USA - Attorney Mike Davis Issues Dire Warning to Judge Juan Merchan and Democrats Over Weaponized Lawfare Against President Trump: “On January 20th at Noon, They’re Going to Become the Hunted”. Attorney Mike Davis, founder of the conservative Article III Project (A3P) and a staunch ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has issued a stern warning to Judge Juan Merchan and Democrat prosecutors, accusing them of engaging in “weaponized lawfare” against Trump.

GREENLAND - Prime Minister Mute Egede has stressed that the island wants to be independent, rather than Danish or American. Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede has said he is prepared to speak with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has stated that ownership of the Danish overseas territory is an “absolute necessity” for American national security. Trump, who takes office on January 20, refused to rule out military force or coercive economic methods to secure US ownership of the island, in a statement on Tuesday. At a press conference alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen on Friday, Egede was asked whether he had been in contact with Trump. “No, but we are ready to talk,” he said.

DENMARK - Denmark has privately reached out to President-elect Donald Trump’s team, showing readiness to discuss boosting the US military presence in Greenland, Axios reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Trump recently ruffled feathers in Copenhagen when he suggested that the US should acquire the self-governing Arctic island from Denmark. He refused to rule out the use of force, but offered little specifics on how his government would convince Denmark to relinquish control over Greenland.

NIGERIA - Boko Haram militants shot Suzanne in the head as the Christian woman tended a field, murdering her father and robbing her of eyesight in an attack that exemplified the persistent violence impacting Nigerian people of faith in the last several years. Nearly 10,000 Nigerian Christians (9,814) died at the hands of Boko Haram and other Islamic extremist groups between November 2022 and November 2024, according to the newly released 2025 Global Christian Relief Red List. The data for the Red List comes from the Violent Incidents Database maintained by GCR, a US-based nonprofit monitoring Christian persecution worldwide. “Despite government assurances that they will defeat the extremists, the violence continues to escalate. Nigeria’s grim statistics are unmatched,” the document continued.

USA - The financial cost of the Los Angeles wildfire has risen to between $135 billion and $150 billion, according to the latest estimate from the private forecaster Accuweather. Jonathan Porter, the company’s chief meteorologist, described it as “one of the costliest wildfire disasters in modern US history”.

USA - A California fire chief has told the BBC there is no “conclusive evidence” yet that the wildfires were started deliberately. However David Acuna, battalion chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said the investigations were only just beginning as the priority up until now had been saving lives. He told the Today programme on Radio 4: “Now that the life safety is primarily taken care of, and that we have sufficient resources to assist with that, now they’re able to start digging into the investigation and see what they can discover.” It follows the arrest of a man on suspicion of arson in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles.

USA - Major insurance companies have provoked the ire of California homeowners - including Hollywood stars - after revoking fire coverage for tens of thousands of residents just months before devastating wildfires tore through Los Angeles, DailyMail.com can reveal. And hundreds of displaced residents now face multi-million dollar bills to clean up and rebuild their properties without any coverage at all. In 2024 Liberty Mutual and State Farm, two of the largest insurers in the country, told nearly 50,000 homeowners in the Golden State – some of whom were in high risk areas – that their fire insurance would be terminated in a bid to prevent 'financial failure'. At least 1,600 people in the affluent neighborhood of the Pacific Palisades – the hardest hit area of the fires – lost coverage when State Farm pulled out in April.

GERMANY - Adolf Hitler was a communist and the “greatest success” of the postwar years was to rebrand him as far-right, a leading figure in the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has said. In an online conversation with Elon Musk, the multibillionaire technology entrepreneur, Alice Weidel said the difference between her party and the Nazis was that the AfD was a “conservative libertarian” force and pursued the “complete opposite” of the Third Reich’s totalitarian economic agenda.

ISRAEL - The IDF on Thursday made a surprising announcement that it is continuing some attack missions against Syrian military capabilities and not merely holding onto buffer zones which it seized in early December when the Assad regime suddenly fell. In early December, the IDF announced it had massively attacked Syria's chemical weapons, air force, long range missiles, navy, and other dangerous items to avoid them falling into the hands of the incoming Syrian regime led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham's Ahmed al-Sharaa, aka Abu Muhammad al-Julani. However, since then it has been less public about any moves on the attack, mostly keeping a quiet defensive watch over the new buffer zone with Syria. Over the last month, the UN, the EU, the US, and others have started to open up new ties with Julani to potentially integrate Syria more deeply into the West's sphere of influence than Syria had been under Bashar Assad.

USA - The US billionaire can be brutal, mean, and unfair, but Scholz, Starmer, et al deserve every bit of his ire. Elon Musk has been at it again. Using his X platform and pure oomph as the richest man in the world and President-elect Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” the tech tycoon has been dishing out unsolicited political, especially electoral advice, imperious demands, and some harsh insults, too. Indeed, he is so busy on X you’d think he has little else to do. Musk has targeted Europe, in particular Germany and Britain. Or to be precise, their political leaderships and, more generally, traditional, mainstream parties.

SLOVAKIA - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has slammed the EU over what he called its inability to address economic fallout across the bloc and claimed that it could collapse. Fico issued the warning on Wednesday in a video message posted on Facebook about Ukraine’s recent decision to halt the transit of Russian gas to EU member states. Kiev refused to extend a contract with Russia’s Gazprom beyond 2024, effectively cutting off the flow of natural gas to Hungary, Austria and Slovakia. Fico accused Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky of “sabotaging the financial interests of Slovakia and the EU,” saying the transit stoppage could trigger an energy crisis across the bloc and result in some €70 billion ($72 billion) worth of damage.

USA - More than 2,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have been damaged or destroyed and at least five people are dead in wildfires scorching communities across Los Angeles County, making this one of the most destructive firestorms to hit the region in memory. The five bodies were found in three structures in Altadena, where the Eaton fire exploded Tuesday night, giving residents little time to flee. It is estimated that more than 1,000 structures have been destroyed in the Palisades fire and another 1,000 either damaged or destroyed in the Eaton fire, according to the LA County Fire Department. Firefighting resources were strained further when the Sunset fire erupted in the Hollywood Hills area around 5:45 pm Wednesday, prompting evacuations in the Runyon Canyon area. “What we saw here in the last 24 hours is unprecedented,” LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said Wednesday afternoon. “I’ve never seen anything like this.” The causes of the fires are under investigation, and all remained 0% contained.

USA - Washington has mandated that medical debt will now be removed from credit reports, offering relief to millions of Americans crushed under the weight of healthcare costs. This isn’t just a minor adjustment — it’s a long-overdue solution for those unfairly penalized for needing medical care. For years, medical debt has been a leading cause of financial stress, keeping families from accessing basic financial opportunities like homeownership and reliable credit. But now, with this new rule, around 15 million Americans will see these burdens wiped from their credit reports, providing a much-needed fresh start. The impact of this policy change is significant. Credit scores are expected to rise by an average of 20 points, potentially transforming financial trajectories for countless individuals. For many, this means a clearer path to mortgages, job opportunities, and essential services that were once out of reach due to their medical debts.

UK - You can almost smell the panic. Every Left-wing activist and pundit is frantically trying to defend Labour’s refusal to hold a full national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The trouble is, their arguments are nakedly dishonest, cowardly, or hypocritical. Here’s a handy guide to what the Left say about grooming gangs – and what they really mean…

USA - Donald Trump has refused to rule out using military force to retake the Panama Canal that was returned by the US to Panama decades ago. As his inauguration nears, the president-elect has ramped up his threats to take back the critical shipping artery in order to secure the flow of US trade, reduce “exorbitant” shipping fees and counter perceived Chinese influence in the area. The canal, which was built in Central America by the US more than a century ago, connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and is regarded as one of the world’s most important routes for maritime trade.