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...

Texas house fails to meet quorum for third day The Texas legislature failed to meet quorum for a third time today, after only 95 of...

Trump administration to sue Gavin Newsom over California’s new redistricting maps The Trump administration is suing California governor Gavin Newsom after the state adopted new...

Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, stayed loyal to Donald Trump until the end – and nurtured the president’s grievances against his political...

A new Senate committee report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, described the events as a...

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...

As Republicans celebrated the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with praise for Donald Trump’s decisive action, Democrats faced their own divisions and...

The secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t...

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Donald Trump has said that he wants Bill Pulte, his new acting director of national intelligence, to cut the office, which has already been significantly...

They will gather to mourn one of their own. On Sunday the late rightwing activist Charlie Kirk is set to be hailed by Donald Trump...

Democratic leaders responded with fury on Sunday to Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela, slamming it as an illegal act carried out in the absence...

Donald Trump has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran, claiming it delivered a “major win” for the United States – even as it made significant...

The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former...

Brazil has vowed to retaliate against Washington’s decision to impose 25% tariffs on imports of some Brazilian products. The office of the president, Luiz Inácio...

Trump deploys more National Guard troops and Marines to LA protests Good morning, Donald Trump has deployed more National Guard troops and marines to Los...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board described the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities as “a military occupation”. Local leaders have used...

Let’s play a fun game of Will This Get Me Deported? The first contestant is myself: a British-Palestinian green card holder in the US. I’ll...

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...

Late-night hosts discussed – or ignored – Donald Trump’s surprise primetime address and dug further into the explosive new interview the White House chief of...

It is both sad and ironic that, 250 years after the revolt against George III, the British monarchy is teaching its former colony lessons about...

When Islamic State needed to move and disguise its money, it turned, US prosecutors said in 2023, to the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange: Binance. So...

DOJ announces charges against five men for alleged plot to attack UFC White House event The justice department has announced charges against five men for...

This article was produced in partnership with Floodlight For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90m acres – about the size...

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, faced the Senate finance committee in a tense and combative hearing on Thursday, during which lawmakers questioned...

Days after pleading not guilty to conspiracy charges, Emmett Doyle took the stage at a dive bar in Minneapolis, and performed an Irish protest ballad....

Over the past month, a series of advancements in China’s artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing and robotics technologies have rattled financial markets, caused divisions among US...

Attorney general vows to appeal dismissal of criminal cases against ex-FBI director Comey and NY attorney general James Good morning, and welcome to our live...

Homan says administration is drawing down 700 immigration enforcement officers Speaking to reporters today, Tom Homan said that the Trump administration will draw down 700...

Six months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office –...

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...

Poll: Half of Americans think ICE is making cities less safe Half of Americans believe that ICE is making American cities less safe, a new...

A young political outsider with a fairly scant record becomes a sensation in a Democratic primary, capturing hearts and minds with a populist message and...

The FBI searched multiple properties on Thursday as it widened its investigation into a shooting in Washington on Wednesday, that has left one national guard...

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, called for a national “billionaires tax” on Friday as he fights a ballot measure targeting the ultra-wealthy in his home state....

US president Donald Trump has urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender...

Behind closed doors at a New York City federal building, people are confined after being seized by officers on their way out of immigration court...

Laura Friedman’s love affair with film started young, staying up late to watch old Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney flicks. “It definitely gave me big...

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1. The air we breathe A flare stack at a refinery in Linden, New Jersey. Photograph: Kena Betancur/Bloomberg via Getty Images A range of recent...

The Democrats hold in their hands constitutional means yet unused to check the Trump regime’s ruthless attempt to impose a police state. That the Democrats...

‘I don’t think this is the last shoe to drop,’ Trump’s FCC chair tells Fox In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, the chairman...

If Donald Trump’s address on 3 July from Mount Rushmore will be remembered at all, it will be because that was the day of competing...

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed that his administration would release a tranche of documents in the criminal investigation into disgraced late financier Jeffrey...

Trump meeting Russ Vought to discuss cutting ‘Democrat agencies’ and whether cuts will be permanent Donald Trump is up and truthing as the White House...

Donald Trump said the US had begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran, warning that there may be US casualties. The strikes, which the US president...

The US labor market grew by more than expected last month, recovering some of the damage inflicted by the federal government shutdown, according to official...

“Daddy’s home.” So said a social media post from the White House, accompanied by a video featuring the song Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) by Usher...

Democratic US representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio sued Donald Trump on Monday to seek the removal of his name from the John F Kennedy Center...

JD Vance does not think the era-defining Watergate scandal would have lasted more than a single news cycle in today’s fragmented, hyper-partisan political environment –...

Donald Trump said he has told US envoys not to go to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, shortly after Tehran’s top diplomat left Islamabad...

Frigid January weather prompted Donald Trump’s second inauguration to be held in the rotunda of the US Capitol, an iconic room ringed by busts of...

Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, has endorsed Zohran Mamdani in his run for mayor of New York City, a major boost for the...

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...

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...

* Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday sued California over state policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ school sports, alleging that their participation violates...

Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+...

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections...

The US has built a portal that will allow Europeans to view blocked content including alleged hate speech and terrorism, according to Reuters. The portal,...

After taking six months to conclude that Vladimir Putin may not be a kindred transactional authoritarian leader but an ideological nationalist seeking the return of...

Thousands of Afghans who fled to the US as the Taliban grabbed power again in Afghanistan are in mortal dread of being deported back to...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Closing summary This brings our live coverage of the second Trump...

Tech billionaires have shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead of the 2 June primary election in California, in an unrivaled attempt to influence...

As Donald Trump unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office – while...

Protesters outside a New Jersey migrant detention center where a hunger strike is under way alleged that US immigration agents deployed pepper spray and batons...

The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according...

A top Democratic lawmaker with a military background has reacted strongly to US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s call for “no quarter” for US enemies during...

Millions of acres of Alaska wilderness will lose federal protections and be exposed to drilling and mining in the Trump administration’s latest move to prioritize...

The bombshell announcement that the Trump administration no longer fully recommends a third of childhood vaccines means the US moved from leading globally on vaccination...

Immigration agents appeared on Sunday at the Texas home of the family of Any Lucia López Belloza, the 19-year-old college student who was recently deported...

US marines deployed to Los Angeles on Friday temporarily detained a civilian, the US military confirmed, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed...

Bernie Sanders will on Wednesday make a probably unsuccessful attempt to block sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel that will double as a litmus...

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation...

Mamdani plans ‘major address’ on America’s 250th anniversary, ‘surrounded by recently naturalized citizens’ The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, plans to deliver what his...

Donald Trump has been accused of wielding unconfirmed allegations of mortgage fraud as his “weapon of choice” to attack the Federal Reserve’s independence, as a...

A federal judge on Thursday halted for now Donald Trump’s deployment of national guard troops to Washington DC, dealing the president a temporary legal setback...

IDF tells residents of southern suburbs of Beirut to flee after announcing continued combat and ground operations The Israeli military told people in the southern...

A tranche of documents released by the House oversight committee on Wednesday revealed that Jeffrey Epstein’s staff kept him apprised of Donald Trump’s air travel...

Two-thirds of Americans believe Donald Trump is prioritizing his controversial immigration crackdown at the expense of their economic wellbeing, according to a new poll, in...

“Missing son.” “Missing father.” “Missing grandmother.” The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Ahead of this evening’s state banquet, PA Media reports that the...

A federal judge ruled on Saturday that a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate at a board meeting about Donald Trump’s plan to close down...

The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on...

Donald Trump on Sunday mused about giving most Americans $2,000 funded by tariff revenues collected by the president’s administration – an evident bid to rally...

The suspected gunman who tried to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner appeared in federal court on Monday and was charged with three federal crimes,...

A coalition of more than two dozen states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its decision to suspend food stamps during the government shutdown....

Donald Trump’s latest vanity project: putting his own face on US currency. The White House is pushing Congress to approve a $250 bill bearing the...

Neither of the supreme court majority opinions in Trump v Barbara, the 5-4 decision upholding the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, mention the true architect of...

Representatives for victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein condemned the US Department of Justice on Friday for only partially releasing investigative documents while at...

Red Cross ‘outraged’ as latest Israeli strikes kill at least 254 people in Lebanon The Red Cross said it was “outraged by the devastating death...

He got by with a little help from his friends. From British royalty to White House alumni, from a Silicon Valley investor to a leftwing...

Inflation shot up in June as the impacts of Donald Trump’s tariffs slowly started to show in US prices. Business leaders have said for months...

The head of America’s largest federal workers union says it is time to end the government shutdown, now the second-longest in US history, as hundreds...

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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...

A federal ⁠judge blocked a proposed restriction on mail-in voting across the US, challenging a crackdown on elections ordered by Donald Trump. Judge Emmet Sullivan...

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...

Democrats celebrate major redistricting win in Virginia Barack Obama has praised Virginia voters for backing the redrawn congressional maps that could give Democrats a significant...

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to get the US out of “endless wars”, put “America first” and focus on domestic policy. After...