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After talking tough during campaign, Trump appears to ease up on China at start of presidency

Jan. 29, 2025 00:16 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term. But now that he's back in the White House, Trump...

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims Trump made at inaugural events

Jan. 21, 2025 15:17 PM EST

In his first address after being sworn in on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading statements that he made during his campaign. They included claims about immigration, the economy, electric vehicles and the Panama Canal. In remarks later at the Capitol's Emancipation...

Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police

Jan. 21, 2025 06:12 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including people convicted of assaulting police officers, using his clemency powers on his...

Inauguration Day Latest: Trump issues pardons for Jan. 6 rioters and signs more executive actions

Jan. 20, 2025 23:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, was sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the...

Inside the intimate inauguration: Close-up encounters between political rivals, some awkward

Jan. 20, 2025 19:15 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A president’s inaugural address is typically a choreographed spectacle. A makeshift grandstand is erected next to the Capitol, hundreds of thousands of people line the National Mall and the images and words of the day endure for generations. This time was...

Former Planned Parenthood president, women's rights activist Cecile Richards has died at 67

Jan. 20, 2025 16:52 PM EST

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67. Richards died Monday at home in New York “surrounded by family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” her family...

Inauguration Day Latest: Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States

Jan. 20, 2025 12:14 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, will be sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape...

Faiz Shakir, Bernie Sanders' former campaign chief, enters DNC race

Jan. 15, 2025 14:27 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Faiz Shakir, a progressive strategist who led Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' last presidential campaign, launched an eleventh-hour bid for Democratic National Committee chair on Wednesday, warning that his party is ignoring the painful lessons of Donald Trump’s political success...

Congress certifies Trump's 2024 win, without the Jan. 6 mob violence of four years ago

Jan. 06, 2025 16:10 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings Monday that unfolded without challenge, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021, violence as his mob of supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Lawmakers convened under...

The Latest: Harris certifies Trump’s electoral victory

Jan. 06, 2025 14:25 PM EST

Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s election under the tightest national security level possible. Layers of tall black fencing flank the U.S. Capitol complex in a stark reminder of what happened on January 6 four years ago. Here's the latest: Trump...