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An ABC News graphic shows the weather forecast on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — About 265 million Americans, or nearly 80% of the population, are under cold weather alerts on Tuesday, as dangerous temperatures are felt in at least 43 states. About 45 million Americans in …

Facebook / Coweta County Fire Rescue (CHAMBERS COUNTY, AL) — A fire chief in Alabama has been shot and killed after he stopped to help a driver who had hit a deer with their vehicle, police said. The incident occurred at approximately 5 p.m. on Sunday when Chambers County deputies …

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump announced some energy and environmental policy priorities that represent a stark departure from U.S. climate policy under former President Joe Biden. His professed policies include a declaration of a “national energy …

Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is expected to issue a slew of executive actions on Monday that would impact transgender Americans, including an executive order declaring that the U.S. government will only recognize a person’s gender assigned at birth, Trump officials told reporters during a …

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Among the first executive orders set to be signed by President Donald Trump will be an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the newly named “Gulf of America.” “A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name …

Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On a call with reporters on Inauguration Day morning, incoming White House officials previewed a series of executive orders and other actions they said the incoming Trump administration plans to take to address immigration and U.S. border issues. “We will protect the …

Jason Ryan/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (LOS ANGELES) — Two people from Oregon were arrested for posing as firefighters in the Pacific Palisades area, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. A Los Angeles Police Department unit was patrolling through the evacuation zones on Saturday, when they discovered a fire …

Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump will order a “national energy emergency” and issue a “presidential memorandum on inflation” as part of a slew of executive actions meant to boost the U.S. economy on his first day in office, incoming White House officials told reporters Monday …

ABC News (NEW YORK) — The coldest air of the season is moving into the Northeast and a huge part of the U.S., including the Gulf Coast, after a snowstorm. At least 40 states, from Oregon to Florida and up to Maine, are on cold alerts on Monday morning. The …

(danielfela/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — As part of President-elect Donald Trump’s strategy to secure the border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will carry out post-inauguration raids as early as Tuesday, sources briefed on the plans told ABC News. ICE will likely start in Chicago and could move on to other big cities, …