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.
Updated at 10.40 EST
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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.
ShareSupreme 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.
Updated at 10.40 EST
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 have heard so far this term could be released. We’ll be bringing you the latest.
ShareFBI 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.
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Lauren Gambino
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.
Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference in New York, 8 January 2026. Photograph: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
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.
ShareTrump 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.
ShareUnion leaders accuse Trump administration of ‘shift toward white supremacy’ with online posts
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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”.
ShareChina 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.
Share17% 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.
ShareAnything less’ than US control of Greenland is ‘unacceptable,’ Trump says
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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.
Updated at 07.20 EST
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.
A person washes out his eyes after teargas was deployed by federal agents. Photograph: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images Photograph: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images
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.
Masked ICE agents arresting a woman after smashing her car windows Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
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.
Updated at 07.38 EST
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.
ShareUS supreme court could issue ruling on legal challenge to Trump’s tariffs today
Welcome to our US politics live blog.
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.
Updated at 07.37 EST