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Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman in her car today. of the shooting, obtained by the Minnesota Reformer , shows a SUV stopped at an angle in the street as a pickup truck with emergency lights on approaches and stops in front of it. Masked ICE agents exited the truck and immediately ordered the woman to get out. As the officers started to pull on the ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Vaccines have long been one of the clearest ways to protect children from dangerous diseases. For decades, health officials in the United States offered parents a simple roadmap: a standard list of childhood vaccines recommended for nearly every child. That clarity shifted in early January. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) reduced the number of routinely recommended ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Donald Trump spoke at a sort of pep rally for House Republicans on Tuesday as part of an effort to get the lawmakers locked and loaded for a year focused on an uphill effort to maintain GOP control of that chamber in the November midterms. He knows, and they know, that history and his own chronically underwater ...
Source: nymag.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is sending additional federal prosecutors to Minnesota to assist the U.S. attorney's office there with the ongoing investigations into allegations of fraud and misuse of federal welfare funds. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement Wednesday that the department "will deliver severe consequences in Minnesota" and stands "ready to deploy to any other state where ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Membership keeps our reporting free and accessible to all. We don't answer to the powerful - we answer to readers like you. Support the journalism that demand accountability. Already a member? LOS ANGELES, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery's board has unanimously turned down Paramount Skydance's latest attempt to acquire the studio, saying its revised $108.4 billion hostile bid amounted to a risky leveraged ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the state's near-total abortion ban and a first-of-its-kind prohibition on abortion pills, saying that the laws violated the state constitution. In 2023, the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , Wyoming passed an abortion ban that included narrow exceptions for incest, sexual assault and cases where the mother's health is at risk. Later that ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said he's immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes. "People live in homes, not corporations," he said. In this article 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 ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
In a legal filing made on Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has only released 12,285 documents relating to its investigation into alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, representing less than 1 percent of the total files on the case in its possession. According to the terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act , which was passed into law in November, "all unclassified records, ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Not all award shows require you to get up early in the morning to hear the nominations read. The Actor Awards, formerly the SAG Awards, will announce nominations Wednesday at 1 p.m. EST on Netflix's YouTube Channel. This is the first year under the new moniker for one of Hollywood's most closely watched Oscars harbingers. Presented by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article It's unclear how Trump would restrict a company's ability to purchase its own stock or pay dividends to shareholders President Donald Trump is taking aim at what he says are out-of-control dividends paid to of America's largest defense contractors that could be better spent on ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
By , and Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced a special session in April to redraw Florida's congressional map ahead of the midterm elections, a priority for the president. The announcement sets the stage for a political battle with DeSantis and Senate President Ben Albritton against House Speaker Daniel Perez — and, if a new map is passed, an almost inevitable legal fight. Perez told the Herald/Times ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
ADP releases private sector jobs data Companies in the private sector added 41,000 jobs in December, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is below economists' estimates of a gain of 47,000 jobs. The prior month's payrolls number was revised to a loss of 29,000 from an initially reported loss of 32,000. "Small establishments recovered from November job losses with positive end-of-year hiring, even ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 -
Lindsey Halligan was installed in the position by the president to prosecute Letitia James and James Comey A judge has ordered the Donald Trump-appointed lawyer who led failed prosecutions of two of his political opponents to explain why she is still representing herself as US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, after another judge ruled she was in the position unlawfully. In an order filed in the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Jan 6th, 2026 -
Everpeak Hospitality had claimed Monday the issue was resolved, but a journalist's footage showed otherwise Hilton Hotels announced on Tuesday that it was ending its relationship with an independently owned Minneapolis-area hotel after a newly released video appeared to confirm that the property was still refusing to accommodate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
Source: foxbusiness.com