🦠 In one week, from January 14 to 20, almost 1,151,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported among children. Those numbers are up 17% from the previous reported 981,000 cases on Jan. 13, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a report.

10.6 million children have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic. And of these, 2 million in just the last two weeks. Since the emergence of the omicron virus strain, the number of cases has increased significantly

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👏 👍 Police officer arrested a DoorDash driver who was supposed to deliver food to a customer. So officer Sam Buhr decided to finish the delivery.

😐 The US intelligence community’s system of classifying and withholding information erodes national security because it withholds far too much information from the public, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines said in a letter to lawmakers revealed on Thursday.

🇨🇳 Hunter Biden's Chinese ties are coming under new scrutiny.

According to a new book noscriptd "Red Handed" by Peter Schweizer, based on emails from that notorious computer, Hunter allegedly received secretarial services from former Chinese government researcher JiaQi Bao

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⚡️ Three police officers shot in Texas' Houston, suspect at large

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Speaking on "The Guy Benson Show," Former US Ambassador Nikki Haley called on President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to resign.

🗣 "It's absolutely cringeworthy listening to Biden's press conference because literally you never show your cards especially when you don't have any. And that's literally what he did," Haley told radio host and Fox News contributor Guy Benson.

Haley also touched on Biden's foreign policy, saying "He destroyed Afghanistan and put us in a situation with Russia," while also raising concerns about the pandemic

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South Park never ceases to amaze! The return of the show to Comedy Central for its 25th season on February 2 will be accompanied by a grandiose rendition of a South Park classic. A 30-piece orchestra and a collection of Broadway singers were brought together for an epic performance of “Kyle’s Mom.”

Stephen Oremus called some of the most talented Broadway performers he knew to bring this classy cover to life.

📹 Watch a short excerpt from the soundtrack

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What else do Musk and Depp have in common besides dating Amber Heard? Hatred for her.

As it turned out, Amber and Johnny Depp were the cause of Musk and Grimes splitting up, as Johnny Depp accused Amber of adultery. Depp has confirmed that this is how the war between Elon Musk and Amber Heard started, as Depp accused Musk of being in a relationship with his then-wife Heard.

As you know, Johnny Depp lost the course in which Amber claimed that he beat her. Depp would soon be given the 'wife beater' label in 'The Sun' newspaper in 2018. But then, in 2019, Johnny filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife, as Amber during her marriage settlement took a pledge to give half of the $7 million she received to the ACLU organization.

And with the help of Elon Musk, what Amber described as being one her one of good qualities was proven wrong and totally unacceptable

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⚡️ Lavrov: If US, NATO do not change stance on security proposals Russia won't change its stance too

⚡️ NATO not planning to deploy combat troops in Ukraine, Stoltenberg says