For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch...

Three memos that describe four interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump sexually abused...

Democratic congresswoman criticizes Trump’s comments about a third term Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s Democratic representative, has criticized comments from Steve Bannon after the former White House...

A lot has been written recently in an effort to understand the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and how we’ve risen to such prominence in...

Marco Rubio impostor using AI to contact multiple senior officials – report An unknown fraudster has used artificial intelligence to impersonate the US secretary of...

The US may soon remove sanctions on Iranian oil stranded on tankers at sea, the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on Thursday as Washington seeks...

Donald Trump claimed he had found a way to pay US military troops despite the federal government shutdown, saying he had instructed his defence secretary,...

Officials correct death toll in Ice shooting to say one person killed, two in critical condition The Department of Homeland Security just issued a correction...

Falling debris from a ceiling in the grand foyer of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts may have complicated a battle over...

A deadly shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas has been met with markedly different reactions from the political...

The US Department of Homeland Security has for the first time built a national citizenship database that combines information from immigration agencies and the social...

Donald Trump has defended his new 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, claiming the country cannot survive without the US. The White House announced the...

The US government has taken an unprecedented 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, according...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday seemed ready to keep Donald Trump in control of California national guard troops after they were deployed following protests...

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump of Epstein ‘cover-up’ and calls for public testimony Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

The supreme court has given the Trump administration a green light to block asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border, in a decision that fundamentally reshapes...

On 20 May, a federal court in the state of Florida indicted the former Cuban president Raúl Castro over his alleged involvement in downing two...

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...

Donald Trump alleged “triple sabotage” at the United Nations, after the US president was plagued by a series of unfortunate events surrounding his address to...

Donald Trump has welcomed Xi Jinping to the US, taking the unusual step of greeting the Chinese leader on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews...

The family of Kristen Galvan, a 15-year-old Houston girl who was sex trafficked and murdered, says law enforcement failed her twice by not protecting her...

“You want a new political party and you shall have it!” Elon Musk declared in early July. The world’s richest man is never one to...

Hegseth insists ‘we always have the backs of our commanders’ amid furor over who ordered second boat strike “We always have the backs of our...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi,...

Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs For a third time this week, a bipartisan group of Senators rallied to nullify the global “reciprocal” tariffs...

He grew up on a farm in Indiana, the son of a factory worker and eldest of five children. He studied at Liberty, a Christian...

Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, became the acting director of national intelligence (DNI) on Friday, following a tug-of-war between Donald Trump and...

A federal judge has declined to stop the Pentagon from firing journalists who say they were illegally punished for speaking out about the need for...

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed an unprecedented lawsuit filed by the Trump administration earlier in the summer against all 15 judges serving on Maryland’s...

Four people have been arrested after images of Donald Trump alongside deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected on to Windsor Castle, where the US...

Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s pick to lead DHS, defended officer who shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6 Markwayne Mullin, the Oklahoma senator who was picked by...

Joe Biden is receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer that was diagnosed in May, a spokesperson for the former US president said on Saturday...

Maps can guide us home. They show us where we are, where we have been and where we might go. Electoral maps can do something...

Trump says he and China’s Xi made progress on TikTok and trade, and will meet soon Donald Trump and Xi Jinping “made progress on many...

This term, the US supreme court handed down decisions on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration and birthright citizenship, reshaping life for millions of...

Trump claims bin Salman ‘knew nothing about’ murder of Khashoggi, despite US intelligence finding he approved it An ABC reporter then addresses the elephant in...

Soaring fuel prices are threatening air carriers around the world, and in the US the White House is scrambling to save the long-troubled Spirit Airlines....

At least 10 FBI employees connected to an investigation of Donald Trump have reportedly been dismissed following revelations that the agency subpoenaed personal records of...

House in procedural vote as Democrats attempt to derail Trump’s tax-and-spending bill The House is currently in the process of taking a procedural vote, a...

Investigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC...

Donald Trump has weighed into a new fight – this time with two sports teams. The president wants Washington’s football franchise the Commanders and Cleveland...

Late-night hosts recapped US attorney general Pam Bondi’s contentious congressional hearing as she faced tough questions over the justice department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein...

Donald Trump’s hyperbolic portrayal of crime in major American cities, and his deployment of the national guard in Washington DC ostensibly in an effort to...

Despite Trump’s claim, US intelligence briefed senators on Monday that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, Warner says Despite Donald Trump’s recent claim that...

For an inveterate liar, Donald Trump is remarkably honest. The best guide to what he thinks is what he says. When forecasting his likely course...

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...

It was quite a day in Davos. Donald Trump began his time at the World Economic Forum Wednesday with a rambling, racism-drenched speech in which...

Summary Closing summary Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. You can...

Donald Trump is still high on the capture of Nicolás Maduro. The easy abduction of the Venezuelan president didn’t just grant Trump control of the...

Dr Erica Schwartz was confirmed by the US Senate as director ‌of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a rare win for the...

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent driving a vehicle struck a man on Saturday while trying to pursue him and someone else in the...

Democrats are condemning two Republican members of Congress who said, in the wake of the mass shooting in Australia, that the US should ban Muslims...

White House picks top aide to RFK Jr as interim CDC director The White House has picked an aide to health secretary Robert F Kennedy...

A suspect has been arrested in southern Utah in connection with the fatal shooting of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, Spencer Cox said on Friday morning,...

When Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he claimed it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it...

Federal appeals court rules that most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal A US appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s new tariffs...

Trump ally pledges to ‘work with people’ he disagrees with after Arizona primary win Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Andy Biggs...

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...

US Democrats on Sunday pushed the Trump administration to release video of a second strike on an alleged drug boat incapacitated in the Caribbean, continuing...

Several Republican lawmakers have begun speaking out against the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, with one senator going so far...

A brother is torn from his sister. A father arrives for his immigration hearing with his family, only to find that they will be leaving...

It took Trump chronicler Maggie Haberman to cut to the chase: if Trump didn’t sign the birthday card or other documents released by Jeffrey Epstein’s...

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...

Debates on the left are typically framed as a division between moderates and progressives, with the two sides wrestling over how best to form a...

The Trump administration’s “Make America healthy again” (Maha) agenda appears to be stalled as two of the government’s most influential public health positions sit empty....

A Detroit police department decision to reverse course on firing two officers who allegedly violated local law by coordinating an arrest with federal immigration agents...

Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes in Iran because he apparently thinks he can get away with them. Sadly, the US supreme court has...

If that’s the way America celebrates its birthday, you would not want to be present at its funeral. The shining city on a hill is...

Donald Trump has said he sealed an agreement with Nato allies that will deliver Patriot missiles and other key arms to Ukraine – and warned...

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...

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and...

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran, oyster farmer and progressive activist, has scaled a mountain of personal controversies to win the Democratic nomination for the US...

Aid experts have denounced the US’s “embarrassing” and “pitiful” initial response to the Nepal flood disaster after the US state department announced it was releasing...

As California continues to slowly count ballots, Donald Trump and other Republicans are spreading claims of election fraud that have become common after California elections....

Donald Trump spent the night at his family-owned golf resort in Scotland but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration, claiming...

The Trump administration has issued subpoenas to several New York Times journalists after the newspaper reported on security concerns with the president’s new plane, according...

The US deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, announced on Friday that the justice department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting...

A group of white male lawmakers were playing cards in a back room while their female colleagues gave speeches on the Minnesota house floor. They...

Like many children of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles, Juan grew up a Dodgers fan. He watched their baseball games from home when he was...

Donald Trump’s attempt to blame Iran for the deadly strike on an elementary school stemmed from an early US intelligence assessment that initially suggested the...

Executives from five of the country’s largest health insurance companies appeared before Congress on Thursday as lawmakers examined why healthcare has become increasingly harder for...

When JD Vance became Roman Catholic, he wondered what his dead grandmother would think. His grandmother Mamaw did not have anything against them, but growing...

It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it’s developed into a full-blown...

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...

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...

Donald Trump said he would meet today with American negotiators to review Iran’s latest proposal and decide by Sunday whether he will strike Iran “to...

Senate fails to pass bill to keep essential federal workers and troops paid throughout government shutdown The Senate has failed to pass legislation that would...

On a cool winter night in Los Angeles, dozens gathered to protest against the Trump administration’s attacks on the arts and the recent federal immigration...

Donald Trump has said it will be clear within “probably 10 days” whether he can reach a nuclear deal with Iran, as the US military...

Donald Trump’s attempt to sack the Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, is the familiar authoritarian trick of bending institutions to serve the leader’s immediate ends....

In the six months since Donald Trump took office, the US president has supercharged the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus – pushing immigration officials to arrest...

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children,” Nelson Mandela observed 30 years ago....

Trump’s first and second terms have been marked by huge protests, from the 2017 Women’s March to the protests for racial justice after George Floyd’s...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. In December 1978, Jimmy Carter, a US president besieged by inflation and energy crises, watched as...

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...

Donald Trump threatened to use emergency powers to deploy more troops into Democrat-led cities, as his attempts to mobilise the military faced legal challenges. The...

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...

Donald and Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening after the event was interrupted by gunfire. A suspect was...

Illustration: Mel Haasch/The Guardian For Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”. After two years of trying to conceive, Erica and...