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Trump's third week sees more executive orders, trade war with China

Three weeks in, President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while billionaire Elon Musk hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce. Trump also provoked then called off trade wars with Canada and Mexico but allowed one with China to move forward. He seemingly made light of potentially thorny political issues while insisting he was serious about the United States seizing Gaza, emptying out its residents and redeveloping the area into the Riviera of the Middle East. It was an idea that friend and foe alike around the world rejected. Here are some Week 3 takeaways: So many executive orders Trump has spent 20 days in office, and on nearly every one of them, he has signed executive orders often several. Just like Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden before him, Trump used Inauguration Day to put pen to paper on actions meant to wipe out large numbers of his predecessor's policies. Trump also issued Day 1 orders to pardon most

Trump blames 'obsolete' air traffic control system for collision near DC

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an obsolete computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it. Trump said during an event that a lot of mistakes happened on Jan. 29 when an American Airlines flight out of Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army helicopter as the plane was about to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, killing all 67 people on board the two aircraft. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, Trump blamed it on diversity hiring programs. But on Thursday, he blamed the computer system used by the country's air traffic controllers. It's amazing that it happened, Trump said during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast at the U.S. Capitol. And I think that's going to be used for good. I think what is going to happen is we're all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new not pieced

As Trump pushes limits of his presidential power, the courts push back

A familiar pattern has emerged since President Donald Trump returned to the White House less than three weeks ago: He makes a brash proposal, his opponents file a lawsuit and a federal judge puts the plan on hold. It's happened with Trump's attempts to freeze certain federal funding, undermine birthright citizenship and push out government workers. Now the question is whether the court rulings are a mere speed bump or an insurmountable roadblock for the Republican president, who is determined to expand the limits of his power sometimes by simply ignoring the laws. Although Democrats may be encouraged by the initial round of judicial resistance, the legal battles are only beginning. Lawsuits that originated in more liberal jurisdictions like Boston, Seattle and Washington, D.C., could find their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a conservative majority has demonstrated its willingness to overturn precedent. What's constitutional or not is only as good as the latest court decisio

Will remain status-quo: Judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order

Boardman, an appointee of Trump's Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking Trump's order from going into effect as planned on Feb. 19

The upside of Trump's disruptions: A push for better alternatives

India will come on his radar soon, but while we wait for Mr Trump's other disruptive shoes to drop, taking a helicopter view of his actions serves us better than reacting in a knee-jerk fashion

Donald Trump's tariff reversal feeds reputation as paper tiger on trade

Trump's threats and the prospect of them becoming real dropped US stocks and the currencies of his targets, including the Canadian dollar, Mexican peso, euro

Elon Musk says President Donald Trump 'agreed' USAID should be shut down

The US Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according the Trump administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk - who has been wrestling for control of the agency in recent days. Early Monday, Musk held a live session on X Spaces, previously known as Twitter Spaces, and said that he spoke in detail about USAID with the president. He agreed we should shut it down, Musk said. It became apparent that its not an apple with a worm it in, Musk said. What we have is just a ball of worms. You've got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. We're shutting it down. His comments come after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk's government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday. Members of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, eventually did gain

Carter wins posthumous Grammy for narrating book of Sunday school lessons

Former US president Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award. Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, died in December at age 100. Prior to his passing, Carter was nominated in the audio book, narration, and storytelling recording category at the 2025 Grammys for Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration, recordings from his final Sunday School lessons delivered at Maranatha Baptist Church in Georgia. Musicians Darius Rucker, Lee Ann Rimes and Jon Batiste are featured on the record. It's Carter's fourth Grammy. His posthumous Grammy joins his three previous ones for spoken word album. If the former president won before his death, he would've become the oldest Grammy award winner in history. Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter's grandson who now chairs The Carter Center governing board, received the award on his behalf. Having his words captured in this way for my family and for the world is truly remarkable, he said

Trump fires consumer bureau director Rohit Chopra in major policy shift

Chopra's dismissal ends a term at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during which he spent years sparring with the financial sector under former President Joe Biden

Trump offers buyouts to federal employees resisting in-person work

The buyouts were offered in an email to federal employees that also warned that the administration was seeking a "more streamlined and flexible workforce"

Trump believes US will get Greenland after Danish PM denied it earlier

Insisting that Greenland needs to be part of the US, President Donald Trump has said that it would be an "unfriendly act" on the part of Denmark if they did not let this happen. Greenland, which is under the control of Denmark, is the world's largest island. I think we're going to have it (Greenland). I think the people want to be with us. As you know, there's 55,000 people there. They want to be with us, Trump told reporters on Saturday. Trump's comments come after reports that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen insisted Greenland was not for sale in a fiery phone call with the US president last week. I don't really know what claim Denmark has to but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow that to happen because it's for protection of the free world. It's not for us. It's for the free world right now, Trump said in response to a question. Trump said that the people of Greenland don't like the way they've been treated by Denmark. You have Russian ships; you ha

Will Trump get a third term as US Prez? Republican proposes constitutional change

Currently, the 22nd Amendment limits US Presidents to two terms, barring Trump or any other former president from seeking a third term

Carbon markets investor kicks off $1.5 bn Amazon protection plan in Davos

The initiative is the first major campaign by Silvania, a $500 million nature and biodiversity investment vehicle, working with Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy

22 states sue to stop Trump's order blocking birthright citizenship

Attorneys general from 22 states on Tuesday sued to block President Donald Trump's move to end a century-old immigration practice known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that US-born children are citizens regardless of their parents' status. Trump's roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfilment of something he's talked about during the presidential campaign. But whether it succeeds is far from certain amid what is likely to be a lengthy legal battle over the president's immigration policies and a constitutional right to citizenship. The Democratic attorneys general and immigrant rights advocates say the question of birthright citizenship is settled law and that while presidents have broad authority, they are not kings. "The president cannot, with a stroke of a pen, write the 14th Amendment out of existence, period," New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin said. The White House said it's ready to face the states in court and called the lawsuits

Donald Trump's administration set to make 'massive' infrastructure push

He also planned a series of high-profile meetings and events to chart the strategy for his second term

Back to a Maga future: Mr Trump's second coming signals more disruption

Mr Trump earned the loudest and longest cheer for his intention, backed by an executive order, to declare a national emergency on the southern border

Biden's last day as Prez: How he issued pardons before Trump's inauguration

On his final day in office, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to allies and family, citing politically motivated threats, before attending a farewell ceremony and handing over power to Donald Trump

Trump 2.0: What are executive orders and why do US presidents love them

President Donald Trump begins his second term with the signing of hundreds of executive orders, many aimed at reversing his predecessor Joe Biden's policies. Full list here

From immigration to trade, here's a list of Donald Trump's executive orders

Announcing measures across immigration, trade, energy, and federal workforce policies, Donald Trump positioned these orders as reversals of Joe Biden's administration

Minutes before leaving presidency, Biden pardons siblings, their spouses

Minutes before leaving the presidency, Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying Monday that his family had been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end, he said as his presidential term was ending. The family pardons were the surprise finale in a series of unprecedented presidential actions by the Democrat, who has been known as an intuitionalist during his half-century in politics. Biden also pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the House committee that investigated the January 6 attack on the Capitol and allies who have been targeted by Republican President Donald Trump. He was sworn in Monday. It was a remarkable use of Biden's presidential power: None of the above has been charged with any crime, and the move was designed to guard against possible retribution by Trump. Trump, during hi