The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.

Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned work to the attorney general.

Presidents Clinton, Biden issued orders aiming to correct environmental injustice. On Monday, President Trump issued orders revoking those efforts.

The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration,

A memo asserts that state and local officials are bound to cooperate and could face criminal prosecution or civil penalties if they fail to comply.

The two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before Biden left office on Monday.

President Trump, starting his second term, began a slew of executive actions by rescinding 78 Biden-era executive orders, executive actions, and presidential memoranda.

After the sedate Joe Biden years, the return of a presidency that is an incessant assault on the senses is a reminder of why so many millions of Americans see Trump as a compelling, historic figure – and why millions more deeply fear him.

A Missouri man who crashed a rental truck into barriers protecting the White House has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Kenneth Marcus, who served as a top civil rights official in the George W. Bush and Trump administrations, lauded Biden for his rhetorical commitment to combating antisemitism, which he said was unprecedented. But he said the strategy fell short. Marcus said Biden failed to institute policies that would stem antisemitism.

Trump is drafting a new blueprint for the presidency, one that demonstrates the primacy of blunt force in a democratic system predicated on checks and balances between the branches of government.