The tariff rate on aluminum imports have been raised to 25%, from 10%, with no exceptions, impacting millions of tons of steel and aluminum imports that had been entering the US duty free under quota deals, exemptions and thousands of product exclusions

A federal judge in Massachusetts postponed the 6 February deadline set by the Trump administration offering 2 million federal workers the chance to leave their jobs in exchange for 7 months of pay, part of an effort to drastically cut federal work force

Attorneys general from 22 states sued President Trump to block an executive order declaring that children born to mothers legally but temporarily in the US, i.e. foreign students, or born to undocumented immigrants would no longer be treated as citizens

Bourbon Street in New Orleans reopened a day after an Army veteran drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers killing at least 14 people; investigators confirmed he was inspired by ISIS but acting alone and with no foreign powers involvement

Jimmy Carter, serving as US President from 1977 to 1981, has died at 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia; in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work as he brokered peace between Israel and Egypt amid Iraq hostages crisis