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During his first week in office, President Trump issued a barrage of executive orders, signing sweeping directives on immigration, D.E.I., energy policy, trade, TikTok and more. The blizzard of activity — some of which is bound to be challenged in court — was overwhelming. Here’s our cheat sheet. Tariffs and the economy President Trump had…
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans. But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies…
President Trump on Thursday issued an executive order to support the growth of the cryptocurrency industry, calling for a new plan to regulate a business in which he has substantial personal investments. The executive order, which was light on details, said the Trump administration would create a working group on digital assets to come up…
President Trump is moving to restructure the nation’s energy future to block any transition away from fossil fuels. And he is testing the boundaries of presidential power to do it. The orders that Mr. Trump signed on Monday would make it easier and cheaper for companies to produce oil and gas and for the government…
When President Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement on Monday as part of his flurry of moves upon taking office, it represented a shot across the bow of the world leaders and chief executives gathered in Davos, Switzerland. Many of the political and business figures attending…
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for 75 days, even though the law took effect on Sunday and it is unclear that such a move could override it. The order, one of Mr. Trump’s first acts after taking office, instructs the attorney general not to…
TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of the app. The abrupt shift came just hours after major app stores removed the popular social media site and it stopped operating for U.S. users…