Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for January 8, 2026. Domestically today, a rare Senate rebuke of the Trump administration emerged over Venezuela war powers, a largely symbolic measure that nonetheless signals potential new pushback from the GOP-controlled legislative branch. The White House also faced scrutiny for launching federal penalties based on an […]
Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for January 2, 2026. For our U.S. news today, President Donald Trump announced that peace between Ukraine and Russia is “closer than ever” following his talks with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy, even as Russia simultaneously launched new attacks on Ukraine. In world news, tensions remain high in […]
January 3
106 BCE:
Birthdate of Marcus Tullius, the Roman statesman and orator. From the Jewish point of view he was just one
more anti-Semitic intellectual. “He
denounced Judaism as a ‘barbarous superstition.’” He defended a Roman officia…
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