Former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage to address supporters at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

President Donald Trump 2.0: What's next for the U.S.?

<p>Our experienced correspondents around the United States and further afield examine how a Trump presidency affects climate change, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ communities, immigration, socio-economic inclusion, and debates around Big Tech and AI.</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s a round-up of our coverage so far.</p>

A person works on his computer in San Francisco, California May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

U.S. Chamber sues over Trump's H-1B work visa fee

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he speaks to the press on board Air Force One en route to Doha, Qatar, May 14, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Trump’s team weighs COP attendance, but influence looms either way

A resident enters a FEMA's improvised station to attend claims by local residents affected by floods following the passing of Hurricane Helene, in Marion, North Carolina, U.S., October 5, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

20 years after Hurricane Katrina, can FEMA weather Trump?

A man sits on a street in Skid Row, Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 9, 2024. REUTERS/Daniel Cole

What are Trump's plans to tackle rising homelessness?

Dr. Jamal Bryant, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, poses for a picture in April 2024. Catt Harper/Handout via Thomson Reuters Foundation

Q&A: The pastor pushing back on anti-DEI in Trump's America

Guatemalan migrants walk after arriving at La Aurora Air Force Base on a deportation flight from the U.S., in Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 27, 2024. REUTERS/Cristina Chiquin

In Data: The economic cost of Trump's mass deportation plan

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts on the day he signs documents as he issues executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Why Trump has Ghana's LGBTQ+ community on high alert

A Mexican man is arrested by federal law enforcement agents led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Rex, south of Atlanta, Georgia, February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

How AI is aiding Trump's immigration crackdown

Security cameras monitor during a pro-Palestinian protest outside Columbia University, in New York City, U.S., September 03, 2024. REUTERS/Adam Gray

Q&A: 'It's bleak, it's creepy' - U.S. tech expert

A worker unloads logs at the Murray Brothers Lumber Company in Madawaska, Ontario, Canada, July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Trump logging order sparks fears for US Southeast forests

Riot police and prison guards on alert inside the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, April 4, 2025. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Nelson Renteria

Inside Trump's $6mn deportee deal with El Salvador mega-prison

A trailer park flooded due to record rainfall in Sonoma County, Forestville, California, U.S., November 23, 2024. REUTERS/Jorge Garcia

Volunteers on 'right side of history' fight Trump data purge

Scientist works in the research lab at the University of Cape Town's Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, in South Africa. February 17, 2025. REUTERS/Esa Alexander

HIV workers race to plug funding gaps after Trump USAID cuts

An Afghan refugee woman sits with her daughter as Pakistan warns undocumented immigrants to leave in Azakhel town in Nowshera, Pakistan October 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

"No place to call home": First Taliban, then Trump denies Afghans

Migrant siblings from Ecuador hold hands with their mother outside of The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan in New York City, U.S., February 24, 2025. REUTERS/Adam Gray

Death of American Dream after Trump axes refugee funds

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain a man after conducting a raid at the Cedar Run apartment complex in Denver, Colorado, U.S., February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt

Amid Trump deportation threats, U.S. communities prepare

An HIV adherence counsellor draws a woman's blood for an HIV test at the IOM treatment centre in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya, November 29, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Trump's aid freeze hits HIV care for gay men, trans people

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he delivers remarks on AI infrastructure at the Roosevelt room at White House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

How are Trump's policies affecting global AI safety laws?

An Afghan boy waves from a bus taking refugees to a processing center upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., September 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Trump halts U.S. refugee programme: Who is affected?

U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

Trump's anti-DEI push spreads across U.S. public, private sectors

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump takes the stage following early results from the 2024 U.S. presidential election in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare

Everything you need to know about Trump’s deportation plans

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2025./File Photo

LGBTQ+ Americans in crisis as Trump rolls back rights

A patient talks to a health worker at the Family Health Options clinic in Nairobi, Kenya, May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Trump 2.0 instills fear in African abortion activists

A U.S. Border Patrol agent stands next to migrants seeking asylum before being returned to Mexico from the United States after U.S. authorities prevented their crossing, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

How are ‘sanctuary’ cities coming under attack by Trump?

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on cryptocurrencies, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

How Trump could impact U.S. LGBTQ+ asylum rules

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally held with Republican vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 3, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner

'Drill, baby, drill': Donald Trump's plan on climate change

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm

Trump 2.0: Crypto bet big on Trump in 2024. Can it cash in?

Protesters gather inside the South Carolina House as members debate a near-total ban on abortion in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. August 30, 2022. REUTERS/Sam Wolfe

Where do US states stand on abortion bans as new Trump era dawns?

Workers of the company Greenland Anorthosite Mining drill at an exploration site at the Qeqertarsuatsiaat fjord, Greenland, September 11, 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Trump's Greenland grab: Green minerals, black gold and melting ice

A migrant carries his son while walking in a caravan bound to the northern border with the U.S., in Huixtla, Mexico January 3, 2025. REUTERS/Damian Sanchez

Anxious but undeterred, migrants brace for Trump presidency

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 22, 2024. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

What's in a name? Trump set to wipe government language

Advocates demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 22, 2024, during oral arguments for the Grants Pass homelessness case. Aparna Raj/ Local Progress/Handout via Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ahead of Trump term, U.S. cities grapple with homelessness

How will Trump’s presidency impact HIV/AIDS funding?

Smugglers are seen to the left in Sonora, Mexico as they transport a mother and her daughter from El Salvador past the Border Wall into the United States in Ruby, Arizona, U.S., June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

'Bless Donald Trump': Human smugglers cash in

Nick Damico, attendee and co-founder of crypto exchange Roxom wears a cap sporting "Make Bitcoin Great Again" at the Bitcoin MENA conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 9, 2024. REUTERS/Federico Maccioni

Friends in high places: Trump may help Bitcoin hit new highs

A migrant from Honduras aboard a bus shows his cuffed hands as he is transferred to a plane to be expelled under U.S. Title 42 from the United States to their country by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and Border Patrol agents, at the airport in El Paso, Texas, U.S., May 10, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Trump surveillance power worries immigration, civil rights groups

Anti-abortion and abortion rights protestors demonstrate on the anniversary of the decision by the United States Supreme to overturn Roe v. Wade, outside the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

What a Donald Trump presidency could mean for abortion rights

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally for the first time with his running mate, Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. July 20, 2024. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Trump, armed with tech, could supercharge deportations

Aerial drone picture shows Amazon rainforest amid grainfields in Querência, Brazil, August 25, 2025. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rogério Florentino

Tipping points in the Amazon

Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad speaks next to Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Brazil's COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago during the ministerial preparatory meeting (Pre-COP30), ahead of the COP30 Climate Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Mateus Bonomi

COP30 in the Amazon. Can Brazil deliver?

A Palestinian mother sits next to her malnourished son, at a school where they shelter amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, July 24, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Gaza: The devastating legacy of two years of conflict

Context reporter Andre Cabette Fabio poses for a photo in a firefighters uniform during a reporting trip in Corumbá, Brazil, September, 11, 2024. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Henrique Kawaminami

Land, biodiversity, life: Stories of Brazil’s nature defenders

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he holds hands with his wife Melania during his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

President Donald Trump 2.0: What's next for the U.S.?

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