BALTIMORE — Dr. Anthony Fauci. Retired Gen. Mark Milley. Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney.

These public figures, along with several of his relatives, were among those former President Joe Biden pardoned in the final hours before the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Absent from that list was former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, streamline permitting for oil and gas drilling and revoke electric vehicle rules.

The claims, which came in his inaugural address and in statements from the White House, are a replay of actions Trump took to roll back environmental ...Read more

President Donald Trump quickly flexed the sweeping powers of the presidency during his second inauguration at the Capitol on Monday, signaling a slate of executive orders that would radically alter U.S. policy if allowed to stand.

He also suggested he would pardon some or all of his loyalists who attacked the same Capitol building in a failed ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker delivered their opening salvos Monday against Republican President Donald Trump and his second term in the White House, setting a defiant tone in their defense of immigrant rights and other liberal causes over the next four years.

Pritzker and Johnson did not address Trump by name Monday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used his second inaugural address to repeat criticisms of Panama and its operation of the Panama Canal and to threaten to take back control of the waterway through which much U.S. trade passes.

“We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made and Panama’s promise ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday resoundingly confirmed colleague Sen. Marco Rubio to be President Donald Trump’s secretary of State, making him the first member of the 47th president’s cabinet to win the chamber’s backing.

The swift Senate vote, 99-0, for Rubio followed shortly after the senior senator from Florida received unanimous ...Read more

Shortly after taking the oath of office in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, President Donald Trump delivered a speech laying out his vision for what he called “the golden age of America.”

Lasting just over 30 minutes, the address was filled with a wide range of promises he intends to fulfill during his second term.

Among them were curbing illegal...Read more

Donald Trump has rescinded one of his predecessor’s final foreign policy actions in office within hours of assuming the presidency, revoking former President Joe Biden’s delisting of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The move was part of a sweeping executive order signed by Trump on Monday night that rescinds 78 executive actions taken ...Read more

An armed gang opened fire on an armored U.S. Embassy van in Port-au-Prince on Monday, wounding an employee, sources confirmed to the Miami Herald.

The employee, who works as a gardener in the embassy’s housing complex, was reportedly on his way to work with other employees. He was immediately transported to a medical facility where he was in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” came under legal attack within minutes of its official creation Monday, as various public interest groups filed multiple lawsuits accusing the advisory panel of violating federal rules on transparency and other practices.

Suits filed by groups such as the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hundreds of people braved single-digit temperatures to gather in downtown Chicago in opposition to President Donald Trump and his agenda as the 47th president was sworn into office Monday.

Championing a variety of causes including immigrant rights, support for Palestinians and protections for women’s reproductive and LGBTQIA ...Read more

During his inaugural address on Monday, President Donald Trump blasted what he called a government unable to protect its own citizens in times of crisis — including the people of Southern California affected by the still-burning Palisades and Eaton fires, which have destroyed thousands of structures and killed at least 27 people.

Trump used ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump took the oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States on Monday, capping a remarkable political comeback that he said would enable him “to make America greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before.”

The man who served as the 45th president painted a dark portrait of the ...Read more

Elon Musk’s salute at a Monday inauguration party for President Donald Trump was interpreted by many observers online as a “Heil Hitler” gesture.

Musk, 53, spoke to a crowd of Trump supporters at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., after Trump was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol. While thanking the supporters, Musk put his right hand over...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Among the first on-the-ground effects of President Trump's sweeping immigration revisions was visible Monday on the Mexican side of U.S. ports of entry, where hundreds of disconsolate asylum applicants were stunned to learn of the cancellation of a program aimed at easing the process of applying for asylum.

Many lined up early ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States would reassert control over the Panama Canal, the strategic, U.S.-built waterway that Washington handed over to the Panamanian government more than a quarter-century ago.

“We gave it to Panama and we’re taking it back,” Trump declared in his inaugural address.

The...Read more

President Trump's inauguration on Monday in the U.S. Capitol rotunda at times seemed surreal.

Hundreds of the world's most powerful people — among them every living president as well as billionaire tech executives — crammed cheek-by-jowl in the 7,200-square-foot space after the ceremony was moved indoors because of a bitter cold snap, one ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California is heading into a day of its most extreme fire weather with bone-dry vegetation and strong Santa Ana winds that officials warn could turn a small blaze into a massive inferno.

A “particularly dangerous situation” warning is set to go into effect Monday at noon and last through Tuesday at 10 a.m. for ...Read more