Donald Trump's second presidency has produced a seemingly constant stream of news. The Associated Press has shared the headlines with people worldwide, flagging the most notable developments in hundreds of news alerts.
The alerts reflect a dizzying stretch of activity by Trump, those who oppose him, the courts and the world. To show the back-and-forth on those issues, we sorted the alerts into six categories.
The largest number were about actions taken by Trump or his administration. Others indicated lawsuits filed or other steps taken to oppose the administration. In dozens of cases, courts blocked or reversed these actions, or Trump reversed himself.
Many alerts showed reaction or fallout throughout the world. Others highlighted newsworthy statements by Trump.
About four dozen — such as alerts about Congress approving Trump-backed bills and nominees — were marked as “other.”
We identified the areas that saw the most action, based on the alerts, from Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 to the 100th day of his administration on Tuesday.
The alerts show how the days played out in some of the areas where Trump focused most, which included immigration, federal spending, foreign policy and tariffs. Here are some examples:
Trump’s earliest actions cracked down on immigration.
Breaking News: Jan. 20, 1:04 p.m. The Trump administration ended use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the U.S. with eligibility to work.
The courts got involved almost immediately.
Breaking News: Jan. 21, 1:45 p.m. Eighteen states and two cities sue to block President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
Some of Trump’s actions were paused as they worked their way through the courts.
Breaking News: Jan. 23, 1:35 p.m. A federal judge temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
Breaking News: Feb. 25, 2:04 p.m. A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to halt the nation’s refugee admissions system.
As judges sorted through cases, the Trump administration began mass deportations.
Breaking News: March 15, 5:12 p.m.
President Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping war time authority last invoked in World War II, to deport members of a Venezuelan gang.
These actions also came under scrutiny.
Breaking News: April 9, 12:23 p.m.
A judge in Texas temporarily barred the U.S. government from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans held at a facility in the state.
The administration also arrested and attempted to deport students who participated in anti-Israel demonstrations.
Breaking News: March 10, 5:50 p.m.
Judge orders the Trump administration not to deport a Palestinian activist pending legal fight over his detention.
Trump announced – then paused – the first round of tariffs on U.S. trading partners shortly after taking office.
Breaking News: Feb. 3, 11:03 a.m.
President Trump says tariffs on goods from Mexico paused for a month for negotiations. Mexico’s president said it will put 10,000 troops at the border.
He then declared April 2 “Liberation Day” …
Watch live: April 2, 4:19 p.m.
President Trump announces sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs to promote U.S. manufacturing, raising risks of higher costs and trade wars.
… and markets quickly responded.
Breaking News: April 3, 4:14 p.m.
Dow suffers its biggest wipeout since 2020 as fears of fallout from President Trump’s tariffs shake markets.
Market meltdown: April 7, 4:04 a.m.
European and Asian stocks nosedive as Trump doubles down on tariffs and China accuses the US of economic bullying and protectionism.
Trump backtracked, pausing the tariffs he announced on “Liberation Day” — on all countries except one.
Breaking News: April 9, 1:33 p.m.
Stocks surge after President Trump announces a 90-day pause on tariffs, except for China, which he raises to 125%.
Trade war escalates: April 11, 4:27 a.m.
China raises retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods to 125% from 84%.
Trump’s term began with the president suggesting Palestinians be entirely displaced from Gaza.
Breaking News: Feb. 4, 7:06 p.m.
President Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere.
After a blow-up in the Oval Office, the U.S.-Ukrainian relationship dominated the news.
Breaking News: Feb. 28, 12:37 p.m.
President Trump and Vice President Vance call Zelenskyy “disrespectful” in an Oval Office meeting, as the Ukrainian leader asks for U.S. security commitment.
And for a week, headlines covered fallout from The Atlantic’s reporting about the sharing of military plans in a group chat that included a journalist.
Happening Now: March 25, 10:07 a.m.
Trump intelligence officials face Congress for hearings on national security a day after it was revealed that war plans were texted to a journalist.
Breaking News: April 3, 2:45 p.m.
The Pentagon’s acting inspector general announces an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s use of a Signal chat for Houthi attack plans.
Trump began cutting the federal workforce from the start – from eliminating thousands of workers across agencies to more targeted firings.
Breaking News: Jan. 21, 9:34 p.m.
Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave and plans to lay them off.
Trump fires watchdogs: Jan. 25, 1:54 p.m.
Donald Trump has fired more than a dozen inspectors general at federal agencies in a sweeping action that removes oversight of his new administration.
Billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency were soon directing cuts at federal agencies.
Breaking News: Feb. 24, 9:53 a.m.
A lawsuit says that Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their accomplishments or risk being fired violated the law.
Among the hardest hit was the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provides aid to other countries.
Breaking News: Feb. 11, 7:19 p.m.
The White House fires USAID inspector general a day after a warning about oversight of humanitarian aid, an official says.
Some of these federal firings were cleared by the courts, while judges temporarily blocked others.
Breaking News: March 18, 3:30 p.m.
A federal judge rules the dismantling of USAID likely violated the Constitution and blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE from further cuts.
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Vice President JD Vance, right, speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, as President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)
President Donald Trump speaks as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick listen as Trump prepares to sign an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
TENERIFE, Spain (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization sought Saturday to reassure residents of the Spanish island where passengers of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship are expected to be evacuated, issuing them a direct message that the virus was “not another COVID.”
The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, with more than 140 passengers and crew on board, is headed to Spain's Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, and is expected to arrive at the island of Tenerife early Sunday.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spain’s Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, were due on the island Saturday to coordinate the disembarkation of passengers and some crew.
“I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word ‘outbreak’ and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment,” Tedros said in a message to the people of Tenerife.
“But I need you to hear me clearly: This is not another COVID. The current public health risk from hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now,” Tedros added.
The WHO, Spanish authorities and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said nobody on the Hondius is currently showing symptoms of the virus.
Hantavirus can cause life-threatening illness. It usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings and isn’t easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.
Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus.
Some on Tenerife say they are worried. On board the cruise ship, some Spanish passengers have voiced concern about being stigmatized.
“I tell you, I don’t like this very much,” said 69-year-old resident Simon Vidal. “Anyone can say what they want. Why did they have to bring a boat from another country here? Why not anywhere else, why bring it to the Canary Islands?”
Others said they empathized with the boat's passengers, but were still concerned.
“The truth is that it is very worrying,” said 27-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Samantha Aguero. She added: “We feel a bit unsafe, we don’t feel as there are 100% security measures in place to welcome it. This is a virus after all and we have lived this during the pandemic. But we also need to have empathy.”
Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said passengers and some crew would disembark in Tenerife “under maximum safety conditions.”
The ship will not dock but will remain at anchor. Everyone disembarking will be checked for symptoms and won't be taken off the ship until a flight is already in Tenerife waiting to fly them off the island, Garcia said during a news conference in Madrid. There are currently people of more than 20 different nationalities on board.
Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens. Americans are to be quarantined at a medical center in Nebraska.
All Spanish passengers will be transferred to a medical facility and quarantined, Garcia said. Oceanwide has listed 13 Spanish passengers and one Spanish crew member on board.
Those disembarking will leave behind their luggage, Garcia said, and will be allowed to take only a small bag with essential items, a cellphone, charger and documentation.
Some crew, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to the Netherlands, where it will undergo disinfection, the minister added.
According to a letter sent by the Dutch foreign and health ministers to parliament late Friday, Spain has activated the EU civil protection mechanism for a medical evacuation plane equipped for infections diseases to be on standby in case anyone on the ship becomes ill. That person would then be transported by air to the European mainland.
The Dutch government will work with Spanish authorities and the ship company to arrange repatriation of Dutch passengers and crew as soon as possible after arrival in Tenerife, subject to medical conditions and advice from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the letter said. Those without symptoms will go into home quarantine for six weeks and be monitored by local health services.
As the ship is Dutch-flagged, the Netherlands may also temporarily accommodate people of other nationalities and monitor them in quarantine, it said.
Health authorities across four continents were tracking down and monitoring more than two dozen passengers who disembarked before the deadly outbreak was detected. They were also scrambling to trace others who may have come into contact with them.
On April 24, nearly two weeks after the first passenger had died on board, more than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing, Dutch officials and the ship’s operator have said.
It wasn’t until May 2 that health authorities first confirmed hantavirus in a passenger.
Dutch public health authorities have been monitoring people who were on a flight that was briefly boarded by a Dutch ship passenger who later died and was confirmed to have hantavirus. Three people who were on the flight and had symptoms have all tested negative for hantavirus, Dutch National Institute for Public Health spokesperson Harald Wychgel told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Becatoros reported from Sparta, Greece. Associated Press reporters Angela Charlton in Paris and Helena Alves in Tenerife contributed to this report.
A Spanish Civil Guard officer inspects the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Media crew members stand in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Workers set up temporary shelters in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Passengers on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, scan the horizon with binoculars during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
Passengers on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, watch epidemiologists board the boat in Praia, during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
A passenger checks his camera inside his cabin on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
Crew members of the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, wait their turns for a first interview with epidemiologists, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
A passenger on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, takes a photo of the ship's weighing anchor in Praia, during the voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)
