Trump tells military generals ‘we’re under invasion from within’ “We’re under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many...

Closing summary This concludes out live coverage of the second Trump administration for the wek, but we will be back on Monday. Here are the...

Even while on holiday at his Florida resort, Donald Trump has refused to take a break from his unrelenting war on wind energy. Late Tuesday,...

DC mayor: ‘this action today is unsettling and unprecedented’ Bowser says that her office plans to follow the law, and cooperate with the federal government....

Trump promises firings, cuts to Democrats’ ‘favorite projects’ if shutdown continues Donald Trump on Thursday said firings of federal workers and cuts to projects could...

Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing measures of praise and...

Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, has been appointed as the new CEO and chair of the board for Turning Point USA. The organization...

Up to seven states will vote on abortion rights this year. But recent polling indicates that Democrats may not be able to count on the...

Petition to trigger House vote on release of Epstein files reaches required total Shortly after Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of...

New Orleanians are bracing for a major deployment of US border patrol officers to the city, as Donald Trump forges on with his mass deportation...

New Yorkers will find out the identity of their next mayor on Tuesday, in a race that will decide who will run, and defend, the...

‘It’s the opening of an opportunity,’ say Senate Democrats who broke ranks to end government shutdown The eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks...

Hegseth says he anticipates military will remain in LA for 60 days Pete Hegseth has told the House committee that he’s anticipating military personnel to...

Trump says he has directed attorney general to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony Minutes after announcing that he intends to sue the Wall...

The Trump administration has released solicitations for a grant program meant to stop gun violence in underserved communities. But this year, the non-profits the grant...

It was just the authoritarian image Donald Trump hoped to project at the US Open: the president himself, looming from Arthur Ashe Stadium’s giant screens...

The surgeon general from the first Trump administration on Saturday said that the US president should “absolutely” fire health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr over...

Donald Trump’s followers, and the conspiracist influencers turned-government officials through whom he persuades them, have turned on the president and US attorney general after they...

Facing images of violent white mobs defending racial segregation, the condemnation of the world and of its own citizens, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act,...

The US supreme court is hearing oral arguments over Donald Trump’s bid to fire a Federal Reserve governor this morning, as his administration continues its...

Staffing shortages at US airports are anticipated to cause further disruption to air travelers on Wednesday as effects from the US government shutdown, now in...

Federal officers use force on protesters during immigration raids at California farms Federal immigration officers, supported by national guard troops, used force against protesters, firing...

Donald Trump rarely has kind words for Democrats, especially those who stand in his way. But on Thursday the president offered something unfamiliar: a compliment....

Ro Khanna says this ‘document dump does not comply with’ law to compel full release of Epstein files “The justice department’s document dump this afternoon...

New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was detained for several hours after being arrested at an immigration court. Lander, the city’s chief...

The US supreme court on Friday allowed members of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to access the sensitive records kept by the Social...

Summary Here’s a wrap-up of the day’s key events: Transportation secretary Sean Duffy warned of the impacts of the shutdown on the aviation industry and...

Republicans have unveiled a new congressional map in Texas that would allow the party to pick up as many as five additional congressional seats, an...

Texas Democrats are fleeing the state to prevent a vote on Monday that could see five new Republican-leaning seats created in the House of Representatives....

Marines to deploy on LA streets within two days with authority to detain civilians US marines will join national guard troops on the streets of...

Kilmar Ábrego García has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania after a federal judge in Maryland ordered his release on Thursday. Ábrego...

Zohran Mamdani called out Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding in New York City. The remarks came during a campaign event in Queens on...

Charlie Kirk inspired a generation of conservative youth. He toured campuses whipping up culture wars, actively courting controversy. But his horrific killing last week, in...

Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats...

Family and friends of a Los Angeles man who was killed by an off-duty US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer over the holidays are...

Top figures and controversial policies from Donald Trump’s administration are being sharply satirized this year through Halloween displays across Washington DC. Among the most popular...

On the day that he returned to office in January, Donald Trump signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”. A...

Donald Trump spoke with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Friday as the US president appears increasingly disheartened over his chances of fulfilling a campaign pledge...

Donald Trump wants us to believe that the “war on Christianity” is spreading across the globe. The US president recently sounded the alarm on the...

Air travelers should expect worsening cancellations and delays this week even if the US government shutdown ends, as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rolled out...

House Republicans passed Donald Trump’s funding cut proposal just after midnight on Friday – clawing back $9bn in federal dollars. The vote was split on...

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...

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...

House Democrats on Monday released an image of a sexually suggestive letter and drawing that appears to bear the signature of Donald Trump, the very...

US senator Bill Cassidy said on Sunday that “there’s a deal to be had” on tackling the rising cost of healthcare, suggesting he remained optimistic...

According to Donald Trump’s White House, the US economy is booming, inflation is dead and jobs are surging. A blizzard of economic reports has cast...

A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately block the Trump administration from deploying national guard troops to Chicago, Illinois, after the state became the...

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenues from chip sales in China, under an unprecedented arrangement to obtain...

White House says Democrats are ‘concocting hoax’ with Epstein investigation More than 20 minutes into the briefing, Karoline Leavitt is addressing some of the first...

The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on...

After casting her vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in hopes that he would bring transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein case, Epstein survivor Jena Lisa...

A US district judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding funds previously awarded to 14 states for electric vehicle charger infrastructure. Seattle-based judge Tana...

Tehran has denounced the US travel ban on Iranians and citizens of 11 other mostly Middle Eastern and African countries, saying Washington’s decision was a...

Democrats’ soul-searching began even before it was clear Donald Trump would return to the White House. But their devastating losses in the 2024 election threw...

Nigel Farage has appeared before a US congressional hearing on censorship. In an opening statement, the Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin accused the British politician of...

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...

Donald Trump said on Thursday he will take executive action to pay 50,000 airport security workers as a deal stalled in Congress to address staff...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump’s LA national guard deployment cost taxpayers $120m, Newsom says Dani...

President Trump’s signature “Big Beautiful Bill” has precipitated an epic fallout between the US president and one of his closest allies, billionaire Elon Musk. The...

Marjorie Taylor Greene for president. Randy Bone rolled the idea around in his hands for a second as he stood inside his wife’s antique shop...

They marched in their millions. Some waved the Stars and Stripes. Some clutched signs with slogans such as: “Nothing is more patriotic than protesting.” And...

Donald Trump on Thursday offered a new and shifting account of why Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was present last week at an...

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...

The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to back the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members...

FBI director Kash Patel appeared not to recognise the name of the white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black congregants at a US...

A group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on Meta’s virtual reality devices and apps. They...

The mayor of Chicago has signed an executive order outlining how the city will attempt to resist Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Brandon Johnson pushed back...

‘We’ve got trillions of manufacturing that’s going to come back,’ says treasury secretary Bessent As Donald Trump’s tariffs on swathes of major US trading partners...

A federal judge on Friday blocked the justice department from serving subpoenas to Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in an inquiry purported to be about...

On 2 June, at St Mark’s Episcopal church in Washington DC, people packed the sanctuary – elders in denim jackets, seminarians in collars, organizers clutching...

Trump and RFK Jr to hold press conference We’re currently waiting for Donald Trump to begin speaking at a White House press conference where he’ll...

Twenty-two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and...

Gregory Bovino, the border patrol commander who has become the public face of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is being swapped out for the border...

A bitter primary contest between the four-term Republican US senator John Cornyn and the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, ended in a runoff on Tuesday....

The exodus from Hollywood to shores not presided over by Donald Trump has been busy and loud. Ellen DeGeneres, Robin Wright and Courtney Love moved...

The US’s top public health agency was plunged into chaos on Wednesday after the Trump administration moved to oust its leader Susan Monarez, sworn in...

Stock markets slipped amid confusion as to when – and at what level – new US tariffs would be applied, as Donald Trump’s self-imposed 9...

Trump says FBI should investigate ‘the Jeffrey Epstein hoax’ as a criminal conspiracy against him In an interview with Real America’s Voice, the far-right network...

The Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation”,...

In just seven extraordinary months, Donald Trump’s administration has left an unprecedented mark on the United States. From rewriting the rules of free trade to...

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...

Rolex is facing scrutiny over its “concerning” decision to host Donald Trump in the Swiss watchmaker’s corporate box at the US Open final earlier this...

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...

Senate agrees to automatically pass House bill requiring release of the Epstein files The Senate just agreed to a unanimous consent request from the Democratic...

An email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most...

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...

Donald Trump’s administration has drafted a proposal to deploy 1,000 Louisiana national guard troops to conduct law enforcement operations in the state’s urban centers, the...

Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a naval blockade of “sanctioned oil vessels” leaving and heading to Venezuela, sharply escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas. The...

Documents show Jeffrey Epstein texted with House member during 2019 testimony from Michael Cohen – report Documents provided to Congress this week by the estate...

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted...

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...

Questions over his friendship with convicted sex offender, Jeffery Epstein, continue to haunt Donald Trump, this time with the release of a birthday letter that...

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused a reporter of being a “leftwing activist” during a heated confrontation on Thursday over the killing of...

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Robert F Kennedy Jr announced on Monday $100m in new grants for a pilot program aimed at addressing homelessness and substance use recovery in eight...

It has united luminaries of the far right, from media personality Tucker Carlson to activist Laura Loomer, from tech billionaire Elon Musk to congresswoman Marjorie...

For political connoisseurs of a certain vintage, it feels like deja vu all over again. To anyone who witnessed Bill Clinton’s presidency in the 1990s,...

Some of America’s key allies have backed Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, after the president and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered an...

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations...