a minute with bart



What's Important Today?

• Trump says America will Gaza takeover plan does not include Palestinian residents
• Watchdog Asks Hegseth to Pull Reid Hoffman's Security Clearance
• Freed hostage's mother: She was held in UNRWA facilities and denied medical treatment
• "No Consistent Patterns": Scientists Find No Evidence That Closing Schools Materially Reduced COVID Transmission
• US Border Patrol and Mexican cartel members trade gunfire at southern border
• 6.5 rotations: At the X Games, a snowboarder and a skier land the first 2340s in history
• China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance
• Mexico Accepted 4 Deportation Flights This Week, White House Says

New Administration

• Russell Vought Taking Over as New Acting Head of CFPB
• Elon Musk’s DOGE Allies Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems For Fraud
• Senate confirms Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general
• RFK Jr. Clears Committee Vote, With Bill Cassidy Support; Full Confirmation Now Likely
• Robert Kennedy Jr. Stands Tall Amid Unhinged Democrat Attacks During Senate Confirmation Hearing
• NEW: Trump ditches acting DNI Stacey Dixon after rumors she was trying to derail Tulsi Gabbard’s appointment
• Senate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security
• US issues 90-day pause on foreign aid for reassessment, focus on U.S. disaster relief

Uh oh! Democrats!

• Trump Revoked Joe Biden’s Security Clearance, As Biden Revoked Trump’s in 2017
• Florida Democratic Party official and 'LGBTQ+ rights activist' arrested on child porn charges
• ABC, CBS, NBC spent 46 minutes on Trump Jan. 6 pardons, 2 minutes on Biden pardoning his family
• Charlamagne Warns Democrats Are ‘Losing’ After ‘Literally’ Proving ‘Every Conspiracy Theorist Right’ With Pardons
• Big Banks to Trump: ‘We’re Not Allowed to Tell You Why We De-banked You’
• Federal Employee Is Really Upset That Trump’s Executive Orders Are Making Her Work Harder
• ‘You Made It So Impossible’: Trump Calls Out Democrats On FEMA Failures, Points Out Insurance Companies Fleeing State
• Nearly Half of Federal Employees Say They Plan to Resist Trump’s Incoming Administration

Immigration And The Border

• Chicago alderman says mayor Brandon Johnson only listens to far left white progressives, ignores Black and Hispanic concerns
• 'No Immigrant Should Be Detained,' Says Left-Wing Nonprofit With $769 Million Federal Immigration Contract
• Michigan Caseworker Stabbed Multiple Times by an Afghan Refugee He Resettled
• Colombia President caves to Trump's tariff threat as socialist leader offers his own plane to deported aliens
• ABC Reporter Can’t Seem To Accept Tom Homan’s Answer That Illegal Aliens Will Be Deported Everyday Of Trump’s Term
• “I Have Seen the Future and It's Stabbed”
• Inside the first week of Trump's mammoth migrant round up… and the rapists and murderers heading home
• Vatican Promises Stiff Penalties for Illegal Aliens Crossing its Border

War On Civilization

• Stephen Miller Suggests USAID 'Funnelled Money to Organizations that Traffic Children'
Death Cult: Democrats Win Another Step Towards Abortion at 9 Months In Virginia
• President Trump Issues Executive Order Barring Biological Males from Female Prisons
• Anti-Trump Gay Activist and DNC Delegate Matthew Inman Arrested on Child Porn Charges
• Moment pardoned pro-life activist is released from jail after being put behind bars by Biden admin
• White House OPM orders all DEI offices to begin closing by end of day Wednesday
• Transgender social media influencer, 26, strangled girlfriend, set her alight and attacked her with a vodka bottle during four-year campaign of abuse
• Democrats Destroyed California

Economy Watch

US Manufacturing Returns to Growth as Business Optimism Soars to 34-month High | The Epoch Times
• Cost Of Illegal Immigration Equivalent To 36th Largest Economy In The World
• DeepSeek AI shakes American swagger and upends assumptions
• Inside the race for Greenland's mineral wealth
• JD Vance Gives Economics Lesson For CBS Host Trying Gotcha Question On Inflation
• In Las Vegas, Trump once again pitches no taxes on tips
• Trump begins process for recognizing North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe
• Trump unleashes on Bank of America CEO to his face for debanking customers for political reasons

Global Affairs

• Protecting Taiwan's undersea cables is a regional security imperative
• DR Congo: Rebels say they have taken eastern city of Goma
• North Korea Suffers 4,000 Casualties in Kursk Due to Coordination Problems – UK MoD
• Watch: Moment four Israeli hostages released by Hamas
• Woke BBC tries feebly to rally Davos opposition to Trump plans
• Pres. Trump Signs Executive Order Withdrawing the U.S. from World Health Organization
• Former NATO Commander Says Annexing Greenland ‘Not a Crazy Idea’
• Hamas Has Another Sinwar. And He’s Rebuilding

National Security

• Chinese and Iranian Hackers Are Using U.S. AI Products to Bolster Cyberattacks
• Untold story of Cold War spy satellite that spent 30 years in shadows
• CIA now says Covid DID come from Chinese lab in stunning reversal after years of denial under Biden
* US Defense Contractor Anduril to Build ‘Hyperscale’ Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio
* Beijing’s Espionage Campaign Against the West (Recent Treasury Department Breach Is Latest Example)
* Is it Time to Finally Put Someone in Charge of Waging America’s Irregular Wars?
• US Army wants spy drones to launch from high-altitude motherships
• Battlefield Drones and the Accelerating Autonomous Arms Race in Ukraine