Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump

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14223   Addressing the Threat to National Security from Imports of Timber, Lumber

14224   Designating English as the Official Language of The United States

14225   Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production

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Additional News​​​

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• FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were ‘inside job’. Read More

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World News​

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• Zelensky wants US to 'stand more firmly' on Ukraine's side. Read More

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• Zelenskyy embraced by British prime minister a day after White House blowout. Read More BBC

• Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky meets with UK prime minister Keir Starmer in London, where they sign off on a British loan of GB£2.26 billion to buy military supplies for Ukraine. (BBC)

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• Israel supports a US proposal to extend Gaza ceasefire’s first phase. But Hamas wants Phase 2. Read More BBC

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• Israel’s military is told to prepare to defend a Druze community outside Syria’s capital. Read More

• United States Central Command says that it has carried out a precision airstrike in Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a senior military leader in Hurras al-Din. (Al Arabiya)

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• Loss, worry, relief and prayers for better days as Ramadan begins in Gaza amid a fragile ceasefire. Read More

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• A child dies of Ebola in Uganda, raising concern over disease surveillance in outbreak. Read More

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• Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a ceasefire with Turkey after forty years of conflict. (Al Jazeera) Read More

• Turkey’s Kurds wary of path to peace after PKK declares ceasefire. Read More

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• WHO says water contamination is suspected in one of the Congo villages struck by illness. Read More

• Civil society groups in the Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, report that 23 people were killed and another 20 were taken hostage in raids by an Islamic State-affiliated faction of the Allied Democratic Forces militia over the past week. (Arab News)

• Guyana’s president denounces Venezuelan incursion in offshore oil field operated by ExxonMobil. Read More

• Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse are inaugurated as the 43rd president and 19th vice president of Uruguay in Montevideo. (Reuters) Read More

• First British tourists allowed back into North Korea tell BBC what they saw. Read More

• Deal to buy Prince Andrew's business unravels. Read More

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• Ukrainians face new reality after Trump-Zelenskiy clash. Read More

Added 3/6/25

• 'Unpleasant to see' - Ukrainians react to Trump and Zelensky's spat. Video

• US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say. Read More

• Sharing France’s nuclear umbrella? No way, says Le Pen. Read More

• Yamandú Orsi takes office as Uruguay’s new left-wing President. MercoPress

• Ramadan in Gaza: Ruins and unshakable faith. AlJazeera

• US and Taiwan Medical Teams Providing Free Healthcare to Saint Lucians. StLuciaTimes