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...

Trump says he’s cancelling all executive orders signed by Joe Biden using an autopen Donald Trump has said that he is cancelling all executive orders...

A federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year and voided mass...

The Texas legislature preliminarily approved a redrawn congressional map on Friday that gives Republicans a chance to pick up as many as five congressional seats,...

For months, Donald Trump and his administration have been using violent crime as a justification for ramping up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) operations and...

Speaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New...

Today the US army will parade in style along the National Mall in Washington DC to celebrate its 250th anniversary. This also just happens to...

More than two weeks into the US-Israel war on Iran, and the conflict appears at risk of spiraling out of control. Back home, Donald Trump’s...

Leavitt insists that Lindsey Halligan was legally appointed after federal judge tosses out indictments The White House press secretary insisted that Lindsey Halligan, the interim...

Zohran Mamdani vowed to “reinvent” New York City in a speech on his first day as mayor, promising “a new era” for America’s largest city...

The first votes of the 2026 midterm cycle will be cast on Tuesday, with a pair of high-stakes US Senate primaries in Texas that will...

It has been said many times, but saying it appears to have no consequences: our system of checks and balances is failing. The US supreme...

Dear Acting President Shipman, I am writing you an open letter since you have seen fit to communicate the recent decisions of the board of...

A Tennessee judge on Sunday ordered the release of Kilmar Ábrego García, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, while...

It appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them. Pete Hegseth was primarily known as...

The White House’s office of management and budget (OMB) is arguing that federal workers who are furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown are not entitled...

Supreme court backs Trump on aggressive immigration raids The supreme court has again backed Donald Trump’s hardline approach toward immigration today, allowing federal agents to...

At least 15 people were taken into custody outside the Broadview Ice detention center in the Chicago area after heated confrontations between Illinois state police...

1. Trump’s threats to New York City loomed large The Republican president’s threats to New York City dominated plenty of conversation during the debate. In...

A growing number of federal agencies and staff are explicitly blaming Democrats for the current government shutdown. The political messaging by the agencies may be...

A coalition of global civil society organizations has downgraded the United States’ civic health rating from “narrowed” to “obstructed.” In a report released on Tuesday,...

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...

Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral candidate, said on Monday evening he was willing to appear at a town hall hosted by a local...

The US office of special counsel, an independent federal agency, confirmed to NBC News that it is investigating former Department of Justice prosecutor Jack Smith...

The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it. Bolstered by the president,...

In a rare interview former justice department special counsel Jack Smith has hit back against accusations that the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump he oversaw...

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...

New renderings released this week provide the most detailed vision yet of Donald Trump’s proposed $400m White House ballroom addition. The renderings, submitted by the...

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...

Republican senators indicate they won’t confirm Paul Ingrassia to special counsel role Some Republican senators have said they don’t support Paul Ingrassia’s nomination to lead...

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...

Donald Trump has spoken about Jeffrey Epstein and his links to the president’s Mar-a-Lago club, saying that the late sex offender “stole” Virginia Giuffre and...

There are few better metaphors for the receding status of American women than one offered up by the Trump administration at a medical waste disposal...

The director of the National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet, has resigned just two weeks after Donald Trump attempted to fire her and accused her of...

Pentagon withdraws all 700 marines from Los Angeles The Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, confirmed to the Guardian on Monday that the entire deployment of...

A staffer for Missouri Republican senator Eric Schmitt was previously fired from Ron DeSantis’s unsuccessful presidential campaign after making a video containing neo-Nazi imagery, and...

Most Americans ignore the country’s dietary guidelines, but millions will be directly affected by upcoming changes to these recommendations. On 6 January, after months of...

After Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the Smithsonian Institution – a premier museum, education and research complex for US history and culture –...

Benjamin Netanyahu arrived back in Israel on Friday without a ceasefire in the Gaza war despite heady predictions from US and Israeli officials that this...

The Department of Justice has asked several large California counties to provide detailed personal information of non-citizens who got on to the state voter rolls,...

Trump calls Musk’s new political party ‘ridiculous’ and says Tesla owner is ‘off the rails’ Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the...

The Trump administration will start mass layoffs of federal workers if the president decides negotiations to end the government shutdown are “absolutely going nowhere,” a...

When Hurricane Helene drowned western North Carolina in muck and floodwater last year, it caught folks off-guard. Now, local leaders in places like Asheville expect...

The polls did not look good for New York progressives this winter when the Working Families party began making its endorsements for city elections. An...

New poll shows almost half of Americans say cost of living is ‘worst it’s ever been’ A new poll by Politico shows that 46% of...

The political analyst fired by MSNBC over his Charlie Kirk commentary says his former employer agreed with him that his remarks were being misconstrued as...

Democrats will retake the US House’s majority in the 2026 midterm elections, the chamber’s former speaker Nancy Pelosi has confidently predicted – and she hopes...

Ted Cruz warned Donald Trump, his fellow Republican, that he would face a “bloodbath” in the November midterm elections if prices continued to rise, prompting...

Global stock markets are bracing for falls when trading resumes on Monday after Donald Trump threatened eight European countries with fresh tariffs until they support...

Senate Democrats failed on Friday to get a war-powers resolution passed to limit Donald Trump’s ability to single-handedly escalate the war with Iran. The resolution,...

The number of people eating at restaurants in Washington DC has plummeted since Donald Trump deployed federal troops to the city, according to data, as...

A prosecutor installed by Donald Trump may have been able to secure an indictment against the New York attorney general, Letitia James, but actually obtaining...

One glance at the logo of the Board of Peace tells you all you need to know. It is the globe and laurels of the...

Analysis: trickle release on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties Sam Levine The justice department’s partial release of the Epstein files on Friday...

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has refused to acknowledge that the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump around the world are taxes on Americans....

White House warns layoffs are imminent if shutdown drags on Leavitt tells reporters that government agencies are already preparing for cuts and “layoffs are imminent”....

Donald Trump’s new tariff rates of as much as 40% for 14 countries have drawn muted responses from the hardest hit Asian countries who are...

The Trump administration wants to offer immigrant children $2,500 to self-deport, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian. The memo, sent by the US...

At morning services at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday, congregants greeted one another with hugs and expressed gratitude for a rare piece...

When Emily Gardiner first started paying attention to politics, she was 15, just beginning high school in 2016. It was the start of the first...

Stephen Miller insists the East Wing of the White House ‘is not part of The White House’ In an appearance on Fox News on Friday,...

A few days before Christmas in Pérez Zeledón, a city in Costa Rica, Greidy Mata stared at two photographs of her late brother. In one...

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...

The honeymoon between Donald Trump and Elon Musk appears to be over, after the tech billionaire announced his official exit from the White House to...

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ will add $2.4tn to national debt, according to nonpartisan analysis The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has released a revised estimate of...

Trump threatens Iran with further attacks if Hormuz does not reopen within 48 hours Donald Trump has posted this on Truth Social in the past...

The Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, announced a lawsuit on Monday against the federal government, seeking to end the surge of ICE agents in the...

Department of Justice to begin handing over Epstein files to Capitol Hill The Department of Justice (DoJ) has agreed to provide to Congress documents from...

Senate Republicans shot down a Democratic-led attempt to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits on Monday during the government shutdown – a move...

The furore over Donald Trump’s ties with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued on Friday as new revelations about the pair’s relationship threatened to...

A Utah prosecutor involved in the case against Tyler Robinson, the alleged killer of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, denied allegations of a conflict of...

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, we’re examining the tech industry’s push for influence in two places separated by a time difference of 13...

The removal of the Internal Revenue Service commissioner Billy Long after just two months in the post came after the federal tax collection agency said...

With months of escalation between US cities and the Trump administration amid the deployment of national guard troops, former military officials released a report on...

Stanford University will cut $140m from its budget in the coming academic year, citing “consequences from federal policy changes” including “reductions in federal research support...

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...

After a rollout trumpeted by US officials, the US- and Israeli-backed effort that claimed it would return large-scale food deliveries to Gaza was born an...

Eleanor Holmes Norton, a non-voting House delegate representing Washington DC, announced on Tuesday that she would not seek another term in Congress. “With fire in...

Elon Musk has announced on social media that he is leaving his role in the Trump administration, a departure the White House confirmed was in...

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...

If you were hoping Jennifer Lawrence might be able to tell you who to vote for and why, you’re in for some disappointment. “I don’t...

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 United States seems determined to turn its back on the rest of our planetary neighbors. The Trump administration’s recent decision to withdraw from 66...

Donald Trump’s administration ratcheted up its defence of the US’s weekend attacks on Iran, citing “new intelligence” to support its initial claim of complete success...

As soon as the US government voted to cut funding to more than 1,500 public media outlets last July, Luke Dennis, general manager at WYSO,...

The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, had lunch with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the disgraced financier’s private island, he said on Tuesday,...

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...

US House Republicans rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and instead passed their own funding measure late...

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 signed a sweeping new proclamation that will bar or partially restrict entry from nearly 20 countries, citing national security concerns. The ban prohibits...

Gavin Newsom warned this week that Donald Trump’s increasingly long government shutdown will impact those who rely on federal food support, likely delaying benefits as...

Republican congressman Thomas Massie has challenged Donald Trump over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on the...

Scott MacFarlane, the CBS News justice correspondent most known for his extensive coverage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, surprised colleagues on Monday morning by...

When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran over the weekend they set in motion a war that has engulfed the region. In Australia,...

Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that adds as many as five Republican-friendly congressional districts, the supreme court ruled on Thursday, handing Donald Trump...

The Trump administration’s bid to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist, is likely unconstitutional, a US judge has said. In a...

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago airports are among 40 that will see reductions in flights from Friday as a result of the government shutdown,...

The “time has come” for the Working Families party, the progressive third party’s national director said after a year of big wins and a growing...

A recent survey found that a whopping 40% of student loan borrowers say that their loans have negatively affected their ability to cover their basic...