President Donald Trump spoke in a pre-recorded video address while Vice President JD Vance attended the event. Protesters had come to the capital for decades to call for the repeal of Roe v. Wade, but now they want to build on their victories and focus on the state-by-state battles taking place over abortion.

The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue.

In total, 1,500 active-duty troops will join about 2,500 National Guard members and helicopter crews already working at the southwest border in support of Customs and Border Protection. The forces will install physical barriers along the border and conduct detection and monitoring missions.

President Donald Trump made the comments Friday during a visit to hurricane-battered North Carolina. He’s also planning to stop in wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles. It’s the first trip of his second term.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta’s order on Friday comes two days after Stewart Rhodes visited the Capitol, where he met with at least one lawmaker, chatted with others and defended his actions during a mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Rhodes was released from a Maryland prison a day earlier.

The Trump administration circulated photos Friday showing U.S. troops loading shackled detainees onto a military cargo plane, as the White House declared a start to the mass deportation campaign the president promised along the campaign trail.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs can continue to fill thousands of vacancies in its health care workforce despite a federal hiring freeze ordered by President Donald Trump, the VA said Thursday. There were roughly 40,000 vacancies at the VA at the end of 2024.

U.S. Steel workers drafted an open letter to Trump this week making it clear that they don’t want the iconic Pittsburgh company to sell to their competitor in Cleveland. It comes as Sen. Rand Paul became the latest prominent Republican to speak out against Mr. Biden’s Jan. 3 decision to block the deal over what he said was a threat to national security.

The president said he is “going to ask all NATO nations to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP,” a sharp increase from the current benchmark of 2% that many member states already struggle to hit. Currently, the U.S. spends about 3.4% of GDP on the defense budget.