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President Trump's Inaugural Address, Annotated - Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. NPR reporters and editors have annotated his remarks. - (Image credit: Chelsea Beck/NPR)
Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell on Tuesday introduced legislation to maintain health benefits for retired union coal miners whose companies have declared bankruptcy in recent years. McConnell was among those who successfully worked last year to provide a four-month extension of health benefits that protected 16,000 miners whose benefits would otherwise have been cut off on Jan. 1. Democrats made a major push as well, as the government neared a shutdown last December.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks to participants of EMILY's List "Ready to Run" candidate training at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 22, 2017. The day after the Women's March brought half a million people to Washington, 500 women from across the country spent Sunday learning how to run for office.
The White House says it's at the "very beginning" of discussing plans to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Like many presidential candidates, Trump promised to make the embassy move.
While his father was signing the first documents as president, Barron Trump was playing peekaboo with his nephew. The cute moment was captured by CNN during an historical day of pageantry and festivities.
President Donald Trump quickly assumed the mantle of the White House on Friday, making his first executive order one aimed at his predecessor's signature health care law and swearing-in members of his national security team to his Cabinet. Hours after delivering a stinging rebuke of the political status quo in his inaugural address, Mr. Trump sat at the president's formal desk in the Oval Office as he signed the order that White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said was aimed at "minimizing the economic burden" of the "Obamacare" law.
Pledging emphatically to empower America's "forgotten men and women," Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, taking command of a riven nation facing an unpredictable era under his assertive but untested leadership. Under cloudy, threatening skies at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Trump painted a bleak picture of the America he now leads, declaring as he had throughout the election campaign that it is beset by crime, poverty and a lack of bold action.
The Republican-led Senate, taking little time to fill two critical national security posts, overwhelmingly confirmed a pair of retired Marine generals tapped by President Donald Trump to run the Pentagon and secure America's borders. A little more than an hour later, Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to James Mattis to be defense secretary and John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Hours after inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed his first executive order, directing federal agencies to "ease the burden" of his predecessor Barack Obama 's health care law, or Obamacare. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus also sent out a memo to order all government agencies to immediately freeze regulations until further notified, according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
Donald Trump, sworn in Friday as the 45th U.S. president, used his inaugural address to tell the nation that he was going to put America and American workers first. "From this day forward, it's going to be only America first," Trump said.
Pence, who was introduced by the head of the American Legion, said the day was "the dawn of a new era." He paid tribute to veterans who have been killed or injured in the line of duty and said they were "an inspiration to our new president," Donald Trump.
It took just a few hours for President Donald Trump to give the Oval Office a makeover, including some fresh gold trim. There were changes from floor to ceiling as the White House brought reporters into the Oval Office on Friday evening for the first time since Trump became president at noon.
Trump signaled in his first day of office that he's not going to go along with the power brokers in the nation's capital - many of them standing right behind him on the inaugural stage. The new president's defiant speech after taking the oath of office was a jab at every lawmaker, lobbyist, ex-president, network pundit and editorial writer who scoffed at Trump's campaign and message and worked to defeat him.
Pledging emphatically to empower America's "forgotten men and women," Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday, taking command of a riven nation facing an unpredictable era under his assertive but untested leadership. Under cloudy, threatening skies at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Trump painted a bleak picture of the America he now leads, declaring as he had throughout the election campaign that it is beset by crime, poverty and a lack of bold action.
Donald Trump is not renowned as an orator. Although speech-making has been a potent tool of past US presidents - his predecessor one of the most compelling - the mish-mash of "America first" jingoism Mr Trump has presented at his inauguration ceremony in Washington hardly amounts to a cogent agenda to guide his term in office.
Shortly after his inaugural parade on Friday, President Donald Trump signed his first executive order, directing federal agencies to "ease the burden of Obamacare." The order is vague, and has no immediate effect on the health care system.
Justice Department granted hearing delay in Baltimore police case Justice lawyers: More time needed to brief incoming administration on sweeping police agreement. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jKDCfF n this 2015 file photo, Baltimore police stand in formation as a curfew approaches in the ciity a day after unrest that occurred following the funeral of Freddie Gray', who died while in police custody.
The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's first Cabinet members Friday, formally approving his defense secretary and secretary of homeland security. The final vote to confirm retired Marine Gen.
President Donald Trump plans to name Ajit Pai as head of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a report from Politico's Alex Byers and Tony Romm. Pai has served as a GOP commissioner at the FCC since 2012.
U.S. President Donald Trump applauds in the presidential review stand outside the White House during the 58th presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 20, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump applauds in the presidential review stand outside the White House during the 58th presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 20, 2017.