Donald Trump news live: 18 states sue US President over birthright citizenship executive order

Donald Trump news live: Some Facebook and Instagram users were surprised to find themselves automatically following the accounts of President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance this week, following the presidential inauguration. This likely occurred because they had previously followed official U.S. government accounts. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone clarified in a Threads post that the official POTUS and White House accounts are managed by the White House and are updated when the president changes. The same applies to the accounts for the vice president and first lady.

Donald Trump news live: A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban resulted in the release of two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure serving a life sentence in California for drug trafficking and terrorism, officials announced Tuesday. The swap, which involved Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was arranged before President Joe Biden’s departure from office on Monday, according to an anonymous Trump administration official. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul confirmed that the two U.S. citizens were exchanged for Khan Mohammed, who was sentenced to two life terms in 2008.

Donald Trump news live: US President Donald Trump has dismissed Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead a US military service, from her role as Coast Guard chief, citing “leadership deficiencies.” Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman acknowledged her “long and illustrious career” in a message to the Coast Guard on Tuesday, expressing gratitude for her service.

Donald Trump news live: Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order from President Donald Trump benefitting more than 1,500 defendants. By Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Kunzelman. (AP)

Donald Trump news live: President Donald Trump is set to announce on Tuesday a major investment initiative worth up to $500 billion for infrastructure focused on artificial intelligence. This effort will be driven by a new partnership between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. The newly formed entity, Stargate, will spearhead projects essential for advancing AI technology, with initial developments planned in Texas, according to the White House. Trump will be joined at the announcement by key figures in the partnership, including Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Larry Ellison of Oracle, marking one of his administration’s first major initiatives following his inauguration. (AP)

Donald Trump news live: Canada vowed strong pushback while Mexico urged calm on Tuesday in the face of US President Donald Trump’s trade threats that risk throwing their economies into disarray. The US president has accused both neighbors of being lax in preventing migrants and illicit drugs from coming into the United States, and called for a tightening of the borders. Hours after taking his oath of office on Monday, he signaled that 25 percent punitive tariffs against the United States’ two major trading partners could come as early as February 1. He also said he would order troops to its border with Mexico to stem migrant flows. (AFP)

Donald Trump news live: Donald Trump’s nominee to represent the U.S. at the United Nations criticized the “anti-Semitic rot” within the global body during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik emphasized that the U.S. contributes more to the UN than any other nation and called for reforms to prevent American tax dollars from supporting entities that go against U.S. interests, or engage in anti-Semitic actions, fraud, corruption, or terrorism.

Donald Trump news live: US President Donald Trump’s broad pardons for Capitol rioters sparked sharply divided reactions on Tuesday, with Republican supporters largely welcoming the move and Democrats strongly condemning it. Former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s pardons of those involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the congressional session to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory “shameful.”

Donald Trump news live: Attorneys general from 18 states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to prevent President Donald Trump from ending the decades-old birthright citizenship policy, which guarantees U.S.-born children citizenship regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

Donald Trump news live: President Donald Trump is spending his first full day back in the White House meeting with congressional leaders, making an infrastructure announcement, and exercising one of his preferred expressions of power: firing individuals. On Tuesday morning, the new president shared on his Truth social media platform that he would dismiss over 1,000 presidential appointees “who are not aligned with our vision,” including several high-profile figures. (AP)

Donald Trump news live: Brazil warned on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement could significantly impact COP30 talks scheduled in the Amazon this November. The UN climate talks will be held for the first time in the Amazon as global temperatures soar and political trust in climate action wanes. On his first day in office, Trump announced the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris accord, signed by 195 parties to limit greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.

Donald Trump news live: US President Donald Trump issued an executive order instructing the State Department to prioritise core American interests and put America and its citizens first. This move came on Monday, shortly after the US Senate confirmed Marco Rubio as the Secretary of State.

Donald Trump news live: On Donald Trump’s decision to rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, Mexico’s president says that ‘for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico’.

“He says that he will call it the ‘Gulf of America’ on its continental shelf,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says, according to AP. “For us it is still the Gulf of Mexico and for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico.”

Donald Trump news live: President Donald Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to almost all those convicted of participating in the attack on the US Capitol.

In those pardons lies the story of January 6, America’s two radically different interpretation of what happened that day, and Trump’s success in ensuring that his narrative of what happened prevails, despite it being in stark contrast with visual evidence, multiple independent reports, journalistic reportage and court judgments. Read more.

Donald Trump news live: President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are attending an interfaith prayer service at the the Washington National Cathedral, reports CNN. They are joined by first lady Melania Trump and second lady Usha Vance.

Donald Trump news live: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will hold his first bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Washington DC later today.

The meeting between the two top diplomats representing the world’s oldest and largest democracies would take place at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department, soon after the first QUAD ministerial in the same building, according to PTI.

Donald Trump news live: Former US Senator Marco Rubio was the first of Trump’s cabinet nominees to be sworn into office today. He was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance.

Donald Trump news live: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says that US President Donald Trump will make a “massive” infrastructure announcement today.

“It’s going to be a massive announcement and it’s going to prove that the world knows that America is back,” she tells Fox News.