🇷🇺🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Russia rejects proposals to prevent the smuggling of weapons to Hezbollah through Syria. Russia's envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, says preventing Hezbollah from re-arming is not the Russian "army's job in Syria".

🇸🇾⚡- Initial reports, loud explosions heard over Homs, Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israel destroyed the al-Jubaniya bridge, west of Homs, Syria. The bridge runs along a route connecting Syria to Lebanon.

🇺🇦⚡- "Elections may take place in 2025: most likely, they will be held in the fall," - Victoria Hryb, Member of Ukraine's Rada.

🇺🇸⚡️- Newly elected GOP Senate Majority Leader Thune promises to push immigration laws through reconciliation only requiring a simple majority to pass.

🇺🇸⚡️- President-elect Donald Trump nominates Congressman Matt Gaetz for the position of Attorney General.

🇺🇸⚡️- DC reporters are sharing endless stories about shock and laughter at the announcement of Matt Gaetz as AG nominee. Most GOP Senate members are "stunned" and have already begun a campaign through media and surrogates to get Trump to rescind the decision.

House GOP members were seen wiping away tears from laughing too much.

🇺🇸⚡️- FBI has seized Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s phone and electronics.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Russian forces have broken into Kupyansk city. Fighting ongoing in the center.

That would mean Russian forces have advanced over several thousand meters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Initial reports, Ukraine has begun withdrawing from the east of Oskol - Kupyansk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian Kharkov Command claims communication with Kupyansk has been "completely lost".

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against southern Beirut, Lebanon.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be the Director of the FBI.

🇺🇸⚡️- Theodore B. Olson, the GOP Lawyer who argued in front of the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, has passed away at 84

🇧🇷⚡️- Terrorist attack in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. Multiple government buildings are being evacuated.

🇧🇷⚡️- Large police presence outside the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil building in Brasilia.

🇧🇷⚡️- "The Brazilian government fears that the attack may not have been the action of a lone wolf and that other connections might be involved." - GloboNews, Brazilian news outlet.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Turkey has severed all diplomatic ties with Israel. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this today, stating "The government of Turkey will not continue or develop relations with Israel."

🇺🇦🇰🇷⚡- "South Korea may reconsider the possibility of direct arms supplies to Ukraine due to Donald Trump's rise to power," - Bloomberg.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Sounds of interceptions heard over Homs, Syria.