There are two areas of bipartisan agreement about President Donald Trump’s early days back in the White House: voters say he is moving quickly to keep promises and he is far more active and visible than his predecessor.

Legal challenges have already been mounted against his effort to end birthright citizenship and action that makes it easier to fire career government employees. Fallout also continues from his pardoning more than a thousand rioters convicted in connection with the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

President Trump fumed on Sunday after Colombia turned back two US military flights carrying deported migrants — vowing to impose sanctions and an “emergency 25% tariff” on the South American country.

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, will be sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.

Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Monday, January 20, 2025. The U.S. Capitol from the top of the Washington Monument on the inauguration day of Donald Trump’s second presidential term in Washington, DC. REUTERS

In his first television interview as vice president, JD Vance defended President Trump on a variety of policies, including some he had previously second-guessed.

Explore the life of Donald J. Trump, the 47th President of the United States. Learn about his early life, business empire, political career, controversies, and 2024 comeback.

On Day One, President Donald Trump restored freedom of speech in the United States. If you weren’t aware that it had been removed, that should give you an idea of the scale of the problem. Censorship and its totalitarian cousin,

JD Vance was sworn in as vice president, the culmination of a rapid political rise that propelled him to a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Former Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will be sworn in as the vice president on Monday as the second Trump administration officially begins. Vance was picked by Trump to be his 2024 running mate last summer.

Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do.

WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is contingent, however, on ensuring that its financial obligations to WHO “shall be met in full for the organization’s current fiscal year.”