It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Dozens of people with ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol gathered outside the detention facility in Washington to celebrate Trump’s pardons of those convicted of crimes that day.
The president sought to end a program that allowed migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to fly into the United States and remain in the country for up to two years.
The order “risks abandoning thousands of Afghan wartime allies” who worked with Americans before the Taliban takeover, the head of a resettlement group said.
Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.
The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
The administration will take steps to roll back federal support for racial equity and protections for transgender people.
He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.
President Trump, who has criticized refugee resettlement, moved on his first day in office to suspend the decades-old program to admit persecuted people to the United States.
Tech billionaires, foreign leaders, ex-presidents and political nemeses. How did everyone behave?
Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.