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Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship — The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement. — The U.S. government will no longer recognize …
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President Trump's America First Priorities — MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN — President Trump will take bold action to secure our border and protect American communities. — This includes ending Biden's catch-and-release policies, reinstating Remain in Mexico, building the wall …


All of the Day 1 executive actions Trump has announced so far — For updates, context and analysis of Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration, check out NPR's live blog throughout the day Monday. — President Trump is expected to sign a flurry of executive orders, memorandums and proclamations …
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Here Are Trump's Expected Executive Orders
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Trump taps longtime immigration official as acting attorney general
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‘Disgrace’: Pope Francis revives feud with Trump just before inauguration
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Trump preparing sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 defendants, with commutations for violent offenders: Sources — President Donald Trump is preparing to issue a sweeping series of pardons for defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including commuting the prison sentences …
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Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 panel. It's a guard against potential ‘revenge’ by Trump — Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president, pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol …
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Portrait of General Milley Is Removed From Pentagon — The decision was an early salvo by the new administration against a military that President Trump has assailed for a variety of perceived offenses. — The Pentagon on Monday removed a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley …


Pentagon removes new portrait of Mark Milley — The portrait of Gen. Mark Milley, the former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, disappeared Monday from the Pentagon — less than three hours after President Donald Trump took office. Incoming Defense Department officials did not explain …
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Biden in Final Hours Pardons Relatives and Others to Thwart Trump Reprisals
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Gen. Mark Milley ‘deeply grateful’ for Biden pardon on morning of Trump's inauguration
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Milley portrait taken down from Pentagon
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Elon Musk's DOGE to be sued within minutes of Trump inauguration — The legal status of Musk's government waste panel will be challenged in federal court almost as soon as the president-elect is sworn in.
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Get out of DOGE: How Musk helped eject Ramaswamy — Ramaswamy is leaving the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and plans to run for Ohio governor. — Elon Musk has already achieved his first cut at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency: his co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Musk Is Likely to Get a West Wing Office for His Cost-Cutting Project — The world's richest man had been expected to be situated in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, but a West Wing office would give him closer access to President Trump. — Elon Musk, the world's richest man …
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Ramaswamy won't serve on Trump's government efficiency commission as he mulls run for Ohio governor
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Statement from President Joe Biden — I am issuing pardons to Gerald G. Lundergan and Ernest William Cromartie. I am also commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. — My family has been subjected …
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Biden pardons his family in final minutes in office
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Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute — “Incredible things are happening already lmao,” wrote Gab founder and Hitlerbot innovator Andrew Torba — Right-wing extremists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis are celebrating an alarming gesture made by the world's richest man.
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Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate — Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled …


Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died — Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67. — Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood and feminist activist, died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer, her family confirmed in a statement.
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Trump to withdraw from Paris climate agreement — The decision delivers a blow to the effort to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels. — President Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement for the second time, delivering a blow …
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Inauguration Live Updates: Trump to Take Oath as 47th President
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Joe Biden Grants Clemency To Leonard Peltier — The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there. — LOADING — WASHINGTON ― With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency …
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Trump to rename Gulf of Mexico, Denali — Donald Trump will rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali as part of his Day One actions, incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on X on Monday morning. Trump will rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” …
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Trump doesn't place hand on Bible during swearing-in — Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office. — Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration …
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Senate confirms Marco Rubio to lead Trump's State Department … - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously earlier Monday to recommend Rubio's confirmation, and Democrats cleared the way for an expedited process. — It's a resounding show of Senate bipartisanship for one of their own.
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No, Trump didn't make $50 billion from his memecoin — Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. — When Donald Trump launched a memecoin days before his inauguration, newspapers were quick to try to grab headlines with huge numbers.
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Norway cool on Trump's demand for a massive defense spending increase — OSLO — Norway is one of the world's richest countries, but isn't signing up for U.S. President Donald Trump's demand that NATO members increase their defense budgets to 5 percent of GDP. — “'I'm prepared for new discussions about targets.
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As Trump arrives, Macron hints NATO spending target is too low
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