🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Hamas is beginning to divide its remaining prisoners into groups, preparing for the emerging ceasefire deal, per Al Arabiya.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "The Israeli army says it is ready to implement any decision taken by the political level, including leaving the areas it controls in Gaza." - Maariv, center-right pro-Likud outlet.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump has announced plans to create an External Revenue Service to collect tariffs, duties, and other revenues from foreign sources. 

Historically, this function was performed by the US Revenue Cutter Service, the predecessor to the US Coast Guard, until it was reorganized in 1915. This proposal can be seen as a return to that earlier tradition.

🇺🇸⚡️- Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has removed Representative Thomas Massie from the House Rules Committee.

🇺🇸⚡️- Massie says he volunteered his removal and that it wasnt "retribution" for his vote against Johnson.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- Keir Starmer has announced that he will wait for President Trumps approval before signing the Chagos Island giveaway.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a draft ceasefire agreement, according to CBS citing senior Israeli officials.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The draft is expected to be finalized and completed later this week.

🇰🇷⚡️- BREAKING: South Korean police are attempting, once again, to storm the residence of former President Yoon.

🇰🇷⚡️- Scenes from outside former President Yoon's residence in Seoul, South Korea. A large crowd of protesters have converged in support of Yoon.

🇺🇸⚡️- Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos will sit alongside Cabinet picks during Trump's inauguration.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- The outgoing Biden Administration has removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing that Cuba has not, in the last 6 months, supported groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US government.

In response to this, Cuba has released 553 political prisoners.

🇺🇸🔥⚡️- The wildfires in Los Angeles are reportedly expanding, with only a few of the fires reported to be fully contained. Other fires have broken out in Los Angeles as wind carries debris and ash to other parts of Los Angeles.

As of now, the fires in Los Angeles are already projected to be the costliest natural disaster in American history, with more than $275 billion in damages.

🇺🇸🔥 - For perspective, Hurricane Katrina cost $194 billion in damages to New Orleans and southern Louisiana.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- On Sunday, January 19th, TikTok is expected to cease operations in the United States.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli fighter jets carried out an airstrike against a military convoy belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS,) the newly empowered provisional leadership of Syria, in the Quneitra province of southern Syria.

This marks the first attack by the IDF against HTS.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters were reportedly confiscating "unauthorized weapons from local residents" at the time of the strike.

HTS has been - and in this specific instance, likely was - in the process of disarming the Southern Operations Room, mostly comprised of FSA-loyal Druze fighters in southern Syria.

Multiple civilian casualties have been reported as a result of the airstrike.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- The flight of IDF warplanes is reported above Quneitra, southern Syria.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Egyptian outlet Al-Ghab reports that Hamas has accepted the ceasefire proposal, which will be finalized and put into place as soon as tomorrow.

A ceasefire celebration is to happen in Doha, Qatar, where the agreement will be finalized.

The Office of Prime Minister Netanyahu has confirmed receiving the accepted ceasefire deal from Hamas.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - There still seems to be some interesting avoidance by either the media or Netanyahu's government, which could also perhaps be outright misdirection or denial of the ceasefire deal. However, it seems the agreement will go forward, assuming no last minute Israeli demands, like the previous attempts towards a ceasefire deal.