Closing summary
Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a summary of the key developments from today:
Officials from Denmark and Greenland met with JD Vance and Marco Rubio today, after Donald Trump posted on social media that the US “needs Greenland for the purpose of national security”. France, Germany, Sweden and Norway will send troops to Greenland, at Denmark’s request, as the Trump administration continues weighing taking military action to acquire the island.
Local media in Minneapolis and the Associated Press are reporting another shooting by federal immigration officers in the Minnesota city. An immigration agent shot a man “from Venezuela” after a “targeted traffic stop” in Minneapolis this evening, the Department of Homeland Security said in a lengthy social media post.
Trump said he had a “great conversation” with Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, after his first known conversation with Nicolás Maduro’s former vice-president. “Many topics were discussed, including Oil, Minerals, Trade and, of course, National Security. This partnership between the United States of America and Venezuela will be a spectacular one FOR ALL,” Trump said in a social media post.
The Senate voted against a war powers resolution that would have prevented Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela without giving Congress advance notice. Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana, who joined three other Republicans to advance the resolution alongside Democrats last week, flipped after they said they received assurances from the Trump administration.
Half of Americans believe that ICE is making American cities less safe, a new CNN poll has found. According to the survey which was conducted from 9 to 12 January, 51% of Americans said that ICE’s enforcement actions are making cities less safe rather than safer. Only 31% felt that ICE’s operations were making cities more secure.
The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict legal pathways to the United States.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office today, Trump said that “the killing in Iran is stopping”.
The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. According to the Post, federal agents searched the home of Hannah Natanson – who covers the federal workforce.
The Republican chair of the House oversight committee, James Comer, plans to also hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress. The Clintons filed sworn legal documents with Comer yesterday, sharing everything they knew about Jeffrey Epstein, the office of Bill Clinton shared in a statement.
A US district court in California has upheld the state’s new congressional map, redrawn after voters approved the state’s bid to redistrict in order to counter similar gerrymandering efforts in Texas.
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A federal immigration officer shot a man “from Venezuela” after a “targeted traffic stop” in Minneapolis this evening, the Department of Homeland Security said in a lengthy social media post.
DHS said the man “resisted and violently assaulted” the immigration agent, adding: “This attack on another brave member of law enforcement took place while Minnesota’s top leaders, Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, are actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers.”
According to DHS, the immigration officer and wounded man are both at the hospital.
Donald Trump said he has no plans to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell and called the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week “unfortunate” during a wide ranging interview with Reuters.
“I don’t have any plan to do that,” Trump said of firing Powell, in light of a criminal investigation the Justice Department has undertaken into the Federal Reserve chair.
Separately, he called the Minneapolis shooting last week “so sad to see on both sides”, in a shift in tone from his first remarks calling Good a “professional agitator”.
During the interview, Trump also claimed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and not Russian president Vladimir Putin, was stalling efforts to reach a peace deal.
At least one person reportedly shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis
Local media in Minneapolis and the Associated Press are reporting another shooting by federal immigration officers in the Minnesota city.
A man was shot in the leg following a car chase, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports, citing witnesses and multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The Associated Press also reported the shooting, citing a person familiar with the matter who urged caution as the investigation is still preliminary.
The Guardian is working to independently verify further details.
The city of Minneapolis posted on social media that: “We are aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis. We are working to confirm additional details.”
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France and Germany will send troops to Greenland, at Denmark’s request, as the Trump administration continues weighing taking military action to acquire the island.
In a statement on social media, French president Emmanuel Macron wrote, “At the request of Denmark, I have decided that France will participate in the joint exercises organized by Denmark in Greenland, Operation Arctic Endurance.”
Greenland has also agreed to send 13 members of its unified armed forces on a reconnaissance mission to the Greenlandic capital.
Sweden has said it will send troops to Greenland in support of “Operation Arctic Endurance” as well. Norway is also sending two military personnel to the island.
Tim Walz issued a call to action to Minnesotans in an address this evening, calling on them to record the “atrocities” committed by ICE agents in the state “to bank evidence for future prosecution”.
“Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live,” he said. “It’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”
Walz called on Minnesotans to “carry your phone with you at all times” to “help us establish a record of exactly what’s happening in our communities.” He also told residents, “Accountability is coming, in the voting booth and in court.”
The livestreamed address was plagued by an audio echo, that the White House pounced upon in a reaction to the video on social media, calling Walz a “loser”.
Walz’s team deleted the original video from his X account shortly after the livestream concluded but later reposted an echo-free version.
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California governor Gavin Newsom rejected Louisiana’s request to extradite a California physician for allegedy providing medication abortion to a patient in Louisiana.
“We will not allow extremist politicians from other states to reach into California and try to punish doctors based on allegations that they provided reproductive health care services. Not today. Not ever. We will never be complicit with Trump’s war on women,” Newsom said in a statement.
Lousiana’s extradition request follows an effort by Texas to sue a New York-based doctor in late 2024 for allegedly mailing abortion pills into the anti-abortion state.
Here’s more of my colleague Carter Sherman’s coverage of the case:
Democratic leaders have denounced the Senate’s vote against a war powers resolution that would have curtailed Donald Trump’s ability to take military action in Venezuela without congressional approval.
Tim Kaine, the Democratic senator from Virginia, said Democrats will “file a whole lot more war powers resolutions” as Trump has threatened action in other countries including Greenland, Iran and Mexico. “They can run but they can’t hide,” Kaine said of Republicans. Without Republican support, however, those resolutions are unlikely to pass the Senate.
Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, said Congress’s purpose as a check on presidential authority had “atrophied” under recent administrations, but that it must work to reclaim that power.
Meanwhile, on social media, senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat wrote that Republicans “voted for forever wars, and against the best interests of the American people.”
A man who was one of two people shot and wounded by a border patrol agent in Portland, Oregon, last week pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault on a federal employee and damaging federal property.
Luis David Nino-Moncada remains in custody, with a release hearing scheduled for next week and a five-day jury trial set for March. He was shot while sitting in a pickup truck in the parking lot of a medical complex during an immigration stop one day after an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. A passenger in his car, Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, was also shot and wounded.
When the shooting first occured, the Federal Bureau of Investigations’s Portland X account posted a statement saying it was “investigating an agent involved shooting”. Shortly after it was posted, that statement was removed from the FBI’s social media account. A new post later said that the bureau was “investigating an assault on a federal officers”.
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Senate votes against war powers resolution
The Senate has voted against a war powers resolution that would have prevented Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela without giving Congress advance notice.
Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana, who joined three other Republicans to advance the resolution alongside Democrats last week, flipped after they said they received assurances from the Trump administration.
Earlier in the day, Young released a statement saying he “received assurances that there are no American troops in Venezuela” after speaking with secretary of state Marco Rubio, and that if Trump were to pursue “major military operations” he would ask Congress “in advance for an authorization of force”. Hawley shared a similar statement with reporters.
Young added that Rubio has agreed to testify on the Trump administration’s actions in Venezuela at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee this month.
With Hawley and Young’s votes, the Senate was split 50-50 on the resolution. JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Republican senators Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins cast their votes for the war powers resolution alongside Democrats.
Paul, who did not change his vote, said it was “an absurdity” to argue Trump hadn’t already taken actions of war in Venezuela. “If we don’t know it’s a war until after all the people die ... wouldn’t it then be a little late?” he told reporters ahead of the vote.
In response to the vote, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said, “Make no mistake about it: this vote makes things more dangerous, not less. It emboldens Donald Trump to push further down this reckless path.”
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Senator Todd Young, one of five Republicans who voted with Democrats last week to advance a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela, says he now sides with the president.
In a statement, Young said he “has received assurances that there are no American troops in Venezuela” and that if Trump were to pursue “major military operations” he would ask Congress “in advance for an authorization of force”.
Josh Hawley, the Republican senator from Missouri, shared a similar message with reporters earlier in the day.
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Trump and Venezuelan interim leader hold first phone call
Donald Trump and Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, have both issued statements regarding their phone call earlier today.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “We are making tremendous progress, as we help Venezuela stabilize and recover. Many topics were discussed, including Oil, Minerals, Trade and, of course, National Security. This partnership between the United States of America and Venezuela will be a spectacular one FOR ALL.”
In a post on X, Rodríguez wrote in Spanish that she “held a long and courteous telephone conversation” with Trump “in which we addressed a bilateral work agenda for the benefit of our peoples, as well as pending matters between our governments”.
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The Trump administration canceled as many as 2,8000 grantees of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Samhsa), totalling up to $1.9bn in funding for substance use and mental health care yesterday.
“It feels like Armageddon for everyone who’s on the frontlines of the addiction and mental health space,” Ryan Hampton, founder of Mobilize Recovery, a national advocacy organization for people in and seeking recovery, told my colleague Melody Schreiber. “The scope of care that’s disrupted by these grants is catastrophic. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people will die.”
We have the full story here:
Majority of US voters oppose military action in Iran, Greenland
A majority of Americans oppose the United States taking military action in Iran or Greenland, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
According to the public opinion polling center, 70% of US voters believe the United States should not get involved in Iran if protesters there are killed demonstrating against the government. Similarly, 86% of voters oppose the United States using military force to take control of Greenland.
Voters were more divided on the Trump administration’s decision to use military force to capture the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. While 47% of voters said they supported the decision, 45% said they opposed it.
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Mitch McConnell, the Republican from Kentucky and former Senate majority leader, denounced Donald Trump’s desire to control Greenland in a speech on the Senate floor today.
“I have yet to hear from this administration a single thing we need from Greenland that this sovereign people is not already willing to grant us,” he said. “Unless and until the president can demonstrate otherwise, then the proposition at hand today is very straightforward: incinerating the hard-won trust of loyal allies in exchange for no meaningful change in US access to the Arctic.”
Federal court upholds redrawn California congressional map
A US district court in California has upheld the state’s new congressional map, redrawn after voters approved the state’s bid to redistrict in order to counter similar gerrymandering efforts in Texas, called Proposition 50.
“Republicans’ weak attempt to silence voters failed. California voters overwhelmingly supported Prop 50 – to respond to Trump’s rigging in Texas – and that is exactly what this court concluded,” California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, said in a statement reacting to the ruling.
“Californians overwhelmingly voted in favor of Proposition 50. Today’s decision upholds the will of the people. It also means that, to date, every single challenge against Proposition 50 has failed,” added the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta.
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Donald Trump said he had a “great conversation” with Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, after his first known conversation with Nicolás Maduro’s former vice-president.
Here’s more of our recent coverage of Rodríguez:
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Bill and Hillary Clinton filed sworn legal documents with Jim Comer yesterday, sharing everything they knew about Jeffrey Epstein, the office of Bill Clinton shared in a statement.
Comer chairs the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the late convicted sex offender. Earlier today, Comer said he plans to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress after they refused to appear before the committee for in-person testimony.
“Bill & Hillary Clinton took the extraordinary step of – without being asked – each submitting comprehensive statements to Jim Comer directly in two documents. Each was a sworn legal document listing everything they have to offer,” Clinton’s office said in the statement.
The documents include a four-page letter to Comer, as well as one-page declarations from both Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Democrats on the committee issued a statement adding that “President Trump’s targeting of the Clintons is part of a continuing pattern in which President Trump has weaponized the Department of Justice against his perceived political enemies, including, among others, former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and most recently, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell”.
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The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, announced on social media that “several officers from the Swedish Armed Forces are arriving in Greenland today”.
He added that the troops are “part of a group from several allied countries” preparing for “Operation Arctic Endurance”. He did not provide any additional details about the operation, but said it “is at Denmark’s request that Sweden is sending personnel”.
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The president pushed back against another reporter’s question on his next steps in Greenland.
“You don’t know what I’m going to do,” Trump said. “Certainly I’m not going to give up options, but it’s very important. Greenland is very important for that national security, including of Denmark … I can’t rely on Denmark being able to fend themselves off.”
Donald Trump repeated his refrain that if the US doesn’t annex Greenland, “Russia is going to go in, and China’s going to go in, and there’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it”.
“We can do everything about it,” he added, noting that after he wraps up in the Oval Office he’ll receive a briefing about the vice-president and secretary of state’s meeting with Danish and Greenlandic officials earlier today.
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The president didn’t confirm that military action against Iran was off the table while speaking in the Oval Office today.
“We’re going to watch and see what the process is,” he said, adding that he’s been given “a very good statement by people that are aware of what’s going on”.
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When asked who told the administration that the “executions have stopped”, Donald Trump said: “We have been informed by very important sources on the other side and they’ve said the killing is stopped and executions won’t take place.”
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Trump says he's been told the 'killing in Iran is stopping'
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office today, Donald Trump said that “the killing in Iran is stopping”.
“There’s no plan for executions,” he said, referring to the death sentence of 26-year-old anti-government protester Erfan Soltani. Trump had threatened military action if any executions in Iran took place.
“I’m sure if it happens, we’ll all be very upset,” the president added. “But that’s just gotten to me … they’re not going to have an execution.”
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The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict legal pathways to the United States.
The freeze, which takes effect on 21 January, targets applicants officials deem likely to become a “public charge” – whom the Trump administration describes as people who may rely on government benefits for basic needs.
The state department wrote on social media that it “will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates”.
Countries affected include Brazil, Iran, Russia, Somalia, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Eritria, Haiti, Thailand and Yemen, though the complete list has not been publicly released.
“The freeze will remain active until the US can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people,” the statement continued. “We are working to ensure the generosity of the American people will no longer be abused.”
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Danish minister says 'we didn't manage to change US position' following talks with Vance and Rubio
When asked today about what the compromise could be on Greenland, Denmark’s foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that it’s not a conversation to be had through the media.
At a press conference after his meeting with vice-president JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio, Rasmussen sais that any future solution needs to respect Denmark’s red lines on territorial sovereignty.
He also insisted that there are no immediate threats from China and Russia that Denmark and Greenland, and their allies, cannot manage themselves.
“We didn’t manage to change the US position,” he added. “It’s clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland, and we made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the Kingdom [of Denmark].”
In a short while we’ll bring you the latest from the White House, when Donald Trump signs legislation that allows schools to serve whole and 2% milk.
We’ll be watching for the lines from the president about JD Vance and Marco Rubio’s meeting with Denmark and Greenland officials earlier today, as well as any update on the situation on the ground in Iran.
A Minnesota judge has refused to issue a restraining order to halt ICE operations across the state, citing the need for further evidence.
The decision from Judge Kate Menendez comes after Minnesota’s decision earlier this week to sue the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and other federal officials over their involvement in a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations across the state.
Speaking about her decision, Menendez said: “I think the issues are really important and I don’t want to suggest by not acting immediately one way or the other that I think they are unimportant … To the contrary, I understand this is important to everybody.”
The plaintiffs petitioned the court for a temporary restraining order, arguing that ICE’s immigration sweeps are infringing on constitutional rights and that a brief suspension would allow legal teams to fully develop their arguments.
Meanwhile, government attorneys pushed back, asserting that there is no justification for pausing the operations because the state has not substantiated its allegations.
The government has until 19 January to respond while Minnesota’s state lawyers have until 22 January.
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Poll: Half of Americans think ICE is making cities less safe
Half of Americans believe that ICE is making American cities less safe, a new CNN poll has found.
According to the survey which was conducted from 9 to 12 January, 51% of Americans said that ICE’s enforcement actions are making cities less safe rather than safer. Only 31% felt that ICE’s operations were making cities more secure.
The survey also found that only 26% of Americans said they viewed the ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week as an “appropriate use of force”.
Fifty-six per cent of Americans called the fatal shooting an inappropriate use of force, with about half saying that Good’s killing reflects bigger problems with the way that ICE is operating.
Additionally, the survey revealed a shift in opinion towards Donald Trump’s immigration policies, with 52% saying that his deportation efforts have gone too far, marking an increase from the 45% of Americans who indicated so last February.
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Slotkin says she's under investigation for video telling troops to disobey illegal orders
Elissa Slotkin, the senator who led several Democratic members of Congress in a video to tell US troops to “refuse illegal orders”, said that the US attorney for DC asked to interview her about her involvement in the social media post.
In a post on X, the Michigan lawmaker said that “intimidation is the point” and underscored that “it’s not going to work”.
After the initial video, Donald Trump accused the Democrats of “seditious behavior” and even reposted calls for them to be hanged. Today, Slotkin said that after the president’s reaction in November, she received a bomb threat at her home, received “24/7 security from Capitol police” and her parents were “swatted in the middle of the night”.
“Anyone who disagrees with him [Trump] becomes an enemy and he weaponizes the federal government against them,” she said. “Right now, speaking out against the abuse of power is the most patriotic thing we can do.”
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Republican senator Josh Hawley, one of five GOP lawmakers who voted to advance a war powers resolution that would curb the Trump administration’s ability to carry out further military action in Venezuela, told reporters today that he now plans to support a procedural effort by Republicans to kill the full vote on the resolution scheduled for today.
This comes after the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, sent a letter to the Senate foreign affairs committee confirming that there were no boots on the ground in Venezuela.
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My colleague Jakub Krupa notes that Danish media is reporting the meeting between the vice-president, JD Vance, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and officials from Denmark and Greenland has ended.
We’ll bring you the latest lines about what happened at today’s talks as soon as they come through.
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Comer says he'll also initiate contempt of Congress proceedings against Hillary Clinton
The Republican chair of the House oversight committee, James Comer, told reporters today that he plans to also hold Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress. This comes after the former secretary of state refused to appear before the committee for in-person testimony.
On Tuesday, both Bill and Hillary Clinton defied subpoenas that compelled them to testify in the oversight committee’s ongoing investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter to Comer, attorneys for the Clintons said the former president and first lady would not be complying.
In response, Comer said he scheduled a mark-up session to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress, a move he has now extended to Hillary Clinton. That committee vote is scheduled for 21 January before it heads to the House floor.
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My colleague Frances Mao is covering the latest developments out of Iran today at our dedicated live blog.
She notes that Qatar says some personnel at the US’s military base in the country have been told to leave “in response to the current regional tensions”.
The statement from the Gulf state’s media office provided no further detail on the order but read:
Qatar continues to implement all necessary measures to safeguard the security and safety of its citizens and residents as a top priority, including actions related to the protection of critical infrastructure and military facilities.
Frances also reports that the US embassy in Saudi Arabia has told American citizens and its own staff to “exercise increased caution” and limit travel to any military sites in the region.
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Earlier, we brought you the news that the FBI had searched the home of a Washington Post journalist as part of her reporting on federal workers in Trump’s second term.
The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, wrote on social media today that law enforcement “executed the search warrant” at the reporter’s home for “obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor”.
Bondi added that “the leaker is currently behind bars”, and noted that the justice department worked alongside the FBI and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on the operation.
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A third, and final, opinion from the court today ruled that a candidate for political office has the right to challenge state election laws that extend the deadline to receive and count mail-in absentee ballots after election day.
The case was brought by a Republican congressman in Illinois, who sued the state board of elections, arguing that the process of counting ballots up to two weeks after election day is unconstitutional.
Today, a majority of the bench said that Bost had legal standing to challenge the law. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor both dissented.
A second opinion from the court today related to whether law enforcement can enter a home without a search warrant during a wellness check.
The justices ruled unanimously that it is reasonable for law enforcement to carry out warrantless entries in the case of an emergency.
This particular case it involved a man who had threatened suicide and harm to officers who entered his home to check on him.
Supreme court doesn't issue ruling on legality of Trump's sweeping tariffs
The supreme court released three opinions today, but issued no ruling on the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
As of now, we don’t know when the next day for opinions will be.
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The first opinion the court released today is in a case that asks the court to decide whether someone can be convicted under two separate long prison sentences for the same crime, or does that violate the legal principle of ‘double jeopardy’ – which prevents someone being punished for the same crime twice.
The court ruled today that one act that violates two provisions “may spawn only one conviction”.
At the supreme court, two boxes of opinions have been brought out. This indicates that up to four decisions on cases the court has heard so far this term could be released. We’ll bring you the latest.
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FBI searches Washington Post reporter's home and devices - report
The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials, the news outlet is reporting.
According to the Post, federal agents searched the home of Hannah Natanson – who covers the federal workforce. Officers also searched her devices, seizing her phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch. One of the laptops was her personal computer, the other a Washington Post-issued laptop, according to the report.
The federal agents searching Natanson’s home did inform her that she was not the focus of their investigation, but they were looking into Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a system administrator in Maryland who been accused of accessing and taking home classified intelligence reports.
Democratic representative Robin Kelly on Wednesday plans to formally introduce articles of impeachment against Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, following the fatal shooting of a US citizen by an immigration agent in Minneapolis last week.
The new push comes amid mounting national outrage over the death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, at the wheel of her car on a residential street, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.
Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, will be joined by Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Maxine Dexter of Oregon – progressive representatives from states where federal agents have shot residents in recent days – in filing three articles of impeachment against Noem.
They accuse the secretary of willfully obstructing congressional oversight by withholding appropriated funds and repeatedly blocking lawmakers from entering DHS facilities. It further alleges a violation of public trust through the use of “warrantless arrests” and the use of “violence against US citizens and lawful individuals”. It also charges Noem with self-dealing for “inappropriately” using taxpayer dollars to fund an ad campaign for ICE recruitment, and awarding the $200m recruitment contract to a firm run by the husband of senior DHS official and chief spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Trump doubles down on threat to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities
Donald Trump repeated his threat to withhold federal funding to sanctuary cities on Truth Social today.
“ALL THEY DO IS BREED CRIME AND VIOLENCE! If States want them, they will have to pay for them!,” the president wrote in a post.
In Detroit on Tuesday, Trump vowed to cut funds to cities and states that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. A reminder that last year, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the administration from withholding funds, deeming it unconstitutional.
Donald Trump is in Washington today. We’ll hear from the president at 2pm ET, when he takes part in a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. We’ll bring you the latest lines as that gets underway.
We’ll also be watching the meeting with vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio and officials from Denmark and Greenland – also on tap for later today.
Trump remains unrelenting in his belief that the US must annex the semi-autonomous territory.
Union leaders accuse Trump administration of ‘shift toward white supremacy’ with online posts
Trade unions say there’s been a “rhetorical shift towards white supremacy” in the Trump administration after social media posts by the US Department of Labor drew comparison with a Nazi slogan.
Recent posts from the agency include a video captioned “remember who you are, American”, with the phrase: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.”
Users of X, formerly Twitter, and Grok, the platform’s AI tool, highlighted a similarity with the Nazi slogan: “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” (“one people, one realm, one leader”).
“The similarity to that Nazi slogan is bad,” Christopher Hayes, a labor historian and professor at Rutgers University, told the Guardian, expressing alarm over “the motivation behind it, the message, the sentiment and desired outcome”.
Jimmy Williams Jr, general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, said the labor department had repeatedly imitated “far-right and fascist imagery” online: “When people tell you who they are, believe them.”
With the China economy numbers prominent on many US news sites, Trump this morning has re-tweeted- or “re-Truthed” as his platform calls it -one of his posts last week broadcasting US trade numbers and GDP predictions.
He claimed the trade deficit being at its lowest in years was “are the direct result of TARIFFS, which have rescued our economy and national security”.
China marks record trade surplus in face of US tariffs
Back to tariffs and the headline story around this morning is China marking a record trillion-dollar trade surplus despite Trump tariffs.
Beijing recorded a strong export run in 2025, even as its producers are bracing for three more years of Washington attempting to slow the manufacturing powerhouse by shifting US orders to other markets.
Beijing’s resilience to renewed tariff tensions has emboldened Chinese firms to shift their focus to south-east Asia, Africa and Latin America to offset US duties.
17% of Americans back Trump’s plans to acquire Greenland
A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows just 17% of Americans approve of Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland, and substantial majorities of Democrats and Republicans oppose military force to annex the island.
47% of respondents to the Reuters/Ipsos poll disapproved of US efforts to acquire Greenland, while 35% said they were unsure.
Only 4% of Americans – including just one in 10 Republicans and almost no Democrats – said it would be a “good idea” for the US to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark.
66% of respondents, including 91% of Democrats and 40% of Republicans, were worried US efforts to acquire Greenland would damage the Nato alliance and relationships with European allies.
Anything less' than US control of Greenland is 'unacceptable,' Trump says
US president Donald Trump has delivered his first morning social media post on Greenland, with Vance and Rubio set to meet Danish and Greenland officials today.
He’s doubled down on his rhetoric on getting control of Greenland, insisting that the US “needs Greenland for the purpose of national security.”
In a social media post, Trump claimed that “Nato should be leading the way for us to get it,” and “if we don’t, Russia or China will, and that is not going to happen!”
“Militarily, without the vast power of the United States, much of which I built during my first term, and am now bringing to a new and even higher level, Nato would not be an effective force or deterrent - not even close! They know that, and so do I.”
“Nato becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the United States. Anything less than that is unacceptable,” he said.
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On Tuesday, crowds gathered in protest outside a federal building in Minneapolis against the continued presence and violent tactics of federal immigration officers in the city.
They were hit with teargas, pepper balls and flash bangs. Demonstrators have amassed in the city and across the country after Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good was shot dead by an ICE officer.
The clashes came as Washington geared up to deploy even more officers to the Minneapolis area, in the midst of what the administration called “its largest operation in DHS history”.
An official told CBS News there were 800 Customs and Border Protection agents and 2,000 ICE officials in the Minneapolis area as tensions have risen in the wake of Good’s killing.
The Pentagon is also poised to dispatch military lawyers to the area to aid in an expected surge in federal persecutions, CNN reported.
Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St Paul have sued the Trump administration seeking an end to the surge of ICE officers deployed to the region. Local officials have characterized it as a “federal invasion” according to the suit filed on Monday.
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What the tariff legal case is about
A Supreme Court ruling is due at 10:00 ET (15:00 GMT) but it might not be on the tariffs case – because the court does not reveal ahead of time which case rulings it is issuing.
Lower courts have already ruled that the president last year overstepped his authority in imposing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on imports from most of the US’s foreign trading partners.
They sided with the case brought by tariff-hit businesses from 12 US states, that Trump didn’t have the power to use a 1977 law, meant only for emergency use, to impose such levies on individual countries.
His administration has appealed against those lower court rulings in the Supreme Court.
Justices heard the case in November – how they rule will be widely seen as a marker of whether they will be a curb on the president.
US supreme court could issue ruling on legal challenge to Trump’s tariffs today
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The supreme court could issue a ruling today on the legal challenge to president Donald Trump’s global tariffs, which if upheld by the court, would upend one of his key policies and further disrupt the world economy.
During hearings for the case last year, judges had appeared to question the legality of the tariffs, which Trump had imposed through a law meant for national emergencies.
Meanwhile Minneapolis remains on edge one week after an ICE agent shot dead Renee Good in her car.
Yesterday saw more aggressive arrests by federal officers, who have been sent in hundreds to the city this week to both carry out Trump’s immigration deportation scheme and subdue protesters.
Videos from Tuesday showed armed officers dragging one woman out of her car as she yelled she was disabled, and smashing the windows of another man’s car to seize him.
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