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Apparently there are already meetings between the USA and Greenland
Updated January 9, 2026 – 2:50 amReading time: 19 minutes
The US Senate wants to have a say in Venezuela policy. Is the Trump administration obstructing investigations in Minnesota? All developments in the news blog.
US President Donald Trump orders a massive purchase of mortgage bonds in order to make real estate loans cheaper. Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was instructing “his representatives” to purchase real estate bonds worth $200 billion. This will result in lower mortgage rates and monthly payments and make homeownership more affordable, he wrote.
Trump referred to the real estate finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were rescued by the US government after the mortgage crisis of 2008. They have reserves of 200 billion dollars (currently 172 billion euros). The exact modalities and time frame of Trump’s desired purchases of mortgage bonds initially remained unclear.
Two people were hospitalized in the city of Portland, Oregon, on Thursday after being shot by federal officers, police said. Her health status is currently unclear. The FBI’s Portland office said in a post on X that the shooting involved Customs and Border Protection officers and they are leading the investigation. On Wednesday, ICE officers shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it wanted to check a Venezuelan who was in the United States illegally. He used his car as a weapon against officers. He was then shot at. The driver and his passenger fled.
The mayor of Portland also spoke out: “We cannot sit idly by as constitutional protections are eroded and bloodshed increases. Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized officers, and the government’s threat of ‘full force’ has deadly consequences,” he wrote on
US President Donald Trump has described what the People’s Republic does with regard to Taiwan as a matter for China. Chinese President Xi Jinping views Taiwan “as part of China, and it’s up to him what he will do,” Trump told the New York Times newspaper on Thursday. “But I expressed to him that I would be very unhappy if he did that, and I don’t think he will. I hope he doesn’t.”
