It’s been a busy week in the United States as President Donald Trump has burst out of the postinauguration gates. Linda Feldmann sorts through his many initiatives in our first story today. Patrik Jonsson then goes deeply into one particular move: Mr. Trump’s pardons for even violent Jan. 6 offenders, and how police associations across the country are responding to them.

You can also join Ghada Abdulfattah, the Monitor’s correspondent in Gaza, as she walks with one man who, like many others, is returning to a rubble-strewn neighborhood. Her compassion – she, too, lost her home to the conflict – resonates throughout.