President Trump signed an order late Thursday creating a cryptocurrency strategic reserve using bitcoin seized through court proceedings, directing officials to find "budget-neutral" ways to grow it.

It was a week that saw not only more twists in the tariffs saga but also Trump's big Hill address, the suspension of aid to Ukraine, more firings at agencies, and more. NPR keeps track, day by day.

Trump put 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday. Markets tanked. And by Thursday, he had decided to broadly lift them.

The nation's top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work. Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices last month.

Read President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress delivered on March 4.

Partisan divisions were on display as Republican lawmakers gave Trump frequent standing ovations, while Democrats sat stone faced, held signs and walked out of the chamber in protest.

With his address clocking in at more than 90 minutes, President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress is the longest speech of its kind in at least sixty years.

The Texas Democrat stood, shouting, as the president addressed a joint session of Congress. After refusing to retake his seat, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered Rep. Green removed from the chamber.

President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight. NPR's live special coverage — which includes the Democratic response to Trump's speech — starts at 9 p.m. EST.

Canada and China hit back swiftly after Trump's sweeping tariffs took effect Tuesday, raising fears of a global trade war. International markets, meanwhile, continued to slide.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed an $840 billion plan to build up the bloc's defense, as President Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine.

The White House describes the tariffs as a response to inadequate border and drug enforcement. They are forecast to add thousands of dollars to the price of vehicles.

Michigan's first-term senator, Slotkin — a centrist with deep national security credentials — will deliver the Democrats' rebuttal to President Trump's first speech to a joint session of Congress.

Delivered the day before he was acquitted in his first impeachment case, and as COVID began to spread, President Trump's 2020 address was part reality TV, part gameshow and part WWE smackdown.

In the nearly 250-year history of the United States, English had never been designated as the nation's official language.