Brexit / Nigel Garage / second referendum, new hopes, anti-Brexit
  -Where are we with respect to Brexit status?  Reference impacts said and actualities
    -Information point, if Brexit materializes with what elements are in place as of current, materialization not in affect until March 2019, hence, the slight possibility of room for some degree of latency

Ecuador / Julian Assange / WikiLeaks founder / acceptance of citizenship
  -Where are we with respect to the entirety of the WikiLeaks incident?  Reference impacts said and actualities
    -Media reports that the big incident which tipped off prospects of extraditing had implications of affecting US intelligence

Over 90% of foreign nationals that are in jails are illegal immigrants, per fox news citing a 2017 report they say was produced by the DOJ and DHS
    -What do these statistics correspond to?  There might be the possibility of the base simple concept of people trying to sneak into the US then do crimes

Texas:
Two girls, about age 14 and 7, are missing, they 'might be' with a suspect of interest.  There mom has been found dead.  Round Rock area, near Austin.

A boy found in the closet of a house that was suspect for meth production, became acquainted with vermin he says.  Developments since about the 20th of December 2017.  Houston area.

New York:
Just days after a devastating fire took place in the Bronx that claimed the lives of what some reports say were a dozen persons, this morning, about 5:30am, a 7-alarm fire emerged from a furniture store, in the Bronx

A Scarsdale, NY family mourns the loss after members were victim of a smaller sized plane crash in or near Costa Rica over the weekend

No condescending on our southern neighbors whatsoever, however, let it be clear that there have been 2 major incidents in about as many days, as the Finance Director of the southern California city, Imperial Beach, was assaulted with fatality result in Mexico.  The guidance and advisories for certain prudency in the area has to be amplified.  
-Does the time of year have anything to do with it?, might be among the areas that are being assessed in developing the kinds of advisories called for.

Los Angeles, California:
Late last night, Monday, a fire affected the life of a man in his early seventies, reportedly age 74, another fire in a senior living building within the past month thereabout, reference other areas in the US.  The fire, South Normandie, evidently was not readily apparent from outside the building, however was intense contender at the unit that it affected.

Now that the devastating wildfires have started to wind down, there is another challenge, which is the threat of mudslides in their place.

Transitioning into politics, California did get Presidential declaration of disaster zone, respective the wildfires.

Many of the same names, new ripples

Recent news reports have been emerging giving summary takes on Trump views on funding that went to Iran during the Obama Administration.
There is the rushed opinion of what was said, then there is the reality of what was said.  AOL put out an article that discussed money going into 'Iran's pockets', which may be a chronological fact, not necessarily a condescending statement that is indicative that there was 'funding of terror'; let us be careful; sometimes the rush job to summarize a story can get sloppy and inaccurate.
A very, very brief chronology of major events in the Iraq and Iran region the past 50 years, might help crytallize that facts in history, and is what is, is distinguished from an opinion transformed into facts:

• Iraq and Iran was at war about 40 years ago, early to mid 1980s roughly; an irony to the Muslim World, as ordinarily, the saying applies, if two Muslims are fighting one of them is not a believer
  
• Ayatollah Khomeini took power; the 'Shia regime' was 'feared' 'by the West' insofar the potentiality of events of violence erupting
  
• Saddam Hussein was in power and his positioning with the US toward the end, of him being in power, became one generally perceived as in opposition
  
• Iraq invaded Kuwait
  
• Iraq War, commencing late 1980s, continuing on through the early 1990s; still today, US forces in the region to some degree
  
• Perceptions of which country, Iran or Iraq, was more of an aggressor, might have been affected by the abovesaid wars
  
• The dynamics of foreign policy relations between the USA and Iraq, or USA and Iran, might have likewise been affected
  
• Iran known more for nuclear issues recently
  
• Iraq was known more for outright military action
  

In other news, Senator Orrin Hatch is reported to be retiring, which may provide a less resistive path to Mitt Romney taking the vacant seat

Sterling, Virginia was the site of a law enforcement raid on a house that had numerous red flags of involvement with ISIS, developments of the raid materializing from about last Friday.

Coming off the tragedy that took place in Douglas County, Colorado yesterday, the crackdown which may have preempted similar events whether in the homeland or abroad, is a law enforcement action to be grateful for.

A few teens have been found safe after being reported missing over the weekend thereabout as well.  Disappearances have hurt the morale of the DC area for years, so finding them a lift.

Finance Director of the southern California city of Imperial Beach, Doug Bradley, assaulted by persons armed with guns, the extent resulted in fatality, occurrence in Mexico within the past few days.

Protests have been taking place in Iran the past few days, intense enough to be a focus of international news.

Reports of 10 people dead in connection to a car accident in or near Acapulco, Mexico within recent hours.

Reports about the building fire in the Bronx area of New York within the past few days say the incident had primary contribution to getting started by a child playing with the stove.
Notes: Increase of social media presence or capacity has made stories about tragedies like this one more readily available to a larger audience faster; although logically evident, it might be set in contrast to the 'dispersment' [dispersing] of information about other fires in New York over the decades; the Bronx fire spoken of has become global news soon after it happened.

Borderline reads about oil deliveries of sorts to North Korea, it appears the severity is being pulled back, whereas generally if pull backs are being purposely done as a tactic to set a government up to be looked down on for foreign policy affirmations, the tactic is liked down on, other times it could be natural waxing and waning of societal shifts.
Notes: A framework has emerged in recent months comprised of some nations having discomfort over some of the activities that North Korea has engaged in, especially in the last year, such as missile tests, the larger rift in relations that has formed between North Korea and other nations drawing away from them has started to become a fulcrum point where level of closeness, for instance in alliance 'philosophy', is determined by how proximate or comfortable dealings with North Korea are; in simpler words, if you are on team A, in this case many US allied nations, warm relations are to be about minimal to stay on the team, or else you might be facing the prospect of a level of political ostracization from the team.  
There have been a number of countries, even those geographically nearby the water surrounded Asian region, that have expressed discomfort with recent actions of North Korea.  Severity being pulled back, can refer to and mean the level of how blatant an oil shipment was considering the political tensions framework, might not have been as much as it first appeared, or changes to how the portrayal is perceivable.

The number of incidents involving danger to, serious injury, or even death, of kids under 12, is enough to be problematic on a national level, however, not often enough to be labeled a 'national problem'. Before 2017 closes out, the subject is being brought up along with the hope the situation gets further addressed, before going into 2018. This is a chart with some, but not all incidents:

Victim/s	Victim/s reported age/s	Type of incident involved	Location of incident	Estimated date of occurrence
Sebastian Duque (male)	12 years	Victim of hit and run	Road near Sea World, Orlando, Florida	Tuesday evening December 26, 2017
2 victims under 12 of 4 victims total	age 5; age 11	Murder, news reports say as of today	Victims found in residential house, Troy, NY area	Appears based off news reports, occurrence was on December 26, 2017
2 victims	10 months old; 11 years	Domestic violence shooting	Apartment complex, Phoenix, AZ	Around mid-afternoon, early evening, December 25th 2017
Kameron Prescott (male)	6 years	Officer involved shooting while manhunt (female suspect) underway, child victim inside trailer	Mobile home park in Schertz, Texas	Thursday, December 21, 2017
2 kids (not physically injured)		Suspect shot at vehicle with victims inside	Locale of residential property, Chadbourn, Columbus County, NC	December 17, 2017
2 males	9 years and 11 years	Shooting; shots emanated from outside apartment into apartment	Apartment, west area of Charlotte, North Carolina	December 25th/26th 2017
Female	11 years	Shot; limited details; appears to have been accidentally shot by another young resident in the house	Residential property, Aquasco, MD	Before 10pm, Friday, Dec 22, 2017
Female	7 years	Victim grazed by bullet during shooting; assault rifle involved, multiple shots fired in melee	Gas station locale, North Collinwood, Cleveland, Ohio	Early evening, after 5pm, Tuesday, Dec 19, 2017
Female	Over 7 under 10 years, approximate, (hospitalized)	Shooting, assault rifle involved	Pacoima neighborhood, Los Angeles, California	Before 8pm, December 15, 2017
Arabella Nicole Sanchez (female)	1 and a half years	Perhaps traumatic force; victim had numerous injuries	Apartment complex, Robstown, Texas area	December 15, 2017
Jaxson Clay (male)	Almost 2 years	Drive-by shooting	Residential house, Weldon, Halifax County, NC	After 8pm, December 7, 2017
Zamarie Chance (male)	9 years	Beaten to death, reportedly by immediate relative	Hotel room, Fayetteville, NC	October 21, 2017
Boy	5 years	Appears domestic incident, knife affected	UNC housing, Chapel Hill, NC	Early Sunday morning, just after midnight, August 20, 2017
Kamari Munerlyn (male)	7 years	Victim shot while in moving car, shooters fired from another car	Durham, NC	Sunday, June 4, 2017
Boy	6 years	Shots fired into car child victim was in	Sandy, Utah, area about 15 miles south of Salt Lake City	Mid afternoon, Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Jayda Kyle (female)	3 years	Beaten to death, traumatic force	Residential property, Jasper County area, Missouri	November 27, 2017
2 males	1 male age 10 killed, male age 12 injured	Shooting; appears that victims were in a car at time of incident	At an intersection just off Rt 240, in Memphis, Tennessee	Mid afternoon, Monday, November 13, 2017
Adelynn Merrell (female)	3 years	Victim might have been beaten, then set in woods afterward	Crestview, Florida	November 9/10th 2017
Moses Harris-Ausler	2 years	Appears to be traumatic force, many bruise type injuries	Apartment complex, SeaTac, Washington, area	Sunday, December 3, 2017
Male	12 years	Child victim shot while in an eatery (injured)	Between Sheridan Park and Uptown, Chicago, Illinois	After 8pm, Thursday, November 2, 2017
Zayden Phillips (male)	2 years	Shooting	Residential property, Rochester, NY	Friday, early afternoon, October 20, 2017
Female		Shooting	Appears to have been in residential area in or around Killeen, Texas	Before 4am, Wednesday December 27, 2017
Male	10 or 11 years	Shooting/s	Chicago, Illinois	Weekend, sometime between Friday July 14, 2017 be and Monday, July 17, 2017
Boy	4 years	Shot; appears to be by a relative	In residential property, East Chicago (city), Lake County, Indiana	May 11, 2017