Some of the US’s biggest companies are coming under increasing pressure to speak out about the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s operations in...

US airlines again canceled more than 1,000 flights on Saturday, the second day of the Federal Aviation Administration’s order to reduce air traffic because of...

A scrapbook for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday released on Monday contains a photo of him holding a novelty check bearing Donald Trump’s signature, along with...

Reflecting pool damage was caused by ‘botched’ renovation, not vandalism, prosecutors say as they ask to drop charges In a court filing on Friday, the...

Protesters took to the streets after Donald Trump said he was deploying national guard troops to Washington DC and temporarily taking over the city’s police...

In June, Yesica McKeone officially became a US citizen. At the naturalization ceremony, she raised a hand and took the oath of allegiance to a...

In his inaugural address this January, Donald Trump declared that his proudest legacy would be that of “a peacemaker and unifier”, pledging that US power...

Today’s recap Democrats took a victory lap after Tuesday’s election day wins with the chair of Democratic National Committee saying the party “is all gas,...

The Trump administration on Monday asked the supreme court to allow it to fire the director of the US Copyright Office. The administration’s newest emergency...

European leaders gathered in Washington on Monday for Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, in a show of support for the...

Two national guard members were shot near the White House in what officials described as a targeted attack, and the suspect was in custody after...

On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer...

Joe Biden, the former president, has filed a lawsuit to try to prevent the justice department (DoJ) from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews that...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime Republican ally who previously fiercely defended Donald Trump and his Maga movement, said on Saturday she had been contacted by...

Donald Trump has announced he is directing the defense department and other agencies to release whatever files they have on the search for alien life....

The hardest day on the job for the White House press secretary for most of Barack Obama’s second term was right after Donald Trump was...

Donald Trump has pardoned a woman who ended up imprisoned for fraud a second time after he afforded her clemency during his first presidency. Adriana...

As two masked men dragged her into an unmarked SUV, Andrea Velez tried to focus on details she might later remember – one man’s red...

After a scramble in the Senate, Republicans voted on Saturday to advance Trump’s signature “big, beautiful” bill, with a 51-49 vote. Republicans had been divided...

The Department of Justice on Friday released a long-awaited and huge tranche of documents detailing its investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a...

Late-night hosts unpacked the Trump administration’s continued attempts to distract from and underplay the Epstein files. Jimmy Kimmel It took barely a glance at Donald...

The UK government believed an “unconventional presidential administration” required an “unconventional ambassador” when it appointed Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, a cabinet minister has said....

Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, the Wall Street...

Pentagon officials told top lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that the cost of the war against Iran has already exceeded $11.3bn in its...

The John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4...

A nearly blind Burmese refugee who was abandoned by border patrol agents has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, city officials confirmed. Nurul Amin...

The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding...

When Ronald Reagan became the first US president to address China’s Great Hall of the People in 1984, he did not waste an opportunity to...

The FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale, according to a...

As the ballots were counted on Wednesday in the Democratic primary election for mayor in New York City, a young candidate with little national name...

A Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over racist and antisemitic chat messages that circulated within the Young Republican political group, another substantial consequence in a...

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...

US immigration authorities extended activity in the Los Angeles area on Saturday in the wake of protests at a federal detention facility and a police...

Death toll in strike on Iranian bridge rises to 8 with almost 100 injured, Iran state media reports The death toll from Thursday’s attack on...

Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of...

US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard now backs Trump’s claim Iran could have nuclear weapon in ‘weeks’ Two hours after Donald Trump again said that she...

As a big fan of citizen science, I have spent the past month conducting a very important experiment. While I am not quite as hardcore...

Donald Trump’s Republican party is on course for a damaging rejection at the ballot box in November, according to a maverick US congressman ousted by...

Donald Trump signs order designating leftwing movement Antifa as a domestic terror organization Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating ‘Antifa’ as a domestic...

An overview of today’s supreme court rulings The supreme court ruled that Donald Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was unconstitutional, in a...

A US appeals court has for now blocked the Trump administration from removing the temporary protective status of thousands of Afghans in the United States,...

A spokesperson for Bill Clinton accused the White House late on Friday of using him as a scapegoat after pictures of the former president with...

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...

America reached its apex of self-parody shortly after 7pm on 14 June 2025. In that moment, the background band at Donald Trump’s military parade segued...

Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no...

Donald Trump said on Wednesday the transportation department is rescinding $4bn in US government funding for California’s high-speed rail project. The department said there was...

A former marine and Republican write-in candidate for the US House in Florida has been arrested and charged in federal court with threatening to kill...

Donald Trump announced on Wednesday night that he had signed the bill overwhelmingly approved by US legislators that directs the justice department to release more...

If, as expected, Andy Burnham becomes the British prime minister later this month, one of his first telephone calls is likely to be with Donald...

Wednesday marked the sixth day that more than 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees were on a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall...

Nine months and six days before a Tomahawk missile tore through the gaily decorated classrooms of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, ripping...

Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late progressive congressman Raúl Grijalva, won a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat left open when her...

The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to drugs, weapons and narco-terrorism charges on Monday, two days after his capture by US special...

Senator Kelly says he’s ‘not backing down’, amid Pentagon investigation Senator Mark Kelly said that he’s “not backing down” amid a Pentagon investigation that claims...

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) was “a little late” in identifying the deadly Ebola...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Alison Singer, president and founder of the Autism Science Foundation, voiced...

Before the street outside her mother’s home filled with gunfire, before panicked partygoers sprinted through the front yard, before she discovered that the body on...

Donald Trump’s announcement calling off trade talks with Canada over its digital tax – and that he would impose retaliatory tariffs – demonstrates, once again,...

Embattled FBI director Kash Patel has denied under oath recent allegations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences on the job, dismissing them as “baseless” during...

The Democratic National Committee’s decision to block the release of its own autopsy report on the 2024 election is stunning but not surprising. Averse to...

Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and legal US resident who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) following his pro-Palestinian activism,...

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...

In his clearest attempt yet to “de‑escalate” tensions in Minneapolis, Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s “border czar”, announced on Wednesday that the administration will draw down...

Donald Trump reportedly wants the arch he is planning to build in Washington DC to dwarf the Lincoln Memorial. The US president envision the planned...

In one suburb of Minneapolis, the superintendent spends each school day driving to her district’s schools to track federal agents. Across the metro, in another...

Donald Trump is not known for taking advice, especially from foreign leaders who often seek to flatter and compliment the US president. But El Salvador’s...

Summary The Pentagon was reportedly aware there were survivors after a September attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, but the US military still...

Justices appear skeptical as Trump’s lawyers argue he ‘provided adequate process’ in attempt to fire Cook Throughout the first half today’s arguments, the Trump administration’s...

‘No Kings’ demonstrations cancelled in Minneapolis The No Kings coalition that has organized protests across the US is cancelling its demonstrations in the Capitol of...

New Yorkers were voting on Tuesday in a slate of Democratic primaries poised to reveal the strength of the party’s left flank and shape the...

Late-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump’s expletive-laden social media posts about the war in Iran and mocked his tonally jarring White House Easter egg roll....

House Democrats file six articles of impeachment against defense secretary Pete Hegseth Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, and colleagues including John Larson of...

“Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” Henry II was reputed to have muttered. His knights heard his pointed remark as an order. They...

When Shawn Pleasants first heard that the federal government was tearing up almost two decades of homelessness policy, it sent chills up his spine. Pleasants,...

Democratic senator Mark Kelly has said he refuses to be intimidated after US president Donald Trump accused a group of Democrats of “seditious behaviour punishable...

It was the busiest hour of the evening in Bolivar Square, one of the most iconic spots in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital. Amid the buzz of...

Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut New York City off from federal funds if favored mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, “doesn’t behave...

Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this...

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, will face senators on Tuesday, as Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown on political opponents, Democratic-run cities and alleged...

Moments after Donald Trump rang the ceremonial opening bell on Monday, starting the trading day from the Oval Office, 232 miles north on Wall Street,...

By now, many of us have a favorite part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time performance. It’s a dense, rich set that invites rewatching to...

Person allegedly killed during ICE operation in Maine One person was reportedly shot and killed during an ICE operation in Biddeford, Maine, according to the...

Progressives in the UK and US are grappling with the same question. Why have rightwing populists become so much more successful at tapping into public...

Iran’s foreign minister has declared “progress” after the first day of talks between high-ranking officials from Washington and Tehran ended in Switzerland, despite a tense...

Newsom calls for a special election to introduce new US House maps Lauren Gambino “Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Gavin Newsom...

California assembly advances first part of Newsom’s redistricting plan, heads to state senate The California state assembly advanced the first in a series of three...

The path to Bill Pulte becoming America’s top spy Tulsi Gabbard resigns 22 May 2026 After months of rumors that she had lost favor with...

This story was originally published by the Trace, a non-profit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. As Philadelphia’s district...

The US House of Representatives delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump over his war on Iran on Wednesday, as representatives backed a move to...

Trump says he ‘can’t believe’ Kimmel back on ABC Good morning and welcome to our coverage of US politics as Donald Trump has made clear...

The Trump administration, dominated by religious anti-abortion conservatives and reeling in money from a new wave of pronatalist tech reactionaries, has long been considering ways...

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 Guardian’s Oliver Holmes looks at how Donald Trump’s book The Art of the Deal could shed light on the president’s negotiation tactics in the...

Key takeaways from Trump-Netanyahu press conference And that’s it, the press conference is over. Trump said he wanted to move to the second phase of...

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...

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...

With a president who has called climate change a “hoax”, refused to send a delegation to international climate talks, and packed the federal government with...

In the latest sign the honeymoon is over between Donald Trump and his tech billionaire sidekick, Elon Musk, the president confirmed he will go ahead...

It has been a grim couple of weeks in the US, as multiple acts of politically motivated violence have dominated headlines and sparked fears that...