Trump kicks off second term as US president with flurry of executive orders

NewsFeed New drone video shows wreckage from midair collision near DC airport Investigators used a drone over the Potomac River to survey the wreckage from the midair collision involving a Black Hawk military helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane in Washington DC. Part of the wreckage has since been recovered. Published On 4 Feb…

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NewsFeed Trump pardons 1500 Jan 6 defendants, commutes other sentences US President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 1500 defendants who participated in the January 6th, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. He also commuted other sentences, including for Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and who was released from prison hours after…

NewsFeed SpaceX Starship explodes, leaving a trail of fiery debris across the sky SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft has exploded only minutes after taking off on a test flight, leaving trails of debris across the sky. It had been carrying its first test payload of mock satellites. Published On 17 Jan 202517 Jan 2025

Coco Gauff wrote “RIP TikTok USA” and drew a broken heart on a camera lens shortly after reaching the Australian Open quarterfinal after the popular app, used by 170 million Americans, stopped working in the United States. TikTok disappeared from Apple and Google app stores in advance of a law that takes effect on Sunday,…

The United States has announced it is easing select restrictions on Syria’s transitional government. Late on Monday, the US Treasury issued a general licence, lasting six months, that authorises certain transactions with the Syrian government, including some energy sales and incidental transactions. The move is designed to allow the entry of humanitarian aid following the…