There is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit...

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Democrats on House oversight committee release new Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a tranche of...

A Democratic challenger who said she intends to drop out of November’s race for the US Senate in Nebraska to clear the way for an...

South Korea’s foreign ministry has expressed concern after “many of our nationals” were among hundreds detained during a major Ice raid on a Hyundai factory...

For someone who doesn’t have a marble island in their kitchen I spend a disproportionate amount of time staring at marble kitchen islands, slack-jawed, brain...

US supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...

Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine mandates likely won’t take effect for 90 days and would include only chickenpox and a few other illnesses unless...

The political analyst fired by MSNBC over his Charlie Kirk commentary says his former employer agreed with him that his remarks were being misconstrued as...

Donald Trump has confirmed a long-awaited meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will happen in Washington this week, setting up an in-person clash...

The supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments. The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked...

A federal judge threw out the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Monday, concluding that the prosecutor handling the case was unlawfully...

Security lines stretched for hours on Monday at US airports where unpaid Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) screening agents refused to report for duty and ICE...

America’s main streets are a warzone. This should trouble every American, irrespective of their political leaning. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are near...

Donald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s...

Adelita Grijalva won the Democratic House primary in Arizona to succeed her father, beating a young social media activist in a closely watched election seen...

The killing of Charlie Kirk has prompted a crackdown by authorities on critical commentary, with numerous people losing their jobs over their reaction to the...

US House approves bill to force release of Epstein files in near-unanimous vote The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department...

Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California, said on Monday he would resign from Congress following multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct that ended...

Democratic lawmakers assailed Doug Collins, the Veterans Affairs (VA) secretary for repeating Trump administration’s claims on the killing of Alex Pretti, a VA nurse shot...

Iran and the US are expected to meet for a further round of talks in Geneva this week in a sign that Donald Trump’s team...

A divided US appeals court on Tuesday allowed US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, to resume her role at the agency, as Donald...

A longstanding tariff exemption that let people skip import fees for small-value packages ended on Friday, leaving small businesses and postal services around the world...

Donald Trump has asked a US court to order a swift deposition for billionaire Rupert Murdoch in the president’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street...

The Republican senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday that he believed the White House adviser Stephen Miller “should go” and that his role in the...

A 31-year-old man has been charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, after a thwarted attack at Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner. Immediately after this,...

Earlier this summer, Republican lawmakers gathered around Donald Trump and applauded as he sat before a desk outside the White House and put his signature...

The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter/X...

On Wednesday morning, Pedro Sánchez delivered a 10-minute televised address with the rather bland title: “An institutional declaration by the prime minister to assess recent...

Warren says DoJ only dropped ‘bogus’ investigation of Powell to ‘clear the path’ for Warsh confirmation Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate banking...

Beijing has told the US it will retaliate if Donald Trump fails to back down on his threat to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports...

Scott Wiener, the California state senator, is expected to run for the San Francisco congressional district long held by Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker,...

Donald Trump reportedly had a blunt message for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro: leave power – and your country – immediately. Sources told the Miami Herald...

Donald Trump has labelled the continuing Epstein scandal a “Democrat hoax” and told reporters “I think it’s enough”, a day after his administration released more...

Jerome traveled a thousand miles from California to El Paso, Texas, so he could accompany Jenny to her immigration hearing. He and his wife had...

Donald Trump said the US had begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran, warning that there may be US casualties. The strikes, which the US president...

The killing of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week has triggered a wave of political disquiet in Washington, with some House Democrats fearing a...

Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about...

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ will add $2.4tn to national debt, according to nonpartisan analysis The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has released a revised estimate of...

A group of 40 House Democrats have described “grave concerns” over the Trump administration’s secretive program of deportation flights and demanded the Federal Aviation Administration...

Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing congresswoman and former House speaker, has conceded that she may not see a woman be elected US president in her lifetime....

Eight states asked a US judge on Friday to issue a temporary restraining order to stop a $3.5bn merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna....

Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine...

The US Senate took a stand against Donald Trump’s global tariffs affecting more than 100 countries on Thursday, voting to nullify the so-called “reciprocal” tariffs....

Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, stayed loyal to Donald Trump until the end – and nurtured the president’s grievances against his political...

Thousands of people protested in Minneapolis, Minnesota over the weekend to decry the fatal shooting of 37‑year‑old Renee Good by a US immigration agent, one...

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said at a press conference that to protect victims the department ‘redacted every woman depicted in any image or...

The House ethics committee said on Wednesday that it has opened an investigation of Tony Gonzales, a Republican representative from Texas, over allegations that include...

The US Senate on Sunday moved toward a vote on reopening the federal government, suggesting that an end to the historic shutdown, now in its...

Donald Trump suggested on a conservative podcast released on Monday that Republican state officials “take over” and “nationalize” elections in 15 states to protect the...

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Sunday that he is suing Donald Trump over the deployment of 300 California national guard personnel to Oregon. “They...

A North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics – a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide. In the Durham-area fourth...

An alliance of environmental groups and immigration advocates has welcomed what looks to be the imminent closure of Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration jail in...

Democrats think they can flip the Senate blue in November, and they’re hoping a group of interesting characters will help them do it. This week,...

JD Vance went into confessional mode. “I was telling somebody backstage that I always felt a little uncomfortable talking about my faith in public,” he...

In Sand Point, Alaska, the radio dial is mostly empty. For a commercial broadcaster, running a station in this Aleutian Island fishing town of about...

The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit in federal court on Sunday seeking to block the deployment of 200 national guard troops to Portland, arguing...

Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously...

They are more than a year away – a lifetime in today’s fast and furious political cycle. But one man is already paying attention, pulling...

US supreme court announces funding will run out this weekend The US supreme court is expected to run out of federal funding on Saturday, according...

Virginia’s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four...

Donald Trump told reporters he doesn’t understand why his supporters are so interested in the ‘sordid, but boring’ crimes of the late sex offender Jeffrey...

A man tried on a felony charge of aiming a laser at presidential helicopter Marine One while it was transporting Donald Trump was acquitted recently...

Donald Trump has suggested he already has a replacement in mind for the Federal Reserve governor he is trying to force, even as Lisa Cook...

US senators on Saturday were scrambling to open debate on Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill, which is key to the president’s second-term agenda. The...

A federal arts commission on Thursday approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing Donald Trump’s image to help celebrate the US’s...

When it comes to politics in Appalachian Kentucky, one of the first things anyone will tell you is that people defy easy categorization. There are...

Zattura Sims-El sorts through her utility bills in Baltimore, Maryland, on 13 January 2025. Before she sat down to speak with the Guardian, Zattura Sims-El...

This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn...

Newsom calls Republican redistricting to eliminate Black-majority congressional districts ‘stone-cold racism’ Asked on Thursday for his response to Republican efforts to eliminate majority-Black congressional districts...

Schumer says Senate Democrats will force vote on Trump’s tariffs on Canada Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will force the chamber to vote...

House Democrats share Trump ‘birthday note’ to Jeffrey Epstein Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a scanned copy of a “birthday note” that...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funding and threatening hefty fines against the University of California amid the administration’s attempts...

Good morning. Let’s delve into the two Ts shaping the global economy right now: tariffs and Trump. Last week, the US supreme court ruled that...

Representatives for victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein condemned the US Department of Justice on Friday for only partially releasing investigative documents while at...

JD Vance met with Republican lawmakers in Indiana on Thursday to encourage them to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable to the...

Fired fed governor’s lawyer argues that her removal does ‘irreparable harm’ Cook’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is arguing that her firing does “irreparable harm”. He says...

The conservative majority of United States supreme court justices has been widely criticized for granting Donald Trump an increasing amount of leeway to wield his...

While the world watched the pomp of Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing, the US was turning up the pressure thousands of miles away. Its oil...

As mass protests erupted over the past week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed Renee Nicole Good, thousands of Americans hoisted signs and...

As Democrats reckon with a deep intra-party divide that threatens their ability to repair the party’s image and win back voters, Ken Martin said he...

In his 130 days as a special government employee, the world’s richest man slashed his way through federal agencies, laying off government employees and gaining...

Progressives in the UK and US are grappling with the same question. Why have rightwing populists become so much more successful at tapping into public...

J Randy Taraborrelli has already written five books on the Kennedy family but his sixth, JFK: Public, Private, Secret, is his first that’s directly about...

Barack Obama took aim at institutions and businesses who made deals or worked out settlements with the Trump administration, noting on a new podcast episode:...

The Los Angeles Dodgers lost on Thursday, 5-3, to the San Diego Padres. A mostly unremarkable game livened up by a hit batsman that led...

When Clint Curtis was appointed to oversee voting in California’s Shasta county earlier this year, the Florida-based lawyer and election skeptic pledged to “fix” the...

Nothing is more insufferable than someone saying “I told you so”; so please forgive me for being insufferable. On 29 September 2023, after a couple...

A Louisiana congressional candidate endorsed by Donald Trump was the subject of a 2007 rape accusation that was reported to local law enforcement the same...

The New Orleans mayor, LaToya Cantrell, was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on corruption charges involving a purported romance with her former bodyguard....

The “department of government efficiency” (Doge) is using artificial intelligence to create a “delete list” of federal regulations, according to a report, proposing to use...

The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict legal...

The scene around Washington’s Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seemed to fit Donald Trump’s most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal...

US immigration officials carried out further “enforcement activity” in California’s agricultural heartland and the Los Angeles area as the conflict between the state and Donald...

Raskin says Trump’s threat to withhold back pay from federal workers after shutdown is illegal Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who represents many federal...

For the past few months, I have been waging a cold war with a neighbour who constantly puts out their rubbish on the wrong day....

The council of American-Islamic relations (Cair) has accused the Trump administration of a “blatant affront to free speech” after federal immigration authorities detained British journalist,...

Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of...

It is a world turned upside down. In his first year in office, Donald Trump has bullied Ukraine, bombed Iran and toppled the leader of...