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The United States Capitol in Washington, seen in June 2024.

Midterm elections

Democrats win the House and flip Senate seats in Texas and South Carolina, with Senate control still undecided

The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran to the north and the Arabian Peninsula to the south, in a true-color satellite image taken by NASA's Terra satellite in December 2020.

Rubio says Trump has not decided on new strikes on Iran, as Tehran floats a two-day plan to reopen Hormuz

An ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations team during an arrest in Boynton Beach, Florida, in January 2025.

Immigration enforcement

More than 29,000 state and local officers are now deputized to enforce immigration law, over twice ICE's own deportation force

The sign at Audi AG's corporate headquarters on Auto-Union-Straße in Ingolstadt, Germany, in April 2026.

Audi will build its first US plant in Georgia, a roughly $4 billion project for 4,500 jobs and 200,000 vehicles a year

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers inspect commercial trucks at the Detroit–Windsor truck ferry port of entry in Detroit, Michigan, in August 2022.

Trump reshuffles the 50% tariff list on Canada, dropping plywood and packaging and adding flooring, carpets and valves

White House staff, among them special envoy Steve Witkoff, pose for photos in the Rose Garden in May 2025. Witkoff was meeting Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg when Stephen Hubbard was released.

United States and Russia

Russia frees Stephen Hubbard, the last American it held as wrongfully detained, and Trump says no swap was needed

Donald Trump in his official White House portrait, photographed in June 2026.

Russia sanctions

Trump's order sets a 500% tariff on Russian goods and waives it in the same document

Demolition of the White House East Wing in Washington on October 22, 2025. The ballroom is being built on the cleared site.

Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million to Trump's White House ballroom, on a donor list that adds up to $333 million

A ridge above Pituffik Space Base in northern Greenland, with Mount Dundas behind it, in April 2026.

Trump says massive oil, gas and mineral exploration is about to begin in Greenland

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan, seat of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, photographed in 2012.

A judge froze the $20 million government ad campaign starring Trump — the spending had already passed $21 million

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with the Watergate complex behind it, on the Potomac in Washington, in 2019.

The Kennedy Center has burned through a $21 million credit line and half its reserves in nine months

The North Portico of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2023. The accord on frontier-model safety was signed at a meeting there on September 29, 2026.

Trump renames AI "Super Intelligence" by executive order, and six firms sign a safety accord with no legal force

The West Wing of the White House, in Washington, in 2007.

Government services

Trump orders federal services onto a single site, and America.gov's AI answer box goes live

The north front of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2013. The current advertising campaign is being paid for out of federal funds.

Government advertising

A 2024 Trump campaign ad is back on air, and this time the disclaimer says "Paid for by the U.S. Government"

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Washington Monument on the National Mall, in September 2016, the month the museum opened.

The Smithsonian's African American museum turns 10 and says it has not changed a single exhibition

A satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran (north) and the Arabian Peninsula (south), captured by NASA's MODIS sensor in December 2020.

Trump rejects Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in seven days

The east front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., photographed in 2013.

The Senate defeats an Iran war powers resolution by a single vote, 49-50

Donald Trump greets Xi Jinping before their bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, in October 2025 — the summit that produced the truce now extended.

The US and China push their tariff truce to January 10, and Xi leaves Washington without a broader deal

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on Constitution Avenue in Washington, seat of the federal district court that ordered the press passes restored, photographed in July 2026.

Judge orders the White House to return press passes to CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The UN General Assembly hall at the organisation's New York headquarters in February 2024.

UN General Assembly

Trump speaks second at the UN on Tuesday, then hosts Xi at the White House on Thursday