President Donald Trump (R) was inaugurated for his second term as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. He serves with Vice President J.D. Vance (R), a former senator from Ohio.

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had ...

After the war, President Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces in 1948, and as Black and Brown Americans claimed their ...

President Donald Trump has eliminated the requirement for federal contractors to maintain affirmative action programs. His order, "Ending ...

Just a day after his return to the White House, President Donald Trump is making good on promises to radically remake the ...

One order announced ... the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congressional Research Service analyst Ben Wilhelm wrote in a formal analysis of executive orders and presidential ...

Amna Nawaz: President Trump is expected to issue a record number of executive orders by the end of his first day in office. For a closer look at the power of these orders and their limits, we're ...

Here's what to know about executive orders, the fastest tool at a president's disposal. An executive order is a signed directive by a U.S. president on how they want the federal government to operate.

Now that Donald Trump has again assumed the presidency, he wields considerable power. One such power is the ability is the ability to sign executive orders. As head of the executive branch of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to the White House ready to immediately overhaul the government using the fastest tool he has — the executive order. An incoming president signing a ...

Executive orders can be revoked by Congress, courts, or future presidents, as history shows. An executive order is a written instruction from the president that tells the federal government what ...

In February 1942, President Franklin D Roosevelt signed an executive order that led to the creation of detention centres for about 120,000 Japanese Americans. In 1952 President Harry Truman issued ...