🇺🇸🇳🇪⚡️- US is donating C-130 aircraft to the Nigerien military

🇺🇸⚡️- Biden will be awarding election officials from 2020 with Presidential Medals.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The United States has withdrawn its recognition of Guaido as the legitimate President of Venezuela.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡️- Gunfire reported in Mitrovica.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡️- Tensions in Kosovo are significantly mounting after an Albanian man shot a Serb man and his child, nearly killing them.

🇺🇸⚡️- Bed Bath and Beyond has declared bankruptcy.

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡️- Serbs have begun blocking roads in Kosovo.

🇺🇸⚡️- Five Republicans have so far flipped their vote in favor of McCarthy.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - The center of Soledar is under the control of Russian forces. Ukrainian troops are currently being pushed out of Soledar's suburbs.

🇺🇸⚡️ - After the 12th ballot, McCarthy now has 214 votes for Speaker, leading Jeffries for the first time. 13 Republicans switched their votes in favor of McCarthy.

🇺🇸⚡️- 12th House Speaker vote ends inconclusive.

🇺🇸⚡️- McCarthy told CNN he believes he will have enough votes to be Speaker by tonight

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- PMC Wagner have seized the Soledar salt mines.

🇽🇰🇷🇸⚡️ - The shooter is, according to sources in Kosovo, an ethnic Albanian and member of the so-called Kosovo Security Forces.

🇺🇸⚡️ - The January 6th "Committee" website is no longer available.

🇺🇸 - McCarthy has been elected as Speaker.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ - The Kiev-Pechersk monastery, one of the holiest sites in Eastern Orthodoxy, was transferred to the schismatic "Orthodox Church of Ukraine". "Patriarch" Epiphanius of Kiev held a Christmas service there.

🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡️ - The British government has claimed a Chinese-made spying device was found in the car of a member of Rishi Sunak's cabinet.

🇮🇷 - Two more Iranian rioters have been hanged for the murder of a policeman during the attempted color revolution there last year.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- The Bakhmut-Soledar Line which Ukraine is currently holding is on the verge of total collapse.

🇺🇸⚡️- Senator Chuck Schumer reports in a new January 6th "documentary" that a protester yelled at him, "There's the Big Jew! Let's get him!"