Before his inauguration, Donald Trump promised to issue a total of 100 or so executive orders once he regained the presidency. These orders are expected to reset government policy on everything from immigration enforcement to diversity initiatives to environmental regulation. They also aim to undo much of Joe Biden’s presidential legacy....Read more

CHICAGO — Forty years ago today, temperatures in Chicago dipped to an all-time low of minus 27 degrees. The cold stretched to D.C., where it forced Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration ceremony indoors.

As a blast of Arctic air hits most of the country, Donald Trump is being sworn in as president inside the Capitol on Monday because of...Read more

WASHINGTON — Inside the Capitol Rotunda, where space was tight and seats were limited, the billionaire chief executives of Meta, X and Amazon sat amid members of the current and former first families and in front of the people President-elect Trump has chosen to serve on his Cabinet.

The up-close seats for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 6, 2021, Harry Dunn was a rifle-wielding U.S. Capitol Police officer grappling with supporters of President Donald Trump who had stormed the Capitol in a failed effort to block Congress from finalizing the 2020 presidential electoral vote. Six months later, Dunn wiped away tears as he described the searing memories before...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump took the oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States on Monday, capping an extraordinary political comeback and promising to “make America greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before.”

Trump became only the second person in the nation’s history to regain the White House ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump was sworn in for a second time as president Monday, completing an extraordinary political comeback and becoming the second chief executive to occupy the White House in non-consecutive terms.

On a frigid day, the 78-year-old Republican, the oldest to be sworn in, took the oath of office—surrounded by leaders of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is poised to throw TikTok a lifeline, promising to extend the deadline on a sell-or-be-banned law that temporarily shut down the popular social media app over the weekend.

Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he would sign an executive order to “extend the period of time ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kelly Mann stood outside Capital One Arena early Monday, squinting at the winter sun, leaning against a wagon of red MAGA hats and gaudy gold chains with the visage of Donald Trump, the soon-to-be-inaugurated president.

It was 23 degrees and sunny in the nation’s capital. That was an improvement, Mann said, from Sunday, when ...Read more

SEATTLE — It's been five years since the country's first COVID-19 outbreak was recorded in Washington state.

Health officials announced the first documented case in the U.S. in Snohomish County on Jan. 21, 2020.

By March 2020, the virus had spread throughout the U.S., with 4,896 cases in Washington. This led to Gov. Jay Inslee using ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump was sworn in for a second time as president Monday, completing an extraordinary political comeback and becoming the second chief executive to occupy the White House in non-consecutive terms.

“The golden age of America begins right now,” he said during his inaugural address.

On a frigid day, the 78-year-old ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s ready for talks with the U.S. on the war in Ukraine as he offered congratulations to incoming President Donald Trump on his inauguration.

“We congratulate the U.S. president-elect on taking office,” Putin said Monday at a televised meeting of his security council ahead of the inauguration in ...Read more

ATLANTA — More than half of Georgia voters believe the state should drop the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump.

That’s according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey of 1,000 registered voters conducted by the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs Survey Research Center....Read more

BALTIMORE — A renewed push to end automatically charging minors as adults for certain crimes in Maryland has reinvigorated a longstanding debate on the practice.

On one side are advocates for criminal justice reform, like the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, who say charging youths as adults is a bad practice that increases criminal ...Read more

MIAMI -- He is the top diplomat for South America’s only Dutch-speaking country, and in his previous role as assistant secretary general of the hemisphere’s leading regional organization he made more visits to Haiti than any of his Caribbean counterparts.

Now Albert Ramdin, who left the Organization of American States after two terms as ...Read more

Mayor Adams will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday after getting a last-minute invite that led him to cancel appearances at multiple Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in New York.

Adams — whose simpatico relationship with Trump has prompted speculation he’s looking for legal help with his federal corruption case �...Read more