Trump is now speaking at the Liberty Ball, his second ball appearance of the night, with his family standing behind him.

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Trump and his wife Melania shared a dance at the Commander-in-Chief Ball. They were later joined by Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha.

A White House representative has told media waiting outside a jail in Washington DC that two people have been released following President Donald Trump's executive order pardoning 6 January Capitol rioters.

He said that brothers Andrew and Matthew Valentin have been released from the facility, but did not provide details.

"They're no longer here. They're gone and that's all I know," he told the media and supporters waiting outside.

Families who are waiting outside the facility for news of their loved one's potential release are growing frustrated with the lack of information coming from inside.

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Earlier today we saw former Vice-President Kamala Harris leave Washington for regular life in her home state of California.

As soon as she landed in Los Angeles she made two stops.

First she stopped by a World Central Kitchen serving food to families impacted by Southern California's recent wildfires, which killed 27 people and burned thousands of structures.

She then met with firefighters who fought off the flames earlier this month.

After this, we've heard she's going to take some time to mull what her future has in store. Reports suggest a run for California governor - or perhaps another presidential bid could be in her future - but she's yet to comment.

Ellie Violet Bramley
Fashion analyst

Usha Vance's fashion choices over the past few days have marked an altogether more high-fashion tone for the lawyer and now second lady, who had previously kept her style relatively inconspicuous.

Where she wore pink Oscar de la Renta earlier in the day, for the ball she chose a sequined blue dress that could be seen as an example of the kind of literal dressing that the first lady enjoyed, to varying degrees of success, during the last Trump administration – a reference to the Arctic temperatures outside.

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Fashion analyst

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Melania Trump appeared at the first ball wearing a gown that had some striking similarities to the one she wore to Trump's first inauguration: the clavicle-showing cut, the slit up one leg and the geometric detailing on the front.

But where last time that detail came in the same vanilla silk crepe as the dress itself, this time it came in a thick black ribbon-like strip, echoed in a choker-style necklace, as if to underline the occasion with more solidity than she perhaps had the first time around.

From a distance, the inky squiggle could easily remind viewers of the signature that Melania's husband today signed on a flurry of executive orders.

The first lady's black-and-white look was echoed in the classic tux worn by her husband. Will we perhaps see more oval office-style couples' dress during Trump's second term, in a move to signal unity between the pair whose relationship – body language and all – has often been scrutinised? Only time will tell.

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Trump ended his on-stage appearance at the Commander-in-Chief Ball by cutting a large cake with a sword.

Vice-president JD Vance, who also cut the cake with a sword, joked: "The Secret Service are getting very nervous right now."

Trump asked the crowd if anyone wanted some cake, before YMCA started to play on the loudspeaker and he began to dance.

Speaking to US military members based in South Korea through a video call on stage, Trump asked: "Hello everybody, how are we doing over there? How is Kim Jong Un doing?"

His joke was met with some laughter from the crowd.

Speaking on the big screen, Command Sergeant Major Robin Bolmer welcomed Trump back to his presidency. "We're ready to receive you, Mr President."

During his speech at the Commander-in-Chief Ball, Trump said a big part of the reason he won the election was his relationship with the military.

"I have to tell you, with the military, we really won," he said.

Under the leadership of Pete Hegseth, who is set to be the next defence secretary, the country will again have "the most powerful military the world has ever seen", Trump added.

"We are going to have a nice iron dome," he said. "There's only one focus: defeating America's enemies. We're not going to be defeated, we're not going to be humiliated. We're only going to win win win."

Trump says his administration is going to make the military so strong "we don't have to use it".

"God bless you, God bless our armed force, God bless our men and women serving overseas, and God bless the United States of America" Trump says, ending his speech.

The crowd chants "USA, USA".

Trump is now addressing the Commander-in-Chief Ball.

He says it's an honour to serve in the role for the second time, and gives a shout out to Space Force - a branch of the US military he established during his previous term in office.

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JD Vance and his wife Usha have joined Trump and Melania, as the two couples take part in a brief dance on stage.

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Trump has just arrived at the Commander-in-Chief Ball – one of three inaugural balls where we're expecting to hear from the President this evening in Washington DC.

The US Marine Band plays Hail to the Chief as he and Melania enter, Trump now in black tie.

As inauguration day got underway today, anti-Trump demonstrators gathered in cities around the country, from New York to Washington DC and Los Angeles.

Here are scenes we saw from those protests:

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Though widespread, the protests today are a far cry from those seen in 2017. One day after Trump's first inauguration, hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in a Women's March in what became the largest single-day protest in US history.

BBC's Holly Honderich spoke to one of the founders of the Women's March about why, this year, she's sitting out the fight.

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Trump has yet to appear at the inaugural balls taking place across Washington DC this evening.

He's due to stop by at three inaugural balls throughout the city – the Commander-in-Chief Ball, the Liberty Inaugural Ball and the Starlight Ball – and he's expected to speak at all three.

A military band is playing at the Commander-in-Chief Ball as attendees await the president's arrival.

While at the Liberty Inaugural Ball, attendees are enjoying a concert by American country singer Jason Aldean.

Earlier, when Trump was signing executive actions in front of the media in the Oval Office, Trump spoke briefly about North Korea, describing it as a "nuclear power".

It has been a long-standing US policy to pursue denuclearisation.

South Korea has responded to Trump's remarks, Reuters reports, saying that denuclearisation of its northern neighbour must remain the goal.

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Business reporter

Stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region gave up early gains after President Donald Trump said he was thinking of imposing new tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

"We're thinking in terms of 25 percent on Mexico and Canada, because they're allowing vast numbers of people - Canada's a very bad abuser also - vast numbers of people to come in, and fentanyl to come in," Trump said in the Oval Office.

On Tuesday morning, after Trump mentioned the tariffs, Japan's Nikkei 225 index was 0.1% higher, South Korea's Kospi was down about 0.2% and Australia's ASX 200 rose by around 0.5%.

Meanwhile, the dollar regained some ground against some other major currencies, including the pound and the euro.

Earlier, Trump pledged in his inaugural address to bring in a new "golden age" for America.

He has also promised an ambitious agenda - including trade reforms, lower taxes and cuts to government regulations - which has the potential to boost company profits.

More here.

As we reported earlier, Trump has rescinded 78 Biden-era executive actions as one of his first acts as president.

We can now bring you more detail, as the White House has published the list of those now-rescinded Biden-era actions.

Among them is an executive order Biden signed on 1 February last year, which gave the US government the power to sanction any foreign nationals who attempt to attack, intimidate or seize the property of Palestinians in the West Bank.

Biden's original executive order warned of "high levels of extremist settler violence" in the West Bank having reached "intolerable levels".

Ellie Violet Bramley
Fashion analyst

The last time around, Melania wore a simple but sculptural silk crepe dress by the French fashion designer and former creative director of Carolina Herrera, Hervé Pierre.

It was cinched at the waist with a claret ribbon.

The design had reportedly come about after Pierre received a text from Trump just a few weeks before the ball, on 3 Jan.

According to an interview with him in The New York Times, external, Melania's brief was that the dress should be “sleek,” “modern” and “form-fitting".

The pair had apparently never met but, only a few hours later, in Trump Tower, they were already plotting the gown. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Fashion analyst

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The inaugural balls have been a significant event since President James Madison's first in 1809. The first lady at the time was Dolley Payne Todd Madison and, according to one observer who was there, external, she “answered all my ideas of royalty” when she arrived in a velvet gown with a long train.

To this day, what the first lady wears tends to cause the biggest sartorial waves of the night, and many of the gowns end up in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

As curator Lisa Kathleen Graddy recently told Vogue: “Why do we care what the first lady wears? She is considered to be the first lady of American society. She’s going out and representing us across the country and around the world, so people tend to feel that they have a right to have an opinion.”