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It's Thursday, January 15th, and the Middle East is holding its breath. We start here.

With military members on the move, President Trump seems to pull back.

We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, it's stopped.

So what was said and how will it affect protesters on the ground?

Danish diplomats come to Washington to say, stop trying to take Greenland from us.

The president has made his view clear, and we have a different position.

It doesn't seem to be dissuading the White House, and the FBI raids the home of a reporter.

She, throughout the last year, has been in touch with more than 1,100 sources.

How far is the administration willing to go to keep leaks from seeing the light of day?

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

Last Thursday, a young man named Erfon Sultani did something you usually just don't do in Iran.

He went to a protest. Demonstrations have swept the nation over the last couple weeks,

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