🇺🇸⚡️- President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sean Curran (pictured on the right in sunglasses during Trump's famous raised fist photograph) to be the Director of the United States Secret Service.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Biden discussed pardoning Trump, sources say; unclear if seriously being considered." - NBC News.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Office of Prime Minister Netanyahu confirms the Israeli cabinet has approved both the prisoner exchange deal and the Gaza ceasefire deal.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met in Moscow today, with both parties agreeing to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- President-elect Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone conversation a short time ago.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Palestinians serving life sentences under administrative detention will be released to Jerusalem and the West Bank." - Israel Channel 14.

🇺🇸🏛️⚡- BREAKING: SCOTUS rules against TikTok; Sunday ban will go forward.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts at Nir Am in the Gaza envelope, southern Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- In a final act of vandalism, the Biden Admin is attempting to force the Equal Rights Amendment into the US Constitution despite the Amendment not being ratified by enough States in the Union.

🇺🇸⚡️- If this were to actually be enforced every State level restriction on abortion, transgenderism, liberal school carriculums, and attempts to curtail any Civil Rights era laws would be unconstitutional.

The ERA was effectively defeated decades ago and many States reversed their ratifications after the original deadline in 1982.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's inauguration has been moved indoors due to cold temperatures.

🇺🇸⚡️- This announcement coincides with a rally of progressives outside the National Archives who have been pressuring them to illegally certify the Amendment.

🇺🇸⚡️- This will be the first indoor ceremony since Ronald Reagans second swearing in back in 1985.

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN has been found guilty in a major Defamation suit from a US Navy Veteran whom they claimed was an "illegal profiteer" of the Afghanistan pullout in 2021.

🇺🇸⚡️- Vivek Ramaswamy plans to run for Ohio Governor after being passed over for their open Senate seat.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, quickly adopted American censorship standards. It has established new rules in English against hate speech and anti-semitism.

🇺🇸⚡️- An editing war has erupted on Wikipedia over the ERA as activists attempt to have it added as an actual Amendment on the website due to the Biden Admin proclamation.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Senate has broken the filibuster on the Laken Riley Act 61-35. This is the first immigration bill in decades to not be passed with an amnesty amendment.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Israeli Knesset has approved the prisoner exchange deal and Gaza ceasefire deal after more than 6 hours of deliberation.