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The U.S. Government has now entered its second shutdown in less than a year, as of 12:00 a.m. on Saturday, despite a deal being agreed upon between Senate Democrats and the White House as well as the Senate passing five long-term spending bills, with the exception of Homeland Security, on Friday. Unlike last year’s shutdown, which lasted over 40 days, this shutdown is expected to be brief, with the House set to vote on the five bills immediately after returning to Washington on Monday, though House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has declined to say whether House Democrats will support the bills approved by the Senate.
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The U.S. External Office for Venezuela announced Friday that they have now confirmed that interim authorities have released all known Americans being held in Venezuela.
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Lots of entirely fake or otherwise false information circulating on social media this morning of explosions in multiple cities across Iran. Besides an explosion earlier today inside an apartment building in Bandar Abbas, Southern Iran, there have no other confirmed explosions or “strikes” anywhere else in Iran.
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At least one person was killed and over a dozen injured as a result of a “gas explosion” this morning in the Southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, with the apartment building from which the blast originated from suffering significant damage. Claims have circulated that the building was not connected to the city’s gas lines, though these claims are still unverified and a gas explosion appears to be the most likely cause of the incident. Due to aging infrastructure and infrequent maintenance, gas explosions are very common in cities across Iran.
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Three KC-46A “Pegasus” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, GOLD31.32.42, are currently heading westbound across the Mediterranean, returning to Naval Station Rota in Spain, after accompanying a flight of EA-18G “Growler” Electronic-Warfare Aircraft from Morón Air Base to Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. Several EA-18Gs and a fourth KC-46A, GOLD41, were unable to participate in the crossing after another KC-46A, GOLD71, suffered an emergency on the runway at Morón causing 8 of 10 tires to blowout, with all flights into the base being rerouted to Rota.
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A U.S. Air Force C-5M “Super Galaxy” Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft is currently heading southeast across Turkey bound for the Middle East, after departing Ramstein Air Base in Germany earlier on Saturday. The C-5M originated from Robert Gray Army Airfield on Fort Hood in Texas, home of the U.S. Army’s 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade which operate the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Anti-Ballistic Missile System.
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As part of yesterday’s release of several million pages of documents by the Justice Department under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, multiple email chains between SpaceX founder Elon Musk and convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were revealed, including a conversation from December 2013 in which Musk made plans to visit Epstein on Little Saint James. In one of the emails from late 2012, Musk can be seen asking Epstein: “What day/night will be the wildest party on =our island?”
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President Donald J. Trump has reposted a quote on a video he posted earlier which appears to be old footage of security forces on motorcycles at Haft-e Tir Square in the Iranian capital of Tehran, with the quote stating: “The IRGC are in panic mode, fully sh*tting their pants.”
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Iranian Supreme-Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visited and prayed at the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran earlier today, January 31, 2026, with him being pictured alongside Hassan Khomeini, who serves as the Custodian of the Mausoleum and has long been rumored to be in the running as a potential successor to Khamenei.
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Bahrain’s Ministry of the Interior announces that it will conduct a test tonight of its Emergency Alert System across all mobile phones and smart devices in roughly ten minutes, at 9:30PM.
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Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, states that despite media reports structural arrangements for negotiations are progressing between Iran and the United States.
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In another email conversation released yesterday by the Justice Department, Elon Musk and convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein can be seen discussing a planned gathering at Epstein’s house in New York City during the week of the U.N. General Assembly in September 2012.

During the conversation, Epstein states, “any plans for ny. the opening of the general assembly has many interesting people coming to the house.” To which Musk jokes that he is too important to flying to New York to watch the United Nations. Epstein then responds, “do you think i am retarded, . ? just kidding , there is no one over 25 and all very cute.”
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Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich spoke today with President Donald J. Trump to discuss several current events, among them negotiations and the potential for future conflict with Iran.

Trump: “Well, we can’t tell them the plan. If I told them the plan, it would be almost as bad as telling you the plan – it could be worse, actually. But look, the plan is that [Iran is] talking to us, and we’ll see if we can do something, otherwise we’ll see what happens… We have a big fleet heading out there, bigger than we had - and still have, actually - in Venezuela.”

Heinrich further asked to what degree talks had taken place and about the role that Gulf Nations were playing in the negotiations with Iran.

Trump: “Well, that's true, but they are negotiating, so we'll see what happens. You know, the last time they negotiated, we had to take out their nuclear, didn't work, you know. Then we took it out a different way, and we'll see what happens.”
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Brett Ratner, an American producer and film director known for the Rush Hours Franchise and Melania, a documentary film released January 30, 2026, about First Lady Melania Trump, pictured alongside convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and two women whose faces have been redacted, in a series of images released yesterday by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein Files.
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