Kelly sues Pentagon, lawmakers head to Denmark, Aleppo residents return. Here’s what’s making headlines this Monday evening.
Authorities detain a man who drove a U-Haul truck into a crowd during an anti-Iranian regime rally in Westwood. Image Credit: CBS News via X.
The law was meant to be America’s shield against tyranny, but under Trump it has been bent into a weapon, and if we want that shield back, the only constitutional path is to beat him at the ballot box, take Congress, and use impeachment to force the republic back under the rule of laws rather than the whims of one deeply flawed man.
The Supreme Court’s marble façade still sells permanence, but in the Trump era it feels less like a temple of law and more like a fortress built to protect power from accountability. Image Credit: Architect of the Capitol
Congress calls it oversight, but when the secrets start flowing, history says they come out the other end as headlines that warn the target.
Congress wonders why it was left out of the briefing while watering the grass with a long, well-documented history of leaks.
At eleven, Willie Johnston carried his drum through the Seven Days retreat when others tossed their gear to survive.
At eleven, Willie Johnston kept his drum and his nerve through the Seven Days retreat, when grown men were throwing away everything they could to stay alive. Image credit: Coffee or Die
Mexico did not flinch because it cared about Maduro, but because his capture proved the United States had stopped negotiating with old assumptions and started enforcing new ones.
Source, NYT (A rally in support of Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, this month. Ms. Sheinbaum has been acutely sensitive to her country being linked to the ousted Venezuelan president.
Iran unrest, US defense push, and global flashpoints reshape the week. Here’s your Monday morning brief for January 12, 2026.
An Iranian protester waves an Islamic Republic flag altered with the Lion and Sun, a widely used symbol of opposition. Image grabbed via X.
U.S. pressure is tightening across the Western Hemisphere as Washington warns Cuba, cracks down in Venezuela, Iran’s unrest turns deadlier under blackout conditions, and Minneapolis edges toward federal intervention amid escalating clashes over immigration enforcement.
The Navy finally built a fitness test that looks like the work its most dangerous sailors actually do, not the paperwork they fill out afterward.
American power looks weaker because it is no longer theatrical, but it is still shaping outcomes through pressure and alliances while rivals burn men, money, and legitimacy trying to fight the modern world and their own limits.
Discipline is doing what you don’t want to do first, day after day, because the results everyone admires are built in the boring, uncomfortable work no one sees.
Major John L. Plaster’s SOG is a blunt, first-hand account of MACV-SOG’s small-team missions behind enemy lines that makes Hollywood action look fake by comparison because it’s built on real consequences, brutal odds, and men who did not get to choose how it ended.
The Army broke tradition by commissioning a senior NCO as a captain as Iran’s protests escalated, Venezuela began releasing political prisoners under U.S. pressure, and Alabama authorities captured a suspect after a deadly shooting.
U.S. forces carried out apparent payback strikes on ISIS targets in Syria as Portland investigated a federal agent shooting, Iran’s unrest escalated under heavy security measures, Mexico moved to tighten communications with Washington, and Katy Perry’s high-profile legal fight continued to draw backlash.
Caracas never heard the Maduro regime die, it just woke up to the sound of it missing, because when the CIA owns your pattern of life and Delta owns your front door, history does not knock twice.
The Beretta ARX160 is a piston-driven, modular service rifle designed to fix the real shortcomings exposed by modern combat, emphasizing ambidextrous controls, adaptability, and ease of use while taking a different technical path than newer rifles like the UK’s KS-1.
The Senate’s resolution to restrict the Trump administration’s authority to strike Venezuela is a necessary constitutional check that reins in executive overreach and pushes U.S. policy toward disciplined strategy, diplomacy, and coalition action instead of impulsive unilateral force.
Nigeria’s special forces are active and improving but still maturing, and they fight Boko Haram and ISWAP through joint, intelligence-led raids and rapid-response missions inside a larger military strained by multiple internal conflicts.
BRICS navies are flexing off South Africa as the U.S. shifts Army forces toward the Indo-Pacific, Trump escalates rhetoric on owning Greenland for Arctic defense, and Taiwan searches for a missing F-16V while grounding its fleet for safety checks.
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