Rubio oversees halt to foreign aid and meets with Asian diplomats on day 1
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio walked into the State Department on Tuesday for the first time in his new job, taking the reins of the main agency carrying out U.S. foreign policy at a time of violent global crises and as other nations begin engaging with President Donald Trump.
Snow smothers Texas and Louisiana as deadly cold stalks the South
HOUSTON — A powerful winter storm tore across the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, delivering a bizarre blast of Arctic cold that smothered Houston and New Orleans in snowfall totals unseen for decades, before stalking toward Georgia, the Florida Panhandle and the Carolinas.
22 states sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Attorneys general from 22 states sued President Donald Trump in two federal district courts on Tuesday to block an executive order that refuses to recognize as citizens the U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country illegally, the opening salvo in what promises to be a long legal battle over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Nation and world news — At a glance — For January 22
Hegseth ex-sister-in-law tells senators he was ‘abusive’ to second wife
Ramaswamy will bow out of cost-cutting project and run for governor in Ohio
WASHINGTON — The advisory group called the Department of Government Efficiency is losing one of its leaders before it even begins.
As brutal cold settles across US, Gulf Coast braces for rare winter storm
Officials across a wide swath of the southern United States were closing schools, roads and even airports and urging residents to stay home on Monday as a significant winter storm was expected to bring heavy snow and frigid temperatures to areas unaccustomed to such weather, from Texas and Louisiana all the way to Florida.
Palestinians return to vast destruction in old neighborhoods
JERUSALEM — Palestinians took in the scale of devastation to their old neighborhoods and Israelis awaited news about three newly released hostages as a day-old ceasefire between Hamas and Israel continued to hold Monday.
At least 80 dead and 18,000 flee amid a new surge of violence in Colombia
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — At least 80 people are dead and more than 18,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela.
Biden ends a half-century in public life on a somber note
WASHINGTON — For four years as president, and for almost a half-century more in public life, Joe Biden professed an optimistic, ironclad belief in the strength of America’s democracy.
Trump grants sweeping clemency to all Jan. 6 rioters
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, in one of his first official acts, issued a sweeping grant of clemency on Monday to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, issuing pardons to most of the defendants and commuting the sentences of 14 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers militia, most of whom were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
For Trump, a vindication for the man and his movement
WASHINGTON — Donald John Trump completed an extraordinary return to power Monday as he was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States and opened an immediate blitz of actions to begin drastically changing the course of the country and usher in a new “golden age of America.”
Trump withdraws US from World Health Organization
President Donald Trump moved quickly Monday to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
‘So much uncertainty’: Businesses worry about Trump’s many tariff plans
For Klem’s, a general store in rural Massachusetts, each year has seemed more challenging than the last.
How Vuori became one of the hottest names in fashion
When Joe Kudla talks about the Vuori customer — the loyal, die-hard consumer of the company he founded a decade ago — Jimmy Spencer is exactly the kind of person he has in mind.
Biden pardons 5 more, including civil rights leader Marcus Garvey
President Joe Biden pardoned five activists and public servants Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to Civil Rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black nationalist movement and was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.
Deion Sanders has never left his prime
BOULDER, Colo. — The pep talk Deion Sanders gave his players at the University of Colorado after a short practice in November could have been delivered by Knute Rockne or Woody Hayes, legends from a bygone era of college football. “You need to be dominant,” Sanders proclaimed from within a circle of young athletes, addressing the defensive linemen before turning to the tight ends.
Trump’s cryptocurrency surges to become one of the world’s most valuable
WASHINGTON — The Trump family’s new crypto token surged in just two days to become one of the most valuable forms of digital currency in the world, creating the potential for a multibillion-dollar payout to the family but also generating a storm of questions about the conflicts of interest the new venture creates.
Ukraine braces for Trump’s return, eager for peace, but wary of the terms
KYIV, Ukraine — Could this be the year, as President-elect Donald Trump has promised, when Russia’s war against Ukraine is brought to an end?
Trump aims for show of strength as he returns to power
Donald Trump sat in the middle of a U-shaped table, surrounded by his hard-right allies. It was a Friday night, 10 days before his inauguration, and Trump was hosting a couple of dozen members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus in the white and gold ballroom at Mar-a-Lago and explaining how he views this moment of power.
TikTok flickers back to life after Trump says he will stall a ban
WASHINGTON — TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of the app.
