For all of the shock and awe of President Trump’s first weeks back in office, much of it should come as little surprise. Many of his actions are extensions of his first-term agenda, when he pledged to crack down on immigration and bolster the country’s advantage in international trade.

It's hard to believe, but we're finally here. Four years after all the Sturm und Drang that followed Donald Trump's 2020 electoral loss to Joe Biden, the maestro of Mar-a-Lago is set to be inaugurated once more on Monday as president of the United States.

And what an absolutely wild ride it has been. In the interim four years, Trump has completed nothing less than the single most remarkable comeback—political or otherwise—in American history.

Wednesday night, President Joe Biden offered an eloquent explanation of what makes America so great that it doesn’t need much making it great again. Told in vivid brush strokes of how the Statue of Liberty was built one steel beam at a time, Biden made a strong case for all that America has achieved and all that we must preserve at a time when American values are threatened by the new guy who must not be named.

President-elect Trump is expected to launch his second term with a slew of executive orders — 100 in 100 days.

The big picture: As Monday's Inauguration Day approaches, Trump has made clear he is ready to roll with orders on Day 1 of his presidency — and he has expressed every intention of using executive power to address the border and immigration.

State of play: Trump issued more than 220 executive orders during his first term — the most in a single term since former President Carter.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led 34 Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing legislation to strip former President Trump of the broad immunity from prosecution for official acts the Supreme Court granted him last month.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday announced a bill that would ensure that presidents do not have criminal immunity. The legislation is a direct response to the Supreme Court's ruling last month that former President Donald Trump has some immunity for aspects of his presidential conduct. However, even if the bill passes the Senate, it would face an uphill climb in the House, which is controlled by Republican allies of Trump. "Given the dangerous and consequential implications of the Court’s ruling, legislation would be the fastest and...

President Joe Biden has undercut House Republican endeavors to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress by asserting executive privilege over tapes related to special counsel Robert Hur‘s investigation into his handling of classified documents.

The Justice Department on Thursday for a second time declined to turn over audio recordings of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, rejecting claims from GOP impeachment investigators that the recordings contain information that would help them with their probe.

The letter renews the specter of possible contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) had floated this as a possible response if the audio files were not delivered Thursday.

The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to side with small fishing companies challenging decades-old precedent that instructs courts to give deference to agency interpretation of laws when the language is ambiguous, legal experts said.

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed inclined on Wednesday to limit or even overturn a key precedent that has empowered executive agencies, threatening regulations in countless areas, including the environment, health care and consumer safety.

Each side warned of devastating consequences should it lose, underscoring how the court’s decision in a highly technical case could reverberate across wide swaths of American life.