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God spared him to make America great again. Rejoice oilmen and climate change deniers, but immigrants watch outDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesThey came in dribs and drabs, the unwanted, the uninvited and the unloved. First to arrive in Washington was Liz Truss, wearing a red Maga hat and a bright blue coat looking like an extra in a Paddington Bear film.Lizzie could be found standing on a street corner in downtown DC, screaming: “I used to be prime minister of the United Kingdom.” Continue reading...

Trump airs familiar grievances in first speech of second term; Biden pardons members of his family before leaving officeTrump sworn in as 47th president Factchecking Trump’s inaugural address My colleague Joseph Gedeon in Washington DC also had this look at what Trump might have planned for day one:In the grand theatre of American politics, presidential inaugurations typically follow a familiar script: the oath, the speech, a few carefully chosen executive orders to satisfy campaign promises. Franklin D Roosevelt used his first day to tackle the banking crisis. Barack Obama moved to close Guantánamo Bay (though it remains open). Donald Trump’s first term began with a single executive order targeting Obamacare. Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders on his first day in 2021. Continue reading...

Former footballer collects Crystal Award for work on children’s rights, as World Economic Forum begins in DavosThe UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will travel to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos this week in the hope of convincing some of the world’s largest companies to invest, with allies saying she will use spending cuts rather than further tax increases to meet her own fiscal rules.At the same time, the Treasury is considering a push to cut the benefits bill, in a move that is causing nervousness among Labour MPs. Continue reading...

Documents for high court hearing show that 26 will support allegations of serious misconduct against himThirty-two people are set to give evidence in support of the Guardian’s defence of legal action brought against it by the actor and producer Noel Clarke.The details were set out on Monday at the high court in London in a pre-trial review hearing ahead of a defamation and data protection trial, which is scheduled to start at the beginning of March. Continue reading...

In 2021, Biden had rejoined 2015 treaty that seeks to curb climate crisis effects after Trump first pulled out in 2017Donald Trump inauguration – live updatesDonald Trump’s new administration confirmed on Monday on his first day in office that he will repeat his first-term move and pull the world’s second biggest emitter of planet-heating pollution out of the 2015 Paris agreement, the global treaty seeking to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.The confirmation was in a White House document entitled President Trump’s America First Priorities, in a package of measures under the headline “Make America affordable and energy dominant again”. Continue reading...