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U.S. federal judge halts Trump's ban on refugees, people from Muslim countries entering U.S.

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At 9:00 p.m. U.S. east coast time on Saturday (0200 Sunday UTC), a U.S. federal judge in Brooklyn issued an emergency ruling halting deportation of individuals from the U.S. under the ban on individuals from seven majority-Muslim countries entering the United States that president Donald Trump had initiated by executive order on Friday. Another judge in Virginia issued a similar ruling shortly afterward.

In the news

Donald Trump A gunman kills six people and injures eight others in a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada. President Donald Trump signs an executive order(pictured) restricting travel and immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries, leading to protests and court rulings ordering its partial suspension. Scientists at Harvard University report the first creation of metallic hydrogen in a laboratory, using a diamond anvil cell. In sumo, Kisenosato Yutaka is promoted as the 72nd yokozuna, becoming the first Japanese wrestler to earn the title in 19 years.

Did you know...

Risqué stereoview of writer Ella Wheeler Wilcox ... that Mormon photographer Charles Ellis Johnson made artistic nudes and risqué stereoviews (example pictured)? ... that Francis Poulenc placed an ode to liberty at the end of his Figure humaine, a cantata for a twelve-part choir, composed in occupied France and premiered by the BBC? ... that Dwain Worrell's debut screenplay The Wall is also Amazon Studios' first original spec script? ... that after the Bugis prince Arung Palakka supported the Dutch East India Company in the Makassar War, he became the most powerful man in South Sulawesi? ... that in 2015, the Irish Guards GAA became the first British Army Gaelic games club to join the Gaelic Athletic Association? ... that the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse, a U.S. government program established in 1790 to finance foreign covert operations, had by 1793 grown to consume 12 percent of the government's budget? ... that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final? ... that Emany Mata Likambe, Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living on the streets of Warsaw in 1994 after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?

On this day...

January 30: Martyrs' Day in India San Francisco in 1847 1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685. 1847 – The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco(pictured). 1945 – World War II: Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. 1972 – On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least thirteen people. 2013 – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1, South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit. More anniversaries: January 29 January 30 January 31

Women's March becomes largest protest in U.S. history

The main march in Washington D.C. drew over half a million people.

On Saturday, by estimates, over 500,000 women and other protesters — twice the figure expected by organizers — marched through Washington D.C. to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. They were accompanied by hundreds of thousands of others in hundreds of sister marches in cities across the United States and on all seven continents, including Antarctica.

Image: Ted Eytan (flickr).

Donald Trump inaugurated as 45th U.S president

Donald Trump being taking oath on the Bible at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
Image: The White House.

At 12:00 p.m. local time (1700 UTC) on Friday,  Donald Trump took the oath of office and was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.

Both the Obamas, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other previous presidents were present.

Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump were welcomed in the morning by outgoing president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. At 12:00 local time (17:00 GMT), Chief Justice John G. Roberts swore in Donald Trump as the new President of the United States. Donald Trump took his oath on the Lincoln Bible, and on his own bible that his mother had given him. Vice President Mike Pence was sworn in on the Reagan Bible.

After assuming the presidency, Donald Trump made his first speech as President of the United States, including the words "January 20, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer."

Barack Obama left a letter to his successor on the nineteenth-century presidential desk in the White House Oval Office.