major events
Mercy Corps says US withdrawal from Paris Agreement puts world’s vulnerable people at greater risk
Donald Trump on Monday moved to withdraw the US, the world’s second-largest emitter of planet-heating pollution, from the Paris climate accord for a second time and put the United Nations on notice.
On the first day of his return as President, Trump signed a executive Order Speaking on stage in front of supporters at a stadium in Washington, DC, he said the aim was to end what he called an “unfair unilateral dismantling of the Paris climate agreement.”
“Today’s announcement by the U.S. government to withdraw from the Paris Agreement is devastating for the future of the planet and the people facing the most significant disruption to their lives and livelihoods due to climate change,” said Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, CEO of Mercy Corps. ” In a statement.
“This decision comes just after 2024 was declared the hottest year on record and is a huge step forward at a time when the world urgently needs greater ambition and clear leadership to tackle the climate crisis,” McKenna said. Not to retreat.”
“Climate change is no longer a distant threat; It is a daily reality with devastating impacts for the millions of people who have contributed the least to climate change – from severe drought in the Horn of Africa to deadly floods in Pakistan.
Trump says his team is in the process of removing more than 1,000 Biden appointees
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his team was in the process of removing more than a thousand appointees from former President Joe Biden’s administration, as Republicans took to social media to announce four removals, including celebrity chef Jose Andres and former top general Mark Milley. Was done. , Reuters reports.
Trump said he was firing Milley, who was granted a pre-emptive pardon by Biden on Monday, from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Andres was removed from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
New Zealanders aren’t generally ones to split hairs, but when it comes to who splits the atom, you better get your facts straight. – Especially if you were recently sworn in as the 47th US President.
During his inauguration speech on Monday, Donald Trump offered a list of American achievements, Including the claim that its experts split the atom,
However, as the Guardian’s Eva Corlett writes, that honor belongs to the revered physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander who achieved the historic feat in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester, England. The element rutherfordium was named after him in 1997.
Read about New Zealand’s diligent fact-checking here.
Trump’s January 6 pardon
President Donald Trump on Monday issued “full, complete and unconditional” presidential pardons for nearly 1,500 people involved in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, including some convicted of violent acts, a first in such cases. Fulfilling its promise to take action on the same day. Of his second term.
“That’s the big one. We hope they come out tonight, obviously,” Trump made the remarks while signing the pardon in the Oval Office on Monday night, after calling those convicted “hostages.”
Trump also directed the Justice Department to dismiss all pending indictments against people related to January 6.
Read the full report here.
Liberty Ball – in pictures
President Trump and First Lady, Melania.
The guests enjoy the party.
Vice President, JD Vance and his wife Usha.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Trump and ‘The Golden Era’.
First day of Trump’s ‘Fast and Furious’ foreign policy
Newly elected President Donald Trump wasted no time in signing off on a number of consequential foreign policy moves, from withdrawing from the World Health Organization to rolling back sanctions on violent Israeli settlers.
The Guardian’s David Smith has this handy summary of what you need to know about Trump’s foreign policy moves so far.
preliminary summary
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Donald Trump’s inauguration and first day in office.
Shortly after his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, the new US president issued a series of executive orders to fulfill his campaign promises and undo the legacy of his predecessor Joe Biden, including pardoning defendants from the January 6 case and cracking down on Doing is involved. Immigration to America.
Trump signed several executive orders in front of a huge crowd of his supporters at the Capital One Arena in DC. “Can you imagine Biden doing that? I don’t think so,” he asked the crowd cheerfully at one point. He then signed more during a press conference in the Oval Office.
The blossoming relationship between Trump and Elon Musk was also on full display at the inauguration; The billionaire sat alongside other tech giants, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, next to Trump family members and before Cabinet nominees.
Trump said returning to the already renovated Oval Office after his inauguration was “one of the best feelings I’ve ever had.”
Before leaving the White House for an evening of inauguration ceremonies, Trump spent about an hour dodging questions from reporters. He promised that tariffs were being imposed on Canada and Mexico, suggested he might visit China and praised the decorators for the new look of his Oval Office. Here’s how international leaders welcomed him.
Here is a summary of his executive orders:
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Trump pardoned nearly 1,500 defendants on January 6 Facing prosecution for his role in the attack on the US Capitol in 2021Those pardoned include former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison on seditious conspiracy charges. Trump also commuted the sentence of Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason.
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He also signed an executive order seeking to revoke birthright citizenship – Automatic citizenship for those born in the US – for children of undocumented immigrantsBirthright citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment and this order will almost certainly be challenged in court.
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An order declaring a “national emergency” along the southern border, paving the way for US troops to be sent to the area and another that designated drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
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He signed an executive order for the second time to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement. He also declared a national energy emergency as part of pro-fossil fuel actions and efforts to “freeze” already rapidly increasing US energy production.
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Another order will remove America from the World Health Organization (Who). “World Health betrayed us, everyone betrayed the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said at the signing. A US withdrawal would dramatically cut funding to the global public health organisation.
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He issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to scrap the use of “gender” and “gender identity”. And instead use a binary definition of “sex” in enforcing the policy — including in issuing passports, a move that LGBTQ+ rights groups have vowed to challenge in court.
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Another order reclassified thousands of federal employees as political appointees, making them much easier to fireKey Trump allies have called for mass government dismissals. Project 2025 made attacks on the deep or administrative state a central part of Trump’s second term.
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One order renamed 617,800 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico and 20,000 feet of Alaska’s Denali. The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of Mexico, and North America’s highest mountain, Denali, will change back to Mount McKinley, as it was called before being renamed by Barack Obama in 2015. This order will have no impact on names that are used internationally.
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Trump also signed an executive order temporarily delaying enforcement of the federal ban on TikTok for at least 75 days. “I think I have a warmth for TikTok that I didn’t originally have,” Trump said at the White House.