51: The GOP’s fifth presidential debate is being held Wednesday night time on CNN, however a key demographic isn’t tuning in. According to a brand new Suffolk University/USA TODAY ballot, 51% of Republicans don’t plan to look at, reflecting simply how robust a lead former President Donald Trump – who’s anticipated to skip the occasion (once more!) – has within the race towards the nomination. Only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley are anticipated to participate.

50: Houston, we’ve got an issue … The US launched its first lunar lander in over 50 years on Monday, however it could not attain its vacation spot. The Peregrine spacecraft, a robotic lander constructed by the Pittsburgh-based aerospace firm Astrobotic, efficiently took off from Cape Canaveral, however the firm says that points possible brought on by the propulsion system are threatening “the ability of the spacecraft to soft land on the moon.”

11: India’s Supreme Court on Monday restored life prison sentences for 11 males convicted of raping a pregnant lady in 2002 throughout Hindu-Muslim non secular violence within the state of Gujarat. The males, who have been launched from jail in 2022, should now give up to authorities inside two weeks. PM Narendra Modi was the highest elected official in Gujarat again then, and he has faced criticism over his actions through the 2002 sectarian riots, which noticed over 1,000 individuals, principally Muslim, killed.

40: Kim Jong Un turned 40 on Monday. The nuke-obsessed Supreme Leader is believed to have been born on Jan. 8, 1984, although North Korea has not formally confirmed this. While his father and grandfather typically held lavish parties for themselves, Kim opted to not throw a birthday bash.

78: Franz Beckenbauer, maybe probably the most well-known German soccer participant of all time, died Sunday on the age of 78. Beckenbauer, a defender, was one in all simply three males in historical past to win the World Cup as each a participant and a supervisor – he’s joined solely by Brazil’s Mario Zagallo, who handed away on Friday at 92, and Didier Deschamps, 55, of France.

5 billion: Argentina has till Jan. 10 to scrounge up $5 billion in collateral for the $16 billion it owes the personal shareholders of state vitality firm YFP. Argentina is anticipated to overlook the deadline – regardless of President Javier Milei pledging to interrupt the nation’s defaulting behavior – at which level the shareholders can be compelled to say their rights by seizing Argentine belongings. This may very well be something: In 2012, Argentina misplaced a tall-masted naval ship to a hedge fund that seized it as an asset when it was docked in Ghana.