Near the 13th hole of a golf course in Alexandria, rural Louisiana, the Guardian US’s southern bureau chief, Oliver Laughland, could see ‘a telling image...

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Donald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding...

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Key Democratic figures call on Graham Platner to ‘immediately’ withdraw from Senate race Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Maine’s Democratic party...

Donald Trump has repeatedly described Keir Starmer as a “good man”, distancing himself from the attacks on the UK prime minister mounted by other figures...

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The US government has already paid back tens of billions of dollars in tariffs it collected before the supreme court ruled them illegal, according to...

Republican lawmakers have moved to block a Democratic effort to force the release of the so-called Epstein files, a near-mythological trove of undisclosed information about...

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...

The US’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed president Donald Trump’s $9bn funding cut to public media and foreign aid early on Friday, sending it to...

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...

Donald Trump on Saturday authorized the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass protests with police...

Trump threatens to yank federal funds for New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins mayoral election In a Truth Social post, Trump called Mamdani the...

The first step toward ending the US government shutdown has been made after a handful of Democrats and dozens of Republicans voted to advance legislation...

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...

Government shutdown enters day 14, as House speaker says it’s ‘barreling toward one of the longest on record’ The government shutdown enters its 14th day,...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday outlining the terms...

Hunter Demster Hunter Demster, a longstanding Memphis activist, is at the center of a network of residents intent on documenting the activities of the taskforce....

ICE kills man in Maine: what we know so far An ICE officer has fatally shot a man in Maine during what authorities described as...

Trump calls tariffs ruling ‘unfortunate’ but says administration is pursuing legal alternatives As we expected, the president bemoaned the supreme court’s ruling that Trump exceeded...

Donald Trump has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran, claiming it delivered a “major win” for the United States – even as it made significant...

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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...

Trump offers wildly false claim about job numbers released before 2024 election to defend firing of labor statistics chief Speaking to reporters on Friday, Donald...

Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post...

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The measure of a political party’s failure lies not in how many agnostics and opponents it fails to convert, but in how many loyalists it...

Police arrested dozens of protesters and shot teargas into a crowd on Saturday night at a No Kings protest in Los Angeles. The conflict is...

How would you behave if your democracy was being dismantled? In most western countries, that used to be an academic question. Societies where this process...

The Pentagon said on Friday that it was deploying the United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, a serious escalation in the Trump...

Consider the following screed: “If any other President had the ability, foresight, or talents necessary, to build this ballroom, which will be one of the...

Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, signed a new gerrymandered congressional district map into law Monday that gives Republicans an electoral advantage in four additional races...

Rightwing activist Charlie Kirk died after being shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University in Utah. Kirk was about 20 minutes into...

A joint US-Israeli operation that appeared to use nuclear negotiations as cover. Gulf leaders courting Donald Trump as he decided to launch a major Middle...

Kilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday...

Donald Trump said on Monday that he personally asked Fifa president Gianni Infantino to review the red card shown to USA striker Folarin Balogun, saying...

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Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration employees have missed their first paycheck as the federal government shutdown rolls through its fourth week. They remain...

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Barack Obama has said the US is in the middle of a “tug of war” between two visions of the future, criticising progressives for becoming...

The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy...

Photograph: Eddie Gerald/Alamy 1 Israel blocked from using Microsoft software for mass surveillance of Palestinians after Guardian investigation After we exclusively revealed that Israel’s elite...

US struck another vessel in the Pacific The US military carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing four men,...

The former US congressman John Burton, a salty-tongued and unabashedly liberal San Francisco Democrat who stood up for the working class and nurtured countless political...

Chinese students in the United States are questioning their future in the country after the state department announced last week that it would “aggressively” revoke...

When Marina Lacerda woke on Wednesday to learn that thousands of documents about Jeffrey Epstein had been released by House Republicans, she braced herself for...

“I’ve often said: Trump could cure cancer and people would still criticise him,” observed Brian Glenn, a rightwing reporter standing in the Oval Office. “It’s...

Trump tells CNN that Cuba is ‘going to fall pretty soon’ Earlier, Donald Trump told CNN in a phone interview that Cuba is “going to...

Donald Trump said Monday he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political...

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Misled by video of 2020 protests shown on Fox, Trump threatens to invade Portland and ‘wipe out’ protesters Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that...

Donald Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”. Stephen Miller, the...

Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, said on Sunday that the US wants a leader in Venezuela who will be “a partner that understands...

One of the new members of a critical federal vaccine advisory board has argued for decades that vaccines caused her son’s autism – a connection...

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Ro Khanna, the US congressman, publicly revealed the names of six men whose identities were redacted from the Jeffrey Epstein files, including Leslie Wexner, a...

A liberal arts college seized by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, and transformed into a model for conservative higher education is to triple in size...

Poor persecuted Donald Trump has frequently portrayed himself as a modern messiah. Some of his supporters, meanwhile, have compared him directly to Jesus. And, to...

With Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” set to alter how families and students finance higher education starting in July 2026, a new survey suggests the...

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...

Arrests begin in New Orleans immigration enforcement operation We’ve started to get pictures as arrests begin in the sweeping immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans,...

If Zohran Mamdani had not intended it as a campaigning opportunity, he probably wouldn’t have worn a full suit – the universal candidate’s uniform. But...

A new doctrine could soon take hold in part of the US war on drugs: psychedelic drugs for active-duty soldiers suffering from PTSD. In two...

Federal authorities are investigating whether George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman from New York, engaged in insider trading by betting on a prediction market...

Millions of acres of Alaska wilderness will lose federal protections and be exposed to drilling and mining in the Trump administration’s latest move to prioritize...

Journalist Mario Guevara’s imprisonment by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) ended with deportation to El Salvador on Friday, his family announced on social media. Guevara...

A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US justice department has...

Viktor Orbán (top) and Donald Trump. The US president and those around him have long talked up Orbán’s Hungary Composite: Guardian On a sunny April...

During a trip on Friday to look at the devastation caused by the catastrophic flooding in Texas, Donald Trump claimed that state and federal officials...

Hundreds gathered at the Minnesota capitol on Wednesday night to honor the state Democratic representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were killed at...

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Trump attacks House over Iran war powers resolution Donald Trump has said “four bad Republicans” joined forces with the Democrats to pass a “meaningless” resolution...

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington DC that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd...

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The UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of “diminishing” the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers, as the US president faced a fierce...

A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent...

Prediction markets are facing fresh bipartisan scrutiny in the US Senate as companies such as Kalshi and Polymarket continue to battle state-led efforts to regulate...

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the terminations of hundreds of humanities grants last year by the Trump administration’s so-called “department of government efficiency”...

Donald Trump promised to cut energy prices by 50%. Instead, average electricity prices over the past year have risen by about 6.7%, while natural gas...

James Comey pleads ‘not guilty’ at arraignment Former FBI director James Comey has pleaded ‘not guilty’ during his arraignment at a federal courthouse in Alexandria,...

Flight cancellations and delays are set to grow as airline passengers across the United States spent the weekend grappling with those issues at major airports...

Donald Trump placed the DC Metropolitan police department under federal control on Monday, deploying the national guard while describing a “lawless” city in ways that...

It was the kind of cold, damp morning that makes it hard to get out of bed, much less get a child out the door....

The floor of the US House of Representatives broke out in cheers after lawmakers voted to oblige Donald Trump to seek approval from Congress to...

Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom The term-limited governor has reprised his role as Democrats’ most visible Trump foil, setting off high-profile clashes with the president and...

Donald Trump has told Iranians to keep protesting and said help was on the way, in the clearest sign yet that the US president may...

Ten more hostages will be released from Gaza “very shortly”, Donald Trump said at the White House Friday. The news comes as the president continues...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Georgia congresswoman who had a dramatic blow-up with Donald Trump despite being his longtime ally, announced on Friday she would...

Swalwell’s campaign chairman resigns and calls on him to drop out of California governor’s race Congressman Jimmy Gomez, a Los Angeles Democrat who was the...

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Donald Trump will heap further pressure on the chief of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, on Thursday when the US president makes a visit to...

Trump’s military attack on Iran reveals split among Maga diehards Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I’ll...

Trump claims he was the victim of ‘triple sabotage at the UN’, demands investigation Donald Trump demanded a formal investigation on Wednesday of three technical...

Donald Trump has sought to deliver a staggering blow to the re-election chances of Senator Bill Cassidy – the president’s fellow Republican with whom he...

There are videos that do more than document a story. They alter the way we understand it. Ronaldo Salgado spent 7 July searching for his...