One of the most important lessons about Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory is that, in foresight, it was predictable long before election day.

Donald Trump lied, fabricated, and dissembled throughout his 30-minute “Liberation Day” inaugural address on Monday, a churlish and vainglorious oration well-suited to the aptitudes and values of a reality TV host and former condo salesman.

The new president marked his first hours in office with a flurry of executive orders. One of those executive orders fulfilled a campaign promise as Trump pardoned 1,500 January 6th rioters.

Senators have had two-and-a-half months to consider Trump’s nominees. Confirmation is part of their constitutional duty.

Sixteen percent of poll respondents agree the U.S. should pressure Denmark into selling Greenland to the U.S. Twenty-nine percent said the U.S. should take control of the Panama Canal from Panama and 21% said they agreed with the statement that the U.S. has a right to expand its territory into the Western Hemisphere.

Bessent, 62, is a longtime hedge fund manager, Trump donor and adviser. He'll be the point person for Trump on a host of key economic issues.

“President Jimmy Carter loved our country,” Harris wrote in her post. “He lived his faith, served the people, and left the world better than he found it.” The potential snub of Trump drew immediate backlash on social media.

Donald Trump returns to Washington, and the people he’s bringing with him don’t offer much assurance that, this time, there will be people around to tell him “no.”

Jan. 20, 2017: Then-incoming President Donald Trump talks with his outgoing predecessor, Barack Obama, on Trump’s inauguration day on Washington. Four years later, Trump would boycott the inauguration of his own successor, Joe Biden.

Some thought Trump might pivot to a message of unity and reconciliation on the occasion of his victory. That did not happen.

In his first TV interview since being fired by President Trump, former Inspector General for Small Business Administration Mike Ware joins Ana Cabrera to speak out about his concerns for the government and the lack of transparency.

Other writers look at smoking and vapes in school, various state-level climate change initiatives, the state's new way to calculate attendance and more