Donald Trump promised “shock and awe” during the first days of his presidency. He didn’t disappoint the majority of Americans who understood that the country has been on a distressing course over the past four years.

Historians will record that Monday was an eventful day. Donald J. Trump, after a four-year hiatus, took the oath of office ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took swift action Monday to put his stamp on the federal government by quickly signing a spate of executive orders that address his administration’s top priorities and set the stage for other changes to come.

Hours after his swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda, Trump issued directives that ...Read more

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is among the first four presidential appointees from the Biden administration fired by President Donald Trump the day after he was sworn in to office.

In a Tuesday post just after midnight on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, the president entering his second term in office made the ...Read more

Word began to spread quickly in the Tijuana migrant shelter Monday, even as President Donald Trump continued to deliver his inauguration speech.

Nidia Montenegro, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, checked her cellphone to see if the asylum screening appointment she’d waited so long to secure was still good for Wednesday morning. Those around ...Read more

Ten years after being laid off from Disney, Leo Perrero still views a visa program for skilled international workers as deeply flawed, blaming it for disrupting his information technology career and putting him in the unsettling position of having to train his foreign replacement.

“The whole thing is just a terrible scam on Americans,” said...Read more

Americans recently endured another grueling election season, offering plenty of reminders of just how polarized the U.S. has become.

Consider, for example, the fact that President Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 election; numerous judges and public officials have faced rising threats to their safety ...Read more

Philadelphia’s plans to expand its use of police-operated drones signals a pivotal shift in how the city seeks to protect – and surveil – its citizens.

According to the city’s Citizen Police Oversight Commission, the Philadelphia Police Department had two drones as of early 2024. These were, the commission says, primarily used...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s flurry of first-day executive actions included a slew of orders related to health, energy, international relations and the federal workforce.

That’s in addition to the nearly across-the-board pardons of those convicted of offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and Trump’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday asserting that the U.S. government recognizes only two sexes that are "not changeable," and reversing Biden administration directives on LGBTQ+ rights.

One of the new orders says that "male" and "female" are defined based on reproductive cells and at the point when a person is conceived, and...Read more

Anyone who thought the grievance-wielding, enemy-targeting Donald Trump might have taken a day off after listening to his formal inaugural speech in the Capitol Rotunda didn’t need to wait long to find out just how wrong they were.

That’s when the true Trump, the not “beautiful unifying” Trump, came out. He rattled off complaints about ...Read more

Donald Trump on Monday took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and then promptly broke that oath by seeking to revoke the first sentence of the 14th Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of...Read more

During his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on immigration that would make it harder for refugees, asylum seekers and others to try to enter the U.S. – and for some immigrants to stay in the country.

On Monday night, Trump signed executive orders that included declaring a...Read more

In the first hours of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly everyone convicted of crimes associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol – including former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio – and commuted the sentences of 14 more, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.

CNN reported that ...Read more

Gov. Wes Moore and other top Black Maryland officials reflected on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy Monday night as they vowed to fight for civil rights in President Donald Trump’s second term.

“I know today — because I’ve had a lot of conversations with folks — about the complexity of having this inauguration on Martin Luther King ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of 50 former U.S. intelligence officials who had cast doubt on conservative attacks on former President Joe Biden’s son, delivering on a campaign promise to exact retribution against what he sees as a “deep state” conspiracy against him.

The former intelligence ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he planned to enact previously threatened tariffs of as much as 25% on Mexico and Canada by Feb. 1, reiterating his contention that America’s two immediate neighbors are allowing the flow of undocumented migrants and drugs into the country.

“We’re thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada, ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources.

The order, which was among a flurry of executive actions Trump signed Monday in the Oval Office, says the “WHO ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took steps Monday to fundamentally and drastically change how the nation handles immigration, saying he would sign executive orders to ramp up deportations, declare a national emergency at the southern border and deploy military troops there.

Trump said he would immediately halt all illegal entry at the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement, launching another retreat in the global fight against climate change by the world’s wealthiest nation.

The move was widely expected since Trump pulled the U.S. from the emissions-cutting pact during his first term and had vowed do to it ...Read more