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Tech billionaire Elon Musk's inauguration gesture drew immediate concern from frightened social media users over its comparisons to a Nazi salute, but a leading organization dedicated to combatting antisemitism backed Musk on Monday afternoon, downplaying it as merely an "awkward gesture."

Musk shook up social media after a speech he delivered to a cheering MAGA crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally. But it wasn’t the speech itself inside the Capitol One Arena that stunned political observers in the first hours of Trump’s new presidency – but the gesture he made at the conclusion that opened up a flood of reaction on social media.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s new government role as co-chair of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is now likely to come with a coveted West Wing office, according to a new report.

Musk, a close confidant of Donald Trump who had notably spent the weeks after Election Day at a $2,000 a night cottage at the president’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort, was expected to work out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, The New York Times reported Monday.

Farmers who spoke to CBS News are increasingly fearful of how President Donald Trump's plans for large-scale deportations could affect their livelihoods, correspondent Nancy Chen reported on Monday.

This comes amid other reporting about similar fears from the agricultural industry, which relies extensively on immigrant labor to operate, and has seen the gradual disappearance of family farms in recent decades.

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) aimed Monday at the partially taxpayer-funded PBS News over its social media post about tech billionaire Elon Musk's inauguration gesture, which drew comparisons on social media to a Nazi salute.

Musk shook up social media after a speech he delivered to a cheering MAGA crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally. But it wasn’t the speech itself inside the Capitol One Arena that stunned political observers in the first hours of Trump’s new presidency – but the gesture he made at the conclusion that opened up a flood of reaction on social media.

President Donald Trump signed nearly 100 executive orders upon entering office — including one that would ensure the nation's flags fly high to mark his inauguration, despite them being lowered to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter.

"Accordingly, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at full-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government, in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions, for the remainder of this day beginning immediately," the order said.

by Huw GRIFFITH

Firefighters continued to make progress snuffing out fires that ravaged 40,000 acres (16,000 hectares) in the Los Angeles area, after erupting on January 7 and killing at least 27 people.

by Herika Martinez with Zina Desmazes in Tijuana

"I don't know what will become of my life anymore," said the 48-year-old Colombian, who made the long and dangerous journey from South America with her husband and son.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sees dark symbolism in how President Donald Trump's inauguration was conducted — and what it means for the next four years of how the federal government will be run.

Trump's inauguration was supposed to be a grand affair, but it had to be scaled back due to severe and hazardous weather in Washington, D.C. The conditions were so cold that it made hoisting the half-staff flags to full height difficult.

President Joe Biden’s last day in office – which saw President Donald Trump sweep back into power – was anything but normal in the legal world as pardons flew from the outgoing president with more expected to come from the new commander-in-chief.

That’s according to CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig, who said Monday that Biden ushered in “a new moment in U.S history” with his flurry of pardons in his remaining minutes as president. They are likely to be followed be Trump’s long-held promise to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.

A portrait of former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has vanished from the Pentagon barely two weeks after being installed, Politico reported on Monday.

New Pentagon officials "did not explain the portrait’s removal, which the Biden administration hung less than two weeks ago in the spot with other former Pentagon chairs," reported Paul McLeary.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace noted during the first hour of her show Monday afternoon that ultra-wealthy tech titans appeared to take precedence during President Donald Trump's inauguration, as they sat in front of possible Cabinet officials.

"If you widen out where it used to be a liability for any Democratic elected official or Republican elected official to be seen as on the take on the grift, and now you've got Trump enriching and selling everything," said Wallace. "And the people closest to him at this event were not members of the military, not members of Congress, not members of his Cabinet, not even all the family or grandkids. It was the billionaires."

Americans searching for reproductive health resources will have one less option after President Donald Trump’s new administration on Monday made shuttering a government website focused on women's health care among the first moves of his second presidency.

Hours after Trump was inaugurated as the country’s 47th president, it was reported that the website ReproductiveRights.gov shutdown.