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Trump signs an order to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops

By TARA COPP, LOLITA C. BALDOR and ZEKE MILLER
Jan 27, 2025 8:38 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service.
Suburban police navigating conflicting state, federal directives on immigration crackdown

By Marni Pyke
Jan 27, 2025 5:04 pm - Illinois law requires local cops to leave immigration enforcement to the feds, but could they face consequences if they don’t assist with mass deportations?
Hundreds of US visa appointments canceled in Colombia following spat over deportation flights

By MANUEL RUEDA
Jan 27, 2025 2:13 pm - Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia were canceled Monday following a dispute over deportation flights from the U.S. that nearly turned into a costly trade war between the two countries.
What to know about Trump’s first executive actions on climate and environment

By MELINA WALLING
Jan 27, 2025 12:40 pm - President Donald Trump's first week in office included a flurry of executive orders with implications for Earth's climate and environment.
Fed expected to pause rate cuts as it begins to weigh Trump policies

Andrew Ackerman
Jan 27, 2025 8:18 am - Donald Trump’s return to the White House is overshadowing the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week, as policymakers begin to grapple with the way the president’s policies on trade, immigration and spending could reshape the economy and potentially stoke inflation.
Palestinians celebrate return to northern Gaza as Israel lifts its closure under truce

By OSAMA SALEH, WAFAA SHURAFA and JOSEPH KRAUSS
Jan 27, 2025 8:11 am - Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas, a dramatic reversal of their exodus 15 months ago.
By VANESSA GERA
Jan 27, 2025 8:07 am - Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation.
More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots

By TARA COPP
Jan 25, 2025 3:56 pm - WASHINGTON — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War ...
Senate confirms Noem as Trump’s homeland security secretary

By STEPHEN GROVES
Jan 25, 2025 2:29 pm - WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essent...
Trump ousts at least 15 independent inspectors general in late-night purge

By David Nakamura, Lisa Rein and Matt Viser
Jan 25, 2025 2:10 pm - The White House removed the independent inspectors general of nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an unprecedented purge that could clear the way for President Donald Tr...

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