jenin op
• IDF seizes truce-violating weapons, including rocket launchers, in south Lebanon
• Trump administration unwilling to grant extension for IDF withdrawal from Lebanon, wants it done by Sunday - report
• Israeli extremists attack Palestinian laborers during IDF-approved agricultural work
• Columbia University masked agitators disrupt Jewish history class and spread antisemitic propaganda - "This movement continues to reveal itself as pro-terror," a student said.
• Antisemitic acts at 'historic' highs in France, Jewish council says
• Spate of Violent Antisemitic Attacks Rattles Australia
• NY Jewish man arrested in 2022 synagogue shooting plot sentenced to 2.5 years
• Survey finds 46% of French youth don't know about the Holocaust
• Trump Re-Designates the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
• Yemen's Houthi rebels release crew of commercial vessel seized in Red Sea in November 2023
• Syrians returning home face deadly threat of landmines
• Iran reportedly arrests 10 Bahai women in 'shocking' raids
• Color Revolution on Steroids: Slovak PM Fico Denounces Group of 'Foreign Experts' - Involved in the Georgian and Ukrainian 'Maidan' Coups - Now Deployed To Topple His Government
• Suicide and soap operas: North Koreans react to being Ukrainian POWs
• 'We can do it the easy way, or the hard way': Trump urges Russia 'STOP this ridiculous War' before it gets 'worse'
• Trump Demands Putin 'Make a Deal' on Ukrainian War or Face 'Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions'
• Putin and Xi Vow to 'Deepen' Alliance After Trump Returns to White House
• Marco Rubio Reportedly Set To Visit Panama Amid Trump's Canal Rhetoric
• AOC Urges Civil Disobedience Against Trump's Executive Orders: 'We Don't Have to Listen to Him'
• 160 national security staffers are sent home as the White House aligns its team to Trump's agenda
• Trump has given Iran an invitation to kill me, says John Bolton after security detail revoked - President's outspoken former adviser loses his Secret Service protection within hours of Trump returning to office
• House Speaker Mike Johnson Announces New Panel to Uncover the Real Truth Behind J6 - Will Reportedly Have Authority to Scrutinize FBI Officials
• Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon: "We were wrong that day" - "Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation"
• Florida Man Freed By Trump Jan. 6 Pardons Gets Arrested One Day Later for Gun Charges
• A member of the extreme right wing Proud Boys group who once told an undercover FBI agent about his admiration for Adolf Hitler and discussed a plan to "wipe out" America's Jews is among the so-called "hostages" given unconditional pardons by new US president Donald Trump
• Trump pardons former DC police officers convicted in death of man during deadly pursuit - "I just approved it," Trump said during a press conference. "They arrested the two officers to put them in jail for going after a criminal."
• CNN's Kinzinger to Speaker Johnson: 'How Dare You Use the Bible' While Discussing Trump's Pardons
• President Trump Issues a Warning to Joe Biden: "He Didn't Give Himself a Pardon"
• Legal Experts Criticize Biden's Preemptive Pardons, Arguing They Offer Incomplete Protection and May Compel Recipients to Incriminate Themselves
• Senate Committee Delays Pam Bondi's Attorney General Confirmation
• What's Getting in the Way of RFK Jr.'s Confirmation Hearing? Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for health and human services secretary has stalled as Senate Democrats and Republicans take issue with his views
• Dem who called Trump 'existential threat to democracy' now blocking his nominees
• 'Obstructionist Democrats' Block Swift Confirmation Of Trump's CIA Nominee Despite Garnering Bipartisan Support
• Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments. How would that work?
• Ex-Sister-in-Law Claiming Pete Hegseth Abused Ex-Wife Is Represented by Democratic Party-Connected Law Firm
• Susan Collins: 'Troubling' that Hegseth FBI report omitted key information
• CNN's Jim Acosta 'getting hosed' as network mulls moving anti-Trump anchor to midnights, sources say
• CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, sources say
• First CNN, Now MSNBC: Liberal Network Rocked by $30 Million Defamation Lawsuit
• Trump Outlines His Plan For TikTok - Wants Elon Musk or Larry Ellison to Purchase Company in Joint U.S. Venture
• Super-rich must stop meddling in democracy, says Disney heiress - Two thirds of world's wealthy people view influence of rich on Donald Trump as dangerous
• World Economic Forum: Davos Attendee Admits 'Trump Won' and Globalists Lost
• Jamie Dimon: Trump Tariffs 'Good for National Security' Though 'a Little Inflationary'
• WSJ: Trump Pushes Tariffs on Mexico, Canada for Better Trade Deal
• Trudeau says Canada will respond to US tariffs as Ontario's premier says Trump 'declared war'
• Canada warns of retaliation in response to Trump's proposed tariffs - "Our response will be robust, and rapid, and measured, and very strong"
• In sign of priorities, Trump's first call with foreign leader held with Saudi prince - MBS says he plans to invest $600b in US during 2nd Trump term
• 'We're in the era of the billionaire,' human rights expert says. Here's why wealth accumulation is accelerating
• Billionaires are multiplying, and 60% earn their wealth through 'inheritance, cronyism, or monopoly power,' Oxfam writes
• China's artificial sun maintains 100 million °C plasma for over 17 minutes, setting a new world record
• Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) puts on spectacular show in Southern Hemisphere skies
• Earth-directed CME produced by M3.3 solar flare
• 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits near Liloan, Philippines
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Siocon, Philippines
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits the southeast Indian Ridge
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Tadine, New Caledonia
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 26,000ft
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 20,000ft
• Purace volcano in Colombia erupts to 17,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Marapi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 13,000ft
• Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupts to 12,000ft
• Rare tornado warning in place with 'once in 100-years' Storm Eowyn set to hit UK
• Historic winter storm claims 10 lives across U.S. Gulf Coast, shatters snowfall records
• Florida shatters all-time snowfall record as 'once-in-a-lifetime' storm blankets Gulf Coast
• Interstate closed from Alabama border to Tallahassee
• Wild Winds Up To 90 MPH Blow Over At Least 9 Semis On Wyoming Highways
• Los Angeles Wildfires: High Levels of Lead, Chlorine, Toxins Fill the Air
• Hughes Fire erupts, forces new evacuations in Southern California - A new wind-driven fire rapidly grew to over 9,000 acres in a matter of hours on Wednesday, burning north of Santa Clarita, California
• Over 50,000 under evacuation orders or warnings as wildfire imperils homes north of Los Angeles
• 'They've made terrible decisions': Mike Johnson says conditions could be placed on California wildfire aid - "Their policies are upside down, they made decisions that made that disaster exponentially worse."
• FEMA hasn't done its job in 4 years, Trump says
• Trump: States Should Handle Disasters, Feds Can Help With Money, FEMA Just Gets in the Way
• Deep Freeze Propels Power Demand on Largest US Grid to Winter Record
• Renewables were supposed to take over the grid. Instead they're falling short.
• Trump guts Biden's climate agenda in no-holds-barred deluge of pro-fossil fuel executive orders
• Trump Ends 1965 Executive Order from Lyndon Johnson that Began Affirmative Action in U.S. Govt
• Trump targets DEI and civil service protections, striking fear in some federal workers
• Trump's team wants snitches to expose DEI work
• Federal employees are told to name colleagues who work in DEI roles or risk 'adverse consequences'
• 'Gulf of America' already appears in US docs & woke diversity offices shut today as Trump's 'shock & awe' orders kick in
• Trump revokes Biden order allowing transgender troops in bid to rid DEI from military
• U.S. Universities Failed to Disclose Tens of Millions in Chinese Funding
• Taxpayers and Students Are Funding $2 Billion in DEI Course Mandates at Public Universities, New Report Finds
• Two Students Shot at Antioch High School in Tennessee, Gunman Shoots Himself
• Suspect From Afghanistan Arrested After Knife Attack Leaves a Child and a Man Dead, Two Others Injured
• Italy's Meloni under fire after freeing Libyan warlord - The Meloni government relies on the cooperation of the Libyan government to block the departure of migrants crossing the Mediterranean
• Hypocrite Pope Francis Scolds President Trump for Deporting Illegals After Vatican Issues New Rules for Deporting Illegals
• Cities Brace for Raids After Trump Allows Immigration Arrests at Schools, Churches
• President Trump Signs Executive Order Shutting Down All Physical Entry Of Migrants at Southern Border
• Trump Admin Just Turbocharged ICE's Ability to Quickly Deport Illegal Immigrants
• President Trump orders thousands of troops to the US border with Mexico - The directive comes as part of a broader effort to address immigration and security concerns along the border
• "This is a Number One Priority" - White House Press Sec Confirms "1,500 Additional Troops" are Being Sent to Southern Border
• Washington Dems help illegal immigrants avoid deportation - "Protect our friends and neighbors from illegal searches and incarceration."
• Memo: Trump DOJ Set to Crack Down on State and Local Officials Who Oppose Deportation Efforts - The Trump administration just released a plan to deal with resistance against immigration enforcement by sanctuary cities
• Refugee flights to US canceled after Trump signs EO suspending Refugee Admission Program - "All refugee case processing and pre-departure activities are also suspended."
• Mexican Border States Prepare Migrant Shelters as Trump Begins Deportation Campaign
• India Willing to Take Back 18K Illegal Migrants From US
• NYT: How Labeling Cartels 'Terrorists' Could Hurt the U.S. Economy
• ICE Revives Term 'Alien' in Trump-Era Immigration Crackdown
• ICE arrests 308 'illegal aliens' during first full day of Trump term - "ICE is doing their job," said Tom Homan
• First Round of Illegal Migrants Detained in Colorado
• Calif. City Defies Newsom, Won't Be Migrant Sanctuary
• California Town Pushes Back Against Newsom - City Council Votes Unanimously to Become a 'Non-Sanctuary City': "If the Governor Refuses to Fulfill His Duty to Protect Californians, We Will Step Up"
• Eric Adams tells Tucker Carlson he was told to 'be a good Democrat' when he complained about Biden's border crisis - "We need to stop people from coming into our country with no destiny"
• Ku Klux Klan fliers in Kentucky order immigrants to 'leave now,' police say
• Four Illegal Immigrants Charged with Targeting NFL Superstar in Gang Operation - Some of the burglary groups conducted extensive surveillance on targets, including attempted home deliveries and posing as joggers
• Antifa launches attack on Portland ICE detention center - The incident was in retaliation to the Trump administration's mass deportation operations and crackdown on illegal immigration
• Antifa, trans activists swarm University of Washington TPUSA event, forcing cancelation
• ACLU lawyer calls females 'non-transgender women' in rant about Trump executive order - Transgender lawyer Chase Strangio argued that President Trump's executive order 'enhances the risk that transgender people face in society'
• Trump Executive Order on Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism: 'Basing Federal Policy on Truth Is Critical'
• 'Wicked' Star Ariana Grande Calls Trump Exec Order Recognizing Only 'Male and Female' an Attack on Trans People
• Demi Lovato Tells Trans, Non-Binary Fans 'We Will Get Thru' Trump Order Recognizing Only Two Genders
• Woke bishop who lectured Trump on 'mercy' tells The View she had 'responsibility' to speak on 'unity'
• Bishop refuses to apologize for sermon pleading Trump have mercy on illegal aliens, transgender kids - "I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others," Budde told Time Magazine
• Trump blasts 'so-called bishop' for 'ungracious' sermon, demands apology from her, Episcopal Church - "She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way"
• Trump Orders 'One Flag' Policy Across All U.S. Embassies - Pride and Black Lives Matter Flags No Longer Allowed
• Pride flags removed from US outposts worldwide - "Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown"
• Hundreds of same-sex couples wed as Thailand's landmark marriage bill takes effect
• Ernst Introduces Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood
• GOP Rep. Chip Roy Reintroduces Bill to Repeal Law Used to Throw Pro-Lifers in Prison
• Senate Democrats Block G.O.P. Effort to Criminalize Some Abortion Providers
• Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Signs Bill Allowing Pharmacists to Prescribe Birth Control
• Bird flu found in second Georgia commercial chicken flock
• Trump Order Seeks to Stop Virus Research Linked to Covid-19 by Republicans
• Riley Gaines celebrates repeal of COVID vaccination mandate for legal immigrants
• Chronic Disease, COVID Vaccines Get Nods at Trump's Inaugural Address
• Trump's Stargate Sparks MAHA Pushback: mRNA Vaccine Expansion Under Fire, as concerns over mRNA expansion collide with health freedom advocacy
• Elon Musk Blows Hole In Trump's Big AI Infrastructure Announcement: 'They Don't Actually Have the Money'
• Trump orders external communications 'blackout' at federal health agencies - The CDC, FDA, Department of Health and Human Services, and National Institutes of Health were affected
• Donald Trump Extraditing Anthony Fauci To Russia At Putin's Demand? As of now, neither President Trump nor the White House has made any official announcement confirming or denying these claims