January 22, 2025

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On his third day in office, Donald Trump ...

• Canceled flights for refugees already approved to travel to the U.S. Read more ›

• Said U.S. would send 1,500 troops to southern border Read more ›

• Threatened to prosecute local officials who obstruct immigration enforcement Read more

• Threatened workers who fail to report on colleagues defying diversity orders. Read more ›

• Halted civil rights work. The Justice Department ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or violence, according to two internal memos. Read more ›

• Hired chemical industry officials to oversee chemical safety rules. Read more ›

• Redesignated Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a “foreign terrorist organization”. Read more ›

• Granted clemency to Officer Terence Sutton.
  Mr. Sutton is one of two Washington, D.C., police officers convicted after a chase that killed a young Black man in 2020. Read more ›

• Granted clemency to Lt. Andrew Zabavsky.
  Lieutenant Zabavsky is one of two Washington, D.C., police officers convicted after a chase that killed a young Black man in 2020. Read more ›

• Threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia.
  On his social media platform, Trump threatened “high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions” on Russian goods if Vladimir V. Putin of Russia didn’t make a deal to “STOP this ridiculous War” in Ukraine. Read more ›​