Politico - France will delay this year’s G7 summit to avoid a conflict with President Trump’s June 14th MMA fights at the White House.

France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday – POLITICO

I'm among the authors whose publisher used the venerable Baker & Taylor for distribution of their books. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668426/libraries-books-distributor-closing

MST - The ICE agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year. https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214?utm_source=copy

(Reuters) - Trump administration officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the US. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-administration-mulls-payments-sway-greenlanders-join-us-2026-01-08/

Minneapolis Public Schools announces that out of an abundance of caution classes are canceled today and tomorrow due to safety concerns in the aftermath of the ICE shooting. https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/apparent-ice-presence-at-roosevelt-high-school-causes-chaotic-scene/

Days after threatening Colombia with a military strike, President Trump invites to the White House the leader of the South American country, who is a former member of a Marxist guerrilla group.

Kari Lake has allowed several reporters (out of 1,500+) to stay at the Voice of America. The journalism has been replaced by propaganda (in violation of VOA's charter). Evidence:

Trump combined dealmaking skill with ‘peace through strength’ diplomacy to mitigate eight conflicts around the world in 2025

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"The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense." - President Trump on the woman in Minneapolis fatally shot by ICE.

ICE "should leave our city and our state" following the fatal shooting by an ICE agent of a woman, says Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says “rioters” tried to run over agents, “an act of domestic terrorism.”

US forces are attempting to seize an oil tanker that fled America’s blockade of sanctioned vessels near Venezuela and is being escorted by a Russian submarine in the eastern Atlantic. https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-forces-launch-operation-to-seize-fleeing-oil-tanker-0d6443ab?st=crtxCJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share