The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to permit the deployment of national guard troops to Illinois, as the president pushes to...

Chris Wright, the US Department of Energy secretary, said on Sunday that the spike in energy prices would last weeks, at the worst, not months,...

The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted for alleged conspiracy to commit torture, according to Manhattan federal court...

US supreme court rules fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits Oliver Milman Fossil fuel companies are able to challenge California’s ability to set stricter...

Three states have moved to deploy hundreds of members of their national guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to...

Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a once moderate Republican turned Trump loyalist, officially launched her bid for governor of South Carolina on Monday. Currently serving her third...

Twenty-two years ago, a dark-haired, bespectacled young man vanished off the streets of San Francisco. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 25-year-old information technology specialist, diehard...

The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries – an effort that comes after the supreme court struck...

An email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most...

A day after Donald Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the board of governors of the...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked prosecutors from accessing materials from a key ally of James Comey on Saturday, making the already uphill criminal case...

Anthropic announced its latest AI model, Claude Mythos, this month but said it would not be released publicly, because it turns computers into crime scenes....

Scenes in LA is ‘chaos provoked by the administration’, says LA mayor as she reissues call for peaceful protest Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has...

It was a solemn pledge at the heart of Donald Trump’s “America first” appeal. A “Make America great again” (Maga) foreign policy would mean the...

Utah officials show new video of suspect fleeing roof after shooting At a news conference, Beau Mason, the head of Utah’s department of public safety,...

The Senate has confirmed 48 of Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of...

As soon as Oscar’s deportation flight landed at the La Lima airport in Honduras, he put on his baseball cap. On the airport shuttle toward...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Nick Robins-Early Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple...

On Monday night, Stephen Colbert gathered his “best television friends” Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver on the couch after a monologue...

The US supreme court again rejected a push backed by Donald Trump to overhaul Missouri’s congressional maps in an effort to hand Republicans an edge...

Donald Trump has reversed course and is purportedly planning to host a bipartisan gathering of the top four US congressional leaders at the White House...

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, toured the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday, getting a first-hand look at a...

Donald Trump has voiced his irritation with Vladimir Putin, telling a cabinet meeting he was getting increasingly frustrated with the Russian leader. The US president...

In late January 2025, 10 days after Donald Trump was sworn in for a second time as president of the United States, an economic conference...

In 2016, a month before the presidential election that Donald Trump would win, the longtime Republican strategist Scott Jennings described him as “a vulgar, crude,...

I was on a walk around my local area in London when I was stopped in my tracks by a young man sauntering past me,...

The fallout between the US president, Donald Trump, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he...

Summary: key race calls so far With polls closed on the east coast, we’ve seen a number of races called already. Here are the top...

The US treasury has drafted a design for a $1 coin featuring Donald Trump on both sides, for the purpose of “honoring America’s 250th Birthday...

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...

Donald Trump’s former top food safety official has accused the administration of a near “catastrophic” mismanagement of the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of...

A federal judge in California sided with Anthropic in its case against the Department of Defense on Thursday, ordering a temporary pause on the government’s...

Supreme court extends ruling that halts Snap benefits rollout across the US The supreme court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full Snap payments, amid...

This year’s Democratic primaries look and sound a lot more populist than usual. Brian Poindexter, a union iron worker running on a “workers first” message,...

The Pentagon knew boat attack left survivors, AP sources say The Pentagon was aware there were survivors after a September attack on a boat in...

Donald Trump has filed another lawsuit against a media company. This time though, he’s up against the billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Jonathan Freedland speaks...

Shockingly, inexplicably, Donald Trump keeps finding new places to put his face. Also, his name. Or initials. Or one of those drawings of a turkey...

Press freedom groups sound the alarm: ‘The White House can’t be allowed to decide which journalists are able to cover the president’ Statements continue to...

Jonathan Freedland speaks to Dan Alexander of Forbes about how Donald Trump made so much money last year at the same time trade wars, military...

Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is stepping down, the administration announced on Monday, after a series of misconduct allegations including having an affair with...

A Missouri House race has been rocked by the Wednesday arrest of Republican candidate Thomas Ross, whom prosecutors accuse of attempting to frame his primary...

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...

Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, told CBS News Sunday Morning he plans to make a decision on whether to run for president in 2028 once...

Good morning. Another week, another tirade against the UK from Donald Trump. The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has further inflamed tensions in the special relationship,...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Bondi appears before Senate judiciary committee Attorney general Pam Bondi is...

Trump says he will direct attorney general to investigate Epstein’s involvement with Bill Clinton, Democratic donors and banks The president continued to post on Truth...

The release of a series of emails which suggest Donald Trump knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s conduct is arguably the most significant development in the saga...

Donald Trump has been ordered by a US judge to cooperate with the discovery process mandated for his lawsuit against the BBC and to sit...

On the night of 26 February this year, the Michel family in Pennsylvania expected to see their loved one, Daphy, again very soon. After she...

Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit early Hugo Lowell Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit early and return to Washington DC on Monday,...

Schumer rejects Trump’s claim that bipartisan shutdown negotiations are under way Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Democrats...

Platner says allegations of physical abuse of former partner ‘are simply not true’ During a live interview with MS NOW on Thursday, Graham Platner flatly...

The US trade court on Thursday ruled against Donald Trump’s latest 10% global tariffs, finding across-the-board tariffs were not justified under a 1970s trade law....

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against...

Federal workers are scrambling to figure out if they still have a job after the Trump administration launched a fresh wave of layoffs amid a...

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...

After Donald Trump’s justice department failed on Friday to release all documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, multiple Congress...

Justice department told Trump in May that his name is in the Epstein files – WSJ “When justice department officials reviewed what attorney general Pam...

Amid escalating tensions with Venezuela and US military strikes on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean, the US admiral who commands military forces in Latin...

Three days after Californians headed to the polls, key races in the primary election remained too close to call and experts warned the counting could...

Donald Trump on Saturday announced reforms intended to speed up access to medical research and treatment based on psychedelic drugs. The president signed an executive...

“The mere presence of Black people at the Fourth of July celebrations, acting as if freedom belonged to them, exposed the lie at the heart...

The elections of 4 November were the end of a grandiose illusion. After his 2024 victory, Donald Trump claimed he had an “unprecedented and powerful...

For a town of 20,000 residents a few miles from the Indiana state line in rural Ohio, the city of Oxford boasts an outsized number...

Trump confirms that ‘drug-carrying submarine’ was the target of latest strike in the Caribbean Donald Trump just said added that a submarine was the target...

Trump says FBI should investigate ‘the Jeffrey Epstein hoax’ as a criminal conspiracy against him In an interview with Real America’s Voice, the far-right network...

When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minnesota earlier this year, a loose network of neighbors sprang into action. They fed each other. They got kids...

Donald Trump said on Saturday he was nominating Tammy Bruce, the state department spokesperson, as the next US deputy representative to the United Nations, which...

In the emotionally and politically charged days since the killing of Charlie Kirk, the conservative youth activist who was a close ally of Donald Trump,...

It’s an energizing time for democratic socialists across the country, and not only because New York state assembly member Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in 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...

Donald Trump on Friday announced that he had picked Katie Zacharia to be the next White House press secretary, lining up a conservative commentator he...

Of the roughly 43 million Americans carrying student loan debt – totaling nearly $1.7tn – only a small fraction have seen their balances erased. For...

Trump tells military generals ‘we’re under invasion from within’ “We’re under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many...

Supreme Court takes up GOP-led challenge to Voting Rights Act that could affect control of Congress Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog....

The Aukus submarine deal will proceed as planned after reportedly surviving the Pentagon’s review of the security pact. The Japan-based Nikkei Asia reported the Trump...

The midterm elections are already upon us, and every Democrat and independent running against a Republican should ask voters the question Ronald Reagan asked on...

Elections too often get pigeonholed. The hot take, or simplistic analysis, would have it that just one issue – often the issue the source so...

The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC will have to be drained again. Donald Trump has blamed vandalism for the failure to keep the...

After spending weeks accusing Nigeria’s government of failing to tackle the persecution of Christians, Donald Trump announced a series of strikes on the west African...

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...

The Trump administration said it would provide partial relief to recipients of food stamps on Monday as the federal government shutdown approached a record-breaking length....

Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come...

While thousands of protesters marched through downtown Minneapolis on Friday to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave the city, a smaller group...

Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking $7m at...

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...

Trump administration officials say they are undertaking a broad re-examination of asylum cases and green cards issued to citizens of certain countries, after the shooting...

One crisp morning in 2018, Sandra Ibarra pulled on a pair of gloves to ward off the winter chill and picked up the first cardboard...

A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti...

The US military operation in Venezuela undermines a fundamental principle of international law, agreed after the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust: states...

Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia wins congressional special election in New Jersey in a landslide Democrat Analilia Mejia won a special election to represent New Jersey’s...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Wednesday it had ⁠confirmed the ⁠first detection ​of flesh-eating parasite the New World screwworm in US wildlife...

One of the last remaining barriers between wealthy donors sending unlimited funds to federal political candidates fell after the US supreme court struck down a...

Cuban officials have denounced the US seizure of the Skipper oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday, calling it an “act of piracy and maritime...

Trump to survey damage from deadly floods during Texas visit In about an hour, we expect president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump to...

Two children – a nine-year old boy and his six-year old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed...

Eli, a 16-year-old Los Angeles student, is spending his summer juggling an internship at a natural history museum, a research project, a physics class and...

“A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to...

Democrats have erupted in a storm of outrage over the passage of the Donald Trump’s budget bill, delivering scathing critiques that offered signs of the...