"7 Essential Updates for January 18th"

Pakistan carried out strikes inside Iran, tensions in the Middle East are escalating; a federal judge threatened to throw Donald Trump out of court for interrupting E. Jean Carroll's testimony; a Chinese scientist filed a coronavirus sequence weeks before its official release, raising questions about China's transparency; Catherine, Princess of Wales, had abdominal surgery in London, and North America has lost nearly 30% of its bird population in a half-century.