January 29th, 2025

• ​Strategic alliance helps Abraham Accords hold strong despite Gaza War, conflict in Lebanon
• Saudi-Israel talks nearing breakthrough, says new Israeli ambassador to US
• Witkoff meets with Abbas adviser in Riyadh - The meeting is part of efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire deal in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and finalize Israeli normalization with Saudi Arabia
• Netanyahu aiming to meet Trump at White House next week in first visit by foreign leader
• Iran's Khamenei says small Gaza brought US-backed Israel 'to its knees'
• IDF chief said to hail approval of 'painful' Gaza deal, hint fighting could resume
• Bracing for the worst: Some hostages' families say IDF told them loved ones may be dead
• Israeli Teen Peace Activist Held Hostage by Hamas Endured 'Months Alone' in Tunnel, Was Unsure If She Was Still Alive
• Most Hamas terrorists were drugged, completely inhumane, rescued hostage says
• Israeli terror victim 'sickened' as terrorists will be released with millions in 'pay for slay' stipends - Despite danger of her attacker being released, Tal Hartuv is still in favor of hostage deal with Hamas
• Rubio says US, Egypt must work together so Hamas 'can never govern Gaza or threaten Israel again'
• 'Expel Israelis, take them to Greenland,' says Iranian FM after Trump suggests Gazans be sent to Jordan, Egypt
• Trump doubles down on proposal to move Gazans; insists Egypt and Jordan will agree
• 'Jordan Is for Jordanians': Israel's Neighbors Reject Taking In Palestinian Refugees After Trump Suggestion
• Senior cabinet minister: Trump's Gaza migration idea could save Netanyahu's government
• U.S. Envoy to Meet Netanyahu in Israel, and Perhaps Visit Gaza as Israeli and Hamas officials prepared for a new round of negotiations aimed at cementing the current cease-fire in Gaza and allowing more exchanges of hostages and Palestinian prisoners
• Qatar, Turkey to host Palestinian murder convicts freed in hostage deal - Decision on where to send the prisoners is coordinated with Israel
• UN says over 376,000 Gazans have returned to Strip's north since Monday
• IDF assesses tens of thousands of Gazans have returned to north, far below Hamas claim of 'over 300,000'
• Palestinian families reunite in smashed-up north Gaza as ceasefire enables return home
• New York Times says reporter assaulted by troops in raid on party for freed Hamas prisoner
• State Department ends Gaza program that Hamas used for 'explosive condoms'
• DOGE strikes again, says it stopped millions of dollars meant for condoms in Gaza
• State Dept pulls millions in funding for 'condoms in Gaza,' as Trump admin looks to trim spending - Hamas have used condoms as bomb-carrying balloons to terrorize Israel, reports say
• Israeli contractor mistakenly killed by IDF troops in Gaza, army says
• Breaking with Biden, Trump envoy expresses support for Israeli laws targeting UNRWA
• UNRWA prepares to shutter operations in East Jerusalem as Israeli ban set to take effect
• UNRWA chief says Israel jeopardising peace, slams 'disinformation campaign' - Israel's ban on UNRWA is set to come into force after months of an intensified campaign against the UN agency
• Israel's UNRWA ban will lead to further conflict, MP claims
• Senate Democrats block legislation to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants - John Fetterman is lone Democrat to vote to advance House-approved bill targeting Hague court
• Shas's Deri threatens to topple government over ultra-Orthodox conscription bill
• Shas's Deri gives government two months to pass law exempting ultra-Orthodox from IDF
• Haredi extremists block Jerusalem road outside event honoring ultra-Orthodox troops
• Operation Iron Wall Expands from Jenin to Tulkarem
• Residents of Lebanese border village return to bury dead as Israeli troops withdraw
• IDF says it struck Hezbollah arms convoy in Lebanon; Beirut reports 14 wounded - Lebanon PM condemns strike, says Israel released 9 Lebanese POWs and calls for release of 9 more; IDF again warns displaced southern Lebanese against returning after deadly riots
• Report: Hezbollah handed over massive underground missile facility to Lebanese army
• IDF to remain on Mount Hermon indefinitely
• Defense Minister Katz says IDF to stay in Syria buffer zone indefinitely
• Syrian fighters execute 35 in 72 hours, mainly officers from former regime, monitor says
• IS fighters in Syria could break free amid Trump aid cut, terrorism expert warns
• UAE conglomerate buys $10m stake in Israeli tech security firm that detects drones
• Holocaust distortion more dangerous than outright denial, warns departing IHRA chief
• Fears for 'security of Jews worldwide' in wake of Elon Musk AfD speech - Top US Jewish advocate Halie Soifer calls Trump adviser's address to far-right Germany rally 'incredibly dangerous'
• Att. Marc Zell: Trump's decision to free up weapons is important for action against Iran
• Iran Says US, Israel Would Be 'Crazy' to Attack Its Nuclear Sites, Warns of 'Decisive Response'
• U.S. sending dozens of Patriot missiles from Israel to Ukraine
• Zelenskyy praises Trump for 'just and fair' rhetoric toward Russia: 'Exactly what Putin is afraid of' - Trump called on Putin to make a deal or face more economic pressure
• Over a Dozen U.N. Peacekeepers Killed in DR Congo Guerrilla Chaos
• Congo's M23 rebels take control of Goma airport, embassies attacked in capital
• DRC church leaders call for peaceful resolution to intensifying conflict
• Vietnamese authorities arrest Protestant pastor, charge him with spreading 'anti-state propaganda'
• Italy sends 49 refugees to Albania in bid to resume disputed scheme
• Viktor Orban: "George Soros Has Lost. America Has Been Liberated by Donald Trump!"
• Colombia's President Refutes Rumors He Wrote Anti-Trump Rant While He Was Drunk
• Trump threatens country after country with U.S. economic weapons
• Wannabe Trudeau Successor Chrystia Freeland Calls for List to Counter Trump's Canada Tariff Threats 'Where It Hurts'
• Germany stuck in 'deep economic crisis' as major industry lobby predicts longest downturn since 1990 reunification
• French Populist Leader Bardella Predicts Dissolution of Parliament, Fresh Elections 'Inevitable'
• France floated sending troops to Greenland, foreign minister says
• Threat to deploy European troops to Greenland & Danes announce $2b military boost, as EU says 'NO negotiating' with Trump
• Google reclassifies U.S. as 'sensitive country' alongside China, Russia after Trump's 'Gulf of America' comments
• GOP-Controlled Senate Launches Official Hearing into Panama's Canal Treaty Breach
• Massachusetts Man Arrested with Molotov Cocktails at U.S. Capitol, Trying to Kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Speaker Johnson and Pete Hegseth
• Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley's security detail and clearance 'immediately,' may face demotion in retirement
• Lindsey Graham Says Trump Needs to Be Investigated For Pulling John Bolton's Security
• Trump admin pushes out 60 career officials at USAID amid pause on foreign aid programs
• Trump administration offers buyouts to federal employees, including remote workers: 'Deferred resignation'
• Report: Trump to offer buyout to 2 million federal workers - The administration estimates that it will lead to $100 billion in cost savings
• Sen. Tim Scott: 'Disgusting' Biden 'Weaponized' Financial Markets to Debank Conservatives, Trump Family
• Trump Budget Pick Vought: 2020 Election Was Rigged
• CNN's Jim Acosta Rips Trump In Defiant On-Air Announcement He's Leaving: 'No Time To Bow Down To A Tyrant'
• Jim Acosta taunts Trump as he launches independent show following CNN exit, vows he won't be silenced - The anti-Trump anchor accused the president of having 'ADS: Acosta Derangement Syndrome'
• Trump admin welcomes new media to White House Briefing Room, vows to restore 400+ press passes revoked by Biden
• In First White House Briefing, Youngest Press Secretary Ever Eschews Tradition - Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president would open the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers
• Report: Microsoft Execs Have Ties to Censorship Efforts
• Trump says Microsoft in talks to acquire TikTok
• Donald Trump Explains Why He Wants A 'Bidding War' For TikTok
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
• DeepSeek AI collects, stores US user data in China - sparking eerily similar national security concerns that forced TikTok crackdown
• China's DeepSeek AI Refuses to Answer Questions on President Xi Jinping
• Tech mogul doubts DeepSeek claims, says US media fell for 'CCP propaganda'
• The Day DeepSeek Turned Tech and Wall Street Upside Down - Monday's bloodbath in Nvidia and other AI stocks wiped out some $1 trillion from the stock market's value
• Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages before it can deliver us an economic utopia - one that'll definitely happen
• Vatican Says AI Has 'Shadow of Evil,' Calls for Close Oversight
• Vatican Warns AI Could Undermine 'Foundations Of Society'
• Doomsday Clock moves one second closer to midnight in latest Armageddon prediction
• The Doomsday Clock reveals how close humanity may be to total annihilation - On Tuesday, the clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight - the closest the world has ever been to the marker that represents the moment at which people will have made the Earth uninhabitable
• 'Sleepwalking into nuclear disaster': The 'Doomsday Clock' ticks forward
• Trump invited to Japan for 80th anniversary of A-bombs to urge 'strong leadership' on abolishing nuclear weapons
• Trump aims to finish what Reagan started, a missile defense system for the U.S.
• Watch drone and armed robodog fight to death sparking fears of 'first machine war'
• New Jersey Drones Were 'FAA-Authorized,' White House Confirms After Months of Speculation
• Trump White House reveals drones over NJ were authorized by FAA for research - "This was not the enemy."
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits the South Atlantic Ocean
• 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits near Gorontalo, Indonesia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Neiafu, Tonga
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Pahiatua, New Zealand
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kendari, Indonesia
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 23,000ft
• Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Australia braces for FIVE cyclones in 'very unusual' phenomenon
• Rennes hit by worst floods in 40 years as Storm Herminia hits France
• Winter's fury hits Spain: 100 cm (1 metre) of snowfall expected
• Donald Trump Claims Victory as 'Military' Turns Water Back on In California
• Trump signs EO to deliver more water, power to southern California via federal Central Valley Project - "The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the people, are over. Enjoy the water, California"
• California Democrat Proposes Legislation to Sue Oil Companies Over Wildfires That Had Nothing to Do With Them
• Air Busan plane catches fire at South Korea's Gimhae International Airport, forcing all 176 people on board to evacuate
• More than seven killed in stampede at India's Maha Kumbh festival
• Feds Arrest Nine People in Massive $200 Million Smuggling Operation Linked to China
• Pierre Poilievre calls for deportation of violent visa holders, temporary residents in Canada
• Tom Homan Takes on the Pope, Exposes Vatican Hypocrisy over deporting illegal aliens: 'Stick to the Catholic Church and Fix That!'
• Taxpayer-Funded Catholic Group Urges Illegal Aliens to Refuse to Comply with ICE Officers
• White House Declares All Illegal Aliens Are Criminals
• 'Dirtbags like this will be removed from our streets': DHS Sec Kristi Noem arrests criminal illegal aliens in New York City
• Press Sec Karoline Leavitt details 'heinous individuals' arrested by ICE across the country
• 'Return to Sender': ICE operation busts 50 Tren de Aragua members in Denver, detains them for deportation
• Vicious Tren de Aragua 'ringleader' busted in NYC immigration raids on kidnapping warrant from Aurora, Colorado
• ICE Takes Murderer into Custody After Massachusetts Paroles Him from Prison
• US military aircraft with deported migrants lands in Guatemala, officials say
• ICE Deported 7,300 Illegals in Trump's First Week
• Illegal border crossings down to less than 600 per day in new Trump term - On Sunday, the Del Rio sector only recorded 60 crossings, the same sector that saw over 4,000 crossings per day at the height of Biden's border crisis in December 2023
• Illegal Crossing Down 95 Percent from Biden High, Trump Says Still Not Good Enough
• Stephen Miller: Illegal Aliens Biden Brought 'Are in Our Cities Collecting Welfare'
• 'Boycott' Calls Erupt After Marvel's New Captain America Turns Into 'Captain Woke' - "For me Captain America represents a lot of different things, and I don't think the term 'America' should be one of those representations," Mackie said.
• Federal judge 'pauses' Trump's temp freeze on domestic grants for DEI, woke gender ideology, Green New Deal after NGOs bring suit
• Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
• ABC's Hostin: Americans Lack Empathy - They Want Trump to Round Up 'Brown' Immigrants
• Nolte: Far-left NY Mag Caught Cropping Black People Out of 'All White' Trump Party
• Costco teamster workers set to strike this week as company embroiled in DEI controversy
• Trump Fired Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (E.E.O.C.) Commissioners in Late-Night Purge
• GOP Leaders Call on Trump to Unseal Jeffrey Epstein Files
• Accusing Government of 'Two-Tier Policing', Talking About Child Rape Gangs Are Signs of Extremism, Says Leaked UK Gov't Report
• Sexual assault in women's shelters that allow males gets global spotlight via trans-friendly Canada
• Education Dept. Probes Denver School's All-Gender Bathroom
• WEF in Full Panic Mode as Billboard Chris Goes to Davos with a Simple Message: "Dads Protect Kids from Trans Ideology"
• The Implications of Trump's Executive Order on Sex - Trump's executive order denies the legal recognition of transgender and nonbinary people, barring them from updating their gender on federal documents, such as passports, visas, and Global Entry cards
• Trump signs order 'Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation' - The order stated that WPATH's guidance "lacks scientific integrity."
• Trump admin. removes webpage for changing sex on Social Security card
• Trump signs executive order restricting 'chemical and surgical' sex-change procedures for minors
• Trump yanks federal support for youth gender transitions, including in military health insurance
• Transgender service members sue Trump over his military ban
• 'Transgender' Inmate Sues Trump Administration Over Order Removing Men from Women's Prisons
• Scientists use genetic engineering to create mice with two male parents
• Trump Reaffirms Commitment to Pro-Life Cause and Protecting 'Precious Little Babies'
• Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Federal Spending Freeze
• Trump's federal grant pause creates confusion over Medicaid funding
• Payment System That Provides Medicaid Funding to States Stops Working, Officials Say
• Trump Medicaid freeze seems to lock 72 million Americans out of their health insurance - Lawmakers across the country have confirmed that that their state's Medicaid payment systems have been shut off
• White House blames "outage" for locking out Medicaid, Head Start, health centers from funding site
• Caroline Kennedy calls RFK Jr. a 'predator' and urges Senate to reject his nomination
• JFK's daughter says cousin RFK Jr is a 'predator,' 'willfully misinformed' and 'unqualified' to lead HHS - RFK Jr is "addicted to attention and power" cousin says
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has an Excited Fan Club: Conservative Christian Moms
• Autism community fears RFK Jr. would set back decades of progress
• DHS Secretary Directs Coast Guard to Begin Reinstating Service Members Discharged for Refusal to Take COVID Vaccine
• Sen. Paul subpoenas 14 agencies over Covid origin - The chair of the Homeland Security Committee wants more information about research done in China
• White House says Biden admin's killing of over 100M chickens contributed to skyrocketing egg prices
• Leavitt says egg shortage, grocery prices why Senate must 'move swiftly' to confirm Trump nominees - 'The cost of everything, not just eggs, bacon, groceries, gasoline, have increased because of ... last administration,' she said