🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡️- “It was a Great Honor to speak with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we have had. I appreciated his call and tone, and look forward to meeting him in the near future. Arrangements are being made between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Foreign Minister of Colombia. The meeting will take place in the White House in Washington, D.C.” - President Donald J. Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Trump greenlit the bipartisan Russia sanctions bill that I have been working on for months with Senator Blumenthal and many others.

This bill will allow President Trump to punish those countries who buy cheap Russian oil fueling Putin’s war machine. This bill would give President Trump tremendous leverage against countries like China, India and Brazil to incentivize them to stop buying the cheap Russian oil that provides the financing for Putin’s bloodbath against Ukraine.

I look forward to a strong bipartisan vote, hopefully as early as next week," - Senator Lindsey Graham.

🇾🇪 - Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces surrounding the city of Aden along its outskirts.

🇾🇪🇸🇴🇦🇪 - Yemeni media reports Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, Head of the Southern Transitional Council, fled to Somaliland on a vessel. From Somaliland he flew to the UAE.

🇺🇸⚡️- An eyewitnesses video showing the immediate aftermath of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

Viewer discretion is advised.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳 - A Japanese reporter asked Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, why the Chinese air-defense systems performed so terribly in defending Nicolas Maduro. The Chinese minister completely evaded the question, responding with an irrelevant answer.

"Venezuela has imported a large amount of military equipment from China. But it appears that this equipment was of little use. What is your assessment of this matter? - Japanese reporter.

"China firmly supports the Latin American and Carribbean peace zones against use or threats of force," - Guo Jiakun.

🇺🇸⚡️- In a press conference, Kristi Noem says that Renee Nicole Good was following, harassing, and obstructing ICE before the shooting. Noem again claims that ICE was dealing with a stuck vehicle when a mob formed prior to the vehicle Good was driving hit an officer.

🇺🇸⚡️- Where Renee Nicole Good was killed vs where George Floyd died.

Credit: Will Stancil

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- “China has hacked the emails used by congressional staff on powerful committees in the US House of Representatives, as part of a massive cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon.

Chinese intelligence accessed email systems used by some staffers on the House China committee in addition to aides on the foreign affairs committee, intelligence committee and armed services committee, according to people familiar with the attack. The intrusions were detected in December.” - Financial Times.

🇺🇸⚡️- A large vigil protest has formed at the site where protestors now chant "ICE out now".

🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes between the Syrian government and the SDF at al-Shihan roundabout (36.2283712, 37.1272428). Syrian troops are attempting to enter the southwest of the al-Ashrafiyeh district of Aleppo.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian government troops are also attempting to infiltrate south of the Khalid bin al-Walid road, near al-Shaqif micro district (36.2548741, 37.1594286). The area is located just north of the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo.

🇸🇴🇪🇹🇦🇪⚡- UAE's Foreign Minister Shakhboot bin Nahyan, while in Addis Ababa, reaffirms his support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Somalia.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will subpoena Les Wexner, the longtime friend and client of Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein’s lawyer, Darren Indyke, and his accountant, Richard Kahn.

🇺🇸⚡️- Vice President JD Vance weighs in on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis:

“I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them.

To the radicals assaulting them, doxxing them, and threatening them: congratulations, we're going to work even harder to enforce the law.”

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡️- “Among the things we discussed, President Trump and I, was the disagreement we had regarding his vision of the relationship between the United States and Latin America.

I said in my letter written to Trump at the beginning of his administration, and to Biden personally, that an American alliance could be established if the great annual potential for clean energy in South America were harnessed: 1400 GW, while the U.S. demand for energy that solves the issue of oil and coal is 840 GW annually; that is, Latin America can achieve 100% of the U.S. energy matrix, and that would be the biggest step in the fight to stop the climate crisis in favor of Life.

That means global peace and democracy.

Using Latin America solely for oil would lead to the destruction of international law and therefore to barbarism and a third world war.

The peace of the world would be put in true risk, and we would move to irreversible climate collapse with the extinction of life.

The clean energy potential of Latin America becomes a reality with an investment of 500 billion dollars, which the United States has at this moment.

That is my proposal. Based on Peace, Life, and Global Democracy.” - President of Colombia Gustavo Petro.

🇺🇸⚡️- Minneapolis Public Schools have closed for the rest of the week amid public safety concerns after the ICE shooting.

🇺🇸⚡️- A shooting has occurred at a Mormon Latter-day Saints church in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Police say a fight started in the parking lot during a funeral before the shooting proceeded; at least eight people were shot, two people are confirmed dead, and three are in critical condition.

Police have started a manhunt for the suspects.