President Donald Trump had not made a public appearance since his hospitalization with COVID-19 ended Oct. 5—until Saturday. Hundreds of people, many of them wearing masks, gathered on the South Lawn of the White House to hear the president speak from the Blue Room balcony. For 18 minutes, he spoke to a mostly Latino and African American audience about his support for law enforcement.

President Donald Trump stepped out of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in a black SUV Sunday to wave to supporters who had gathered outside the clinic. Secret Service agents inside the vehicle donned masks and other protective gear. The short trip caused some concern as Trump is still infected and contagious after he tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday.

At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to ensure all babies born alive “no matter their circumstances” receive proper medical care. In a prerecorded speech, the president told attendees that protecting babies “is our sacrosanct moral duty.”

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump spoke with famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward in 18 separate conversations between December 2019 and July. Woodward, an associate editor at The Washington Post, collected the information for his upcoming book Rage, set for release on Tuesday. It discusses the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, race relations in America, and international diplomacy. Woodward wrote the book as a sequel to his 2018 work, Fear, which Trump criticized for not including any personal interviews with him.

President Donald Trump described his younger brother Robert as kind and agreeable: “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend.” Robert Trump died on Saturday at age 71. The president visited his brother at a hospital in New York on Friday after White House officials said he became seriously ill.

President Donald Trump on Saturday took executive action to extend extra unemployment benefits, defer payroll taxes, pause student loan payments, and protect renters from eviction. He signed four executive orders enacting key provisions of a Republican economic stimulus plan the day after the White House and congressional Democrats failed to reach a deal. “This is not a perfect answer,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on Friday.

Shortly after President Donald Trump extolled Christopher Columbus in an Independence Day speech in Washington, rioters in Baltimore pulled down a statue of the Italian explorer and threw it in the city’s Inner Harbor. As anti-racist activists call for the removal of monuments to Confederate generals and slaveholders, many are also targeting statues of Columbus because of his mistreatment of indigenous people.