Executive orders are presidential directives that guide how the executive branch carries out existing law. Since January 2025 ...

What do the Peace Corps, desegregation of the military, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II have in common? They were all established by presidential executive orders, also ...

President Donald Trump is on pace in his second term to issue more executive orders than any president since Franklin D.

With a stroke of his favorite black pen, Donald Trump has signed what should become his 221st executive order since January -- a figure that exceeds the number in his entire first term, as he forges ...

Here’s how he’s used the legally-binding directives to raise tariffs, curb immigration, and promote cryptocurrencies.

On September 29, President Trump signed an executive order entitled “Assuring the Security of the State of Qatar” that recognizes the “enduring alliance” between the United States and Qatar and ...

A voting station during the New York Mayoral primary in June 2025. Reporter President Donald Trump said Saturday he would sign an Executive Order requiring voter identification for all U.S. elections, ...

There may be no greater convert to the dubious virtues of unlimited executive power than a former skeptic who has taken up residence in the White House. President Donald Trump, once a critic of the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Thursday that will give him and whomever he appoints unprecedented control over who and what projects receive what type of scientific funding ...

While the president has the authority to grant leave, it is usually announced just before the Christmas holiday.

Kyoko Oda, 80, was born in 1945 into incarceration at Tule Lake Segregation Center, where 30,000 Japanese Americans lived when forced from their homes during World War II. Her father, Tatsuo Inouye, ...