Fox News announced that Nigel Farage, the right-wing populist British leader who helped lead last year’s Brexit campaign, would join the network as a regular contributor. The move grants Mr. Farage, who is friendly with Mr. Trump, a foothold on the country’s most watched cable-news network, in a year of critical elections in Europe where right-wing groups are on the rise.

Even on the dais, divisions are plain

As Mr. Trump gave his inaugural address, Madea Benjamin, a founder of the left-wing stunt protester group Code Pink, strode toward the dais in a section reserved for honored guests and journalists, pausing just below the president as she shouted that he was not a “legitimate president.”

Two Capitol Police officers quickly grabbed her and escorted her out.

How she got that ticket, now that’s a story.

Once in, more ‘rolling thunder’ than ‘shock and awe’

As Mr. Trump assumes the presidency, he and his senior aides have settled on a strategy to begin slowly unwinding regulations and policies from the Obama era, opting against the more sudden approach that some inside his team had recommended.

The plan, as described by one senior Trump official, is “more rolling thunder than shock and awe.”

Some aides to Mr. Trump, including his chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, had advised the president-elect to make a more dramatic show of his first few days in office, by signing a flurry of executive orders and making new policy pronouncements that would undo many of Mr. Obama’s actions on immigration, wages, banking and the environment.

But Mr. Trump has opted instead to let his plans trickle out over the next 30 days, this official said.

Memories of inaugurations past — and a photo found

Thrilled by the prospect of voting for the first time, my college-age daughter, Nora, recently asked her 89-year-old grandfather, Joseph Trinity, whether he remembered his own first vote. He dodged the question, then stunned his family with this late-breaking news: But I do remember being in Eisenhower’s inaugural parade.