Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.

President Donald Trump set a record on his first day back in office by issuing 26 executive orders, aiming to fulfill many of his campaign promises.

TikTok owner ByteDance plans to spend more than $12 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, betting on the cutting-edge technology for new growth, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday,

In his first hours in office, US President Donald Trump signed a barrage of Executive Orders reshaping the entire geopolitical scenario worldwide.

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, a process that requires a one-year notice period as set out in a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress.

President Donald Trump's flurry of day-one actions included a reprieve for TikTok, the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an order on social media "censorship," a declaration of an energy emergency, and reversal of a Biden order on artificial intelligence.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed ties with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as the two face a more geopolitically assertive US government led by Donald Trump, who criticised the Kremlin's war against Ukraine on the first day of his second term as president.

Trump’s sweeping executive orders, from ending birthright citizenship to targeting TikTok and dismantling DEI programs, face mounting legal battles.

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

President Donald Trump has announced that he's open to billionaire ally Elon Musk buying TikTok. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

(Reuters) - TikTok owner ByteDance plans to spend more than $12 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, betting on the cutting-edge technology for new growth, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.