President Trump released a flurry of immigration actions this week, signing a series of orders targeting the border and ramping up enforcement.
While Trump has long pledged to address illegal immigration, many of his actions targeted longstanding legal pathways.
"As commander in chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do," he said in his inaugural address. |
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President Trump has sparked fresh controversy in his first week back in office with his decision to remove security details from several prominent people with whom he has fallen out.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook all had their government-provided security teams taken away this week. |
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams's (D) relationship with President Trump is alarming Democrats, who question the embattled mayor's motives amid his ongoing legal challenges.
Adams sat down with Trump for a meeting days before the president was sworn in and caught attention for a last-minute cancellation of his schedule to attend Trump's inauguration on Monday. Adams has argued the importance of having a relationship with Trump as mayor of the country's largest city for the benefit of his constituents. |
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Vice President Vance on Friday broke a Senate tie to confirm Pete Hegseth as President Trump's secretary of Defense, capping a bruising two-month fight over the nominee, who faced a litany of allegations that included sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement and excessive drinking. GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.) voted "no," forcing Vance to step in and break the 50-50 tie. Murkowski and Collins had telegraphed their votes, but McConnell's emerged as a surprise. |
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Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who stepped down from the leadership at the end of last year, cast a surprise vote Friday night against Pete Hegseth, President Trump's controversial nominee to head the Department of Defense. His vote came as a surprise after he voted Thursday night to advance Hegseth's nomination to a final vote. |
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President Trump's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is ordering every head of departments and agencies to terminate all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and workers within 60 days. The OPM, in a new Friday memo, has directed each leader of every agency, department or commission to "terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and 'environmental justice' offices and positions within sixty days." |
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BY AL WEAVER AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) moved a step closer to leading the Department of Homeland Security as the Senate voted on Friday to advance her to a final confirmation vote. Senators voted 61-39 to break a filibuster on Noem's nomination on Friday evening. |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS AND ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL DOMENECH |
President Trump on Friday took a pair of actions to limit U.S. government funding for abortions, reversing some of the Biden administration's efforts to increase access to the procedure. Trump issued an executive order reinstating the Mexico City Policy that requires foreign nongovernmental organizations to certify that they do not use any funding sources to help them pay to perform, counsel or provide information on abortions abroad as a stipulation for receiving U.S. funding. |
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President Trump greeted California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) with a very friendly exchange when he landed in the Los Angeles area to survey wildfire damage, after the two have sparred over relief efforts in recent weeks. Trump walked off Air Force One and when Newsom met him on the tarmac, the two political rivals shook hands. They walked over to the press and the president said he appreciated that Newsom greeted him in his state. |
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OPINION | Richmond, Va., loses water. Jackson, Miss., loses water service. Water in Flint, Mich., is contaminated with lead. These water infrastructure failures have made national headlines in recent years, but this is far from the full story. There is a water main break occurring every two minutes somewhere in the U.S. |
OPINION | When former President Joe Biden assumed office in 2021, he did so under the promise that he would "restore the soul of America." The phrase comes from historian Jon Meacham and is adapted from his book, "The Soul of America." Biden glommed onto the tagline, although his tenure leads one to wonder whether he ever read the book. History will not remember Biden for infrastructure or economic policy — and certainly not for a restoration of America's nebulous "soul." Instead, he will be remembered for providing aid and cover for the leveling of Gaza, watching the right to abortion collapse without a serious response prepared, and doddering around the world stage while insisting he was the best person to lead America for another four years, despite an approval rating somewhere in the Mariana Trench. Promising Americans struggling to pay for groceries that the economy is fine is not a political strategy. |
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BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY AND ERIC LIPTON |
Dressed in ball gowns, tuxedos and "Make Bitcoin Great Again" baseball caps, a crowd of some of the country's most powerful cryptocurrency executives gathered a few blocks from the White House for a lavish party three days before President Trump's inauguration, toasting an incoming administration that had vowed to promote the industry's interests. Even Snoop Dogg joined the festivities, offering a rendition of "Don't Stop Believin.'" But the crypto millionaires and billionaires were caught off guard by what happened next. |
Bill Gates believes he would be diagnosed on the autism spectrum if he were a child today. The billionaire details this realization in his coming book, "Source Code," which covers his childhood through the beginning of Microsoft. Ahead of the book's release, Gates spoke with Emma Tucker, The Wall Street Journal's editor in chief, about his early years and on the issues of the day, as the Trump administration takes power with tech leaders lining up to support him. In a wide-ranging conversation, Gates talked about his recent three-hour dinner with President Trump, discussed Elon Musk's influence in politics and responded to previous Journal reporting about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. |
BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND ISABEL DEBRE |
The corpses keep coming every day, sometimes dozens at a time, brought to morgues in the Gaza Strip after being pried from under 15 months of rubble and pulled from battle zones long too dangerous for search-and-rescue teams to reach. These bodies, dug up as a ceasefire took hold this week, are Gaza's "missing," the uncounted dead haunting families scattered by the war. For the Gaza Health Ministry, they were reduced to a bullet-point caveat beneath every daily death toll: "A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, and cannot be accessed." On Sunday, as a deal between Israel and Hamas paused the deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, families across the enclave scrambled to reunite with their loved ones — the living, the dead and the missing. |
BY GERRY SHIH, MIRIAM BERGER AND HAZEM BALOUSHA |
After the ceasefire in Gaza came into effect this week, a modicum of normalcy returned to life inside the devastated enclave. So did Hamas. For the first time in a year, the militant group's armed wing openly paraded through the streets and held public funerals for slain fighters. On war-battered streets crowded with mule carts and displaced civilians returning to what remained of their homes, Hamas-affiliated police officers in blue uniforms barked orders and directed traffic. On social media, Hamas accounts that had gone dark reactivated overnight. One account touted photos of a militant commander whom Israel claimed to have killed walking around in public, seemingly unscathed. |
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