🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Illenka and have advanced east of Kurakhovo.

🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡- "The bodies of three Iranian brothers were found in an apartment in the Turkish province of Antalya," - TRT Haber, Turkish media.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes right next to Beirut International Airport, Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from Beirut, Lebanon.

🇺🇸⚡️- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announces that special elections will be held following the appointment of Senator Marco Rubio, Congressman Matt Gaetz, and Congressman Mike Waltz to the incoming Trump administration.