Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for November 18, 2025. Stateside, the House is poised to vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, a measure representing a significant rebuke to President Trump, despite his last-minute support. Concerns are also rising over the U.S. Border Patrol’s expanding role in immigration raids far from the […]

November
17

9CE:  Birthdate of Titus Flavius
Vespasianus, better known as Vespasian, who as a Roman General and then Emperor
put down the Judean Revolt which included the destruction of the Second Temple.

284: Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by…

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for November 15, 2025. First up in the news, on the U.S. front, immigration courts are seeing significant changes under the Trump administration, aiming to speed up removal proceedings and detain more individuals. The government has finally reopened after a 43-day shutdown, though turning the federal apparatus […]

November
15

1215: Pope Innocent III opened the convocation of the
Fourth Lateran Council, considered the most important council of the Middle
Ages. By its conclusion it issued seventy reformatory decrees. Among other
things, it encouraged creating sch…