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President Donald Trump walks as he returns from Florida to the White House, in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 27, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration has temporarily paused grant, loan and other financial assistance programs at the Office of Management and Budget, according to a memo se…

Migrants board a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft for a removal flight, Fort Bliss, Texas, January 23, 2025. WASHINGTON/BOGOTA (Reuters) — The U.S. and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircra…

Kristi Noem WASHINGTON (Reuters) —  Kristi Noem was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security secretary on Saturday, putting into position a key member of the Republican’s Cabinet as he launches a wide-ranging immigration crackdown. Noem, who was governo…

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2024. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Pete Hegseth narrowly secured enough votes on Friday to become the next U.S. defense secretary, a major victory for President Donald Trump a…

President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2025. SEATTLE (Reuters) — A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday from implementing the Republican president’s executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthr…

Asylum seekers arrive at the B and M Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge, to attend their appointment with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on the day of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, in Matamoros, Mexico, Jan. 20, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trum…

Gladys Vega, president and CEO of La Colaborativa, Brazilian Worker Center and Lawyers for Civil Rights, speaks at a press conference about their lawsuit filed against the Trump administration executive order that would strip birthright U.S. citizenship from the children of immigrant parents, in Ch…

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th U.S. president in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2025. President Donald Trump shows a signed executive order as Vice President J.D. Vance looks on during a rally on the inauguration day of his second presidential term, inside Capital One, in…

A woman poses with her smartphone displaying the @realdonaldtrump TikTok page, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — TikTok began restoring its services on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app’s access in the U.S. when he returns to power…

TikToker and “newsfluencer” Joe Andaloro, who goes by the TikTok handle @joy.of.everything, films a TikTok video outside the U.S. headquarters of the social media company TikTok in Culver City, California, Jan. 18, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — TikTok stopped working in the United States…