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Trump Defends Pardons for Capitol Rioters

President announces $500B artificial intelligence infrastructure project

(Newser) - President Trump defended his decision to pardon around 1,500 people involved in the Capitol riot, including many convicted of assaulting police officers, in a news conference Tuesday. He said the sentences handed down to members of the Oath Keeper and Proud Boys were "ridiculous and excessive," the...

Bishop Pleads for Trump to 'Have Mercy'

'I didn't think it was a good service,' he says

(Newser) - At the inaugural prayer service Tuesday morning, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, made a direct appeal to President Trump to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and undocumented migrant workers. Referencing Trump's belief that he was saved by God from assassination, Budde, who was...

22 States Sue to Block Birthright Citizenship Order

'The president cannot, with a stroke of a pen, write the 14th Amendment out of existence'

(Newser) - Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Trump's move to end an immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that US-born children are citizens regardless of their parents' status. Eighteen states and two cities challenged the order in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday. Four...

Trump Orders Federal Workers Back to the Office Full-Time

Department heads ordered to 'take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements'

(Newser) - In one of his many executive orders Monday, President Trump ordered federal employees to return to the office five days a week, ending remote work arrangements for many workers. "Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary...

Mexico's Prez to Trump: Sure, Call the Gulf Whatever You Like

Sheinbaum says new president can call Gulf of Mexico whatever he wants—on his side

(Newser) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has an answer for President Trump about his idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America:" he can call it whatever he wants on the American part of it. Sheinbaum on Tuesday was working through the raft of executive orders...

The Diet Coke Button Is Back
The Diet Coke Button Is Back
Jan 21, 2025 11:53 AM CST

The Diet Coke Button Is Back

Trump's Oval Office includes that and other personal preferences

(Newser) - American presidents add personal touches to the Oval Office upon arrival, notes Axios , and President Trump already has some notable ones in place. The Wall Street Journal got an early look:
  • The famous Diet Coke button that sat on Trump's desk in his first term is back. The button
...

Ex-Proud Boys Leader Walks Free
Ex-Proud Boys
Leader Walks Free
Jan 21, 2025 11:30 AM CST

Ex-Proud Boys Leader Walks Free

As does the founder of the Oath Keepers after pardons from Trump

(Newser) - The former leader of the far-right group the Proud Boys is out of prison following a blanket pardon from President Trump. Enrique Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the 2021 Capitol riot, was freed from federal prison in Louisiana, reports the AP . Also freed...

What Editorials Think of Trump's Day One
What Editorials Think
of Trump's Day One
the rundown
Jan 21, 2025 11:07 AM CST

What Editorials Think of Trump's Day One

Wall Street Journal suggests 'Trump II' is off to a better start than some feared

(Newser) - President Trump described an America in "decline" in his inaugural address on Monday and promised to set things right. A look at how Trump's message, along with his mass pardoning of Jan. 6 defendants, is being received in editorials:
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump "delivered a message of
...

Barron Trump's Inauguration Handshakes Make Waves

President's son being praised for 'classy' move

(Newser) - Barron Trump shook the hands of departing President Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, as he took the stage with his family for his father's swearing-in, and the move got quite a bit of attention, Newsweek reports. (See it here .) Commenters, especially those on the right, were calling...

Trump Signs Orders at Arena
Here's What Trump
Did on Day One
the rundown
Jan 21, 2025 2:00 AM CST

Here's What Trump Did on Day One

He signed a bunch of executive orders, some of them while onstage at a rally

(Newser) - A table was set up on the stage in Washington, DC's Capital One Arena, where President Trump held an inauguration day rally soon after taking the oath of office Monday, and he signed a number of executive orders in front of the crowd, NBC News reports. "First, I'...

Trump Signs Death Penalty Order
Trump Signs
Death Penalty Order
Jan 21, 2025 1:00 AM CST

Trump Signs Death Penalty Order

He directs attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs

(Newser) - President Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to "take all necessary and lawful action" to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions, the AP reports. Trump's order, coming just hours after he returned...

Trump Withdrawing US From Paris Climate Agreement, Again

New president signed executive order directing just that

(Newser) - President Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the US from its closest allies, the AP reports. Trump's action, hours after he was...

Trump Once Again Directs US to Withdraw From WHO

He did the same during his first term, but Biden reversed the decision before it was enacted

(Newser) - Among President Trump's first actions upon taking office Monday was to order the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Trump similarly directed the country to leave WHO toward the end of his first term as president, but while he started the process of formally exiting, then-President...

Panama President Rejects Trump Remark 'in Its Entirety'

Morino says canal is staying under Panama's control

(Newser) - The Panama Canal is owned and controlled by Panama, and it's going to stay that way, the country's leader said after President Trump vowed to take it back in his inaugural address Monday. "I must reject in its entirety the words expressed by President Donald Trump regarding...

Message to Migrants: 'Existing Appointments Are No Longer Valid'

App used to schedule appointments with border officials is shut down after Trump is sworn in

(Newser) - Thousands of migrants waiting at the US border got an immediate and tangible sign that Donald Trump had been sworn into office on Monday—an official app they had used to schedule appointments with border officials went dark, informing them, "Existing appointments are no longer valid," reports the...

Trump Wasn't Joking About the 'Gulf of America'

Name will be changed in Day 1 executive order

(Newser) - President Trump wasn't joking earlier this month when he said he would rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. In a post on X Monday confirming a report in the New York Post, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump would rename the Gulf of Mexico...

Report: Trump's Day 1 Orders Won't Include Tariffs

President plans to change trade policies 'in a measured way,' trade adviser says

(Newser) - President Trump's Day 1 executive orders won't include the tariffs he had threatened to introduce on goods from countries including Canada and Mexico, officials say. Instead, the president plans to issue a memo directing federal agencies to evaluate America's trade relationships with Canada, Mexico, and China, officials...

Ending Birthright Citizenship Won't Be Easy

Trump will run up against 14th Amendment in push to stop granting citizenship to babies of undocumented parents

(Newser) - President Trump promised Monday to take aggressive action to curb the number of undocumented migrants in the US, and one of the bigger initiatives revolves around what's known as birthright citizenship. Trump aims to end the practice of bestowing citizenship on babies born on American soil to undocumented residents,...

Trump: God Saved Me So I Can Save America

President delivers his first speech as the 47th president

(Newser) - "The golden age of America begins right now," President Trump said Monday at the start of his first speech as the nation's 47th president. In his roughly 30-minute address after being sworn into office , Trump repeated a similar theme over and over: "From this day on,...

Donald Trump Sworn In as 47th President

His second term is underway

(Newser) - Donald John Trump is once again the president. The man who served as America's 45th leader became its 47th on Monday after being sworn at the Capitol Rotunda. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Trump, just after the court's Brett Kavanaugh administered the oath...

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