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President Donald Trump stirred the pot on Tuesday afternoon when he appeared to laugh off a reporter's question about whether he'll continue to sell products that directly benefit him while in the White House.

Speaking to reporters from the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Trump was asked, "Do you intend to continue to sell products that benefit yourself personally while you're president?"

Although billionaire Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was critical of Donald Trump in the past, he reached out to Trump in a big way after the 2024 election. Zuckerberg met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, donated to Trump's inauguration fund, and attended President Trump's inauguration on Monday, January 20.

Moreover, Zuckerberg is drawing criticism for eliminating the use of fact-checkers on Facebook.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday evening he has issued a full pardon to a man serving a life sentence for creating and running what prosecutors have called the "sprawling black-market bazaar" Silk Road.

Ross William Ulbricht, known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts," ran the website from 2011 until his arrest two years later. Ulbricht, a Texas native and Eagle Scout, operated the site as a hidden service on the Tor network, facilitating the sales of more than $200 million in narcotics and other illegal products and services, authorities said.

Within moments of President Donald Trump taking office, the Spanish language version of the White House website, "La Casa Blanca," went dark — triggering outrage from commenters on social media.

The move, which comes despite Trump crediting some improvement among Hispanic voters with his election victory, mirrors one he made on the first day of his initial term in 2017. Former President Joe Biden immediately restored the site after he took office in 2021.

The first day of President Donald Trump’s new administration offered plenty of fodder for political observers, as well as a window into where the country is heading in the next four years, a New York Times columnist said Tuesday.

And it’s not hard to see how things could quickly become unglued, according to opinion writer David French, who told readers that Trump’s second term presents the “ultimate test” of the rule of law.

by Shaun TANDON

Rubio's meetings with the so-called Quad come as President Donald Trump vows to push back against China.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio refused to comment on President Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations of more than 1500 people convicted of crimes surrounding the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, including the insurrection — despite having denounced the attack in strong terms four years ago.

In three separate interviews on Tuesday — on ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News — when presented with his comments about the 2021 attack, Rubio declared that he would not discuss domestic issues because he is now Secretary of State.

by Ulysse BELLIER

Loftus was making a beeline for the Washington prison that has become a focal point for the Trump supporters convicted of storming the Capitol building in Washington on January 6, 2021, and their families.

by Huw GRIFFITH and Paula RAMON

Moments after being sworn into office, the Republican president came out swinging, with a raft of executive orders aimed at slashing migration and changing how the US determines who is allowed to live here.

"Joker: Folie a Deux" was nominated for seven Razzies on Tuesday, leaving the sad clown atop the annual tongue-in-cheek list of the worst movies of the year.

The flop musical follow-up to 2019's billion-dollar-grossing "Joker" picked up unwanted nods such as worst picture and worst sequel.

President Donald Trump's new bizarre crypto "memecoins" has led to widespread mockery online over his supporters losing money, as well as general disgust from some cryptocurrency backers who believe it's giving the entire space a bad name.

But there's something potentially more sinister going on here, columnist Catherine Rampell wrote for The Washington Post: a potential new way for foreign entities to buy influence in the Trump administration.

The suspension of the U.S. refugee resettlement program was among the bevy of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on his first day in office – and it has advocates sounding the alarm.

The order, titled “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program,” threatens to leave some 2,000 Afghans in a state of uncertainty despite already being approved to resettle in the United States, CNN reported.

Longtime Republican pollster Sarah Longwell told MSNBC that she's watched as the Republican party grew more willing to compromise their principles, rendering them entirely "impotent."

"Deadline: White House" host Nicolle Wallace began her show on Tuesday by showing a clip of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) demanding that Jan. 6 defendants who violently attacked police officers should be punished. Not only has Cruz backed off such a demand, but President Donald Trump gave those who attacked police a pardon or commutation.