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US President Donald Trump gives his inaugural speech on Jan. 20
Trump vows to leave Paris climate agreement
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has once again vowed to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, the world's most important effort to tackle rising temperatures.The first Trump administration made a similar move in 2017, but that step was promptly reversed on President Joe Biden's first day in office in 2021.The US will now have to wait a year before it will be officially out of the pact. The White House announced a "national energy emergency", outlining a raft of changes that will reverse US climate regulations and boost oil and gas production.It comes after global temperatures in 2024 rose more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in a calendar year.While the Paris agreement is not a legally binding treaty, it is the document that...
January 21, 2025

Trump vows to leave Paris climate agreement

Migrants are processed by Border Patrol San Diego sector agents as seen from Tijuana, Mexico, on January 20, 2025
Mexican border town declares state of emergency as Trump pledges mass deportations
SAN DIEGO — Migrant shelters in Tijuana, located across the border from San Diego, California, are bracing for a possible surge in the influx of migrants should US President Donald Trump carry out his mass deportation plan.More than 30 shelters operate in the Mexican border city located in the northwestern state of Baja California, according to local authorities. Humanitarian workers CNN spoke to said a lack of space, resources, and overall uncertainty are among the issues facing the shelters.The director of Jardin de las Mariposas shelter, C Jamie Marín, told CNN there is concern that Trump’s potential mass deportations could trigger a humanitarian crisis related to services for both migrants going to the United States and those who have been deported. “There is collective...
January 21, 2025

Mexican border town declares state of emergency as Trump pledges mass deportations

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Washington DC ahead of his inauguration, 19 January, 2025
Trump promises flurry of executive orders on first day of presidency
WASHINGTON — On the eve of his return to the White House, President-elect Donald Trump promised to sign a blitz of executive orders on his first day as president, telling supporters that he would move with "historic speed and strength" in the hours after taking the oath of office.Addressing a raucous crowd of thousands in a Washington DC arena for a "Victory Rally", Trump offered a preview of the next four years and celebrated his November election victory over the Democrats.The Republican promised to act unilaterally on a wide array of issues, using his presidential powers to launch mass deportation operations, slash environmental regulations and end diversity programs."We put America first and it all starts tomorrow," he told the crowd at the...
January 20, 2025

Trump promises flurry of executive orders on first day of presidency

Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to issue “close to 100” executive orders on his first day in office.
Trump’s team outlines suite of executive orders ahead of his first day as president
WASHINGTON — US President-elect Donald Trump will quickly implement executive actions on immigration, energy policy and federal government operations to check off dozens of campaign policy priorities.Trump on Sunday pledged to issue “close to 100” executive orders on his first day in office. Many of these orders will be designed to reverse or eliminate ones implemented by the Biden administration.Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, previewed some of those actions Sunday afternoon on a call with senior congressional Republicans.Two sources briefed on the call described it as a rundown of what lawmakers should expect, rather than an in-depth policy briefing. Trump’s policy operation was expected to deliver more details to Capitol Hill allies later...
January 20, 2025

Trump’s team outlines suite of executive orders ahead of his first day as president

Displaced people from recent clashes between armed groups arrive in the municipality of Tibu, Norte de Santander Department, Colombia, on Saturday
At least 80 people killed in northeast Colombia as peace talks fail
BOGOTA — More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, the Associated Press reported quoting a Colombian official.Twenty others were injured in the violence that has forced thousands to flee as Colombia’s army scrambled to evacuate people on Sunday, according to William Villamizar, governor of North Santander, where many of the killings took place.Among the victims are community leader Carmelo Guerrero and seven people who sought to sign a peace deal, according to a report that a government ombudsman agency released late Saturday.Officials said the attacks happened in several towns located in the Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, with at...
January 20, 2025

At least 80 people killed in northeast Colombia as peace talks fail

Donald Trump’s wife and soon-to-be First Lady Melania Trump, launched her cryptocurrency meme coin $MELANIA late on Sunday
Melania Trump launches her own cryptocurrency
NEW YORK — Incoming first lady Melania Trump has launched a cryptocurrency on the eve of her husband's inauguration as US president.The announcement comes a day after President-elect Donald Trump launched the $Trump cryptocurrency. Both coins have risen but have seen volatile trade."The Official Melania Meme is live! You can buy $MELANIA now," she posted on the social platform X on Sunday.The website for the "Official Melania Meme" says it is a crypto asset created and tracked on the Solana blockchain.Disclaimers on the websites of both the $Trump and $Melania coins said they were "not intended to be, or the subject of" an investment opportunity or a security.According to the CoinMarketCap website, $Trump currently has a total market valuation of about...
January 20, 2025

Melania Trump launches her own cryptocurrency

The Chinese-owned app TikTok stopped working for American users on Saturday evening after a law banning it on national security grounds came into effect.
TikTok restores service in US after Trump pledge
WASHINGTON — TikTok is resuming services to its 170 million users in US after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order to give the app a reprieve when he takes office on Monday.On Saturday evening, the Chinese-owned app stopped working for American users, after a law banning it on national security grounds came into effect.Trump, who had previously backed a ban of the platform, promised on Sunday to delay the implementation of the law and allow more time for a deal to be made. TikTok then said that it was in the process of "restoring service".Soon after, the app started working again and a popup message to its millions of users thanked Trump by name. In a statement, the company thanked the incoming president for "providing the necessary clarity...
January 20, 2025

TikTok restores service in US after Trump pledge

Flags are hung on the Capitol in preparation for Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC
US National Guard to deploy 8,000 troops for Trump's inauguration
WASHINGTON — The US National Guard said it would deploy 8,000 service members from approximately 40 states to Washington to support Donald Trump's 60th presidential inauguration.Troops from the US National Guard in Connecticut, Virginia and Pennsylvania set up a security perimeter around the National Gallery of Art in the city on Saturday ahead of Trump's inauguration on Monday. Perimeter security will include traffic control and patrolling metro stations.Earlier on Saturday, before Trump arrived in the US capital, thousands of protesters took to the streets for women's rights, racial justice, and other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming administration.A similar albeit much larger protest march took place in 2017, ahead of Trump's first...
January 20, 2025

US National Guard to deploy 8,000 troops for Trump's inauguration

Donald Trump
Trump appoints Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight as 'special envoys' to Hollywood
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.”The President-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the moviemaking town.“It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!” he wrote on Truth Social.He said: "They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK-BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!Trump said the actors "will be my eyes and ears, and I will...
January 17, 2025

Trump appoints Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight as 'special envoys' to Hollywood

Joe Biden
Biden commutes sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenders
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses, three days before he leaves office.Biden said the offenders were "serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice" and his action would right "historic wrongs".In an announcement on Friday, Biden said he had now issued more individual pardons and commutations "than any other president in US history".The news comes after the outgoing president commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates and issued a wave of commutations and pardons in December, including for his son Hunter Biden.The president said Friday's clemency action affected...
January 17, 2025

Biden commutes sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenders

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