Good Morning, This is Tuesday’s Morning Brief

“To send light into the depths of the human heart—this is the artist’s calling!”

Robert Schumann (1810—1856)

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Daily encounters with illegal crossers at the southern border have significantly plummeted, according to President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan. “In the last 24 hours, the US Border Patrol has encountered a total of 229 aliens across the entire southwest border. That is down from a high of over 11,000 a day under Biden,” Homan said.


More than 12 million people in the Social Security Administration database of eligible benefits recipients are listed as being older than 120, according to data shared by tech billionaire Elon Musk.


All of the passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis to Toronto survived a crash landing.


Newsstands in Hong Kong have recently received intimidation letters for selling The Epoch Times newspapers, with threats to report them for “endangering national security.”


After the news: Winter music by Schubert, Schumann, and Strauss