The president pledged to remove more than 1,000 presidential appointees “who are not aligned with our vision.”

President Donald Trump spent his first full day in the White House attempting to diffuse a weekslong dispute over how to pass his agenda through Congress, hosting Republican leaders in two separate meetings in the Oval Office.

Just hours after being sworn in, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump had repeatedly vowed to pardon the rioters who stormed the Capitol that day throughout his campaign, despite some of them being convicted of assaulting a police officer.

Two of the most vulnerable Republican senators ahead of the 2026 midterms voiced pushback to President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons of January 6 defendants on Tuesday. Trump issued pardons for those convicted of crimes during the January 6,

Republicans hoping to thwart Beijing’s influence in Latin America urge the Panamanian government to cut ties with Chinese entities.

Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of the more than 1,500 people convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

President Donald Trump defended the pardons he issued to January 6 participants in his first interview since returning to the presidency. "They were very minor incidents, and it was time," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview held at the Oval Office.