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News Articles: President Trump

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

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  • Politics

Trump uses mass firing to remove inspectors general at a series of agencies

The dismissals began Friday night, according to two people cited by The Associated Press. An email sent by one of the fired inspectors general said "roughly 17" inspectors general had been removed.

January 25, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President Trump signs executive actions  at the White House after his inauguration Monday. Among those orders is one labeling Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations.

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  • National Security

Trump wants to label drug cartels terrorist organizations. Here's what that means in practice

The full implications of designating the cartels as terrorist organizations will depend, in large part, to how the administration follows through.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara speaks at a press conference on June 16, 2023 at the U.S. District Court building in Minneapolis.

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  • National

Local governments across U.S. signal they won't aid Trump migrant crackdown

Local government officials around the U.S. signal they won't assist — and in some cases they'll actively oppose — the Trump administration's efforts to conduct a massive deportation of migrants.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
President Trump gets a briefing from officials in North Carolina about the recovery from Hurricane Helene in a hangar in Asheville, N.C. on Jan. 24, 2025.

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  • Politics

Trump says he wants to overhaul FEMA as he travels to North Carolina and California

President Trump is taking the first trip of his term on Friday to North Carolina and California, visiting communities grappling with recovery from natural disasters.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Asma Khalid and
  • Deepa Shivaram
Pam Hemphill turned down a pardon for her role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

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  • Politics

One of the Jan. 6 defendants has turned down Trump's pardon

Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.

January 23, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
President Trump signs executive actions and orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, hours after taking office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States.

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  • National

U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order

The ruling bars U.S. agencies from implementing the order to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status while the case is under review.

January 23, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Emil Bove, now the acting deputy attorney general, at a sentencing hearing for President Trump in New York state court earlier this month.

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  • National

DOJ threatens to prosecute local officials for resisting immigration enforcement

In a new memo, a Justice Department official seeks to realign the department's positions on immigration with President Trump's executive actions — and threatens local officials who don't cooperate.

January 23, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
From left, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., talk to reporters about the Laken Riley Act, a bill to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 9.

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  • Politics

Congress clears GOP-led immigration enforcement bill, with Democrats on board

The Laken Riley Act would make it easier for federal immigration officials to detain and deport those without legal status who are charged with specific crimes.

January 23, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Deirdre Walsh
A supporter of President Trump's waves a flag Tuesday outside a Washington, D.C., jail where some defendants from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were being held. On Monday, Trump signed pardons for more than 1,500 people charged in the riot.

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  • Politics

Some Trump voters express reservations with his sweeping Jan. 6 pardons

One Trump voter told NPR he supported pardons related to the Capitol attack, but has a tougher time reconciling pardons for rioters who were violent with police.

January 22, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez and
  • Elena Moore
President Trump speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Trump threatens Russia with tariffs and sanctions if it does not agree to end war

It is unclear how much impact economic penalties would have on the Russian government, since they already face various sanctions imposed by the previous administration.

January 22, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
A Customs and Border Protection officer guards the middle of the Paso Del Norte bridge in El Paso, Texas, on Nov. 4, 2018.

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  • National

Democratic attorneys general sue over Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

A group of 18 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to block the administration's move, describing it as unconstitutional.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump dance at the Liberty Ball, part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington.

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  • Politics

PHOTOS: President Trump attends several balls to close out Inauguration Day

Trump closed out his appearances at both balls with his signature dance to the Village People's "YMCA," who performed the song live at the Liberty Ball.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
An aerial view of oil storage containers near the Chevron Pasadena Refinery in June 2024 in Pasadena, Texas.  The U.S. is now the world's largest oil producer. President Trump says he is declaring a 'national energy emergency' as one of his first acts in office.

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  • Politics

Trump plans to declare a 'national energy emergency.' What does that mean?

President Trump is making energy a top priority on his first day in office, pledging to declare a national emergency – which no president has ever done before. The implications aren't clear.

January 20, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
President Biden greets Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as he arrives to the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol for his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024.

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  • Law

Biden made diversifying the federal bench a top priority. Here's a look at his legacy

President Biden's judicial picks have included the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, women of color to federal appeals courts and openly LGBTQ judges to serve on the federal bench.

January 05, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
From an aerial view the Mexican and American flags fly over the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.

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  • National

Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

Texas builders warn mass deportations of undocumented migrants could devastate the construction industry, threatening housing and infrastructure work in one of the nation's fastest-growing states.

November 23, 2024
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By:
  • Julian Aguilar
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