Day: January 21, 2025
Donald Trump was sworn in as the president in a smaller, indoor ceremony at the US Capitol, with dozens of famous people from around the world in attendance.
Planet-sparing Paris agreement goes out the window, along with punishment for January 6 insurrectionists, as Donald Trump glories in his return to power
Trump targeted the Panama Canal and undocumented migrants, repeating old claims and making new ones. We fact check them.
By Jeff Mason, Tim Reid, Andy Sullivan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago as he moved swiftly to impose his will on the U.S. government just hours after reclaiming the presidency on Monday. After a day of ceremony, Trump signed a series of executive actions to curb immigration and roll back
If you were to perfectly follow the steps in An Idiot’s Guide to Making a Solar System, you should eventually find yourself with a star surrounded by a flat disc of planetary material orbiting in relatively neat, circular paths. But our own Solar System’s disc is relatively warped, with the orbits of its planets slightly tilted and more oval than circular. What happened to it? It’s possible a heavy object fell into the mix early in the Solar Syst
President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more accustomed to hurricane dismissals than snow days. The storm prompted the first ever blizzard wa…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 of potential rain this weekend. Wi…
