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Pentagon to send up to 1,500 active duty troops to help secure US-Mexico border, officials say
The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration. Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses was expected to sign the deployment orders on Wednesday, but it wasn't yet clear which troops or units will go, and the total could fluctuate. It remains to be seen i
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Trump US energy emergency order should withstand court challenges
Trump, a Republican who campaigned on a promise to "drill baby drill," has said the declaration will speed permitting and approval of energy projects to fix what he has called an inadequate and unaffordable U.S. energy supply. The U.S. is the world's largest oil producer and the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
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Trump made DOGE part of the government. Here's what that might mean
The new Department of Government Efficiency, President Donald Trump ’s special commission tasked with slashing federal spending, has formally joined the government whose size it is supposed to help shrink. The parade of executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office included one renaming the U.S. Digital Service as the U.S. DOGE Service. It further directed that DOGE be established within the Executive Office of the President.
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Bishop at inaugural prayer service urges Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ children, immigrants
The bishop leading Tuesday's official inaugural prayer service urged President Donald Trump to "have mercy" on his constituents, specifically naming LGBTQ people and immigrants.
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EU needs to end its military dependency on the US and arm itself 'to survive,' says Tusk
The European Union cannot rely on the United States to defend it and must increase military spending and security preparedness to help Ukraine and deter Russia from targeting any more of its neighbors, top EU officials warned on Wednesday. In an address to EU lawmakers, Tusk urged the 27-nation bloc to “take control” of its own security and to identify its weaknesses. Anxiety is mounting that U.S. President Donald Trump might seek to quickly end the war in talks with Russian President Vladimir
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Pro-Trump Police Union Says Jan. 6 Pardons Send 'A Dangerous Message'
The Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed Donald Trump in the last three elections, said it was "deeply discouraged" by recent pardons.
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Republicans Don’t Seem Interested In Probing Donald Trump’s Family Business
The new top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee reminded James Comer of his past interest in presidential ethics.
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Federal DEI employees targeted and new Hegseth allegations: Morning Rundown
Donald Trump calls for the firing of all federal DEI employees.
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson launches a bid for governor
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, announced Wednesday that she is launching a campaign for governor.
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Why Trump hasn't moved forward with tariffs — yet
Amid the whirl of orders Donald Trump issued in the early hours of his presidency, one was conspicuous in its absence: new tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
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Democratic Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson launches bid for governor
Michigan's Democratic secretary of state announced Wednesday that she is running to succeed Gretchen Whitmer as governor in 2026, as the party tries to find its footing after November's significant losses in the battleground state. Jocelyn Benson served as the state's chief elections administrator in the 2020 and 2024 elections and is the first well-known candidate to enter the fray as a Democrat. “We’ll work to continue delivering and not just listening," Benson said in an interview with The
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Trump orders all federal DEI staffers on leave while he dismantles their departments
A memo told federal agencies to put their workers in DEI roles on leave by 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday following President Donald Trump's executive order.
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Families fear for Cuban prisoners after Trump reneges on release deal
US president reinstates Cuba on terror list despite Biden deal to release prisoners jailed over demonstrations
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Trump gave Beijing a one-day break before saying he could hit China with tariffs starting in February
US President Donald Trump had threatened 60% tariffs on Chinese goods on his campaign trail.
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Trump targets DEI mandates for federal employees
President Donald Trump on Monday pledged to reverse executive orders from Joe Biden in favor of a "merit-based" society.
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Davos 2025: Trade, tariffs, AI and UN chief Guterres dominate World Economic Forum agenda
The U.N. chief ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world's thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster" that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks posed by artificial intelligence if its ascent goes ungoverned. António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, headlined a flurry of activities and talk sessions on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos. World leaders like the prime ministers of Spain and Malaysia
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Minnesota's high court will weigh intervening in a partisan struggle roiling the state Legislature
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether it should wade into a partisan power struggle that has roiled the state House for over a week, with Democratic lawmakers boycotting the state Capitol to try to prevent their Republican colleagues from exploiting their temporary one-seat majority. Although the standoff is unusual for Minnesota, lawmakers have resorted to the tactic many times elsewhere. A complex chess game has been playing out since the November election resul
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Trump targets Alaska's oil and other resources as environmentalists gear up for a fight
President Donald Trump's expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders who see new fossil fuel development as critical to Alaska's economic future and criticized by environmental groups that see the proposals as worrying in the face of a warming climate. The order, signed on Trump's first day in office Monday, is consistent with a wish list submitted by Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy shortly after
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Republicans renew efforts to limit people in US illegally from census count
Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began Monday. Trump joined in the battle immediately upon returning to office, signing an executive order on Monday that rescinded a Biden administration order and signaled the possibility of a push by his new ad
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These people are some of the violent Jan. 6 rioters Trump pardoned
After he won the presidential election, Donald Trump told Time magazine that he was still considering pardoning his supporters who were involved in the Jan.
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Trump checks off major Day 1 campaign promises — leaving some on the to-do list
President Donald Trump followed through Tuesday on several actions he pledged to take on his first day in office, but he still has some major items left on the to-do list he made for himself during the presidential campaign.
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Trump reverses Biden policies on drug pricing and Obamacare
As President Donald Trump’s health care agenda for a second term takes shape, it’s becoming clear that many Biden-era policies won’t make the cut.
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Trump pardons founder of Silk Road website
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after a high-profile prosecution that highlighted the role of the internet in illegal markets. Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media website, that he had spoken to Ulbricht's mother on his first full day in office.
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A lawsuit alleging excessive force against 2020 protesters in Oregon has been settled, ACLU says
A lawsuit alleging that law enforcement agents sent by President Donald Trump to protect a federal courthouse in 2020 used excessive force against racial justice protesters has been settled, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon said Tuesday. The settlement requires the federal government to compensate the individuals who filed the lawsuit for the injuries that federal law enforcement caused them, in exchange for the individuals’ agreement to dismiss the lawsuit, according to a news rele
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Trump announces an AI infrastructure investment of up to $500 billion involving OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank
President Donald Trump called Stargate, a new joint venture by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, "the largest AI infrastructure project in history."
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Republican senators are mostly quiet on Trump's sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 rioters
Many Republican senators say they do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people who assaulted police officers, broke into the building or committed other crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol four years ago. “We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, repeating his frequent response to questions about Trump’s promises of retribution from his first term. Thune did not
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Key career officials at Justice Department reassigned to different positions, AP sources say
The Justice Department has reassigned key senior officials across multiple divisions as part of a leadership shakeup ahead of the expected confirmation of President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, multiple people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. Among those moved to other positions inside the department is Bruce Swartz, the longtime head of the Justice Department's office of international affairs, which handles extradition matters, according to two people who spoke to
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Trump signs executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs
President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and ending "radical and wasteful" diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies.
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'I just can't agree': Trump's Jan. 6 pardons face pushback from some Republican senators
Some Republican senators pushed back against President Donald Trump’s decision to issue pardons and commute the sentences of Jan. 6 defendants.
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Trump's embrace of meme coin sours mood in crypto industry
President Donald Trump’s goodwill in the cryptocurrency industry has taken a hit after he and his wife launched meme coins — a move critics say looks like an unseemly cash grab that undermines an effort to legitimize digital assets. The industry, which felt unfairly targeted by the Biden administration and spent heavily to help Trump win, is eager for the new president’s help to make crypto a bigger part of mainstream financial systems. Trump has promised a lighter regulatory touch and picked
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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee
President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group. Trump's immigration policy changes drew the most attention at DHS, but he is also making changes at the rest of the massive agency. Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the dep
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Great-grandson of the man who established birthright citizenship slams Trump's new executive order
The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — whose landmark 1898 Supreme Court case helped establish a birthright citizenship for all children of immigrants — blasted President Donald Trump’s new executive order seeking to revoke the long-standing right.
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Democrats struggle to pick their message against Trump's shock-and-awe campaign
Democrats knew this was coming. President Donald Trump promised a shock-and-awe campaign to deliver major policy victories immediately after he took office. Much of it was outlined in the Project 2025 document that Democrats predicted he would adopt.
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Exclusive-Trump likely to axe space council after SpaceX lobbying, sources say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's new administration is likely to do away with the White House's National Space Council, a cabinet policy panel that lobbyists at Elon Musk's SpaceX have been pushing to axe, according to three people familiar with the plans. Trump's aides and SpaceX's top lobbyist Mat Dunn in recent months have told associates they see the space council as a "waste of time", according to the sources, stirring doubts about its fate and whether Vice President JD Vance
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Democratic attorneys general sue to block Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship
A coalition of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts seeking to block President Donald Trump's attempt to revoke the right to automatic birthright citizenship.
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President Trump wants to make showerheads and toilets flow greatly again, but so may utility bills
President Donald Trump once expressed concern with how low showerhead flow affected his “perfect” hair. Now back in the White House, he's again taking aim at some high-efficiency household items — and that may mean higher water and electric bills in your home. One of Trump’s several dozen first-day executive orders promises to “unleash American energy,” including a pledge to ease efficiency standards for household appliances and fixtures.
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Meta pushes back on claims that it's boosting Trump on Facebook and Instagram
Meta is countering claims that it boosted President Donald Trump and his administration on Facebook and Instagram as it came into office Monday.
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Trump administration says it is reinstating 'remain in Mexico' program
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was reinstating the "remain in Mexico" program, resuming an initiative that forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for the resolution of their U.S. cases. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it would restart the program immediately, years after it was ended by former President Joe Biden. Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency on Monday vowing to move ahead with aggressive border security measures, including t
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Trump's mass deportation plan could drain more than $20 billion a year from Social Security
President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining Social Security funding.
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DOJ can't send Congress the Trump classified documents report, judge says
A federal judge barred the Justice Department from sharing former special counsel Jack Smith's final report on the classified documents case against Donald Trump with members of Congress.
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8 things to know about Bettina Anderson, Donald Trump Jr.'s reported new girlfriend
Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson appeared to make their official debut as a couple at Donald Trump's inauguration.
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Trump invoked all corners of American history. How might he use them to build his new 'Golden Age'?
He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." At the inauguration Monday, American history in its varied stripes was firmly planted. "We will not forget our country," President Donald Trump said.
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Republicans Won't Denounce Trump's Pardons For Jan. 6 Rioters Who Beat Police Officers
A few lawmakers spoke out, but most GOP senators gave Trump a pass for pardoning violent offenders who assaulted police officers on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Auto-followed Trump on Facebook? It's probably because you previously liked the POTUS account
Some Facebook and Instagram users were surprised to find themselves automatically following the accounts of President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance this week after the president was inaugurated — but that's likely because they had previously followed official U.S. government accounts. Meta spokesman Andy Stone said in a Threads post that the official POTUS and White House accounts are managed by the White House and “change when the occupant of the White House changes.” After the new
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Photos show how the White House's decor has changed over the years
President Donald Trump redecorated the Oval Office with many of the same artifacts from his first White House term.
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Musk's straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant
Right-wing extremists are celebrating Elon Musk’s straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday, although his intention wasn't totally clear and some hate watchdogs are saying not to read too much into it. “I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” Musk said during a speech at Capital One Arena, referring to Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. “My heart goes out to you,” said Musk, after turning around to make a similar gesture facing the other way.
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Lawsuits are pouring in to try to stop Trump's executive orders
President Donald Trump's executive orders involving DOGE and birthright citizenship are among those targeted in lawsuits.
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New York governor proposes banning cellphones in schools starting next fall
Students throughout New York state might have to give up their cellphones during school hours starting next fall under a proposal announced Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The plan, which would require legislators' approval, would take effect in the next academic year and force students to disconnect from their phones and other personal devices while at school, including in class, during lunch and in hallways. Hochul, a Democrat, has for months hinted at a potential ban and said limiting access
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Trump signs the first executive orders of his new administration
Donald Trump will sign at least a dozen executive orders after he's sworn in as president Monday, looking to quickly implement his agenda.
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Trump pardons roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned and commuted the sentences of his supporters in connection with the Jan.
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