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US President Donald J. Trump signs executive orders in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 25, 2025.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that aims to secure elections by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The order aims to guard against illegal immigrants voting in elections and would require all ballots to be received by Election Day.
Israel’s Knesset on Tuesday approved its 2025 budget by a vote of 66 to 52, days before a March 31 deadline that would have otherwise triggered an election.
Donald Trump has decided not to fire National Security Advisor Mike Waltz for sharing information in a Signal group chat ahead of a US strike on Yemen.
23 billion: India said on Tuesday that it’s open to cutting more than half of its tariffs against US imports – equivalent to $23 billion – in the first phase of a trade deal the two nations are negotiating.
The United States announced on Tuesday that Russia and Ukraine have verbally agreed to a Black Sea ceasefire and a moratorium on energy infrastructure strikes. In a pair of statements, the White House said it will help Russia regain access to agriculture and fertilizer markets and that it remains committed to returning forcibly transferred Ukrainian children.
Inaugural session of the German lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin
On Tuesday, newly elected members of the Bundestag took their oaths and their seats at ahistoric moment for Germany. Friedrich Merz of the center-right CDU/CSU remains in talks with the center-left SPD in hopes of forming a government in the coming weeks.
On Tuesday, a Tokyo court revoked the legal status of the Unification Church in Japan, ordering the sect known as the Moonies to disband following a government problem spurred by the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.
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