The president noted Curran’s more than two decades of law enforcement experience, having joined the Secret Service in September of 2001.

Billy Ray Cyrus’s son Trace has shared an emotional open letter to his father, expressing his family’s concern amid a backlash over the country musician’s support for Donald Trump.

Posting to Instagram, the singer’s adopted son Trace said he “barely recognized” the man he once knew, claiming Billy Ray had pushed Trace and his other children away.

Roisin O’Connor reports.

President Donald Trump has congratulated New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew for his fight against a large scale Windmill development off the coast of Southern New Jersey.

A special thank you to great New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew for his fight against a large scale Windmill DISASTER off the coast of Southern New Jersey. It needed MASSIVE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY that was impossible to justify. Hopefully the project is dead and gone, as almost all unsightly and environmentally unsound Windmill project should be. Congratulations to the great people of New Jersey. You have FINALLY won your war on stupidity!!!

Several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees will get votes in Senate committees today as to whether they advance to a confirmation vote in the full Senate:

• Doug Burgum for Interior secretary
• Chris Wright for Energy secretary
• Doug Collins for VA secretary
• Eric Turner for HUD secretary
• Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator

We’ve heard plenty about the new president’s deluge of executive orders so far – but what about the pledges he made on the campaign trail that have not yet come to pass?

Here’s Katie Hawkinson’s report.

On the eve of his inauguration, Trump pledged at a public rally in Washington DC to strengthen the US military by getting back billions of dollars worth of equipment left behind in Afghanistan during the fall of Kabul in 2021.

But even if the president is advised to negotiate with the Taliban to bring back the equipment, the process will be far more arduous than it appears, experts tell Arpan Rai.

Trump’s inauguration day executive orders and promises of mass deportations will hinge on securing money for detention centers.

His administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be.

However, an estimated 11.7 million people are living in the US illegally and ICE currently has the budget to detain only about 41,000 people.

The government would need additional space to hold people while they are processed and arrangements are made to remove them, sometimes by plane.

The Department of Homeland Security estimates the daily cost for a bed for one adult is about $165.

Pamela Hemphill, who spent 60 days in jail for her part in January 6 and has since renounced Trumpism, deserves a great deal of credit for her clear-eyed assessment of the events of that infamous day and for her bravery in speaking out.

Donald Trump’s mass pardoning of 1,500 January 6 participants, including the leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, has reinvigorated a weakened US militia movement and empowered white supremacists, experts have warned.

Dr Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said the president had “brought back two organizations that have extremely long track records of violence” and likened the current moment to the re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.

“By letting violent white supremacists and militia types who engaged in this activity out of prison he has emboldened those movements, made them more powerful, and given them the sanction of the highest office,” she said.

Here’s Richard Hall’s report.