The executive order requires the command to deliver both a contingency and campaign plan to "provide steady-state southern border security."

In his first hours in office, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders stating how his administration plans to designate certain cartels and criminal groups as terrorists, invoke the Alien Enemies Act to remove them and call on the U.

WASHINGTON—President Trump signed executive orders to overhaul border and energy policies and end diversity programs across the federal government, unwinding signature Biden administration policies on the first day of his second term.

Within hours of his inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending the enforcement of a TikTok ban that had taken effect the previous day. The move tossed a lifeline to TikTok -- and its 170 million users in the United States.

Legal experts said despite Trump's order, service providers and app distributors such as Google and Apple still face major uncertainty and potential massive financial liability for defying a law that banned TikTok in the United States unless Chinese parent ByteDance divested the company by Jan.