President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russia’s leader to end the war.

The president turned up the pressure on the two nations to agree to his proposal for them to house the Palestinian population of Gaza and said the Palestinians would not have the right to return to the territory.

The order that froze trillions of dollars of federal grants and loans was published without vetting by key officials in the White House.

While he has expressed support for North Carolina residents, the president has criticized California’s Democratic leaders and threatened to withhold federal aid from the state.

The death of a young Black man, Karon Hylton-Brown, led to days of protests in 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

The direct appeal to President Trump on the first full day of his term was a remarkable moment at a National Cathedral event that traditionally has not been political.

Plus, an Olympic medal fail.

The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.

Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.

The incoming president’s team said he would take unilateral action on a variety of fronts during his first hours in office, including 10 executive orders cracking down on immigration and immigrants.

The president-elect’s immigration advisers have warned Republicans that it will take time and money from Congress to carry out the mass deportation effort he has promised to execute immediately.

The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.

The decision is the latest in a series of conflicting U.S. approaches to Cuba by different administrations.

The president has issued policy decisions in a number of areas in the final days of his term, including environmental justice, prison reform and immigration.

President Biden, a Catholic, awarded the medal with distinction to the pontiff, to whom he has turned for personal guidance.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.