• Some personnel have been urged to leave a US military base in Qatar as a "precaution," as President Donald Trump considers taking military action against Iran. He warned the regime against executing protesters and said the US would take "strong action" in response. • Iranian officials have pledged to swiftly try and punish anti-government protesters, with officials warning that anyone arrested in the past few days is considered guilty of waging "internal war" against the regime. An Iranian protester may be executed today, according to the US State Department and a family member.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing the prospect of being held in contempt of Congress after she failed to appear for her deposition before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday for its investigation into the files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Clinton was scheduled to appear before the committee the day after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, also did not show up for his deposition in the investigation. "Hillary Clinton joined her husband in defying a bipartisan, lawful, congressional subpoena to show up today," House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said on Wednesday.

At least one person in Sen. Mark Kelly's (D-Ariz.) orbit recently joked that his office should send the Trump administration a gift basket when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon would open a misconduct review into the Arizona Democrat. The investigation, over a video Kelly filmed in the fall with other Democratic members of Congress calling on members of the armed forces to not follow illegal orders at the height of the controversy around the administration's Caribbean boat strikes, could result in Kelly losing his rank.

President Donald Trump and his top aides' preferred path to the U.S. taking ownership of Greenland is incentivizing people there to vote in a referendum to align with the United States, according to two people familiar with his thinking and granted anonymity to speak candidly. But his bombast about needing to own the island for "psychological" reasons and refusal to rule out a military strike to seize land belonging to Denmark, a NATO ally, appears to be undermining that objective. "All we want is to be treated with respect. But the way they talk about us, about buying Greenland over our heads, that is not respectful," Bebiane Johansen, 27, a student in Nuuk, told the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, which includes POLITICO. "We do not want to be told from the outside what to do or who to be. We just want to live in peace."

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