This DHS directive will allow ICE enforcement in places previously deemed off-limits, including churches and houses of worship, hospitals, schools, playgrounds, and courthouses.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rescinded a Biden Administration policy — which expanded upon a policy in place since at least 1993 — restricting immigration enforcement at or near certain designated areas, previously known as "protected areas" or "sensitive locations." DHS has issued a yet-unreleased directive allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to conduct immigration enforcement at these key locations using only their "common sense." The previously protected locations included churches and other houses of worship, hospitals and health clinics, schools, playgrounds, social services providers (including shelters and food pantries), disaster and emergency response sites, weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, parades, demonstrations, and rallies. DHS is still constrained by the Fourth Amendment and cannot enter private residences or private property that is not open to the public without a judicial warrant (signed by a judge), but this new directive gives them much wider latitude to conduct immigration enforcement in public at locations core to civic life, education, freedom of religion, and public heath.

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This order grants a full pardon to D.C. police officer Terence Sutton for murder and obstruction of justice in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown.

D.C. police officer Terence Sutton was convicted by a jury of his peers of second-degree murder, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown in 2020. Karon had a three-month old daughter at the time he was killed, following an unauthorized pursuit by Sutton. After Hylton-Brown was struck by another motorist, the officers extensively covered up the crime, including shutting off their body worn cameras at key moments. President Trump justified the pardon with the false and irrelevant claim that Hylton-Brown was "an illegal."

This new EO promotes the untested cryptocurrency industry through a variety of mechanisms.

This new EO promotes the cryptocurrency industry through a variety of mechanisms, including by revoking President Biden's EO entitled "Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets" and by establishing a new cryptocurrency working group chaired by David Sacks, which will, among other things, consider the potential creation and maintenance of a national digital asset stockpile. Much is still unclear about the cryptocurrency industry and blockchain technology, but there are serious downsides associated with both, from the environmental impacts of bitcoin mining, to the potential for cryptocurrency to be used to launder money, to the highly volatile and uncertain nature of cryptocurrency investments.

This order seeks to fully declassify records related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

This memo orders the public release of all records related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. — all killed while playing leading roles in the civil rights movement. President Trump has ordered agency heads to present plans for full declassification of remaining secret records. Members of the Kennedy family have called the order a political stunt. The King family has asked to review the records before full declassification.

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This memo does not impose any tariffs, but instead directs agencies to review current trade policies and evaluate proposals that could harm American consumers by raising prices.

This memorandum does not impose any tariffs on foreign countries directly, contrary to President Trump's promise to do so on Day 1. Instead, it directs cabinet officials and agency heads to review several existing trade policies with countries like Mexico, Canada, and China to investigate the causes of our trade deficit and look for unfair trade practices. It also directs cabinet officials to investigate the feasibility of creating an External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and duties, and make recommendations on several new proposals that could drastically increase prices for American consumers, including a global tariff.

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This omnibus order directs agencies to take numerous steps to prioritize energy production at the expense of environmental, climate, or public health concerns.

This executive order rolls back or eliminates most of the advances made by the Biden administration to combat climate change, and undermines longstanding protections to our environment and public health to prioritize domestic energy development. In addition to immediately revoking twelve Biden Executive Orders related to energy, climate, and environmental justice, the order directs agencies to develop plans to expedite permitting and reduce the weight of environmental impacts in policies and other agency decisions. It immediately pauses distribution of funds through the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, specifically targeting programs that would advance America's electric vehicle industry. It prioritizes the expansion of liquified natural gas exports, domestic mining, and energy exploration and production on federal lands and the outer continental shelf.