Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for January 20, 2026. Today’s top stories are dominated by the evolving landscape of U.S. foreign policy. President Trump is reportedly taking his boundary-pushing to the world stage, showing a new willingness to invade or attack countries and running roughshod over long-standing international agreements, with his focus […]

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for January 17, 2026. Today’s headlines bring a mix of U.S. and world events. In the United States, the Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s public statements may have impeded federal immigration enforcement. This comes as President Trump […]

January 16

27 BCE: Gaius
Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate,
marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. Ten years earlier Augustus had
appointed Herod as King of Judea, of whom he said “he would rather be a pig …

January 15

588 BCE: 
On the secular calendar, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem
under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BCE 

69: Servius
Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor of Rome (68-69) was killed by Praeto…