The day-one executive order fulfills a campaign promise. Health experts worry it puts US health at risk.
Day: January 20, 2025
President Donald Trump ordered a broad assault on US offshore wind development Monday, including a freeze in permitting the massive renewable power projects despite warnings from developers it imperiled jobs from coast to coast.

President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 defendants charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack on Monday.
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including people convicted of seditious conspiracy and assaulting police officers, using his clemency powers on his first day in office to undo the massive prosecution of the unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. Among those set to be released from prison are defendants captured on camera committing violent attacks on law enforcement as lawmakers met to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the planet and our ability to adapt.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
In a flurry of first-day-in-office activity, Donald Trump has signed an order to rename the 617,800 sq mile Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s 20,000ft mountain Denali. The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest peak in North America, will revert to Mount McKinley – the name it was called before Barack Obama changed it in 2015. The renaming of the two natural features is to honor “American greatness”, according to a…

Trump issued a pardon on Monday evening at the White House for more than 1,000 Jan. 6 ‘hostages.’
The firings suggest President Donald Trump and his allies are seeking change in how asylum claims are processed and will remove those they see as obstacles.
Multiple officials in the DOJ office that oversees immigration courts have been removed from their positions as part of the Trump administration’s overhaul, sources say.