U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela, Trump says Maduro captured and flown out of the country
President Trump said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were “captured and flown out of the Country” early Saturday morning, confirming a “large scale strike” by the U.S. that drew quick condemnation and concern from across the globe. The U.S. Army’s Delta Force, an elite special forces unit, carried out the operation to capture Maduro, officials told CBS News. A Republican senator said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had indicated that Maduro would face criminal charges in the U.S., where he was indicted years ago, and that Rubio “anticipates no further action in Venezuela.”

‘We’re locked & loaded’: Trump warns apocalyptic Iranian regime not to murder swelling protest movement or U.S. will attack — is he planning 2nd air assault, possibly to include Iranian missile facilities, possibly with Israeli involvement? 
Barack Obama never did it. Neither did Joe Biden. But on Friday, in a shocking and unprecedented social media post, U.S. President Donald J. Trump came to the defense of the Iranian people and put the wicked regime in Tehran on notice. Under Trump, no longer will the world’s greatest democracy and only superpower cast a blind eye toward the murder of innocent Iranians demanding freedom, justice, and a new government.

US Reissues Urgent ‘Do Not Travel’ Warning For Russia, As NYT Confirms CIA’s Escalating Involvement
The US State Department has once once again re-issued an urgent advisory warning Americans not to travel to Russia. The renewed travel advisory also tells any American citizens currently in Russia to depart immediately. It cites the danger associated with the ongoing war with Ukraine, as well as the significant risk of wrongful detention by Russian officials, and the possibility of terrorism.

Is a second strike on Iran inevitable, and what would it change? 
Israel may be heading toward another year defined first by war and then by diplomacy. ​In the first half of 2026, Israel is likely to be fighting Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran. In the second half of the year, those battles could give way to a series of peace agreements, including an expansion of the Abraham Accords.

Is this the oldest known image of Jerusalem, featuring King Hezekiah? 
If you go to the British Museum in London today, you can see the huge Lachish wall reliefs portraying the Assyrian siege, capture and destruction of the city of Lachish in Israel, all chiseled into stone slabs more than 2,700 years old. Now it seems one of those slabs may have an additional story to tell.

Is Khamenei Losing Control? Protests Escalate Across Iran | KAN 11
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Visions of Psalms: Flash Flood Brings Nahal Qumran to Life After Judean Rains
After heavy rains in the mountains of Judea, a sudden flash flood tore through Nahal Qumran—the desert ravine that descends past the cliffs near the ancient settlement of Qumran and empties into the Dead Sea, manifesting the verse from Psalms (Tehillim 126) “Restore, O LORD, our fortunes like the dry riverbeds in the Negev”. The area is associated with the Second Temple–era Jewish community commonly identified with the Dead Sea Scrolls, manuscripts that preserved the Hebrew Bible with astonishing accuracy across millennia.

‘Make Iran Great Again’: Israeli ministers support Iranian demonstrators
Israeli government ministers and lawmakers publicly voiced support this week for Iranians protesting against their government, as demonstrations across the Islamic Republic turned deadly and drew international attention.

Pahlavi thanks Trump for support of Iranian protesters, shares ideas to topple regime
Pahlavi added that he has a plan for a “stable transition” in a scenario where the Islamic Republic regime would be toppled, where the country’s citizens would take to the streets in millions. Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi thanked US President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon in a post on X/Twitter for his “strong leadership and support” of the ongoing anti-Islamic Republic protests occurring across Iran.

Yemen’s Southern Separatists Call for Path to Independence Amid Fighting Over Key Region
Yemen’s southern separatist movement said on Friday it aimed to hold a referendum on independence from the north in two years, following its seizure of swathes of the country last month in a move that triggered a major feud between Gulf powers.

NYC rabbis lead pro-Israel demonstration across from Mamdani’s inauguration 
Rabbi Avi Weiss said the small pro-Israel demonstration he led as Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City on Thursday sent a clear message: “We stand with Israel today, tomorrow and forever.”

Iran foreign minister warns forces ‘know where to aim’ after Trump threat
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday accused President Donald Trump of making “reckless and dangerous” threats against Iran. Trump said in a post on X that protesters had taken to the streets in peaceful demonstrations, calling it their right. He said those protesting were mainly people hurt by sharp fluctuations in Iran’s currency.

Trump Admin Launches Prayer Campaign To Celebrate Nation’s Founding: ‘Let Us Rededicate Ourselves To One Nation Under God’
In July, President Donald Trump announced plans for a yearlong celebration of America’s 250th birthday to culminate in spectacular fashion on Independence Day 2026. But before the nation’s capital is immersed in patriotic pageantry befitting such a historic milestone, the president is calling the country to pray.

“Then It Is War”: Elon Musk Responds After Somali TikToker Threatens His Life
A Somali TikToker (account now defunct), first highlighted by Libs of TikTok, mocked Americans about alleged Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota and pushed dangerous rhetoric suggesting Elon Musk was “about to die.” Such statements fit a broader alarming pattern surrounding the Democratic Party’s normalization of assassination culture against Musk and President Trump supporters.

MN Lawmaker: Walz Team Threatened Whistleblowers With “Racism” & “Islamophobia” Slurs To Hide Somali Fraud
Minnesota State Rep. Kristin Robbins has unleashed a stunning revelation, confirming that credible whistleblowers came forward with evidence that Gov. Tim Walz and his administration used threats of “racism” and “Islamophobia” labels to suppress exposures of massive Somali-linked fraud schemes draining taxpayer dollars.

Maduro Open To US Talks On Drug-Trafficking
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he is open to talks with the United States to combat drug trafficking, but did not comment on last week’s U.S. strikes on a docking facility.

Strong M6.5 earthquake hits Guerrero, Mexico
A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.5 struck Guerrero, Mexico, at 13:58 UTC (07:58 LT) on January 2, 2026. The agency is reporting a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles). EMSC is reporting the same magnitude and depth. The USGS issued a Yellow alert for shaking-related fatalities and a Green alert for economic losses.

Flash floods kill 17 and destroy 1800 homes across Afghanistan
Flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall and snowmelt have killed at least 17 people and left 11 injured across Afghanistan since January 1, 2026. Over 1800 homes were destroyed in Herat, Badghis, and Faryab provinces, with authorities warning of continuing risk as moderate rainfall persists in western regions.

Australia Enforces Age ID Checks for Search Engine Users
Australia has activated a new requirement for search engines to verify the ages of their signed-in users, with companies now facing a six-month countdown to full compliance.

Sweden and Switzerland are slowly winning the war against cash, but the fight is not over yet
As digital threats mount, cash is reemerging not as a relic, but as a vital pillar of secure and accessible payment systems.  And Sweden and Switzerland are making moves to reverse course on digital currency and enshrine the use of cash in law.

Trump warns: ‘If Iran shoots protesters, the US will come to their rescue’
…”If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.TRUMP,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Why Anti-Sharia Bills Always Fail — and What Must Be Done Instead 
Elaine Ellinger’s article reveals why banning Sharia without defining religion is a legal fraud—and what must be done to stop the endless cycle of empty legislation.

Charter or Sharia: How Canada’s Federal Workplace Is Being Reengineered Into a Parallel Islamic System 
Canada’s federal workplace is being quietly transformed from Charter-based neutrality into sharia-aligned compliance, as a Muslim employees’ guide reframes “religious accommodation” into institutional submission, enforced conformity, and the normalization of a parallel religious legal order inside the state itself.

Florida for Sale: Inside the Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Settlement of Tampa
“Tampa is now considered the second best Islamic city in America—after Dallas” is not a compliment—it is a declaration that Florida’s taxpayer-funded schools, mosques, and markets are being used to construct a permanent Islamic parallel society in plain sight.

A Christian Nation If You Can Keep It
When discussing the nature of the fledgling United States in 1787, Elizabeth Willing Powel, an influential socialite in Philadelphia, asked Benjamin Franklin “[w]ell, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin famously responded that the United States is “a republic, if you can keep it.” At the dawn of 2026, a similar question lingers amid controversy over the nation’s religious status following recent remarks by President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. More specifically, it thus seems fair to ask, without putting too much emphasis on Christmas, whether the United States is a Christian nation. We can respond enthusiastically “yes, if we can keep it.”

FBI disrupts alleged ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack plot targeting NC grocery store, fast food restaurant
The FBI disrupted an alleged plot to attack people inside a grocery store and fast food restaurant in North Carolina on New Year’s Eve in support of the Islamic State terrorist group, prosecutors revealed Friday. Christian Sturdivant, 18, of Mint Hill — a town outside Charlotte — was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Russ Ferguson said.

Six killed in protests in Iran
Six people have been killed in connection with the protests in Iran that broke out last week, state media reports.

Republican lawmakers call on Walz to resign in wake of Minnesota’s massive fraud problem
A group of Republican state lawmakers from both the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate have called on Gov. Tim Walz to resign. The announcement comes as Minnesota’s years-long fraud saga has become a major, national story. Earlier this month, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson said he suspects more than $9 billion spent on 14 state-run, Medicaid-funded programs could be fraudulent. Federal authorities are in the process of unraveling fraud schemes that reportedly bilked those programs for years.

Source: CIA dismisses Russian reports of attack on residence used by Putin
The CIA believes that Ukraine has not targeted a residence used by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

Congresswoman Miller-Meeks introduces ‘WALZ Act’ to crack down on fraud
“The WALZ Act is named for a reason, to ensure this level of negligence can never be repeated anywhere else in America. Our bill puts hard safeguards in place to protect taxpayer dollars, shut the door on scam artists, and bring real accountability back to government programs,” added Miller-Meeks. “What we’re seeing in Minnesota is a jaw-dropping failure of leadership, nearly $9 billion lost to fraud under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch.

What we know about the Saudi-led air strikes on ships in Yemen
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251231-strike-ships-yemen-saudi-arabia-uae
Images of the air strike on Yemen’s port of Mukalla on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, have circulated widely across global media, including flames burning along the shoreline and a column of black smoke rising over the port. The Saudi-led military coalition that carried out the strike claimed the bombardment targeted “weapons and combat vehicles” unloaded from two ships arriving from the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.

CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER: 3 reasons why Netanyahu urgently met with Evangelical leaders in Florida before spending New Year’s Eve with President Trump at Mar-A-Lago 
First: TO DEMONSTRATE GENUINE GRATITUDE. Second: …………..

Joseph Kosinski Says His Upcoming UFO Movie is “Science Fact” Not “Science Fiction”
As for the UFO project, Kosinski is adamant that it isn’t “science fiction,” but rather “science fact.” When asked whether the still-untitled film falls under the sci-fi genre, Kosinski pushed back on the label, suggesting the story is less about speculative fantasy and more about realities we’re only now beginning to confront.

For the First Time Ever, NASA Telescope Spots Asteroids Violently Colliding
In a scientific first, astronomers have witnessed two objects violently colliding in space, the impact generating a dusty debris cloud reminiscent of cosmic fireworks. The collision occurred 25 light-years from Earth around a star known as Fomalhaut. Younger, brighter and more massive than the sun, Fomalhaut sits at the center of a system much like our own solar system. Scientists have watched Fomalhaut since discovering a dust belt around the star in 2004 “This is the first time we have seen a point of light appear out of nowhere in a planetary system,” The point of light revealed a collision between asteroids,

SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025
That’s a launch almost every other day, a staggering cadence that leaves other companies — and entire nations — in the dust. Indeed, SpaceX launched nearly twice as many orbital missions as China did this year, and the company’s 2025 output represented about 85% of the United States’ total tally.

Iran protesters torch Qassem Soleimani statue
Protesters in Iran on Thursday set fire to a statue of former Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, footage obtained by Iran International shows. The website reported that the incident took place in the city of Lali in Khuzestan, located in southwestern Iran. It comes on the eve of the anniversary of the elimination of Soleimani in a US drone attack in Iraq, on January 3, 2020.

Four years since Yehuda Dimentman’s murder: family demands death penalty for the terrorist
A sentencing hearing was held today at the Samaria military court for one of the terrorists who murdered Yehuda Dimentman near Homesh about four years ago. The family demanded the death penalty. “Tonight marks four years since Yehuda’s murder. We hope the court will see justice and carry out the Bible’s command to ‘purge the evil from among you

Ben-Gvir proposes using crocodiles to prevent imprisoned terrorists from escaping
The concept draws inspiration from a Florida prison facility cited by President Donald Trump, where the surrounding wetlands and alligators serve as a natural deterrent to escape. Israel Prison Service officials have begun examining an unconventional detention concept after senior officers toured a crocodile farm in northern Israel to evaluate whether reptiles could serve as a natural security barrier for a future prison holding terrorists.

Editor’s Notes: Iranian people use VPNs to fight the regime with internet connectivity
Iran’s latest wave of unrest began with the kind of trigger that regimes fear because it spreads through every class: money. Shopkeepers in Tehran’s large mobile phone market shuttered their stores, and the anger pulled in students and more cities as the rial kept sliding and prices kept climbing. The protests did not reach the scale of the 2022 uprising, yet the tone shifted quickly, and the content online sharpened.

‘Javid Shah!’ Why Iranians are calling for the return of the Pahlavis and their monarchy
As protesters took to the streets of Iran this week, amid chants of anger against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and fury over an economy in free fall, a slogan once considered politically unutterable returned, and the sounds of crowds chanting it filled the air. “Javid Shah” – Long Live the Shah.

First look: massive Hamas tunnel revealed by storms near Gaza border
The Israel Defense Forces has released the first documentation from inside a large Hamas tunnel uncovered near the Gaza border opposite Kibbutz Kissufim, after part of the ground collapsed during recent severe weather. Golani Brigade troops had suspected the presence of an undiscovered tunnel in the area and began scanning the sector last week. They identified a suspicious ground collapse, likely caused by heavy rains. Initially believed to be a rain-related sinkhole, further inspection raised concerns that it was part of a terror tunnel.

Understanding The Land, The People, And The Messiah: Are You Prepared To Defend Israel In 2026?
Looking forward to 2026, one wonders if the focus will remain on Israel. Truly, there is no reason why it will not, and, in fact, everything seems to indicate that Israel will be even more of a focal point in the coming year. The real question is: Will it be a focal point or a thorn in the flesh? This all depends on your worldview. There are three major elements comprising Israel in 2026: The land, the people, and the Messiah.

Shallow M6.0 earthquake hits southeast Indian Ridge
A shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.0 struck the southeast Indian Ridge at 01:53 UTC on January 1, 2026. The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). EMSC is reporting the same magnitude and depth.

Regime Change Here? Protesters Call For The Death Of Ayatollah Khamenei As Violence Erupts All Over Iran
Is this the end for the tyrannical regime of Ayatollah Khamenei and his minions? During the fifth day of protests in Iran, violence erupted in multiple major cities, and protesters were shouting for Khamenei to be killed. But I wouldn’t get too excited yet. Demanding regime change is easy. Bringing it about is something else altogether. Khamenei and his minions have a lot more guns than the protesters do, and the current regime will never step aside willingly. So those that are desperately hoping for regime change in Iran should not count their chickens before they hatch.

10 Very Important Trends To Watch As We Enter 2026
Are we on the brink of a worldwide nightmare? Many have described what we are currently experiencing as a “perfect storm”. We have been getting hit with one crisis after another as global events have greatly accelerated in recent months. But now it feels like the next chapter that we are entering is going to take things to an entirely different level.

Report encourages broadening censorship in Europe to include climate and energy science
As EU narratives collapse, desperate leaders are planning more tyrannical measures to keep it all from sinking: censorship of scientific debate.

Islamic Communist Zohran Mamdani Will Be Sworn In As Mayor Of NYC With His Hand On The Quran As Bernie Sanders Gives Oath Of Office
Muslim Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor in New York City on Thursday, using three Qurans as Bernie Sanders gives the oath of office. How fitting. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will also headline his inauguration, proving that commies of a feather definitely flock together in the Big Apple.

Inside Florida’s Islamic Enclave: A Hamas-Named Mosque, Taxpayer-Funded Islamic School, and Arab Market Corridor—All Built in Plain Sight
An Arabic-language recruitment video shows that Islamization in Tampa is not a future threat but a completed system already being advertised as a ready-made destination for the Ummah.

Jack Smith’s Twisted, Machiavellian Lawfare Mindset Paints Dystopian Future For The USA If Not Dispatched Quickly
The House Judiciary Committee has released the [VIDEO] and [TRANSCRIPT] of special prosecutor Jack Smith’s deposition.  What is outlined within it is alarming in the extreme.  I strongly urge anyone with any platform to review the details and quickly highlight the content therein.  There is no time to waste.

CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER: 3 reasons why Netanyahu urgently met with Evangelical leaders in Florida before spending New Year’s Eve with President Trump at Mar-A-Lago
Netanyahu knows that Evangelical Christians are far and away the best friends that Israel and the Jewish people have in a world of exploding antisemitism and hatred of the Jewish state. Therefore, he wanted to demonstrate his deep appreciation of – and gratitude for – the tens of millions of Evangelical Christians who read and love and believe in the Bible.

Putting Plants Before People Prompted Palisades Fire, Plaintiffs and Papers Postulate
The 2025 Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed 7,000 structures in southern California, might not have happened if state and local officials had been more concerned about endangered people than about endangered plants, documents and court testimony revealed.

California State Parks officials worked with Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) officials to ensure that firefighters didn’t damage “federally endangered plants” and “culturally sensitive” areas while putting out the turn-of-the-year Lachman Fire, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Then the LAFD packed up its hoses and left while these “avoidance areas” smoldered. Days later, the smoldering brush erupted into the Palisades Fire.