🇰🇷⚡️- Scenes from outside former President Yoon's residence in Seoul, South Korea. A large crowd of protesters have converged in support of Yoon.

🇺🇸⚡️- Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos will sit alongside Cabinet picks during Trump's inauguration.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- The outgoing Biden Administration has removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing that Cuba has not, in the last 6 months, supported groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US government.

In response to this, Cuba has released 553 political prisoners.

🇺🇸🔥⚡️- The wildfires in Los Angeles are reportedly expanding, with only a few of the fires reported to be fully contained. Other fires have broken out in Los Angeles as wind carries debris and ash to other parts of Los Angeles.

As of now, the fires in Los Angeles are already projected to be the costliest natural disaster in American history, with more than $275 billion in damages.

🇺🇸🔥 - For perspective, Hurricane Katrina cost $194 billion in damages to New Orleans and southern Louisiana.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- On Sunday, January 19th, TikTok is expected to cease operations in the United States.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli fighter jets carried out an airstrike against a military convoy belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS,) the newly empowered provisional leadership of Syria, in the Quneitra province of southern Syria.

This marks the first attack by the IDF against HTS.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters were reportedly confiscating "unauthorized weapons from local residents" at the time of the strike.

HTS has been - and in this specific instance, likely was - in the process of disarming the Southern Operations Room, mostly comprised of FSA-loyal Druze fighters in southern Syria.

Multiple civilian casualties have been reported as a result of the airstrike.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- The flight of IDF warplanes is reported above Quneitra, southern Syria.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Egyptian outlet Al-Ghab reports that Hamas has accepted the ceasefire proposal, which will be finalized and put into place as soon as tomorrow.

A ceasefire celebration is to happen in Doha, Qatar, where the agreement will be finalized.

The Office of Prime Minister Netanyahu has confirmed receiving the accepted ceasefire deal from Hamas.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - There still seems to be some interesting avoidance by either the media or Netanyahu's government, which could also perhaps be outright misdirection or denial of the ceasefire deal. However, it seems the agreement will go forward, assuming no last minute Israeli demands, like the previous attempts towards a ceasefire deal.

🇪🇬🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Egyptian channels report unusual movement along the Rafah / Salah al-Din area of southern Gaza. Israeli troops are reportedly beginning to withdraw.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Channel 12 reports that the vast majority of IDF forces stationed in this sector have fully withdrawn, and only a small, skeleton force remains.

🇶🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Prime Minister of Qatar will hold a press conference later today.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Biden warns of a “tech industrial complex” in his farewell address.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump's official presidential portrait has been published ahead of his inauguration in 5 days.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Xiaohongshu, better known as RedNote, is panic hiring English speaking content moderators as millions of Americans download the app in preparation for the TikTok ban.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- American alternative streaming platform Kick has offered to purchase TikTok.

Many different parties are throwing their hat in the ring to potentially purchase TikTok in order to avert its imminent shutdown on Sunday, including Elon Musk, Jimmy Donaldson (better known as Mr. Beast) and even Rumble.

🇺🇸 - Incoming (overweight) Vice President JD Vance's official portrait is a lot less powerful, as shown in this inauguration pamphlet.