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Trump is the 47th president of the United States and was previously the 45th.

Trump is the 47th president of the United States and was previously the 45th.

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  1. An Unchecked Trump Rapidly Remakes U.S. Government and Foreign Policy

    The president’s swift moves underscore the confidence of an administration with a much firmer grip on the levers of government than during his first term.

     By Luke Broadwater

    At every step in his second term, Mr. Trump is demonstrating how unbound he is from prior restraints, dramatically remaking both domestic and foreign policy at a scale that has little parallel.
    CreditEric Lee/The New York Times
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  2. Judge Refuses to Immediately Reinstate Inspectors General Fired by Trump

    Judge Ana C. Reyes, a Biden appointee, excoriated lawyers representing the former government watchdogs for how they handled their emergency request, but let the lawsuit proceed on a slower timeline.

     By Chris Cameron

    Judge Ana C. Reyes, shown at her confirmation hearing in 2022, sharply criticized the plaintiffs’ lawyers: “Why on earth did you not have this figured out with the defendants before coming here?”
    CreditSarah Silbiger/Reuters

  3. Trump Will Withhold Money From Schools That Require Covid Vaccines

    An estimated 15 colleges still required Covid vaccines for students as of late last year. No states require K-12 students to get the shots.

     By Benjamin Mueller

    The executive order signed by President Trump on Friday largely took aim at vaccine mandates implemented in 2021, shortly after Covid shots became available.
    CreditKevin Mohatt for The New York Times

  4. Judge Orders Freeze on Firing Consumer Bureau’s Staff and Deleting Its Data

    Agency workers, including some who were listening to the hearing remotely, expressed immediate joy and relief.

     By Stacy Cowley

    An agreement was reached in federal court to halt any data erasure and further job cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until early March.
    CreditAl Drago for The New York Times

  5. A Night at the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts

    It’s still called the Kennedy Center. But after President Trump’s takeover, drag performers protested outside while audience members inside worried about what might be in store.

     By Shawn McCreesh

    Patrons said that they were not sure what to expect now that President Trump has taken control of the Kennedy Center and made himself chairman.
    CreditAndrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  1. Trump Administration Toughens Rules for Release of Migrant Children

    A new policy requires the fingerprinting of all adults who will be living with a migrant child in the United States. Advocates for immigrants say it could fuel overcrowding in shelters.

     By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz

    When a migrant child crosses the border alone and is apprehended by a border agent, they are initially taken to a facility managed by the Border Patrol and supposed to be moved to a shelter within 72 hours.
    CreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times

  2. Trump Says Auto Tariffs Coming April 2

    The president did not specify how much the tariffs would be or which nations could be targeted.

     By Ana Swanson

    Auto manufacturers depend on global and integrated supply chains.
    CreditThe New York Times

  3. Trump Says He’ll Rework Global Trading Relations With ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs

    The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.

     By Ana Swanson

    President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on goods from across the globe is likely to further roil relations with foreign governments.
    CreditAdam Kuehl for The New York Times

  4. Trump and Modi Shove Disputes Into Background in White House Visit

    India’s prime minister sought to placate President Trump in public even as Mr. Trump pushed for major tariffs on his country.

     By Maggie Haberman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

    President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday.
    CreditEric Lee/The New York Times

  5. How Trump’s Directives Echo Project 2025

    President Trump attempted during his campaign to distance himself from the right-wing blueprint to overhaul the federal government, but many of his administration’s actions so far have mirrored it.

     By Elena ShaoKaren Yourish and June Kim

    CreditThe New York Times

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JD Vance

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  1. German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis

    At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.

     By Jim Tankersley and Andrew E. Kramer

    El canciller de Alemania, Olaf Scholz, en la Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich, el sábado.
    CreditMatthias Schrader/Associated Press

  2. Vance Tells Europeans to Stop Shunning Parties Deemed Extreme

    His comments shocked attendees at the Munich Security Conference and seemed to target efforts to sideline the hard-right party the Alternative for Germany.

     By Jim TankersleySteven Erlanger and David E. Sanger

    Vice President JD Vance speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
    CreditLeah Millis/Reuters

  3. Vance Says All Options on Table to Pressure Russia to End Ukraine War

    Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal that it was too early to talk about specific territorial or security arrangements.

     By Qasim Nauman

    Vice President JD Vance arrived in Munich on Thursday.
    CreditMatthias Schrader/Associated Press

  4. Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I.

    Speaking in Paris at an artificial intelligence summit, the vice president gave an America First vision of the technology — with the U.S. dominating the chips, the software and the rules.

     By David E. Sanger

    “The A.I. future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” Vice President JD Vance told an artificial intelligence summit in Paris on Tuesday.
    CreditBenoit Tessier/Reuters

  5. No, el presidente Trump no es populista

    El movimiento de Trump no es una revuelta de la clase obrera contra las élites. Lo único que veo es a un sector de la élite educada persiguiendo a otro sector de la élite educada.

     By David Brooks

    CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times

Tariffs and Economic Policy

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  1. Trump Is Newly Unleashed on Trade, With Global Consequences

    With less than a month in office, the president has pursued trade actions that could shatter the global trading system and dwarf the trade measures he took over his entire first term.

     By Ana Swanson

    President Trump has weaponized the power of the U.S. market in a way no other American leader ever has.
    CreditEric Lee/The New York Times

  2. Trump Says He’ll Rework Global Trading Relations With ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs

    The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.

     By Ana Swanson

    President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on goods from across the globe is likely to further roil relations with foreign governments.
    CreditAdam Kuehl for The New York Times

  3. Whiskey Offers Window Into the Pain of a Trade War

    Liquor is leverage as the world careens toward another trade dispute. European tariffs on American whiskey snap back after March 31 unless an extension is granted.

     By Jeanna Smialek

    A worker in the Scotch whisky section of Jensen’s Liquors in Miami. Alcohol could end up back in the crossfire of a trade war.
    CreditJoe Raedle/Getty Images

  4. Where China’s Exports Begin: Inside the Vast Markets of Guangzhou

    Along the Pearl River in southern China, a fast-growing industry is churning out cheap clothes and toys that are flooding the world duty-free.

     By Keith Bradsher

    At a workers’ market in Guangzhou, China, garment factory managers scouted for labor, presenting samples to showcase the work required.
    CreditGilles Sabrié for The New York Times

  5. What Modi and India Can Offer Trump on Tariffs and Trade

    As two-way trade expands, India’s surplus is growing. President Trump is expected to press Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lower tariffs.

     By Alex Travelli

    In 2020, local commuters in Ahmedabad, India, navigated their city ahead of President Trump’s visit.
    CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (D.E.I.)

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  1. Some Schools Act After Trump’s D.E.I. Orders. Others Say They’ll Resist.

    Some universities are scrubbing websites and canceling events to comply with executive orders targeting diversity efforts. Other schools are promising to resist.

     By Sharon OttermanAnemona Hartocollis and Dana Goldstein

    The University of North Carolina’s campus at Chapel Hill. The state’s public university system ended requirements that students take classes related to diversity and inclusion to graduate.
    CreditJustin Cook for The New York Times

  2. Fearing Trump, Wall Street Sounds a Retreat on Diversity Efforts

    Goldman Sachs will drop a demand that corporate boards of directors include women and members of minority groups as financial firms backpedal from D.E.I. promises.

     By Rob Copeland

    Many Wall Street diversity initiatives are being pulled back in the face of opposition from the Trump administration.
    CreditBrendan McDermid/Reuters

  3. Alarmed, Employers Ask: What Is ‘Illegal D.E.I.’?

    Companies navigate a legal minefield as President Trump wages war on diversity programs, but they still have to guard against complaints of bias.

     By Emma Goldberg

    Target is being sued by shareholders who claim that it concealed the risks associated with its approach to D.E.I.
    CreditJosé A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times

  4. Ban on D.E.I. Language Sweeps Through the Sciences

    President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.

     By Katrina Miller and Roni Caryn Rabin

    Internal documents at the Brookhaven National Laboratory were being scrubbed of references related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
    CreditBrookhaven National Laboratory

  5. Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump’s D.E.I. Orders

    The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.

     By Nico Grant

    Google is rethinking its goal of hiring from underrepresented groups and other aspects of its D.E.I. programs.
    CreditAmy Osborne/The New York Times
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    Trump Team Leaves Behind an Alliance in Crisis

    European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.

    By David E. Sanger and Steven Erlanger

     
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    How Trump Is Using Leverage to Reshape Policy

    President Trump is all about using whatever leverage he can to try to get the best deal for himself — or, he would argue, for the country. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains some of his recent transactions, and how he’s defied norms to get his way.

    By Maggie Haberman, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, John Pappas, Ray Whitehouse and James Surdam

     
  8. In Times Past

    A Photographer’s Soaring Eye

    A drone that flew over Greenland’s melting ice sheet in 2017 has been donated to the Museum at The Times.

    By David W. Dunlap

     
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