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In his 20 January 2025 inaugural address President Trump said China was operating the Panama Canal and 'we're taking it back'. Panama's president rejected the claim within hours.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy withdrew the Federal Highway Administration's approval of Manhattan's $9 congestion toll in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul; the MTA sued in federal court the same afternoon.

In the Oval Office, Donald Trump unveiled Golden Dome, a planned shield of space-based sensors and interceptors against ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles, putting its cost at $175 billion.

About 6,600 soldiers, tanks, vehicles and aircraft paraded near the National Mall for the Army's 250th anniversary, which fell on Donald Trump's 79th birthday, as 'No Kings' protests took place across the country.

Donald Trump hosted Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for their first summit since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine; the talks ended without a ceasefire or any agreement being announced.

New York's Appellate Division, First Department, threw out the roughly $464.6 million disgorgement award against Donald Trump and his company as an excessive fine, while leaving the fraud liability and business restrictions in place.

Executive Order 14347 authorised the Department of Defense to call itself the Department of War, and its secretary the Secretary of War, in non-statutory settings, and gave the secretary 60 days to recommend the legislative and executive actions needed to make the change permanent.

Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet signed a joint declaration at the ASEAN summit, witnessed by Donald Trump and Anwar Ibrahim, to pull heavy weapons off the border under ASEAN observers after the July 2025 fighting.

An executive order took cocoa and other farm goods out of President Trump's reciprocal tariffs, backdated to November 13. Hershey, which had asked the White House for the exemption, said cocoa is not grown in the US and supports more than 10,000 American jobs.

Johnson & Johnson signed a voluntary most-favored-nation drug-pricing agreement with the Trump administration, selling medicines through TrumpRx.gov and to Medicaid at prices comparable to other developed countries in exchange for an exemption from pharmaceutical tariffs, and announced two new US plants in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

Lululemon USA sued the United States in the Court of International Trade for a full refund, with interest, of the emergency-powers tariffs it paid on imports, weeks before the Supreme Court struck them down.

The Gateway Development Commission began shutting down its five job sites on the $16 billion Hudson River rail tunnel after the Trump administration kept withholding federal grants; a federal judge ordered the money released the next evening.

In a 149-page opinion, Judge Lewis Liman held that USDOT unlawfully terminated the federal agreement behind Manhattan's congestion toll, and that any attempt to enforce Sean Duffy's letters ending it would be unlawful.

President Trump signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles after the G7 summit, committing both sides to a final deal within 60 days, lifting the US naval blockade and reopening the Strait of Hormuz toll-free.

Three weeks after the Islamabad Memorandum, Trump said at the NATO summit in Ankara that the ceasefire with Iran was 'over' after the two sides traded attacks, and threatened to reinstate the naval blockade and 'take over' Kharg Island.

World leaders address the UN General Assembly Hall in New York from 22 to 28 September 2026, as Assembly President Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh opens the 81st session's debate and António Guterres gives his final address as Secretary-General.

President Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET on 28 September 2026 that Mesabi Metallics will invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in Iowa, which the White House calls the largest of its kind in US history and the first mega steel plant built in the country since the 1960s. The plant is due to start producing steel in 2030. Its first phase is put at about 7.5 million tons a year with up to 6,000 construction jobs, rising to 10 million tons a year and at least 1,750 permanent jobs. It will run on iron ore from Mesabi's new mine at Nashwauk on Minnesota's Iron Range, and Iowa lawmakers have discussed tax incentives for a plant in Lee County in the state's southeast. The announcement came weeks before the November midterm elections, as Trump pointed to his 50% steel tariffs as the driver of new US steel investment.