🇳🇱🇮🇱⚡- "We are examining reports of the possibility of hostages in the confrontations in the capital, Amsterdam," - Yedioth Ahronoth.

🇺🇸⚡️- Joe Kent (R) has officially been trounced a second time in WA-03 by incumbent Perez (D) — NBC

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump got a lower share of the LGBT vote than any Republican since polls began tracking them in the 90s

🇶🇦🇵🇸⚡️- “Qatar has told Hamas officials they are no longer welcome in the country,” - Jerusalem Post, citing sources in Kann Media.

🇺🇸⚡️- Jack Smith has moved to vacate the remaining deadlines in President Trump's criminal case in court

🇺🇸⚡️- "I am calling for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress." - President-elect Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The FBI says an unnamed member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) planned to assassinate Donald Trump." - Associated Press.

Documents filed last September in a Manhattan court state that "an IRGC official instructed a contact to develop a plan to spy on and then assassinate Trump."

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Trump, Zelenskyi and Musk had a three-way phone call.

🇺🇸🇵🇱⚡- Polish President Duda will fly out in the coming hours to meet with US President-elect Trump.

🇺🇸🇿🇦⚡- South African President Ramaphosa held a telephone conversation with US President-elect Trump.

🇷🇺🇳🇱🇮🇱⚡- Russia recommends its citizens not to visit Amsterdam in the coming days amid the unrest.

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- The GOP Senate Majority Leader race has come down to three candidates: John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott of Florida — NBC

🇺🇸⚡️- DecisionDeskHQ has officially called Washington's 3rd Congressional District race for Marie Perez

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has now officially passed his 2020 raw vote totals earning more than 74 million votes. Counting is expected to continue for the coming weeks, it is estimated he will end up with 76 million in the end.

🇵🇰⚡- Bomb explosion kills 21 at a railway station in Quetta, Balochistan province. Baloch Liberation Army claims responsibility.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump tells Zelensky that he will support Ukraine," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- US President-elect Trump announced his intentions to end Gaza war as soon as possible in his first phone call with Palestinian Authority leader Abbas since 2017.

🇺🇸⚡- President-elect Donald J. Trump intends to sign an executive order to protect Free Speech on his Inauguration in a recent speech.

Part of the President-elect's plan includes revoking Section 230 protections from media companies which collude with federal agencies to suppress speech, such as using "misinformation" or "disinformation" disclaimers to falsify or distort news.

🇶🇦🇵🇸⚡- "Hamas has not received any messages about requests to leave Qatar. Hamas denies Qatar has asked the movement's leaders to leave Doha," - al-Arabiya, Saudi state-owned media.

🇸🇩🇹🇩⚡- The Foreign Ministry of Chad condemns the "outrageous and repeated accusations" of the Sudanese "military authorities who, without any evidence, claim Chad’s support for the Rapid Support Force".

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- US confirms the loss of a MQ-1C drone in Somalia. The US claims it had 'crashed' whereas al-Shabaab state they had shot down the UAV.