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Trump to House Republicans: If we don't win midterms, I will get impeached

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Republicans must win the 2026 midterm elections or else he will get impeached by Democrats. "You gotta win the midterms 'cause, if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna be - I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," Trump said at a retreat for House Republican lawmakers in Washington. "I'll get impeached." The president urged his fellow Republicans to fight in a more unified fashion on i ...

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Trump weighs using U.S. military to acquire Greenland: White House

Published Tue, Jan 6 2026 4:07 PM EST Updated 2 Min Ago 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 f ...

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GOP Rep. Jim Baird and wife hospitalized after car accident

Updated on: January 6, 2026 / 11:39 AM EST Washington — Republican Rep. Jim Baird of Indiana has been hospitalized after a car accident, President Trump and Baird's office said Tuesday. Baird's office said the congressman is expected to make a full recovery after his vehicle was struck. Mr. Trump said Baird's wife was also hospitalized after the incident, but will be OK. "Congressman Baird is in the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, and he is extraordinarily grateful f ...

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Funding to Be Blocked For Attack on Greenland Under New Proposal

Published Jan 06, 2026 at 05:07 AM EST updated Jan 06, 2026 at 09:05 AM EST Senator Ruben Gallego is moving to block any U.S. military action in Greenland, introducing an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would bar funding as he warned against getting involved in "more stupid wars of conquest." The Democratic senator's comments come after President Donald Trump reiterated his wish to seize control of Greenland in an interview with The Atlantic on Sunday and separate ...

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Trump aide Stephen Miller says US could seize Greenland

Updated Jan. 6, 2026, 1:07 p.m. ET One of President Donald Trump's closest aides, Stephen Miller, questioned Denmark's claim on Greenland and suggested the U.S. could seize it without pushback, stoking concern among European allies. Speaking to CNN's Jake Tapper, Miller sidestepped questions of whether the U.S. will use military force to take Greenland, a territory of Denmark, and said the president has been "clear for months" that the U.S. should have it. “Nobody’s going to fight ...

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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolas Maduro

(Financial Times) Venezuela’s government has launched a crackdown in the wake of the US capture of Nicolás Maduro, arresting journalists and deploying paramilitary forces to suppress any show of support for the authoritarian leader’s removal. The wave of repression comes as Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s former deputy and the country’s new leader, moved to consolidate her hold over the oil-rich nation in the wake of the surprise US commando operation, which snatched Maduro from a military base to face trial.

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Epstein files: 2 million records in various stages of review, DOJ says

(ABC News) The Department of Justice said in a new court filing Monday night that there are more than 2 million documents “potentially responsive” to the Epstein Files Transparency Act that are presently in various phases of review. Federal prosecutors said that “in the next few weeks ahead” about 400 department attorneys in Washington, D.C., New York and Florida “will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to the Department’s efforts to comply with the Act.”

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Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

(NY Times) Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted. “Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force.

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'Greenland belongs to its people': European leaders unite over Trump's threats to annex territory

(CNBC) European leaders on Tuesday issued a joint statement to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland, saying security in the Arctic must be achieved collectively. “The Kingdom of Denmark – including Greenland – is part of NATO,” the statement said, according to a letter published by Denmark’s Prime Minister’s Office on X. “Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them,” they continued.

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Trump store in suburban Philadelphia 'kind of run its course' and is set to close

25 min ago - Updated 4:54 PM EST, January 6, 2026 BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) -- A suburban Philadelphia shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it's closing its doors, six years after opening. The Trum ... (AP)

Alaska Airlines pilot who safely landed plane after panel blew out says Boeing unfairly blamed him

5 hrs ago - By JOSH FUNK Updated 7:32 PM CST, January 6, 2026 The Alaska Airlines pilot who has been universally praised as a hero for safely landing a jet after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff is suing Boeing because he believes the plane maker ... (AP)

Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for years, says DOJ

6 hrs ago - BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for years and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders but provided no m ... (AP)

Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, dies at 80

7 hrs ago - Updated 6:46 PM CST, January 6, 2026 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was 80. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute announced his death in ... (AP)

Alan Dershowitz goes all in at SCOTUS, suggests landmark precedent 'should be discarded'

7 hrs ago - Jan 6th, 2026, 9:33 am Alan Dershowitz vowed to take his thus far failed defamation case against CNN all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the landmark 1964 precedent set by New York Times v. Sullivan, a gambit that would change defamat ... (Law & Crime)

Pesticide industry 'immunity shield' stripped from US appropriations bill

8 hrs ago - Tue 6 Jan 2026 12.50 EST Last modified on Tue 6 Jan 2026 13.31 EST In a setback for the pesticide industry, Democrats have succeeded in removing a rider from a congressional appropriations bill that would have helped protect pesticide makers from bei ... (The Guardian)

Trump says Venezuela to give up to 50 million barrels of oil to U.S.

8 hrs ago - Published Tue, Jan 6 2026 6:54 PM EST Updated 4 Min Ago President Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that the interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States. Trump, in a socia ... (CNBC)

Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Wants to Buy Greenland

8 hrs ago - Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers that President Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it, while Mr. Trump has asked aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring the territory, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Mr. Rubio ma ... (NYT)

Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84

8 hrs ago - January 6, 2026 at 6:43 p.m. EST Aldrich H. Ames, the CIA officer whose spying for Moscow was the most damaging breach in the agency's history, reportedly causing the deaths of at least 10 recruited CIA or allied intelligence agents, died Jan. 5 at t ... (Washington Post)

UK and France 'ready to deploy troops' to Ukraine after ceasefire

8 hrs ago - Britain and France have declared they are ready to deploy troops to Ukraine in the aftermath of a peace deal, a major new commitment that has been under discussion for months, although one which Russia is likely to block forcefully. The announcement ... (The Guardian)

Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, dies at 80

9 hrs ago - Updated 6:15 PM EST, January 6, 2026 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was 80. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute announced his death in ... (AP)

Vanity Fair Photographer Reveals Epstein Sent 'Massive' Bodyguard to 'Intimidate' Him Into Handing Over Pictures

9 hrs ago - Jan 6th, 2026, 1:02 pm Christopher Anderson, the Vanity Fair photographer whose portraits of top White House officials helped propel the article to viral status last month, revealed on Tuesday that he had been asked to photograph Jeffrey Epstein in ... (MEDIAite)

Trump-appointed judge threatens Mike Lindell with 'further contempt sanctions

9 hrs ago - Jan 6th, 2026, 11:25 am A federal judge for the second time in the last three months has questions about why 2020 election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has failed to comply with a court order, raising the specter of "further con ... (Law & Crime)

Funding to Be Blocked For Attack on Greenland Under New Proposal

10 hrs ago - Published Jan 06, 2026 at 05:07 AM EST updated Jan 06, 2026 at 09:05 AM EST Senator Ruben Gallego is moving to block any U.S. military action in Greenland, introducing an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would bar funding as he warn ... (Newsweek)

Trump weighs using U.S. military to acquire Greenland: White House

10 hrs ago - Published Tue, Jan 6 2026 4:07 PM EST Updated 2 Min Ago 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 K ... (CNBC)

Armed militias deployed in Venezuela as regime attempts to impose authority

11 hrs ago - Venezuela’s rulers have deployed armed militias to patrol streets, operate checkpoints and check people’s phones in a crackdown to consolidate authority after the US attack on Caracas. Paramilitary groups known as colectivos criss-crossed t ... (The Guardian)

Uvalde officer was told location of gunman but he failed to act, prosecutors say

11 hrs ago - Former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales was alerted to gunman Salvador Ramos' location before Ramos entered Robb Elementary School, but Gonzales failed to act, prosecutors argued in opening statements on Tuesday. Gonzales -- who i ... (ABC News)

Small group of Proud Boys protestors march to the Capitol on Jan. 6 anniversary

11 hrs ago - 01/06/26 3:12 PM ET A small group of Proud Boys protestors marched to the U.S. Capitol on the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the building. The group convened by the Ellipse midday Tuesday, later making their way to the west Capitol ... (The Hill)

Trump White House Launches Stunning January 6 Website Trashing 'Violent' Capitol Police

11 hrs ago - President Donald Trump’s White House launched a website dedicated to the January 6 Capitol Riot on Tuesday that said the Democrats “staged the real insurrection” and claimed Capitol Police escalated the mayhem. -snip- The key section o ... (Mediaite via Yahoo)

Netherlands pulls out of US Caribbean drug missions amid Venezuela tensions

11 hrs ago - January 6, 2026 4:07 pm CET The Netherlands has pulled out of U.S.-led counter-drug missions in the Caribbean, a reaction to the rising death toll from American military attacks on vessels suspected of being used to smuggle narcotics. Speaking Monda ... (Politico (EU))

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