Donald Trump ends his first day back in the White House by unexpectedly firing Brian Hook, the former special envoy for Iran during his first term. Trump makes the announcement on Truth Social after midnight.

India’s foreign secretary met Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister in Dubai. In a statement, India’s Ministry of External Affairs stressed the importance of humanitarian aid to the

President Donald Trump removed four holdover high-profile presidential appointees early Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform to deliver the message.

"YOU'RE FIRED!", Trump wrote in an early morning post on his Truth Social platform that named Milley, Andres, his former Iran envoy Brian Hook and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who Biden appointed to an export council.

Among the moves that Trump made on his first day back was to pardon about 1,500 people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Earlier, The Washington Post reported, citing sources, that the Trump team demanded the resignation of numerous career US Department of State diplomats

The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will take part in a panel discussion with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, focusing on the Canada-U.S. energy relationship. WASHINGTON — The Minister of ...

Since 1998, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has recognized leaders who work tirelessly to improve the quality of life of others with the Wilson Awards. At a gala dinner on December 4, 2025, in Miami, Florida, the Wilson Center and its ...

Sarah B. Barnes is the Director of the Maternal Health Initiative (MHI) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, DC, where she leads the programs’ research and programming. Barnes works closely with practitioners ...

Benjamin Gedan, director of the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., agrees. “There’s very little wiggle room, absent a second U.S. invasion of Panama, to retake control of the Panama Canal ...

President Trump kept his Day 1 actions going after midnight Monday by firing four presidential appointees from the Biden administration.

He began by dismissing four people: retired Gen. Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; celebrity chef José Andrés from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition; Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars; and Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, from the President’s Export Council.