🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has opened a criminal case against me for “aiding terrorism.” Each day, the authorities fabricate new pretexts to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram as they seek to suppress the right to privacy and free speech. A sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people," - Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram.

🇵🇦🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: Panama has liberated the two ports on either end of the Panama Canal from the Chinese CK Hutchison today.

The Hong Kong-based firm has complained that Panamanian authorities "made direct physical entry into the terminals at Balboa and Cristobal and assumed administrative and operational control."

Danish shipping giant Maersk and Swiss-based MSC are to take over the operations of the two key ports.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's State of The Union tonight will begin at 9PM EST. Coverage by Nick Fuentes on Rumble will begin at 8PM.

The speech will focus on the Presidents agenda intertwined with America's 250th birthday.

Confirmed special guests are the USA Olympic Hockey Team, conservative influencers such as Kai Schwemmer and Nick Shirley, family members of victims of illegal alien violence, the family of Jesse Jackson, the daughter of Jimmy Lai, the anti Communist activist arrested by the Chinese, local Sheriff's invited by Congressmen, Rick Woldenberg, one of the CEO's who acted as a plaintiff in the Supreme Court tariff case, and some others.

Also attending is Colin Hortman, the son of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman who was killed last year. Family members of Charlie Kirk are not confirmed yet but will likely also be in attendance.

Democrats, of which over 2 dozen are expected to boycott the speech outright, have invited various Epstein victims and subjects of ICE enforcement to protest Trump.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger will deliver the Democrats response after Trump is finished.

🇺🇸⚡️- Team USA arriving early no doubt hungover from partying in Miami last night.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- All twelve F-22s have arrived in Southern Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- Erika Kirk is now confirmed to be in attendance.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Sporadic clashes between the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani military occured earlier today along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- Another six F-22s have departed Langley AFB towards the UK.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- "In light of a potential US attack on Iran, which could also have repercussions for Israel and other countries in the region, the German Foreign Office has called on German citizens in the country to take security precautions.

Germans in Israel should, for example, be prepared to remain at their current location for some time in the event that the airspace is closed due to Iranian attacks," - Bild.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump, at the lunch before the State of the Union address, is reported to have stated to White House correspondents,

“Iran wants to make a deal more than I do, but they just won’t say the secret phrase: We won’t build nuclear weapons”.

🇺🇸⚡️- There are now 70 confirmed Democrats skipping the SOTU.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is expected to announce more "tax cuts" during his SOTU speech to be passed through reconciliation. This comes after Trump previously said he had no need for anything else via reconciliation.

🇺🇸⚡️- Some reports are claiming President Trump plans to speak for over 2 hours tonight.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Department of Homeland Security is claiming that Democratic Congressional members are going to bring illegal aliens as guests to the State of the Union.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- “I look forward to returning to Venezuela soon to lead U.S. Southern Command’s efforts to advance [President Trump]’s three-phase plan. The U.S. government’s engagement with the interim authorities supports the stabilization of Venezuela’s internal security, its economic recovery, and a transition toward a new era.” - Gen. Francis L. Donovan

🇮🇶⚡️- At least three commercial flights headed to Baghdad's airport have turned away. This includes two flights close to landing which circled in Baghdad's airspace and are now headed away to the North.

All flights belong to different companies and no statement has been made yet regarding the reason of these issues. Three other flights headed to Baghdad are still seemingly headed there with no changes to their trajectories. Flights to Erbil are undisturbed.