This Month, The Best Art May Be At A Flower Shop

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. President Donald Trump used his second inaugural address on Monday to paint a grim picture of the country he now leads. And then he upped the ante by marching over to supporters nearby to give the speech he said his aides wouldn’t let him deliver: a rambling series of grievances, gimmicks, and gloating. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “I think this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs,” Trump said as he circled for a much overdue closing.

Minutes after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump laid out a series of tough actions he’s taking to stop border crossings between ports of entry and begin deporting some of millions of people in the U. S. without authorization. Those policy changes were expected to start rolling in fast in the first hours and days of his second term after a campaign in which Trump vowed to launch the largest deportation operation in the country’s history. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump said Monday he would declare a national emergency at the border, which will free up military funding to build more sections of a border wall, support operations to stop border crossings, and “send troops” to the Southern Border to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country.” “As Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do,” Trump said. Trump also said he would reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” policy that demands people seeking asylum to wait outside the U.

ATLANTA — The curtain comes down Monday night on the longest, strangest college football season anyone has ever seen. About the only thing that feels normal about it are the teams playing for the title: Ohio State and Notre Dame. Two of the country’s most storied programs are set to meet in a title game that wraps up the sport’s first 12-team playoff.

A suspect under arrest by Colorado State Patrol was injured in a Sunday night crash while being taken into custody. The crash happened around 4:48 p.m. Sunday on U. S. 24 at Marksheffel Road, near Colorado Springs, according to a state patrol news release. State patrol officials said the trooper, who was transporting an unidentified suspect who was arrested on a warrant from a previous traffic stop, crashed into a Toyota Prius.

Two gates have been installed on Lookout Mountain Road — a project that supporters hope will cut down on illegal and destructive activities after sunset — with routine night closures set to begin later this month. The decision to construct automatic gates on Lookout Mountain Road came after multiple community meetings and presentations dating back to 2022.

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