Multiple agencies confirm reductions in force are under way The Guardian has independently confirmed that reductions in force (RIFs) are under way at the following...

The exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the government and people’s hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear....

Recently demoted border patrol official Gregory Bovino reportedly made mocking and sarcastic remarks about the Jewish faith of Minnesota’s US attorney, Daniel Rosen, during a...

What a real pro-family agenda looks like I think we all need a little cheering up, don’t you? So allow me to interrupt the steady...

‘We have no choice’: Trump says layoffs are an inevitability if the government shuts down When asked by a reporter during his executive order signing,...

The House oversight committee on Tuesday issued subpoenas to Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as several former attorneys general and directors of the FBI,...

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...

The Jeffrey Epstein files scandal swirling around Donald Trump and his administration continued to escalate on Thursday as officials from the Department of Justice met...

Organizers challenging Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map say they turned in enough signatures on Tuesday to block the map from going into effect and to force...

The world’s most followed TikToker, Khaby Lame, has left the US after being briefly detained by immigration agents for allegedly overstaying his visa. The Italian-Senegalese...

Mike Johnson, the US House speaker, said on Wednesday he would put the bill compelling the release of government files related to late sex offender...

A tranche of documents released by the House oversight committee on Wednesday revealed that Jeffrey Epstein’s staff kept him apprised of Donald Trump’s air travel...

House Republicans face tight deadline to slash foreign aid and public broadcasting The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on Donald Trump’s $9bn...

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...

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Twenty-one Senate Democrats are demanding Donald Trump immediately cut funding to a controversial Gaza aid organization they say has resulted in the killings of more...

Mounting pressure over President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has reportedly rattled and divided Republican congress members so...

When the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month, the decision was based on debunked claims from election...

Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, the Wall Street...

A Democratic senator has sounded the alarm about her own party’s failings, urging colleagues to “slaughter some sacred cows” if they want to combat Donald...

A Republican senator has vowed to block all Federal Reserve nominations after the justice department opened a criminal investigation into the Fed chair, Jerome Powell,...

Johnson defends administration’s move to keep military paid during shutdown The House speaker has said that the Trump administration has “every right” to move around...

The supreme court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around...

Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in his administration’s pressure...

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“You want a new political party and you shall have it!” Elon Musk declared in early July. The world’s richest man is never one to...

House Democrats have published a new tranche of what they called “disturbing” photographs from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, featuring among...

Maxwell’s lawyer suggests Trump might be sympathetic to her case for a pardon After Donald Trump reminded everyone on Friday that he is “allowed to”...

CBS parent company Paramount on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over an interview broadcast in October, in the latest concession by a...

The conservative commentator Katie Pavlich didn’t want to give anything away before her debut as a primetime host for NewsNation, a cable news channel that...

When Rosaly Estévez “self-deported” from Miami to Havana last November, US immigration officers bid farewell by removing her ankle monitor. The 32-year-old had been told...

Jade Johnson has a word to describe the experience of going hungry in one of the world’s richest countries. “Humbling.” The last time she endured...

This is the third Gulf war and umpteenth outbreak of conflict since the United States took over as the dominant power and influence in the...

Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with...

The occasion should have been marked by the joy of reaching the destination of US citizenship following the long odyssey of immigration. Instead, the ceremony...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Thursday. Here are the...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: A federal judge tossed out...

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...

A federal grand jury has declined to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on mortgage fraud charges for the second time in a...

The Trump administration has promised tens of thousands of federal agents carrying out his immigration crackdown that they will be paid during the government shutdown,...

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and...

Trump attacks Somali community Rachel Leingang In a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump went off on Somalis and Ilhan Omar, the congressional representative who is...

Democratic lawmakers left Texas in an attempt to prevent voting on a Republican plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts. By redrawing district lines, Republicans hope...

Over the last month a civil war has erupted within the Republican party over a controversial interview that the broadcaster Tucker Carlson had with Nick...

On Saturday, as a crowd of thousands of people near the Washington Monument listened, a loudspeaker dramatically announced the names of America’s secretary of defense,...

1. Tensions continued to rise between Cuomo and Mamdani The debate made clear that the most heated rivalry was between Cuomo and Mamdani. From the...

Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, offered few details and was evasive when asked about the deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran, saying...

Elon Musk said, very loudly and very publicly, what is usually the quiet part of the role of money in US politics. “Without me, Trump...

The feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is a godsend for Democrats, a headache for the president and a problem for Mike Johnson, the...

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal...

Threats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty, but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful vengeance in recent days...

Ukrainian negotiators have met US officials in Florida to thrash out details of Washington’s proposed framework to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Kyiv faces...

US health officials are reportedly planning to release data on child deaths and serious side effects they would attribute to Covid-19 vaccines, raising alarm among...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to open a new call center to help law enforcement agencies track down unaccompanied migrant children. According to...

Oil prices again topped $100 per barrel on Thursday as widespread Iranian attacks on Middle Eastern energy facilities overshadowed a vast release of government reserves....

Donald Trump on Thursday continued to brush off widespread backlash over a racist video posted to his social media account last week, and said no...

Saturday Night Live returns from a short hiatus to find the US newly at war with Iran. From behind the presidential podium, Donald Trump (James...

Nigeria provided US with intelligence for strikes on militants, foreign minister says Nigeria provided the US with intelligence on jihadists before the strikes that took...

Donald Trump has pardoned two south Florida shark divers convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks and a giant grouper from a fisherman’s longline several...

In late January 2025, 10 days after Donald Trump was sworn in for a second time as president of the United States, an economic conference...

Abby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023, managing a national...

Last week, the office of management and budget (OMB) revealed plans to freeze all outside funding for National Institutes of Health research this fiscal year,...

For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in...

California lawmakers have passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses as the Trump administration continues...

Senate Democrats say National Park Service being used for ‘influence peddling’ by accepting donations for Trump’s ballroom Five Senate Democrats say a National Parks Service...

Labor unions, community leaders and faith groups are calling for an economic blackout in Minnesota on Friday to protest the surge of federal immigration agents...

Trump nominates economist at the Heritage Foundation as the new BLS commissioner President Donald Trump announced he is nominating EJ Antoni, the chief economist at...

Greenland has demanded its red lines on sovereignty be respected after Donald Trump claimed an agreement with Nato would give the US full and permanent...

The justices of the US supreme court – even its conservatives – have traditionally valued their institution’s own standing. John Roberts, the current US chief...

‘You might say, we’re ending the war on warriors,’ says Pete Hegseth in speech to military leaders Hegseth is speaking now. He says his speech...

Saturday Night Live returns with C-Span coverage of embattled US defense secretary Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) taking questions from the press. After chugging a Monster...

Donald Trump said on Monday morning that he would rule out running for the vice-presidency in the 2028 US election, an unorthodox approach that some...

Obama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...

The US cannot sell any Virginia-class nuclear submarines to Australia without doubling its production rate, because it is making too few for its own defence,...

Russell Vought, the director of the office of management and budget (OMB), on Sunday cast doubt on the constitutional obligation of the White House to...

John F Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg has said he will run for the US House next year, announcing Tuesday that he was seeking a key...

The Rwandan government has said it would accept up to 250 migrants from the US under a deal agreed with Washington but gave no details...

‘Vote-a-rama’ sets new record for longest in Senate history after 45 consecutive votes As the Republican’s tax and spending cuts bill debate continues in the...

We live in a golden age of tasteless political merchandise. This is largely thanks to Donald Trump: over the years the president’s official store has...

A British anti-disinformation campaigner told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US has said he is being targeted by arrogant...

US forces on Saturday apprehended a second merchant vessel carrying oil off the coast of Venezuela in international waters in the midst of an American...

On a cold Saturday morning, a little over a week before the New York City mayoral election in November, I was at a park in...

Late last year, Donald Trump’s White House published a new National Security Strategy (NSS) outlining its vision for the world. At the time, the plan...

Donald Trump vowed to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars” during his inauguration speech last year, a bold promise that spoke to...

The US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to...

Newsom: California suing Trump administration for ‘illegal’ federalization of national guard Speaking to Fox News, Gavin Newsom just said “there’s a reason we’re going to...

‘They fired the first shot, Texas’, Newsom says before signing bill to put redistricting to California’s voters California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation on Thursday...

Donald Trump spent the night at his family-owned golf resort in Scotland but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration, claiming...

The extraordinary arrests of the journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort last week are a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the press...

The words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have...

He arrived in Alexandria exhausted and sick. It was early April, and Amilcar Lisser-Posadas – shackled at his hands and feet – had been transferred...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a...

Donald Trump on Sunday mused about giving most Americans $2,000 funded by tariff revenues collected by the president’s administration – an evident bid to rally...

Two videos have surfaced shedding light on what is happening behind closed doors at a New York federal building where people are being confined after...

Trump hosts GOP senators in Rose Garden amid White House construction work Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

The Senate passed a broad bill on Thursday to make US housing more accessible and affordable, a rare bipartisan effort in Congress to address a...

The Pentagon is again threatening to sever ties with Scouting America unless the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America reverts to “core...

The Florida congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost said he was assaulted by a man who said Donald Trump would deport him at a party during the...