January 9th, 2021

• In hopes of postponing next war, Israel lets Gazans back in after 15 years
• National blackout hits Lebanon; power company blames protester sabotage
• UN Announces Sudan Talks Aimed at Salvaging Political Transition
• 1 million sign petition to strip Tony Blair of knighthood over Iraq War
• Lapid speaks to Macron, calls for pressure on Iran as Vienna nuclear talks continue
• Iran says military drills are acting as deterrent against Israel's 'empty threats'
• Iran Revolutionary Guard commander says 'revenge' coming for Soleimani strike from 'within' US
• Iranian-made UAVs are in Venezuela, 1,200 miles from Miami's skyscrapers, expert reveals
• Taliban FM makes first trip to Iran since group seized control of Afghanistan
• Tigray rebels claim dozens killed in strike on civilian camp in Ethiopia
• Kosovo seizes hundreds of cryptocurrency mining devices; one person arrested
• U.S. plans to discuss missile deployments with Russia as part of effort to defuse Ukraine crisis
• Kazakhstan adds uncertainty to talks with Russia on Ukraine
• Bad Timing: Kazakhstan Intervention Presents Unwelcome Distraction for Putin
• Taliban 'Concerned' Situation in Kazakhstan May Be Too Volatile
• Moscow Blasts U.S. After Antony Blinken Questions Russian Troops in Kazakhstan
• Blinken to Kazakhstan: It's hard to get Russians to leave once they're in your home
• Putin dreams of a Russian 'sphere of influence.' Kazakhstan's protesters are the latest to push back.
• Protest-roiled Kazakhstan settles into edgy calm, amid signs that rift between autocrats contributed to chaos
• Ex-Kazakh security chief and former prime minister Karim Masimov arrested on suspicion of 'high treason'
• Flashback: Photo shows Joe Biden meeting Hunter's alleged business partner from Kazakhstan and Karim Masimov
• Flashback: Hunter Biden ditched Secret Service as he sought Kazakhstan energy deal with then-prime minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov
• Lithuania Will Stand With Taiwan, Won't Let China Decide Fate Like 'Stalin or Hitler', Says MP
• China's Sharp Economic Slowdown Threatens to Constrain Xi in 2022
• Beijing Communists Fine 7-Eleven Thousands of Dollars for Calling Taiwan a Country
• UK Border Force Threatens Strike over Plan to Make Them Enforce Border
• Cartel Gunmen Dump 9 Bodies in Coastal State, Implicate Government Officials
• Upstate NY Democrats Hold January 6 Vigil, Accuse Rioters of Treason: 'A Consequence of Treason Is Death'
• Watch 'Day of Outrage' Expose Jan. 6 'Big Lie'
• Hawley: FBI, Biden Admin Using 1/6 as an 'Excuse' to Go After Law-Abiding Citizens, Shut Down Speech
• Lawyer: J6 Detainee Treatment Totally 'Abnormal'; Film Director: Nobody 'Immune to Lies'
• As Georgia ballot harvesting probe starts, some election evidence has vanished already
• Pelosi Makes Millions on Tech Stocks, Scoffs at Ban on Congressional Trades
• Commentary: One Year Ago, Big Tech Declared Open War On America. Here's What's Next
• Google, Twitter employees flood Democrats with donations as companies are accused of censoring conservatives
• Rand Paul Slams Big Tech's Crackdown on COVID 'Misinformation' - 'The impulse to censor people's speech is actually illiberal'
• Finance CEO Blasts Facebook: Won't Advertise 'Alongside Scammers' Who Target 'the Savings of Our Customers'
• 'Dark Patterns:' France Fines Google, Facebook for Using Confusing Design to Trick Users
• Operation Tulip: Inside Facebook's Secretive Push To Build Holland's Biggest Data Center
• FAA Releases List of 50 Airports That Will Have 'Buffer Zones' When AT&T and Verizon Roll Out 5G
• Disclosure or deception? New UFO Pentagon office divides believers
• Giant rock dislodges in Brazil canyon, killing at least 6, injuring several others
• 5.9 magnitude earthquake hits near New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Tobelo, Indonesia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Pondaguitan, Philippines
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 20,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 20,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 16,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 16,000ft
• Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 14,000ft
• Nevados De Chillan volcano in Chile erupts to 12,000ft
• 22 Tourists Freeze to Death in Vehicles Amid Heavy Snowstorm in Pakistan
• 'Bomb Cyclone' Threatens East Coast, Dropping Heavy Snow on NYC
• A growing global potato shortage is affecting french fries from Japan to Kenya after a bad frost and excessive rains in South Africa
• Turkmenistan's leader wants 'Gates of Hell' fire put out
• Teacher Convicted of Killing Man He Met for Sex to Live Out 'Cannibalism Fantasies'
• Son of Texas woman stabbed to death by man arrested 67 times and out on bail urges change: 'No accountability'
• Austin sees hundreds of sex offender cases removed from police officer supervision due to defunding
• Pope Francis writes to controversial nun, thanking her for 50 years of LGBTQ ministry
• Penn's Transgender Swimmer Lost To Yale's Transgender Swimmer In A Hotly Contested Women's Ivy League 100 meter Race
• Oklahoma GOP Lawmaker to Introduce Texas-style Abortion Bill
• TikTok Promotes 'Gender Reassignment' Surgery, Transgender Lifestyle
• Dennis Prager on 'Fact Checkers': If Men Giving Birth Is a Fact, Facts Mean Nothing
• New Hampshire House votes to legalize marijuana
• Sci-fi types of medical implants will be here soon
• Pills Equipped With Sensors To Digitally Track When And If You Took The Drug Approved By FDA In 2017
• Judge Gives FDA 8 Months to Release Pfizer Vaccine Data After Agency Requested 75 Years
• Triple Vaccinated Swiss Olympic Athlete Fabienne Schlumpf Diagnosed with Myocarditis - May Never be Able to Compete Again
• Qatar: Another Young Soccer Star Collapses on Field, Suffers Heart Attack
• "Every Shot, I Can't Breathe" - Fully Vaccinated Tennis Star Nikoloz Basilashivili Drops Out of Sydney Cup Due to Breathing Difficulties
• Whole Foods Claims Constitutional Right to Disallow 'Black Lives Matter' Masks
• Mask Strike? English Schoolchildren Refusing to Wear Masks, Unions Complain
• Teacher Facing 4 Years Jail Time For Vaccinating Teen Without Parental Consent
• Is Pfizer Using Children As Legal Human Shields To Get Full Authorization For COVID Vaccines?
• Mother Separated from Children After Trying to Flee Country to Stop Vaccination
• Anti-vax protesters tell France's Macron: 'We'll piss you off'
• Alan Dershowitz: Congress, Not Biden, Has Authority on Vaccine Mandates
• GOP Rep. Harris: Biden Could Have Gone to Congress on Vax Mandate, But Didn't Because He Knew It Wouldn't Pass
• MO A.G. Schmitt: Upholding Vax Mandate Opens Door to 'Draconian' Regulations on Climate 'Emergency'
• MO A.G. Schmitt: If SCOTUS Upholds Vax Mandate, Bureaucrats Could Dictate 'Mass Mail-in Balloting' and Voting Changes
• Iowa Labor Commissioner Refuses to Enforce Biden Vaccine Mandate: 'It Is Not Necessary'
• Biden's admission to 'no federal solution' to pandemic inconsistent with federal vaccine mandates: Pirro
• Curley: Sotomayor COVID lie is natural result of media fibs
• Illinois: New state QR Code aids vaccination verification
• Chicago Public Schools closed despite receiving nearly $2.8B in federal COVID funding
• Blackburn: School Districts That Aren't Open Should Give Funds to Keep Schools Open Back
• Chicago teacher battling cancer shows up to school despite canceled classes, warns against people using teachers unions as a 'tool for political gain'
• Atlantic writer: I'm not sure I'm a Democrat anymore thanks to their awful COVID school policies
• Biden administration guidance prioritizes race in administering COVID drugs
• Hospitals across the U.S. turning to foreign nurses as healthcare workers are fired over vaccine mandates
• California, New Jersey Activate National Guard to Help With COVID-19 Response
• Omicron explosion spurs nationwide breakdown of services: 'Everybody's working 'round the clock'
• 28,000 canceled flights later, airlines still looking for upper hand against omicron, weather
• New York Port Hustles to Cut Rare Logjam Amid Covid Labor Woes
• 'Malarkey': Joe Biden Snaps at Claim He Is Not Focused on Inflation