Published Wed, Jan 7 2026 1:00 PM EST Updated 27 Min Ago President Donald Trump said the U.S. should bar large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, arguing that corporate ownership has helped push housing further out of reach for everyday Americans. “For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. It was the reward for working hard, and doing the right thing, but now, because of the Record High Inflation caused by Joe Biden ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The high-profile private attorney for Nick Reiner was granted a request to be removed from his case Wednesday, but later told reporters that according to California law his client is not guilty of murder in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. “Circumstances beyond our control and more importantly circumstances beyond Nick’s control have dictated that, sadly, it’s made it impossible to continue our representation of Nick,” lawyer Alan Jackson said ...

Jan 07, 2026 at 11:35 AM EST A number of documents from Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent bid to quash her 2021 sex trafficking conviction are missing from publicly available court documents. In a letter submitted to U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer on Tuesday, Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, noted that a total of 14 pages were missing from Maxwell’s motion to vacate submitted on December 17. Examining the public docket shows that Maxwell’s appeal omitted pages ...

January 7, 2026 2:25 PM EST Updated 10 mins ago WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not permit dividends or stock buybacks for defense companies until they fix problems with the production of military equipment. "Defense Companies are not producing our Great Military Equipment rapidly enough and, once produced, not maintaining it properly or quickly," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Trump also called executive pay packages in t ...

James Rothwell Wed, January 7, 2026 at 7:43 AM CST ..................... On Wednesday, the Danish defence ministry confirmed the existence of a 1952 rule requiring soldiers to “immediately” counter-attack invading forces without awaiting orders. The defence ministry also said that the rule “remains in force” when asked about its status by Berlingske, a centre-Right Danish newspaper. According to the Danish newspaper Berlingske, the 1952 rule states that in the event of an invasion, “the ...

(CNN) Gov. Tim Walz said he has issued a warning to prepare the Minnesota National Guard for a potential deployment following the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. “We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary,” Walz said, stressing that those troops are “our National Guard troops.” “They are teachers in your community, they’re business owners, they’re construction professionals, they are Minnesotans,” Walz said. “Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait.”

(Minneapolis Star Tribune) The Department of Homeland Security confirmed today that a woman was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a confrontation between federal agents and protesters in Minneapolis. In a fiery news conference at City Hall, Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, called on ICE to “get the fuck out.”

(CNBC) President Donald Trump and his team are considering “a range of options” in order to acquire Greenland, including “utilizing the U.S. Military,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNBC on Tuesday. The statement is an escalation of the Trump administration’s already aggressive rhetoric about Greenland, which the president has long sought to make a part of the United States. Trump said Sunday that the U.S. needs Greenland for national security purposes, pointing to Russian and Chinese activities in the region near the Arctic island.

(USA Today) President Donald Trump's small Republican voting majority in the House of Representatives is getting even smaller amid unexpected departures and a tragedy, further complicating their path for passing a GOP-focused agenda during an election year. California GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa died suddenly at 65 on Jan. 5 after suffering a medical emergency. His death, on the heels of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's abrupt exit amid a public schism with Trump, brings the ratio of House Republicans to Democrats down to 218-213 (216 is the current number needed for a majority, given the amount of vacancies.)

(Virginia Mercury) Former Richmond Del. Mike Jones is headed back to the General Assembly — this time as a state senator — after winning Tuesday’s special election in Virginia Senate District 15, a Democratic-leaning seat vacated late last year by Ghazala Hashmi. By 8 p.m., Jones had defeated Republican John Thomas by a margin of 67.8-32% out of 15,409 votes cast, according to unofficial election results. Jones’ victory immediately triggered another result down-ballot. In House District 77 — the Richmond-based seat Jones vacated to run for the Senate — Democrat Charlie Schmidt won a special election of his own Tuesday, defeating Republican Richard Stonage by 76.5-23.4% out of 5,970 votes cast.