🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group has entered the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.

🇮🇷⚡️- There has been no attack in Iran. The air defenses were activated for reasons that are still unclear. The announcement about the air defenses confronting hostile targets came directly from Iranian state media, Mehr News.

🇮🇷⚡️- Multiple Iranian journalists have refuted the claim made by Israeli Channel 12 that Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf resigned from Iran's negotiating team, calling the claims "absolutely false and a joke."

🇺🇸⚡️- An active shooter has been reported at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge. Law enforcement is on the scene. Early reports mention multiple casualties on site.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- BREAKING: The White House claims to have proof China has been stealing AI models and data from U.S. artificial intelligence labs.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- "The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, ​industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems." - Michael Kratsios, Director of ​the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- The Chinese Embassy in Washington has denied these claims.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- The memo from Michael Kratsios, addressed to government agencies, ⁠says the ​administration will share information with American AI companies ​about the distillation efforts, and "explore a range of measures to hold foreign actors accountable" for the ​campaigns.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has launched rockets to Shtula, northern Israel.

Simultaneously Lebanese and Israeli negotiations are ongoing in Washington, d.c..

🇺🇸⚡- Meta announces it is laying off 8,000 of its staff—around 10% of the workforce.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- “The U.S. has burned through so many munitions in Iran that some administration officials increasingly assess that America couldn’t fully execute contingency plans to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion if it occurred in the near term, U.S. officials said.” - Wall Street Journal.

In addition, over 1,000 Tomahawk missiles, as well as 1,500-2,000 air-defense missiles, such as Thaad, Patriot, and Standard Missile interceptors, have been used during the War in Iran. According to U.S. officials, it would take about 6 years to fully replenish the stockpile.

When questioned about the story, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was fake news.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces a 3 week extension for the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire.

🇺🇸 - "I LOVE TRUTH SOCIAL! President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US Department of Justice has arrested a US Special Forces soldier who took part in the Venezuela raid which captured former President Maduro, that allegedly placed a bet of $30,000 on Polymarket for Maduro's removal.

The soldier placed "yes" bets on the following “U.S. Forces in Venezuela . . . by January 31, 2026”; “Maduro out by . . . January 31, 2026”; “Will the U.S. invade Venezuela by . . . January 31,”; or “Trump invokes War Powers against Venezuela by . . . January 31.”, and made a total gain of $409,000.

His charges are unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Overnight, pursuant to a seizure warrant submitted by my office and signed by a federal magistrate, U.S. forces interdicted the dark fleet vessel, M/T Majestic (formerly known as the M/T Phonix), while carrying approximately 1.9 million barrels of Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean. Earlier this week, U.S. forces similarly seized the M/T Tifani based on one of our seizure warrants. It too was laden with approximately 1.9 million barrels of Iranian oil.

We will continue to relentlessly investigate, track, and pursue these cases, using every lawful authority to hold sanctioned actors and those who support terrorism accountable, and to deny them of any ability to profit from illicit maritime activity." - U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

🇺🇸⚡️- The special forces official is Army Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke. Van Dyke was a communications specialist supporting Joint Special Operations Command, the unit that oversees Tier 1 special mission units such as Delta Force and SEAL Team Six, per CBS News.