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BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, per NBC

For the first time on record, the majority of all trading in US stocks is now consistently occurring outside the country’s exchanges, in dark pools, per Bloomberg

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Both Canada and Mexico have now placed retaliatory tariffs against the US, both 25% on billions of American goods.

Trump Media, DJT, gifted thousands of shares of company stock to President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, to Trump’s eldest son and to four other board members, per CNBC.

Most federal US government websites are expected to go dark "for a pause" today.

BREAKING: Former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve John Harold Rogers has been arrested on charges he conspired to steal fed trade secrets for the benefit of the People's Republic of China

US Defense Department employees connected their work computers to Chinese servers to access DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot for at least two days before the Pentagon moved to shut off access, per Bloomberg

Trump has announced he will place 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Feb 1st officially.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has said that "we need to ban members of Congress from owning stock. This is corruption"

Former Senator Bob Mendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery and fraud, per WSJ.

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BREAKING: The White House budget office has now officially rescinded the Trump order freezing federal financial assistance programs.

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BREAKING: Columbian President Petro announces that if there will be tariffs on Columbian goods, he will add 50% tariffs on US goods, and says he will not give in to retaliation. He says, "I will resist you."

BREAKING: AOC has said there is insider trading in Congress. "It's so crazy... we're supposed to act like money only corrupts Republicans? Give me a fucking break."

Trump has made it possible for federal workers to accept bribes today via an executive action

The National Treasury Employees Union is suing the Trump administration

President Biden says members of Congress should not trade stocks in his farewell address to the nation.

Drake is suing Universal Music Group, $UMG, for defamation and harassment, over its release of the Kendrick Lamar diss track Not Like Us last year.

South Korean President Yoon arrested over martial law attempt

BREAKING: President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting Day One of the new White House, per Global News.