As Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president dawns, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians see a hard road ahead in their war with Russia, and many have come to hope for a ceasefire without expelling Russian forces.

Outgoing President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons on Monday for several of his immediate family members and people that incoming PresidentDonald Trump has targeted for retaliation, including Republican former lawmaker Liz Cheney and Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

TikTok awaited an executive order granting it more time to strike a deal after President Donald Trump returned to power on Monday, as China signalled it would be open to a transaction to keep the app in the U.S. market.

President Donald Trump will once again withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal, the White House said, removing the world’s biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change for the second time in a decade.

Donald Trump officially returned to the presidency, taking the oath of office inside the U.S. Capitol as he pledged to rescue America from what he described as years of betrayal and decline.

President Donald Trump will issue a broad trade memo on Monday that stops short of imposing new tariffs on his first day in office but directs federal agencies to evaluate U.S. trade relationships with China, Canada and Mexico, a Trump administration official said.

Donald Trump told thousands of roaring supporters he would impose severe limits on immigration on his first day in office, vowing to swiftly fulfill the central promise of his presidential campaign at a rally on Sunday inside a packed Washington arena a day before he returns to power.

Three Israeli hostages were reunited with their mothers and Palestinians returned to their bombed-out neighborhoods on Sunday with the start of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated Gaza and inflamed the Middle East.

Australia won the New Zealand leg of the SailGP series Sunday, pressing home an advantage they enjoyed throughout the event to beat Spain and Britain in the three-boat final.

TikTok said on Sunday it was restoring its service after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app’s access in the U.S. when he returns to power on Monday.

The first three hostages released from Gaza have arrived in Israel, the military announced Sunday, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold. Their mothers were waiting to meet them.

TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that takes effect Sunday requiring the shutdown of the app used by 170 million Americans.