Late-night hosts on Monday discussed the Academy Awards, Maga’s incoherent statements on the Iran war and raised an eyebrow to Donald Trump’s claims of support...

The Democratic establishment’s early bet on Janet Mills, as its best hope to pick up a coveted Senate seat in Maine, now looks like a...

The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by...

The Trump administration has reportedly been pushing to release records from an FBI investigation related to Eric Swalwell and alleged links to a Chinese agent...

Any Lucia López Belloza will not be home for Christmas. The 19-year-old freshman was on a business scholarship at Babson College near Boston, when she...

New poll shows overwhelming majority of Americans opposed to military action in Venezuela A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows that 70% of Americans are opposed...

Trump’s first-term labor statistics chief denounces ‘groundless firing’ of his successor Bill Beach, a former Heritage foundation economist who was picked by Donald Trump in...

Republican congressman Thomas Massie has challenged Donald Trump over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on the...

The US aircraft that carried out the first airstrike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean was reportedly disguised as a civilian plane –...

“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...

On the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID, the international aid agency once described as “the world’s single...

Donald Trump launched a fresh tirade Tuesday against European countries that refused to join his war against Iran, calling out the UK and France, as...

Donald Trump has said that his administration plans to start sending letters on Monday to US trade partners dictating new tariffs, amid confusion over when...

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Donald Trump has again threatened Iran, saying the US may launch new attacks if Tehran continues to refuse the significant concessions he wants before a...

Oklahoma’s superintendent, who has attracted national attention as he sought to install religion and rightwing viewpoints in Oklahoma schools, will resign to run a conservative...

The year is 2018 and Pete Hegseth has just come back from his summer holidays. Hegseth, who is still just a Fox News host, not...

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ Donald Trump summoned the press pool to the Oval Office to witness him signing an...

It will go down in history as the “Bah! Humbug!” address. Surrounded by Christmas trees and garlands before a fireplace, Donald Trump on Wednesday gave...

The New York City mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Friday that he is going to stay in the fall’s highly anticipated mayoral race, just days...

The Trump administrations has threatened Harvard’s lucrative portfolio of patents amid its long-running dispute with the university, accusing it of breaching legal and contractual requirements...

Donald Trump’s war on science has been vicious and hugely damaging, but it is worth noting that he has lost some of its biggest battles....

New York Times sues Pentagon over new reporting restrictions The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon on Thursday, accusing the defense department...

US attorney general clashes with the leading Democratic senator Dick Durbin in a Senate hearing as Bondi refuses to answer his question about whether she...

An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to...

Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday to the United Nations general assembly was an object lesson in his lawless rule and remarkable capacity for self-delusion. Disregarding...

On Monday, Paramount Skydance launched a $108bn takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, the entertainment giant that owns Hollywood movie studios, along with CNN, HBO...

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...

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For years she was one of Donald Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers. Marjorie Taylor Greene trafficked in racist statements, indicated support for executing Democrats and...

House Democrats release new images of Epstein’s private island home released Democrats on the House oversight committee have this morning released never-before-seen images and video...

Britain should have a completely independent nuclear deterrent as it can no longer rely on the US, Ed Davey is expected to say on Sunday....

This is the third Gulf war and umpteenth outbreak of conflict since the United States took over as the dominant power and influence in the...

There is a vast building, reportedly the size of seven football fields, in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix; ICE bought it for $70m. Another...

For as long as I can remember, the White House correspondents’ dinner was where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other’s...

Voters in Maine head to the polls on Tuesday for one of the most closely watched primary elections in the country. The US Senate race...

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities. According to documents obtained by...

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...

About a month after alleging Nevada had as many as 16,000 non-citizens on its voter rolls, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials admitted they had...

The detention by immigration authorities of a Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer is illegal, and he must be given...

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago airports are among 40 that will see reductions in flights from Friday as a result of the government shutdown,...

Senate receives and passes bill to release Epstein files, heads to Trump for signing The Senate has now officially received the bill, passed in the...

A US federal judge will issue an injunction blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students. The university was in...

It’s just an eighth of an acre, but for Lawrencia Rogers, the plot where she grows broccolini, lettuce and beans on land once tilled by...

Oregon attorney general says America is ‘on a dangerous path’ following appeals court ruling The Oregon attorney general, Dan Rayfield, has issued a statement following...

Late-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump’s dramatic White House media ban and casual disregard of the first amendment. Jon Stewart “As many of you have...

The office of the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, requested “a passive approach to Juneteenth messaging”, according to an exclusive Rolling Stone report citing a...

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Donald Trump has lashed out at reports that the US is running short of key munitions in its war with Iran, threatening long prison sentences...

What to know about the anti-Trump No Kings protests Rachel Leingang Millions are expected to show out for protests on Saturday at more than 2,500...

He got the wrong end of the stick. Donald Trump couldn’t figure out how to hold the green flag until his wife, Melania Trump, and...

Congress spent the past week in a fractious debate over a major government surveillance program that gives US authorities backdoor access to monitor vast swaths...

US airlines canceled 1,460 flights on Saturday, the second day of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) order to reduce air traffic because of the government...

Californians are frustrated and underwhelmed heading into Tuesday’s primary election, where voters will eliminate all but two candidates in the volatile race for governor, the...

A public feud erupted between Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Thursday, with the president saying he was “very disappointed” by the former adviser’s opposition...

An alliance of environmental groups and immigration advocates has welcomed what looks to be the imminent closure of Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration jail in...

The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict legal...

The Kennedy Center reportedly adopted bylaws earlier this year that would limit voting to Donald Trump-appointed trustees – a controversial move that appears to reveal...

Donald Trump has said he will impose tariffs of 30% on the European Union and Mexico from 1 August, threatening Europe that it would pay...

The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his...

A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent...

The Trump administration has waived a slew of environmental and historical preservation laws that would allow it to build a towering border wall that cuts...

The progressive senator Bernie Sanders called on Graham Platner to withdraw from the US Senate race in Maine, citing “very serious allegations” of sexual assault,...

The Minnesota Republican party’s decision to hold a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the former police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, has angered...

During Tuesday’s State of the Union, Donald Trump welcomed members of the US men’s national hockey team to the House gallery to chants of “U-S-A,...

When Lindsey Graham was in college, his parents died, just over a year apart. But he worried most about his sister, who, at 13, was...

The Democrats had a great day on Tuesday. It’s crucial that they hone their economic message for next year’s midterms to focus on affordability and...

Within days, two high-profile Chinese visitors will arrive in the US – envoys of friendship, as Xi Jinping described them when he met Donald Trump...

Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges...

Alondra Sotelo Garcia saw the same headlines as everybody else. Masked immigration agents making increasingly bold arrests. Community members disappearing without warning. As the middle...

JD Vance, widely considered to be the Republican frontrunner for the presidential election in 2028, is aligning himself with the Make America Healthy Again (Maha)...

What sort of longshot candidate do we reckon is going to run for US president in 2028? The Rock? Kim Kardashian? Kermit the Frog? US...

It was on 18 October 2024, just weeks before presidential election day that candidate Trump announced at a rally in Hamtramck, a small, diverse city...

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...

Since Republicans last month slashed over $1bn in funds designated for public broadcasting, non-commercial TV and radio stations around the country have been reeling. The...

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan may soon be extradited back to the UK – but the manosphere influencers’ case will have lasting consequences in...

Trump to review federal aid that can be cut from Portland Donald Trump has directed his team at the White House to begin reviewing aid...

The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert...

Was it the blanket that did it? On Thursday, Donald Trump announced he fired Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, in a post on...

Gavin Newsom and his wife made from $1.7m to $2m annually from 2022 through 2024, and paid about half a million a year in federal...

Donald Trump is “inventing fraud” in California’s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have...

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...

Ex-FBI director James Comey to appear in court on lying to Congress charge Good morning and welcome to our coverage of US politics with former...

The United States has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions for using Russian oil and gas, a White House official said on Friday,...

I’m not a particularly religious person, even though everyone tells me how cool believing in God is now. Every so often, we get a new...

Democrats are targeting vulnerable seats this midterm election with working-class candidates they hope will resonate with voters exhausted by the economy. Some candidates are new...

DC mayor: ‘this action today is unsettling and unprecedented’ Bowser says that her office plans to follow the law, and cooperate with the federal government....

Newsom praises California redistricting package as chance to ‘fight back’ against Republican gerrymandering Governor Gavin Newsom praised California lawmakers for introducing a legislative package that,...

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said that all federal agents in Minneapolis will immediately begin wearing body cameras and that the program will be...

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The scene seemed so far-fetched you could be forgiven for thinking you might be hallucinating. On the weekend in which psychonauts celebrate “Bicycle Day” –...

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...

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, claimed on Sunday that the suspect in the national guard shooting in Washington DC was “radicalized” in the US...

Donald Trump on Thursday posted an AI-generated social media video portraying himself as a doctor who claims to have cured some of his most prominent...

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is resigning from office in January Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Maga Republican congresswoman who was denounced by Donald Trump over...

The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming...

A Texas judge has expanded a restraining order against former congressman Beto O’Rourke and his political organization over its fundraising for Democratic state lawmakers who...

Germán Pineda, 32, just wanted to go home. After his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June, Pineda, a Honduran immigrant, spent four...

White House warns layoffs are imminent if shutdown drags on Leavitt tells reporters that government agencies are already preparing for cuts and “layoffs are imminent”....