🇺🇸⚡️- A federal agent opened fire on an illegal immigrant in southern California after the illegal immigrant “weaponized his vehicle and rammed law enforcement” in an attempt to evade arrest. - Fox News.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Turkey has deployed the HTRS-100 radar system to Damascus International Airport, Syria. The radar can detect all airborne targets within a range of up to 115 miles.

Israeli Channel 15 has confirmed the deployment, and claims it severely restricts Israel's freedom of action in Syrian airspace. The south of Syria was a corridor Israel relied upon to approach Iranian borders in the 12 Day War.

🇺🇸🇨🇭⚡️- Gavin Newsom was poised to make a speech with Fortune at the USA House in Davos when he was informed at the last moment that his speech had been canceled.

A Newsom official subsequently blamed the USA House for succumbing to pressure from the State Department.

A USA House organizer “told his office that they had opted not to include any U.S. officials in the talk focused on CEOs and other business leaders.” - POLITICO.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st. Additional discussions are being held concerning The Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be made available as discussions progress. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and various others, as needed, will be responsible for the negotiations — They will report directly to me. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - President Donald Trump on Truth Social.

🇨🇭⚡️- The Conference Center at the World Economic Forum (WEF) is being evacuated. The reason for the evacuation is currently unclear.

🇮🇷⚡️ – Reuters reports witness accounts of protests in Iran, stating that the IRGC opened indiscriminate fire on protesters, hitting and killing bystanders who were not taking part in the demonstrations.

🇫🇷⚡️ – The French Senate rejected the initial text of the law to generalize euthanasia in France, despite reaching an early agreement on most articles.

🇺🇸⚡️ – Donald Trump is planning weekly trips within the U.S. to address voters’ concerns as the midterms approach, according to Reuters. His first stop is scheduled for Iowa next Tuesday, where he will focus on economy and energy topics.

🇺🇸🇬🇱⚡- BREAKING: President Trump announces a deal has been made for Greenland in an interview with CNBC.

"I think it is going to be a very good deal for the US and also for them [Denmark]. [NATO Chief] Rutte was representing them. I assume he has been speaking to all of them.

We will work together on something having to do with the Arctic as a whole, but also Greenland.

The deal is a little bit complex. We will explain it down the line. It is the kind of a deal that I wanted to be able to make. It’s better than Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, this deal is forever," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇬🇱⚡- The New York Times reports the US-Greenland deal will be similar to that of the UK-Cyprus agreement.

US, Danish and NATO officials are in discussions to build a framework in which small pockets of Greenland would be granted US sovereignty. The US would be able to build and operate military infrastructure at these sites, in a similar way the UK operates two sites on Cyprus.

The framework was pushed by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

🇺🇸🇬🇱⚡- "The Secretary General [Mark Rutte] had a very productive meeting with President Trump, during which they discussed the critical significance of security in the Arctic region to all Allies, including the United States.

Discussions among the NATO Allies on the framework the President referenced will focus on ensuring Arctic security through the collective efforts of Allies, especially the seven Arctic allies [the US, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland].

Negotiations between Denmark, Greenland and the United States will go forward aimed at ensuring that Russia and China never gain a foothold – economically or militarily – in Greenland," - Allison Hart, NATO spokeswoman.

🇺🇸🇬🇱🇷🇺⚡️- Vladimir Putin stated that the agreement between the U.S. and Denmark for the acquisition of Greenland “has no bearing on Russia.”

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Ukrainian Government official, Rustem Umerov, met with American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Davos.

Umerov stated the talks concerned security guarantees and post-war recovery.

Witkoff and Kushner are set to meet with Putin in Moscow tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇯🇴⚡- An aircraft belonging to CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper landed in Amman, Jordan, having departed MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, earlier today.

🇾🇪⚡- Unidentified drones over the Marib region of Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces controlled central Yemen.

🇸🇩🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- UAE has retaliated to its loss to Saudi Arabia in Yemen by increasing its support for the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, reaching unprecedented levels, French Think Tank Africa Intelligence reports.

"Relations between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are beyond repair, with the UAE seeking to draw Saudi Arabia into a prolonged confrontation in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa," - Africa Intelligence.

🇺🇸⚡️- ICE launched an immigration enforcement operation today in Maine, titled “Operation Catch of the Day.” The operation began in Maine’s greater Portland area, where up to 50 illegal immigrants were arrested.

ICE Deputy Assistant Director Patricia Hyde stated the operation targeted 1,400 illegals with national backgrounds such as Senegal, Somalia, Honduras, Guatemala, and the Congo.

Hyde’s comments signal a willingness from ICE to be more transparent, as escalations have only risen since the excursion into Minneapolis and the deadly shooting of Renee Good, along with administrative leaks to the press communicating President Trump’s concern about the “look” of the ICE operations. - POLITICO.

🇺🇸 - Four aerial tanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, perform something very unusual over Montana, and then head back home.

🇪🇹🇸🇴⚡- Somali separatists, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), have declared the 2018 peace deal with Addis Ababa nullified. ONLF announced it will restart military operations, advocating for the independence of Ogaden from Ethiopia.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- "Emboldened by the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is searching for Cuban government insiders who can help cut a deal to push out the Communist regime by the end of the year.

The Trump administration has assessed Cuba’s economy as being close to collapse and that the government has never been this fragile after losing a vital benefactor in Maduro, these people said. Officials don’t have a concrete plan to end the Communist government that has held power on the Caribbean island for almost seven decades, but they see Maduro’s capture and subsequent concessions from his allies left behind as a blueprint and a warning for Cuba, senior U.S. officials said." - The Wall Street Journal

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- American's approval of the military operation to oust Maduro has skyrocketed in the weeks after its success.