Last Friday, after weeks of speculation, Ukraine’s worst fears were confirmed: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were going to meet to discuss the future of...

Americans outside the nation’s capital will soon be able to get limited-edition passports that feature a picture of Donald Trump and celebrate the 250th anniversary...

Keeping politics at arm’s length for the US men’s hockey team’s gold-medal matchup with Canada was always going to be difficult. The game fell on...

United, Southwest and Delta airlines began cancelling flights for Friday in compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s directive that will see reductions in flights at...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed a list of “sanctuary” states, cities and counties from its website following sharp criticism from a sheriffs’...

Donald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as “godless communists”...

Supreme court agrees to hear case over law that bans drug users from possessing guns The supreme court has agreed to hear a case to...

Donald Trump granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who had just begun a seven-year prison sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6bn...

Trump says US is ‘looking at land’ strikes in Venezuela after lethal strikes on boats Asked in the Oval Office if the US is considering...

Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, has endorsed Zohran Mamdani in his run for mayor of New York City, a major boost for the...

DC national guard to begin deploying on Tuesday night The DC national guard will begin deploying on the city’s streets Tuesday night, the White House...

The UK is expected to slash its contribution to a leading aid fund combating preventable diseases, with charities warning this could lead to more than...

Jazz drummer and vibes player Chuck Redd has successfully resisted a breach of contract lawsuit brought against him after he canceled a Christmas Eve performance...

The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just...

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...

Donald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. As previewed, the administration set about further militarizing the...

On a December day when temperatures dipped below 20 degrees, Street Vendor Project staff walked along a busy commercial street in the Bronx, handing out...

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection agents descended on North Carolina last month, many local businesses were ready to push...

At Delaney Hall, an ICE detention camp for captured immigrants in Newark, New Jersey, operated privately by the for-profit contractor Geo Group, the food is...

Donald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today...

This week, ICE’s detention of a five-year-old boy wearing a Spider Man backpack in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights quickly became a defining image...

Texas Democrats who fled state can ‘stay out long enough to stop this deal’, says O’Rourke Former Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke, who has emerged as...

Texas’s redrawn congressional maps have drawn a lawsuit from the NAACP, accusing the state of committing a racial gerrymander with its maps that strip Black...

Trump says business leaders telling him mass deportations are taking good workers away Donald Trump has said that he has heard from business leaders that...

Summary: Graham Platner’s embattled campaign and allegations against him Calls for resignation continue to mount for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, a day after a...

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities. According to documents obtained by...

JD Vance said Elon Musk was making a “huge mistake” going after Donald Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after...

Newsom says ‘democracy is under assault’ California governor Gavin Newsom has delivered a blistering address against the Trump administration, warning democracy is “under assault before...

As tanks rolled down Washington DC streets against the wishes of local leaders, mayors around the country planned for what they would do if the...

As Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America’s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating what they claim is...

In 2021, Bri Adams was pregnant with her first child and began signing up for waitlists for childcare – eight, to be exact. She was...

Republican congressman and vocal Donald Trump critic Don Bacon is reportedly not going to seek re-election during the midterm races in 2026. The conservative politician...

White House: Tariffs to stay despite legal setback Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing...

This term, the US supreme court handed down decisions on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration and birthright citizenship, reshaping life for millions of...

A Los Angeles school district is demanding an investigation of an incident last month, during which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents gathered at a...

Trump says Noem doing a ‘very good job’ and won’t step down Asked whether Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem would step down, Trump replied that...

As Francesca Hong surged ahead in the final weeks of the chaotic Democratic primary to be Wisconsin’s next governor, the democratic socialist has become the...

Just two days ago, Donald Trump told Republican members of Congress to cancel their vacation plans until his “big beautiful bill” is sewn up and...

Donald Trump has hailed the “unmatched achievement and unlimited potential” of the US in a triumphalist address marking the country’s 250th anniversary. In a late-night...

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...

Tulsi Gabbard is leaving her post as US director of national intelligence following a tumultuous stint in which she was largely sidelined as Donald Trump...

“We’re backing him 100%, we think he’s done a fantastic job. Like us, he inherited a mess.” Donald Trump gave his enthusiastic endorsement to Javier...

Donald Trump said he has told US envoys not to go to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, shortly after Tehran’s top diplomat left Islamabad...

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...

Two federal courts reviewed the government’s evidence against journalist Don Lemon and declined to approve his arrest last week. But nevertheless, the attorney general, Pam...

Across the country, in front yards and on main streets, at dairy breakfasts and inside breweries, voters are delivering a similar message to Democratic primary...

Donald Trump on Tuesday swore in Markwayne Mullin as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), while Senate Republicans unveiled a compromise that would...

More than 100,000 federal workers are to formally resign on Tuesday, the largest such mass event in US history, as part of a Trump administration...

A drag queen Christmas tour has become an annual holiday tradition in Florida – and in recent years, so has the ensuing backlash. Now in...

Charlie Kirk, the founder of the powerful rightwing youth activist group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and a close ally of Donald Trump, was fatally shot...

Lander released from federal custody New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was just released from federal custody and was seen leaving the...

More than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have called on the billionaire Leon Black to appear before the House oversight committee in order...

Donald Trump boosted speculation over whether the US could become involved in Israel’s conflict with Tehran on Tuesday, warning Iran’s supreme leader that he was...

Retired brigadier general Shawn Harris had been all geared up for a campaign to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene next November, and then the far-right representative...

Erez Reuveni, a former justice department attorney who was dismissed from his post, has provided text messages to the Senate judiciary committee supporting his whistleblower...

The federal prosecutor for the eastern district of Virginia resigned Friday under intense pressure from Donald Trump, after his office determined there wasn’t sufficient evidence...

Ghislaine Maxwell urges supreme court to overturn her conviction Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has urged the supreme...

After granting unconditional pardons to 1,500 people who participated in the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack at the start of his presidency, Donald Trump...

As reading and math scores fall to their lowest point in the past quarter-century, the US now has fewer tools to understand and develop interventions...

Thomas Chatterton Williams, a public intellectual of some standing in the US, dislikes the Trumpian right for its erratic authoritarianism. But he dislikes its hysterical leftwing critics...

US senator Mark Kelly said it was “non-controversial” for him and other Democrats to implore military personnel to disobey “illegal orders” from the Trump administration...

Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of “lying” on Sunday about the US congressman’s detention by armed settlers and Israeli soldiers during a...

Congress ratified the first amendment in 1791 but the supreme court didn’t breathe life into it until after the first world war, when prosecutions of...

The California governor’s race remained unsettled Thursday, as state election officials continued to sift through uncounted primary ballots – a process that could take days...

It’s been three decades since Democrats last had a wide open contest for the California governorship, one of the most visible and most powerful positions...

Trump ran on a promise to lower costs on day one, but a year into his presidency, the real beneficiaries are his billionaire donors. Instead...

A newly released batch of the so-called Epstein files on Tuesday includes many references to Donald Trump, including a claim by a senior US attorney...

The scene seemed so far-fetched you could be forgiven for thinking you might be hallucinating. On the weekend in which psychonauts celebrate “Bicycle Day” –...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based...

Musician Khalidou Sy recalls the night his concert was shut down before he was taken away by the Mauritanian police and jailed for five days....

A rally on affordability in Pennsylvania on 9 December devolved into a racist tirade when Donald Trump said to the crowd: “We only take people...

The president of El Salvador has denied claims that Kilmar Ábrego García was subjected to beatings and deprivation while he was held in the country...

The Trump administration is doubling to $50m a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s...

Two teenagers were charged on Monday with offenses including terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction after they allegedly threw improvised explosive devices during...

Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site,...

Just over a week ago, Iranian and American officials were set to meet for a fresh round of negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program. Now the...

“Metaphors can kill,” the linguist George Lakoff wrote in an influential essay on the Gulf war. “The use of a metaphor with a set of...

To sceptics, Donald Trump’s war in Iran is a hubristic blunder that could spiral further out of control and bring catastrophe to the world. To...

‘We are witnessing a full-blown coverup’: Democrats demanding access to unredacted files, says Raskin Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, has slammed the Department of...

Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging top aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline”. The investigation will build on...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday as he returned home from school and transported him and his father...

White House says it won’t ‘tolerate gaslighting’ from media following Trump’s pressure campaign on justice department Karoline Leavitt was resolute today when fielding questions from...

The US Senate on Sunday took a key vote on a bill that would end the record-setting federal government shutdown without extending the healthcare subsidies...

Edwin Torres DeSantiago received a text message on Wednesday morning as he was tracking immigration enforcement across Minneapolis – a person was shot by ICE...

One of the surest signs of an authoritarian regime is the ubiquity of its leader. Mussolini’s face was plastered across fascist Italy. In North Korea,...

The US government’s authoritarian and vexatious attack on Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, should be seen in the light of America’s affordability...

Robert Mueller, the former special counsel who investigated Russian interference in 2016 and links between Donald Trump and Moscow, has died, his family said on...

Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are set to arrive in Washington simultaneously with the goal of winning the ear of Donald Trump at pivotal moments...

Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, warned on Sunday that he was about make good on a threat to revoke millions in federal funds for...

Jeffries holds the floor for six hours Jeffries is still speaking, passing the six-hour mark. The Democratic leader just indicated that he plans to keep...

Bob Brooks has worked a lot of jobs, sometimes several at once to make ends meet. He was a paper boy at age 10, and...

Prospects for an immediate end to the war between Iran and the US remained uncertain on Friday amid a chaotic series of conflicting claims and...

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a...

Key events Blanche attorney-general nomination stalls over Trump IRS lawsuit Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney-general...

The wrath of Donald Trump has kept congressional Republicans in line for much of his second term thus far. But as the November midterm elections...

María Elvira Salazar, the Republican congresswoman who has accused the president of going too far on immigration enforcement, doubled down on her criticism of the...

You should keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and Stephen and Katie Miller as far away from your general vicinity as humanly possible. Many...

It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs...

The Trump administration blocked two permitted US wind energy projects from development this week, with an agreement to pay millions of dollars in refunds to...