Month: January 2025

Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning “federal censorship” of online speech. Some fear it will make social media more toxic.

President Donald J. Trump began taking decisive steps to implement his agenda hours after being sworn in. In the day since he’s once again become President, Trump has signed more than 200 executive actions aimed at delivering on campaign promises such as lower energy prices, mass deportations and an end to birthright citizenship. There’s been a deluge of actions, orders and pronouncements during the President’s first day. From tariffs to immigration to the January 6th pardons – we breakdown everything down. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.orgEmail us at considerthis@npr.org

Trump’s controversial decrees related to immigration, gender identity and the federal workforce could touch the lives of many students and families.

Trump said his pardons and commutations for Jan. 6 defendants were justified, and argued that people who commit violent crime in other cities don’t get charged.

ICE raids expected on sanctuary cities after Trump’s inauguration largely failed, but executive orders on border security set the stage for further immigration actions.

“The fact that I have to do this, to try to afford my family some degree of protection, is outrageous,” Fanone said. “But we are in an age of government lawlessness.”