Photograph: Guardian Design I come from Trinidad and Tobago. As a country that was once colonized by the British, I am wary of the ways...

Joe Biden has said ‘these are dark days’ in the US, and accused the Trump administration of ‘doing its best to dismantle the constitution’ with...

Former Trump adviser turned adversary, John Bolton, surrenders at federal courthouse following criminal charges John Bolton, the former ally and national security adviser to Donald...

Congressional Republicans were largely silent on the fifth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Tuesday, even as Democrats sought to use the occasion 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....

Nikki Owens, right, and her daughter, Kinlee Owens, rest their heads together on 17 December 2025, in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Danielle Villasana/The Guardian For seven...

Donald Trump has said that he wants Bill Pulte, his new acting director of national intelligence, to cut the office, which has already been significantly...

As Donald Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore, ostensibly to quell violence, a pattern has emerged as he describes which...

Trump threatens to declare a national emergency in Washington DC over Ice dispute Welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Donald Trump has threatened...

Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied Republicans a legislative quorum on Monday by leaving the state, preventing, at least for now, plans proposed by...

Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader and New York Democratic congressman, said Donald Trump had “manufactured a crisis” to justify sending federalized national guard troops...

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...

It is graduation season in the United States and with it a tradition of commencement speeches to departing college students, usually from high-profile figures who...

Darline Graham, the sister of the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, was sworn in to temporarily fill his Senate seat on Tuesday, just three days...

On a crisp, sunny morning at the end of June, dappled light filtered through the canopy of an ancient grove of giant sequoias, casting a...

Cryptocurrency multibillionaire Justin Sun could barely contain his glee. Last month, Sun publicly flaunted a $100,000 Donald Trump-branded watch that he was awarded at a...

You wouldn’t be alone if you feel that the US more closely resembles North Korea these days – with giant images of the dear leader...

Donald Trump announced on Sunday that ⁠Will ​Scharf, the staff secretary who helped secure approval for the $400m White House ballroom project, will become ⁠White...

The United States has had its fair share of political dynasties – The Bushs, the Cheneys, the Kennedys… but has Donald Trump been quietly moulding...

Like any good proof-of-life photo, it featured that day’s newspaper. After a nearly month-long disappearance, when it was clear that he had been rushed to...

New poll shows overwhelming majority of Americans opposed to military action in Venezuela A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows that 70% of Americans are opposed...

No matter how you slice it, Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is an act of naked aggression. It is blatantly illegal and sets a disturbing...

The Senate voted on Tuesday to debate a sweeping restrictive voting bill that would require proof of US citizenship for new voters, among other measures....

Trump has spent millions creating a giant swamp in DC It’s been a busy week for the US’s birthday boy. First, there was the cage...

Hegseth announces ‘Operation Southern Spear’ Pentagon mission to remove ‘narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere’ In a social media post, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, just...

Federal prosecutors examined whether Donald Trump showed a classified map to people on his plane after his first term, including to his now White House...

Why does Donald Trump look so at home in China? The US president spent day one of his summit in Beijing basking in rigid pageantry,...

Illinois’s governor JB Pritzker has called on “all to stand up” to Donald Trump as the US president prepares to launch a federally led immigration...

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...

Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, renewed his calls for new leadership of the Democratic party, saying the party has “failed this moment”....

More than 30 US senators have signed a letter demanding that the Trump administration open an independent investigation into the February killing of a 19-year-old...

The US has become a power that knows only how to destroy. In the Ramón González Coro maternity hospital in Havana, Cuba, I saw what...

Last night, Seth Meyers focused on Donald Trump’s claims that China swayed the 2020 election, new tariffs on Canadian imports and his attempt to impose...

Jim Jordan is among the most famous names in this stretch of Ohio. The congressman and chair of the powerful House judiciary committee is considered...

On the website’s landing page, a photo of a heavily pregnant white woman is cropped below the head, so that she is faceless, anonymous, cradling...

US airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas Day were aided by intelligence provided by the Nigerian government, the country’s foreign minister said on Friday. Donald Trump...

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...

Monarez: ‘I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity’ “I had refused to commit to approving vaccine recommendations without evidence, fire career officials...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump on divisions within the US: “I couldn’t care less” Ed...

Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian woman who was detained in February on the way back from her honeymoon, was released from immigration detention after more...

Federal grand jury indicts Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Democratic congresswoman from Florida A federal grand jury has indicted Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, on charges...

Judge permanently bars DoJ from releasing Jack Smith’s report on Trump documents In a ruling on Monday, US federal judge Aileen Cannon permanently prohibited the...

Donald Trump agreed to cut US tariffs on Switzerland from 39% to 15% as part of a new trade pact, lowering duties that strained economic...

A widely awaited Department of Defense report concluded that defense secretary Pete Hegseth violated departmental policies when he shared secret information in a Signal messaging...

Republican senator Bill Cassidy describes shouting match with Trump over Iran Chris Stein The Republican senator Bill Cassidy, who just lost re-election to a primary...

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey called on Sunday for the federal government to allow his state to become involved in the investigation of an Immigration and...

The response of Nigerians to the airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Sokoto state, north-western Nigeria are complicated. The rationale behind them has been...

The US trade court on Thursday ruled against Donald Trump’s latest 10% global tariffs, finding across-the-board tariffs were not justified under a 1970s trade law....

It’s Black History Month in the UK, and it feels like it’s time for a rethink. Over the years, an event that started out as...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order making it easier to fire thousands of the best-paid workers in the US government aspart of a broader...

The US president, Donald Trump, has announced that his administration has begun developing the so-called ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system, set to be finished before...

Some of the Democratic party’s most prominent figures – and possible 2028 presidential contenders – descended on New York City this week for the annual...

Good morning. It looks like the bromance between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is over. Maybe for good. Last night an exasperated...

The vigil on Canal Street has grown every night since 7 July. It began when two neighbors nailed white roses to a utility pole. Within...

White House ups federal law enforcement at tourist hot spots in Washington, DC Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature US to send 200 troops to Israel to support and monitor...

Trump police takeover will create ‘immediate, devastating, and irreparable harm’ for DC, federal lawsuit says According to the federal lawsuit filed by the DC government...

Mamdani plans ‘major address’ on America’s 250th anniversary, ‘surrounded by recently naturalized citizens’ The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, plans to deliver what his...

Judicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually...

As the US continues making unprecedented changes to its vaccination recommendations, one figure appears unexpectedly: Tracy Beth Høeg, a Danish American sports physician and epidemiologist...

The US Department of Homeland Security is now requiring lawmakers to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance. The...

The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, is set to...

The next governor of deep-blue California will almost certainly be a Democrat. But what kind of Democrat? The establishment favorite for overseeing the world’s fourth-largest...

Blanche confirmation gives Trump ‘excuse’ to continue his ‘breathtaking corruption’, Schumer says The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has said Senate Republicans have “handed Trump...

As the United States prepares to mark its 250th anniversary on 4 July, the country faces a turbulent moment under the Donald Trump administration. The...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed it is sending a team to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV...

White House deletes Trump post after furious backlash and says it was ‘erroneously’ made by a staffer Following an intense backlash this morning, the White...

Days after issuing him a pardon, Donald Trump criticized US House member Henry Cuellar of Texas for deciding to run for re-election as a Democrat....

It appears Donald Trump is following through on his threats to reduce US military presence in Europe. The Pentagon announced on Friday that 5,000 troops...

Republican senator Rand Paul’s son William apologized on Wednesday for a drunken tirade at a bar in Washington DC, in which he reportedly told a...

‘We’re going to be asking for extensions,’ Trump says of 30-day limit on DC police takeover The president confirms that he is looking to extend...

New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, exalted the city’s legacy of immigrants on Friday in a historically laden, ideological counterpoint to a US semiquincentennial address that...

Donald Trump once again shared misinformation about Portland, Oregon, on social media on Wednesday, when he announced that the national guard troops he called up...

On Tuesday, we learned that the US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson had died at the age of 84. Tributes flooded in from political figures...

They had the best seats in the house. When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president a year ago this week, tech titans Jeff...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Donald Trump has announced plans for the US navy to build a...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of US politics in...

A US federal appeals court at a hearing on Thursday appeared skeptical that the Trump administration could legally punish Mark Kelly, a Democratic US senator,...

The US government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the army played a role in causing the collision in January between an airliner...

Donald Trump has cancelled plans for a deployment of federal troops to the San Francisco Bay Area that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders...

Jon Stewart airs Trump ‘approved’ Daily Show Jon Stewart has hosted the first edition of The Daily Show since his fellow late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel,...

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, characterized his approach to international relations as “speak softly and carry a big stick”. It was an approach that won...

Donald Trump is going all out to pressure the Senate to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which he insists on calling the Save...

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...

It’s just gone midday on Linea, one of the main roads through Havana’s Vedado neighbourhood, and Javier Peña and Ysil Ribas have been waiting since...

1. The summit produced slim pickings … in other words, no deal As Donald Trump conceded during his brief press conference with Vladimir Putin, “understanding”...

When JD Vance spoke at the Richard M Nixon presidential library last week about his new book on his journey from atheism to an allegedly...

For more than 200 years, common wisdom and policymakers have assumed that to get people to work, you had to make them hungry. New work...

‘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...

A flock of Ice agents, some masked, some sporting military-operator fashion for show, smooshed the New York City comptroller, Brad Lander, up against a wall...

Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was named the acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

The Republican primary campaign for Georgia governor will go to a June runoff, with the lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, facing off against the healthcare billionaire...

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...

Trump says he will meet Putin again in Budapest after ‘productive’ call Donald Trump has said that his call with Vladimir Putin – which lasted...

For decades, the US and its allies have painted Iran as the world’s biggest sponsor of state terrorism – invoking its Islamic rulers’ supposed revolutionary...

Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday instructing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as the partial shutdown...

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing charged with aggravated murder and weapon and obstruction offenses Gray announced he is filing charges on these counts: 1. Aggravated...

A federal judge has ordered the release of the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, after finding that immigration officials probably detained him in retaliation against...

The year is 2018 and Pete Hegseth has just come back from his summer holidays. Hegseth, who is still just a Fox News host, not...