Luke Vargas

The Democrats' demands don't carry legal weight, but could lay the groundwork for a more formal investigation in the future.

Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor who led the Justice Department's cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, is stepping down.

That comes just four months after the former White House aide and personal lawyer to President Trump was installed as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia after her predecessor was forced out of the job.

The indictments Halligan secured against Comey and James were later dismissed by a judge who ruled she was unlawfully appointed.

President Trump is accelerating his effort to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

Yesterday, he signed an executive order telling agencies to find ways to stop the federal government from backing loans and providing other financial incentives for Wall Street.

We don't have the fine print yet, though.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant has 30 days to decide exactly which investors are affected and which types of homes are off-limits to them.

And heads up that we've got a special bonus episode of the pod coming later today.

In the latest What's News in Earnings, we'll dive into what's behind the booming Wall Street businesses, the country's biggest banks, and the risks that bankers are looking at this year.

Keep an eye out for that in your What's News feed at midday.

And finally, the productivity-boosting powers of AI are causing a growing divide in the workplace.

While CEOs are rallying behind the tech, saying that it saves them more than eight hours of work a week, a majority of workers are finding AI doesn't save them any time at all and is instead another complex tool they have to manage.

Journal reporter Lindsay Ellis says that between learning prompts and fixing errors, workers are feeling overwhelmed.

So how are you using AI in your work?

Let us know in the Spotify comments.

And that's it for What's News for this Wednesday morning.

Today's show was produced by Daniel Bach and Hattie Moyer.

Our supervising producer was Sandra Kilhoff.

And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.