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Several states sue to block Trump executive order on birthright citizenship
California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco sued the federal government Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship via executive order — calling it an unconstitutional directive that flies in the face of long-standing legal precedent.
“I have one message for President Trump: I’...Read more
Trump poised to enact hefty tariffs as second term blitz continues
President Donald Trump was poised to enact hefty tariffs against Mexico and Canada as early as the end of next week as he continued a blitz of right-wing policy priorities on Day Two of his historic second term.
After signing a first day blizzard of executive orders cracking down on immigration and transgender rights and granting pardons to ...Read more
'DOGE' formally established under White House
WASHINGTON — It’s official: There’s now a Department of Government Efficiency and it reports directly up to Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.
Trump late Monday issued an executive order — one of many Day 1 executive actions — formally establishing DOGE as an agency housed within the Executive Office of the ...Read more
Judge Aileen Cannon blocks release of special counsel Jack Smith report on Trump classified documents case
Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report into President Donald Trump’s now-defunct classified documents case, raising the odds it will ever see the light of day.
The Florida federal judge, who has delivered a string of Trump-friendly rulings in the case, ordered the Department of ...Read more
Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell looking to boost budget to battle Trump
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said she plans to ask the state Legislature for additional funding this budget season in anticipation of legal battles with President Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
The funds would be used to beef up staffing, Campbell, a Democrat, told the Herald Monday at an unrelated event held around...Read more
Editorial: Trump inauguration an eventful day in US history
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
Here's what President Donald Trump did on his first day in office
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
Trump fires former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms from White House post
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
Migrants waiting in Tijuana feel immediate sting of Trump's border crackdown
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
Trump movement is divided over H-1B visas. Do they hurt workers?
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
Learning your political opponents don’t actually hate you can reduce toxic polarization and antidemocratic attitudes
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
Lessons from ‘stop and frisk’ can help Philly police use drones to improve safety without compromising civil liberties
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
7 key focal points of Trump's first-day executive orders
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
Trump orders federal agencies to recognize only 2 sexes that are 'not changeable'
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
Editorial: Trump is still Trump: His second speech of the day showed the true man
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
Editorial: The Constitution outranks all: Trump's executive order revoking birthright citizenship is meaningless
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
Iran needs to strike nuclear understanding with Trump, IAEA says
Iran needs to reach an understanding over its atomic activity with the administration of Donald Trump in order to avoid being dragged into another military conflict in the Middle East, according to the world’s top nuclear regulator.
Six-and-a-half years after Trump abrogated an agreement that gave the Islamic Republic sanctions relief in ...Read more
Trump promises to end birthright citizenship and shut down the border – a legal scholar explains the challenges these actions could face
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
Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency ‘flies in the face of the facts’ of violent insurrection, retired federal judge explains
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
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and state leaders reflect on MLK, Trump's 'troubling' speech
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
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