🇮🇶⚡️- Iraq's parliament has lowered its legal age of marriage to 9 years old for girls following the passage of a bill sponsored by some of Iraq's major Shiite parties.

Iraqi parliamentarians defended the bill as a means to align Iraq with Islamic principles and reduce Western influence on Iraqi society and culture.

🇮🇶⚡️- Alia Nassif, a member of Iraq's parliament and a member of the Shia State of Law coalition, says the law will go to Iraq's federal court due to the law not meeting the minimum number of MPs to pass the law.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- "Evidence from the [AZAL plane crash] site is clear, it's crucial to pressure Russia to tell the truth. We also discussed future bilateral relations, including increasing trade and energy cooperation. We deeply appreciate Azerbaijan's support for Ukraine," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, during a meeting with Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, on the sidelines at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇸🇾🇨🇭⚡- Syrian Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, arrives in Davos, Switzerland. This marks Syria's first ever participation in the World Economic Forum.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇱⚡- "Russia is concerned over the statements about the possible inclusion of Greenland into the United States, it is important to prevent violations of international law," - Valentina Matvienko, Speaker of the Russian Federation Council.

🇨🇦 ⚡️ - Amazon is pulling out of Quebec due to union/language policies

🇺🇸⚡️- Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht walking out of U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona a free man after President Trump's pardon.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tom Homan, the "border tsar" of the Trump administration, says that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained 308 illegal immigrants on the first day of Trump's administration.

🇺🇸 - Your "mass deportations," sir.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has instructed the Justice Department and DHS to rescind protections for trans prisoners and immigrant detainees under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: President Trump has repealed the 1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Act.

Decades of government practices on diversity and equal opportunity would be effectively eliminated. President Trump's new executive order directs all executive departments and agencies to terminate, "...all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)."

🇺🇸⚡️- Elon Musk says the Stargate venture doesn't have the financing to achieve the expected investment levels, in a rare break with the Trump administration.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump has signed an executive order to suspend the physical entry of migrants crossing the southern border.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mass shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee.

At least three casualties are reported, including the shooter, who reportedly committed suicide.

🇺🇸⚡️- Republican Pro Life law that would protect babies who survive botched abortion attempts has been stalled in the Senate by Democrat filibuster. Vote was 52-47

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from earlier inside Antioch High School as the shooting began.

🇺🇦🇮🇱⚡️- President Zelenskyy meeting with President Herzog to discuss Ukrainian-Israeli cooperation.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ethics records reveal that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., if confirmed as Health & Human Services Secretary, would retain his stake in ongoing litigation against Merck (vaccine producer). This is relevant because the collected fees from the suit have earned him more than $2.5 million in recent years, making this a high conflict of interest.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian militants reported in Jenin, West Bank.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is more popular with young people than most other demographics.

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN will announce layoffs tomorrow for hundreds of employees. This comes after the company lost a landmark defamation lawsuit.