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Everything Trump did in the first executive orders and actions of his presidency

Jan. 22, 2025 20:28 PM EST

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government. His executive orders cover issues that range from trade, immigration and U.S. foreign aid to demographic diversity, civil rights and the hiring of federal workers....

Trump moves to revoke clearances of ex-intel officials who signed letter on Hunter Biden laptop

Jan. 21, 2025 18:24 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his administration will move to revoke the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.” ...

Trump signed slew of executive orders on Day 1. What are his priorities?

Jan. 20, 2025 22:05 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has begun his promised flurry of executive action on Day 1. With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden's actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the...

Today in History: January 24, gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California

Jan. 13, 2025 00:08 AM EST

Today is Friday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2025. There are 341 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that sparked the California gold rush. ...