A view of the U.S. Capitol from the top of the Washington Monument at dawn on the Inauguration Day of Donald Trump’s second presidential term in Washington, D.C. Brendan

Dignitaries from across Washington and around the world crammed into the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Monday to watch power transfer peacefully from Democratic former President Joe Biden to his Republican successor,

Trump says he will sign "lots" of executive orders tomorrow, telling the crowd it will make them "extremely happy". By the time the sun sets tomorrow the "invasion of our borders will have come to a halt" and "all the illegal border trespassers will in some form or another be on their way back home", he says.

A New York Times photographer followed President Trump for more than 18 hours on Inauguration Day. Here’s what he saw.

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, is set to be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president

Defining images as 47th US president takes office

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S.

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts in an inauguration ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday. "I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success,