Pete Hegseth’s office is located on the third floor of the Pentagon, in the E ring, room 3E880, facing the Potomac River with a scenic...

Donald Trump has told his Nato allies: ‘We don’t need you.’ He also threatened to ‘massively blow up’ the world’s largest gasfield, despite Americans already...

Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a new batch of photos from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the...

Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults, spurred on by the shift in transatlantic relations and...

A controversial move by the Pentagon to reclassify casualties in the Iran war is being taken by US military veterans as a sign of disrespect...

Acting attorney general claims Comey ‘threatened the life of the president’ in announcing charges At a news conference on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the former defense...

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...

Trump leaves White House to attend Lindsey Graham’s funeral Donald Trump’s motorcade has left the White House and is en route to the funeral service...

When Senate Democrats decided in September to use the government funding bill to put up a fight over expiring healthcare subsides, it set the stage...

Donald Trump recorded a new video address on Sunday, vowing to avenge three American deaths after the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran and accusing the...

NY AG Letitia James on her indictment: a ‘desperate weaponization of our justice system’ New York state attorney general Letitia James sent out this statement...

On a Sunday in late March, dozens of White House staffers dressed in florals and pastels gathered at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia...

There are people who argue that Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is not motivated by fears or imperial ambitions, but by other countries’ disrespect. Russia...

After months of negotiations, threats and refusals, Bill and Hillary Clinton have finally agreed to testify in front of Congress as part of a Republican-led...

John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified information Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be...

The war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabilises the Middle East and the global economy, is not real. This is how it is...

Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports...

A couple of weekends ago, as dusk was falling over the Escandón neighbourhood of Mexico City, Abel Ortiz was startled by the sound of two...

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump claimed he would quickly end the war in Gaza. Eight months after taking office, Trump finally decided to exert...

Federal agents have arrested hundreds of immigrants off New York and New Jersey streets in recent months in a stealth enforcement campaign that disproportionately targeted...

It’s the day after Mother’s Day, the first one Elizabeth Soto has spent apart from her three children. Sitting in jail in Wichita Falls, Texas,...

William H Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his...

Donald Trump on Thursday announced a new round of punishing tariffs, saying the United States will impose a 100% tariffs on imported branded drugs, 25%...

Newsom calls Republican redistricting to eliminate Black-majority congressional districts ‘stone-cold racism’ Asked on Thursday for his response to Republican efforts to eliminate majority-Black congressional districts...

Donald Trump has hinted that US-Iranian peace talks could resume in Islamabad over the next two days, and complimented the work of Pakistan’s army chief...

We tend to think of censorship as the direct suppression of speech. We conjure images of mouths taped shut, courts seizing books and films, and...

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...

For most politicians and journalists, the answer to nearly every question is to look up. Not at the moon, the stars or even the chimney...

It started with a whisper. Marco Rubio interrupted Donald Trump’s roundtable event with conservative influencers discussing antifa, speaking quietly into Trump’s ear. Rubio handed the...

In the first six months of his second term as president, Donald Trump has dominated the national political conversation, implemented an aggressive agenda of constitutional...

We are North American university professors and human rights lawyers who teach, write, and speak about the human rights of people around the world, including...

Nearly two decades after his second tour, Nathan Wendland is still troubled by his experiences in Iraq. Like 700,000 other Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the...

For decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics. Across the political spectrum, from grassroots climate campaigners to elite UN negotiators,...

Robert Mueller, the former special counsel who investigated Russian interference in 2016 and links between Donald Trump and Moscow, has died, his family said on...

Jeffries holds the floor for six hours Jeffries is still speaking, passing the six-hour mark. The Democratic leader just indicated that he plans to keep...

Donald Trump has selected Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing to an end a months-long search for a...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments. Donald Trump hosted Zohran Mamdani,...

Within just a few weeks, the Trump administration has proposed multiple contradictory policies related to overdose prevention – some that could help save lives and...

A last-minute provision in the federal spending bill heavily restricting hemp-derived products such as CBD and THC drinks could lead some Republicans to vote against...

A 10-year-old Minnesota girl has been released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after a month in detention in Dilley, Texas, school officials...

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...

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty – the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming...

Bernie Sanders, the venerable democratic socialist senator from Vermont, was not in a mood to pull punches. “Trump is undermining our democracy and rapidly moving...

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable...

Top House Democrats split on Tuesday over a proposal to block aid for Israel’s military, with two of the party’s highest-ranking lawmakers saying they will...

There is politics before the internet, and politics after the internet. Liberals are floundering, the right are flourishing, and what of the left? Well, it’s...

Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around...

Even as he threatened to escalate an unlawful war sold in part as preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump opened the door...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won its first-ever Emmy on Sunday, less than two months after news of its cancellation elicited a gleeful reaction...

Violent acts and threats at some ‘No Kings’ protests around the US A man intentionally drove an SUV into a crowd of protesters in Culpepper,...

The president has now wrapped up his press conference, so here’s a recap of some the key points Trump is placing Washington DC police under...

A southern California community is calling for the release of a high school student whom US immigration agents arrested earlier this month while he was...

The White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Thursday that a significant drawdown of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota was under way and he...

US Senate passes aid and public broadcasting cuts in victory for Trump Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

More than 330,000 Haitian immigrants in the US are set to lose their ability to legally live and work in the country as the Trump...

Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, began the first edition of her YouTube show with a vow to unmask “the evil-doers” attempting to bring down...

Donald Trump-backed Pamela Evette, South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, and Alan Wilson, the state’s attorney general, have advanced to a runoff in a competitive race to...

Hello and Happy New Year. We have started 2026 with a geopolitical shock as the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and imprisoned him...

A person died during an encounter with federal immigration officials on Tuesday morning in Florida, a state highway patrol spokesperson confirmed, marking the third death...

The US president, Donald Trump, has met China’s leader, Xi Jinping, for a momentous summit that will pack negotiations on global conflict, international trade and...

Yotam Marom knows why the Occupy Wall Street movement fell apart 15 years ago. The New York-based organizer and author was a key participant in...

When canvassers fan out across neighborhoods, they usually rely on sophisticated lists that will tell them things like a voter’s political party and how likely...

Since Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite’s legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to...

Trump says he’s ‘very confident’ a ceasefire deal can be reached as Netanyahu arrives at White House Benjamin Netanyahu just arrived at the White House,...

OpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks, hours after Donald Trump ordered the government...

Epstein survivors accused Melania Trump of ‘shifting the burden’ after surprise statement Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Melania Trump has been...

The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he...

The stunning decision on Wednesday to suspend one of the United States’ most popular and influential late-night shows has come as Donald Trump and his...

Jacob Frey, the embattled mayor of Minneapolis, has warned fellow mayors that their city will be next in line to be targeted by federal immigration...

Donald Trump has pardoned two south Florida shark divers convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks and a giant grouper from a fisherman’s longline several...

The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has developed a go-to response when asked about something controversial Donald Trump or members of his administration said or...

Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as White House press secretary for Joe Biden, has left the Democratic party to become an independent, according to the publisher...

A new Democrat-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs, as small business owners continue to reel from the...

Trump will send more tariff letters to foreign leaders ‘in the coming days’, White House says Donald Trump will send foreign leaders more letters notifying...

Harvard University appeared in federal court on Monday to make the case that the Trump administration illegally cut $2.6bn from the storied college – a...

“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...

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, will be heading home following a record-setting deployment of more than 300 days that included...

Senate fails to pass short-term funding bill that would avert government shutdown The Republican-controlled Senate has failed to pass a short-term funding bill that would...

When the Democratic National Committee finally released its autopsy on the 2024 election disaster, not even the DNC chair could defend it. “I don’t endorse...

DHS announces plan for immigration detention center in Nebraska The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will open a new migrant detention facility in...

Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, and prominent Republicans swiftly backpedaled from Donald Trump’s assertion that the US will run Venezuela in transition after...

Donald Trump’s war on the truth has taken many forms – spreading thousands of falsehoods, insulting journalists and suing news organizations. It’s clear he desperately...

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

Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence has set off alarm bells in Washington, as a staunch Trump...

Al Sharpton calls his ‘mentor’ Jesse Jackson a ‘transformative leader who changed the world’ The civil rights campaigner, Al Sharpton, has paid tribute to his...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will require its officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera, said Tom Homan, the Trump...

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...

House Democrats release emails that allege Trump knew about Epstein’s crimes In a new batch of emails released by Democrats on the House oversight committee,...

Incumbent Dan S Sullivan, the US senator, advanced in Alaska’s non-partisan primary race for his seat on Tuesday alongside Mary Peltola, a former Democratic congresswoman....

“Mandarin hotel! Out of Puerto Rico!” was the refrain of dozens of demonstrators on 21 April 2025 as they took over the lobby of the...

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...

Supreme court appears likely to rule in favor of states that ban transgender athletes in school sports After more than three hours of arguments, the...

America’s main streets are a warzone. This should trouble every American, irrespective of their political leaning. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are near...

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...

They come on buses, in cars and RVs. Some ride on motorcycles. Every Sunday afternoon, convoys of protesters from all over Florida, and others from...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died on 17 February, imagined a version of America where the marginalized became the center. His...

Trump nominates former SEC chair Jay Clayton to be new national intelligence director Donald Trump has announced that he is nominating Jay Clayton to become...

Proclaiming the US would “run” Venezuela after abducting its president and his wife, president Trump has now qualified his claim. Amid questions, including from top...

A few dozen protesters rallied outside the New Jersey statehouse in Trenton on Monday afternoon. They carried handmade signs with messages such as “U made...