South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott appeared to prematurely congratulate Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on her nomination to fill Marco Rubio’s vacated Senate seat before Gov. Ron DeSantis officially announced it. In a quickly-deleted tweet, Scott hailed Moody as a “proven conservative fighter” for President-elect Donald Trump and a “national leader on border security,” reported Politico. Shortly after the tweet disappeared, DeSantis made his own announcement for Moody. “Talk is cheap. We need people that have demonstrated fidelity to these principles with their actions,” said DeSantis of Moody, who has been attorney general in the Sunshine State since 2019. DeSantis said Moody “has been somebody that has acted time and time again to support the values that we all share.” He added, “Whether that’s illegal immigration, [the] opioid and fentanyl crisis, human trafficking. She has stood strong time and time again, most recently in this past year, filing lawsuits and joining lawsuits to take on the weaponization of law enforcement that targeted then-candidate Donald Trump.” Moody will run in a special election in November of 2026 to complete the remainder of Rubio’s term.

Pope Francis is beloved for his compassion and concern for the poor, sick, and injured. Now he is sparking concern after the 88-year-old suffered yet another fall. Several weeks ago, the pontiff suffered a “chinjury” after bruising his chin when he fell on his nightstand. On Thursday morning, the Vatican announced that His Holiness “suffered a contusion on his right forearm, without fractures.” The news comes in the wake of other health concerns, including hospitalizations and his use of a cane and wheelchair, which he initially described as “embarrassing.” Francis has dismissed concerns about his health, saying, “The Church is governed using the head and the heart, not the legs.” The first pope from the Americas says he will not resign, emphasizing his recent four-country trip and bi-weekly physiotherapy as evidence that he is still up to the job.

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Google searches pondering the meaning of the word "oligarchy" soared in the wake of President Joe Biden’s farewell speech after he warned about the gaggle of elites holding all political power. Biden, 82, who will of course be replaced by Donald Trump in just a few days, spoke from the Oval Office in front of members of his family as well as his Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, and said: “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedom and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.” In the aftermath of the sternly-worded White House address, Google searches for the word’s meaning spiked, jumping from a score of one to 100 on the platform’s scale. According to Google Trends, the top search was for “oligarchy definition,” while “oligarchy meaning” followed. Merriam Webster’s definition for oligarchy is “a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.”

Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right German political party suspected of extremism by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, said it has accepted an invite to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. The AfD’s co-leader Tino Chrupalla and parliamentary group leader Beatrix von Storch will attend, Chrupalla told news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur Thursday, saying the invite came from within Republican circles. After his election win in November, Trump greeted and posed with an AfD candidate accused of being a one-time porn actor at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Elon Musk, Trump’s MAGA billionaire backer, has been an ardent AfD cheerleader in recent weeks. Last week, Musk interviewed the party’s other co-leader, Alice Weidel, for over an hour on his social media platform X, and promoted the anti-immigrant, Islamophobic AfD in advance of a federal election scheduled for Feb. 23. The far-right party is currently second in the polls, though is unlikely to join government as the other major parties have pledged not to work with it. Other staples of the European alt-right slated to be at Trump’s inauguration are Reform UK chief Nigel Farage and the French right-wing extremist Éric Zemmour. Italy’s right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has visited with Trump and Musk at Mar-a-Lago in recent weeks, has said she would like to attend but has yet to finalize her schedule.

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Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been granted preliminary approval for his plan to construct a $1.4 billion luxury hotel on a bomb site in Albania. His wife Ivanka Trump will “help” with the luxury “eco-resort” hotel complex, which will be built on an abandoned military base currently littered with buried munitions. Kushner’s foreign-funded Affinity Partners is managing the project, which is also investing in a Serbian luxury hotel project in a building which was bombed by NATO in the 1999 war. The projects could create the perception of a conflict of interest between Trump and foreign governments, said Obama-era ethics lawyer Virginia Canter, speaking to The New York Times. Trump will be in charge of the foreign policy relating to Albania and Serbia, which both want U.S. support for their efforts to join the E.U. “It looks like favoritism, like they are providing access to Kushner because they want to be on the good side of Trump,” Canter said.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, 69, joked in an interview published Thursday that receiving an invite to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week cured his impotence. “I’m feeling like a kid again with Trump’s invite,” he told The New York Times. “I’m fired up. I’m not even taking Viagra anymore.” Trump’s gesture is something to be proud of, right? Who’s Trump? The most important guy in the world.” Like Trump, the right-wing leader has been accused of trying to overturn an election he lost. Bolsonaro—dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics”—was indicted in November for plotting an alleged coup to stay in power after Brazilian voters opted for his opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the country’s 2022 presidential election. It is unlikely, however, that he’ll make it to see his firebrand American counterpart sworn in next week. Bolsonaro’s passport was taken as part of the probe into the alleged coup, and Brazil’s attorney general recommended that his request to go abroad for Trump’s inauguration be denied. Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court justice and Bolsonaro critic, will make the final call on whether he is allowed to travel to Washington D.C. The former Brazilian leader hinted to the Times that he believes Trump’s influence on global politics might help him stay out of jail. “Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect,” Trump, now 78, told Playboy in 2004, the year he turned 58. “I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky. I don’t need it.”

A Southwest Airlines flight was delayed several hours on Wednesday after police removed a pilot from the cockpit and later charged him with driving under the influence. Law enforcement at Georgia’s Savannah Hilton Head Airport detained David Paul Allsop, 52, as the Chicago-bound flight was preparing for takeoff. A source told CBS News he “allegedly smelled of alcohol and may have shown other signs of intoxication.” The flight departed at 10:56 a.m., nearly five hours after its scheduled time of 6:05 a.m., owing to Southwest having to search for a new, sober pilot. Jail records show Allsop, who is from New Hampshire, was released on bond after his bail was set at $3,500. “We’re aware of a situation involving an employee on Flight 3772 this morning from Savannah,” Southwest said in a statement. “The employee has been removed from duty.” Last year, a Delta pilot was sentenced to 10 months in prison in Scotland after he pleaded guilty to turning up to work with a blood alcohol limit twice the legal cap.

Gavin Newsom has directed California officials to temporarily raise the state capitol U.S. flag to full staff on inauguration day, in honor of Donald Trump. The height of U.S. flags has become a political touchpoint after the death of Jimmy Carter in December. State flags are traditionally flown at half-staff for 30 days after the death of former U.S. presidents. However, several GOP governors have already said they will break tradition for inauguration day, following the lead of House Speaker Mike Johnson, who ordered that U.S. Capitol flags be raised to full staff for the inauguration. Newsom’s decision to follow them could be seen as an attempt to placate Trump, as he tries to secure federal help amid deadly wildfires, which are still burning. Trump previously made his feelings clear about the flags potentially being at half-staff for the inauguration in a post on Truth Social, saying “no American can be happy about it.” Later, flags at Mar-a-Lago returned to full staff.

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Pakistan’s prime minister has ordered a probe into who greenlit an ad with a plane flying straight at the Eiffel Tower accompanied by the words: “Paris, We’re Coming Today.” The poorly conceived graphic—which many observers were quick to note bore an awkward resemblance to imagery of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York—was designed to announce Pakistan International Airlines resuming flights between Paris and Islamabad. The flights had been suspended for four years after European regulators found nearly a third of PIA’s pilots had cheated on their exams and failed to follow safety procedures. The airline is still banned in the U.S. and U.K. During a parliamentary session this week, Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar called the advertisement “stupidity.” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif “has directed [authorities] to investigate who conceived this ad,” he added. In 2011, U.S. special forces killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, where the 9/11 mastermind had been hiding out in a compound in Abbottabad. PIA hasn’t addressed the controversy since it erupted on Jan. 10, and the ad is still visible on its profile on the social media platform X.

Authorities in Indonesia are rushing to evacuate 3,000 residents near the Mount Ibu volcano after it erupted for a third time in just a few days, sending a 2.5-mile-high ash cloud into the sky. The volcano, on the country’s eastern island of Halmahera, first erupted on Saturday, shooting up a flaming column. On Tuesday afternoon it blasted again, and then again on Wednesday for around two minutes, according to the country’s volcanology agency. The last eruption was enough for authorities to raise the alert level to the most severe in the local area. The Volcanological Survey of Indonesia then declared a three-mile exclusion zone around the mountain. The National Authority for Disaster Management said mass evacuations were initiated late Wednesday for those living closest to the danger. By Thursday morning, around 500 people had been moved. “The evacuation shelters have been prepared by the local administration, and today a full evacuation will be carried out for all residents in six villages,” a spokesman for the local disaster management agency said Thursday.