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Executive Order 11110
Executive Order 11110, signed by John F. Kennedy on June 4, 1963, amended EO 10289 to let the Treasury Secretary issue silver certificates during the phase-out of silver-backed currency; it never targeted the Federal Reserve and was superseded by EO 12608 in 1987.
Executive Order 13769
Executive Order 13769, the first Trump travel ban, was signed January 27, 2017, suspending entry of nationals of seven countries before courts blocked it and Trump revoked it.
Executive Order 13959
Executive Order 13959 (November 12, 2020, Trump): US investment ban barring US persons from buying or selling publicly traded securities of Communist Chinese military companies, as amended by EO 14032 and administered via OFAC's NS-CMIC List.
Executive Order 14110
Executive Order 14110, signed by President Biden on October 30, 2023, was the US government's main AI policy directive, covering dual-use foundation model reporting, federal Chief AI Officers, and eight governing principles, until revocation in January 2025.
Executive Order 14151
Executive Order 14151, 'Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,' signed January 20, 2025 by President Trump, terminates federal DEI, DEIA, and environmental justice offices, positions, grants, and contracts, rescinding the Biden-era EO 13985 equity framework.
Executive Order 14160
Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship," was Trump's January 20, 2025 order limiting birthright citizenship; enjoined by courts and held unconstitutional in Trump v. Barbara (2026), then superseded by EO 14418.
Executive Order 14168
Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," signed January 20, 2025, defines sex as binary and immutable, reshapes passports and prisons, and has drawn extensive litigation.
Executive Order 14172
Executive Order 14172, "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness," signed January 20, 2025 by President Trump, reinstates Mount McKinley for Denali and renames the U.S. portion of the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
Executive Order 14183
Executive Order 14183, 'Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,' signed by Trump January 27, 2025, excludes individuals with gender dysphoria from U.S. military service, revokes EO 14004, and faces ongoing litigation.
Executive Order 14201
Executive Order 14201, "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," signed by Trump on February 5, 2025, directs Title IX enforcement, federal funding rescission, visa review, and IOC pressure to reserve women's sports by sex.
Executive Order 14203
Executive Order 14203, signed by President Trump on February 6, 2025, imposes IEEPA-based sanctions, asset freezes, and entry bans on ICC officials and others investigating U.S. or allied personnel, reviving the rescinded 2020 Executive Order 13928.
Executive Order 14224
Executive Order 14224, signed by Trump on March 1, 2025, designates English the official language of the United States and revokes Clinton's EO 13166 on limited-English-proficiency language access, while leaving Title VI obligations intact.
Executive Order 14253
Executive Order 14253, 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History' (signed March 27, 2025), directs removal of 'improper ideology' from Smithsonian exhibits, conditions future appropriations, and orders a review of Interior monuments changed since January 1, 2020.
Executive Order 14333
Executive Order 14333 (August 11, 2025), Trump's D.C. crime emergency order invoking Home Rule Act section 740, delegated MPD control to the Attorney General for up to 30 days, prompting lawsuits and a National Guard deployment.
Executive Order 14347
Executive Order 14347, Restoring the United States Department of War, signed by Trump September 5, 2025, authorizes Department of War and Secretary of War as secondary titles for the Department of Defense in non-statutory contexts; the statutory 1949 name remains unchanged pending Congressional action.
Executive Order 6102
Executive Order 6102, the Gold Confiscation Executive Order, was a 1933 order by President Franklin D. Roosevelt requiring Americans to deliver gold to Federal Reserve banks in exchange for currency.
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorized military exclusion areas that led to the West Coast incarceration of about 120,000 Japanese Americans, rescinded in 1944 and formally terminated by Ford's 1976 proclamation.
Executive Outcomes
Executive Outcomes (EO), South African private military company founded 1989 by Eeben Barlow, staffed by ex-SADF veterans; fought UNITA in Angola and the RUF in Sierra Leone; disbanded 1998.
Executive privilege
Executive privilege, also known as presidential privilege, lets the US President withhold confidential communications from Congress and courts; it is grounded in separation of powers, not the Constitution's text.
Executive producer
An executive producer is a senior producing credit in film and television, meaning financing or backing in film and the showrunner's top role in television.
Executive Residence
The Executive Residence is the central White House building, the president's home and a house of state: 132 rooms, 6 levels, about 55,000 square feet, a federal EOP component exempt from FOIA, reshaped by the 1902, 1927, 1942, and 1948-1952 renovations.
Executive Schedule
Executive Schedule (EX): five-level U.S. federal pay system (EX-I to EX-V) for top presidentially appointed officials such as cabinet secretaries; 2026 official rates $184,900–$253,100, with frozen payable rates through January 2026.
Executive summary
An executive summary, also called a management summary, is a stand-alone digest of a longer report or proposal, written so decision makers can understand it without reading the full document.
Executive, semi-constitutional and ceremonial monarchy
A political-science spectrum that classifies constitutional monarchies as executive, semi-constitutional, or ceremonial by how much power the monarch holds, ranging from Jordan to Sweden.
Executor
Executor: a person named in a will and confirmed by a probate court to settle a deceased person's estate, collecting assets, paying debts and taxes, and distributing property; distinct from a court-appointed administrator.
ExecuTorch
ExecuTorch is an open-source stack from Meta for running PyTorch machine learning models directly on edge devices, from phones to microcontrollers, without a cloud connection.
Exeed Sterra ET (星纪元)
The Exeed Sterra ET (星纪元ET) is a mid-to-large electric SUV from Chery's premium Exeed brand, launched in China in May 2024 and exported as the Exlantix ET.
Exegesis
Exegesis (Greek exēgēsis, "to lead out") is critical interpretation of a text, especially scripture; hermeneutics supplies the interpretive principles, eisegesis is the opposed error of reading meaning in.
Exein
Exein is a Rome-based cybersecurity startup, founded in 2018 by Gianni Cuozzo, that embeds runtime security into connected devices and Physical AI systems like robots and drones.
Exeligmos
The exeligmos (Greek ἐξελιγμός) is the triple Saros eclipse cycle, lasting about 54 years and 33 days, after which eclipses recur at nearly the same longitude and local time.