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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The United States has withdrawn its recognition of Guaido as the legitimate President of Venezuela.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

🇧🇴 - Protests against Bolivia's left-wing government in the region of Santa Cruz continued today. The protests have been going on since December 28th, when the region's governor was arrested by Bolivian authorities. Some protesters, especially those from the Pro Santa Cruz movement, have called for the region to secede from Bolivia - La Paz has attacked them as "far-right".