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Estimated 24.6 million TV viewers watched inauguration coverage, fewest since 2013
NEW YORK — An estimated 24.6 million television viewers watched President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the smallest audience for the quadrennial ceremony since Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. The Nielsen Company said Tuesday that viewership was down from Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, which reached 33.8 million, and Trump’s first...
Trump administration directs all federal DEI staff be put on paid leave
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ‘s administration is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave, and that agencies develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management. The memo follows an executive order Trump signed...
Warnings for dangerous wind extended in Southern California as new wildfires break outVideo
LOS ANGELES — Forecasters warned that dangerous winds will buffet Southern California for at least two more days as new wildfires broke out on Tuesday, a pair of major Los Angeles-area blazes burned for a third week, and officials made preparations to protect scorched neighborhoods from toxic ash runoff ahead...
U.S. border patrol agent fatally shot in Vermont near Canada
Authorities on Tuesday were investigating a fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent that also left a suspect dead and another injured on a Vermont highway near Canada, authorities said. Agent David Maland was killed Monday afternoon after a traffic stop, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said...
Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law alleges abuse against 2nd wife in affidavit to Senate
WASHINGTON — Senators vetting the nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary received an affidavit Tuesday from a former sister-in-law alleging that the onetime Fox News host was abusive to his second wife, to the point where she feared for her safety. Hegseth denies the allegations. The sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth,...
Trudeau says Canada will respond to U.S. tariffs as Ontario’s premier says Trump ‘declared war’
TORONTO — Canada’s outgoing prime minister and the leader of the country’s oil rich province of Alberta are both confident Canada can avoid the 25% tariffs President Donald Trump says he will impose on Feb. 1. Justin Trudeau and Danielle Smith will argue that Canada is the energy super power...
States sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenship
Attorneys general from 18 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status. Trump’s roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of something he’s talked...
Fire chief fatally shot while helping a couple whose car struck a deer in Alabama
CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. — A man fatally shot a fire battalion chief and wounded the driver of a car that hit a deer in rural Alabama, authorities said. The Coweta County fire department is mourning the death of James Bartholomew Cauthen, 54, remembering him as “an amazing, hard-working man with...
Iraqi lawmakers pass a bill that critics say legalizes child marriage
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would, in effect, legalize child marriage. The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists argue that this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status...
Trump pardons upend massive Jan. 6 prosecution by freeing rioters and dismissing cases
WASHINGTON — Rioters locked up for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were released while judges began dismissing dozens of pending cases Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged in the insurrection that shook the foundation of American democracy. With the...
Supreme Court rejects GOP-backed Montana case based on controversial election law theory
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country. The high court declined to hear the case in a brief order without explaining...
Frigid storm drops rare snow on Houston and New Orleans as Florida readies plows in the PanhandleVideo
NEW ORLEANS — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow, closing highways, grounding nearly all flights and canceling school for millions of students more used to hurricane dismissals than snow days. The storm prompted the first...
Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas. Across the tiny coastal enclave, where built-up refugee camps are interspersed between cities, drone footage captured by The Associated Press shows mounds...
Elon Musk salute at inauguration interpreted by some as Nazi gesture
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...
Israel’s top general resigns over Oct. 7 attack as it launches major military operation in West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israel’s top general resigned Tuesday, citing the security and intelligence failures related to Hamas’ surprise attack that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. Israel meanwhile launched a large military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that the Palestinian Health Ministry said had...
Israeli troops kill 6 and wound 35 in West Bank operation, Palestinian officials say
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel launched a large military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that the Palestinian Health Ministry said had killed at least six people and wounded 35. Israel announced a “significant and broad military operation” against Palestinian militants in the city. Jenin...
Authorities say a U.S. border patrol agent was fatally shot in Vermont south of border
COVENTRY, Vt. — A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot Monday on a highway in northern Vermont south of the Canadian border, authorities said. The death was confirmed by the FBI and Benjamine Huffman, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington. In a statement, the FBI...
At least 66 dead, 51 injured in hotel fire at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey — A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 66 people — at least two of them when they jumped from the building to escape the flames, officials said. At least 51...
Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi emphasize close relations, a day after Trump is sworn in
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin had a call Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, emphasizing the two countries’ close ties, a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th U.S. president. The two leaders have developed strong personal ties that helped boost relations between Moscow and Beijing,...
Trump White House celebrates release of 2 Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by Biden
WASHINGTON — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday. The two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before...
Rundown of President Trump’s executive orders on Day 1 — from pardons to TikTok
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has begun his promised flurry of executive action on Day 1. With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden’s actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep...
Trump issues pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump issued pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of assaulting police, in his first official action after returning to the White House as the country’s 47th president on Monday. The pardons of about 1,500 people fulfilled Trump’s promise...
Trump vows to change the name of North America’s tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley
JUNEAU, Alaska — President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he’d floated years ago that at that time saw strong pushback from state political leaders. Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said...
Do U.S. adults support Trump’s Day 1 actions? Here’s what polling shows
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s second term is beginning with efforts to deliver on his promise to crack down on immigration and restore ” energy dominance.” Some of these moves are likely to be popular with the public. Most Americans think increasing security at the U.S.-Mexico border should be at...
Teen pleads guilty to murder in stabbings at Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England
LONDON — A British teen pleaded guilty Monday to murdering three girls and attempting to kill 10 other people in what a prosecutor said was a “meticulously planned” stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England last summer. The crime shocked Britain, and misinformation about the attacker sparked...
