🗞️HHS announces new dietary guidelines

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January 7th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled updated U.S. nutrition guidelines emphasizing high-quality protein and healthy fats from whole foods like meat, full-fat dairy, eggs, olive oil or tallow, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fermented foods for gut health, while advising against ultra-processed foods, refined carbs, artificial additives, and added sugars

• President Trump announced on social media that he is immediately taking executive steps to ban large institutional investors from buying additional single-family homes and will urge Congress to codify the restriction

• An ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation, after DHS claimed she and rioters blocked agents and tried to run them over

• President Trump has signed a proclamation withdrawing the U.S. from 35 non-UN organizations and 31 UN entities that he and his administration have deemed not in America’s national interests, sovereignty, and economic priorities

• Polymarket has entered an exclusive partnership with Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and Investor’s Business Daily, to integrate its real-time prediction market data across their digital platforms and select print features

• Discord has confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO)

• Block Communications announced the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will publish its final edition and close all operations on May 3rd, after incurring over $350 million in losses over 20 years

• ADP's December report showed that U.S. private employers added 41,000 jobs in the month, rebounding from November's -29,000 job loss but still below economists expectations of 48,000 jobs gained

• Warner Bros. Discovery's board has rejected Paramount Skydance's revised $108.4 billion hostile bid, backed by Larry Ellison's $40 billion equity guarantee and $54 billion in debt, and has thrown support behind its $82.7 billion Netflix deal

• DOW down .94% / S&P down .34%

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