Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race Zohran Mamdani will be the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and...
Read MoreZohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race Zohran Mamdani will be the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and...
Read MoreEpstein survivor describes abuse as lawmakers push for release of case files Survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and their advocates are rallying outside the...
Read MoreElon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) copied and uploaded sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) data to a vulnerable cloud server, potentially risking the...
Read MoreWhen dozens of protesters interrupted a church service in St Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year, it revived a fierce yet enduring debate about whether places...
Read MoreDonald Trump has announced a major expansion of his prescription drug website, TrumpRx, claiming the number of medications available via the discount program will increase...
Read MoreRepresentative Tony Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, announced on Monday he was stepping down from Congress after acknowledging an extramarital affair with a staffer. Gonzales,...
Read MoreIran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began...
Read MoreFrom Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled...
Read MoreWould you like to buy a crumbling shack for $2m dollars? Well then, you’re in luck, because that just about sums up the state of...
Read MoreIn response to a question about why he did not order flags lowered to half-staff to honor Melissa Hortman, the Democratic speaker of the Minnesota...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill has passed a procedural step in the US House of Representatives, paving the way for the possible passage of the...
Read MoreDonald Trump granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who had just begun a seven-year prison sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6bn...
Read MoreThousands of Afghans who fled to the US as the Taliban grabbed power again in Afghanistan are in mortal dread of being deported back to...
Read MoreThe fight for the future of Los Angeles, America’s second-largest city, usually plays out in the grand art deco offices and committee rooms of city...
Read MoreTop House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary, in response...
Read MoreA federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the Trump administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South...
Read MorePete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers – two women and two Black men –...
Read MoreÖzden Bennett’s first reaction after learning of her younger sister’s killing was disbelief. Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi had traveled to the occupied West Bank just three...
Read MoreUS federal agents have arrested the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after the Trump administration’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio,...
Read MoreUS border patrol agents shot two people outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, a day after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen. The autopen...
Read MoreWhen we talk about opposition in politics, sometimes it’s just a policy disagreement – but in the current political crisis in the US, the opposition...
Read MoreIllinois’s governor JB Pritzker has called on “all to stand up” to Donald Trump as the US president prepares to launch a federally led immigration...
Read MoreA Utah judge has handed Democrats a win in the continuing national fight over voting districts by ordering a new map that creates a House...
Read MoreA Canadian woman who has been imprisoned with her seven-year-old daughter by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has cautioned other immigrants that they are at...
Read MoreCalifornia Democrat Eric Swalwell’s decision to suspend his campaign for governor on Sunday, even as he denies allegations from four women who accuse him of...
Read MoreA Trump administration appointee has delayed publication of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that shows benefits related to the Covid vaccine,...
Read MoreAs we overheat and degrade our planet, more people are likely to come into contact, sometimes fatally, with venomous snakes. One man hopes to provide...
Read MoreDaniel Kamalić was born and raised in New York City, where he spent his summers riding his bike around Brighton Beach before pedaling home to...
Read MoreA Yosemite national park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan, while some park visitors could face prosecution under protest restrictions...
Read MoreFlorida governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a law prohibiting local governments from funding or promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, saying that white men...
Read MoreExtremists are exploiting political violence on online platforms to recruit new people to their causes and amplify the use of violence for political goals, according...
Read MoreKash Patel has followed through on a threat to sue the Atlantic and the author of a story the magazine published that included allegations of...
Read MoreHegseth says he anticipates military will remain in LA for 60 days Pete Hegseth has told the House committee that he’s anticipating military personnel to...
Read MoreOpening summary Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news...
Read MoreThe “racist hate speech” being used by Donald Trump and other US political leaders, along with the country’s intensified crackdowns on migration, has led to...
Read MoreDonald Trump made a series of false and baseless claims in Pennsylvania on Tuesday during a speech that was billed as an address on affordability,...
Read MoreOn 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...
Read MoreI’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...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior envoy are heading to Egypt to begin ceasefire negotiations, the White House has said, as the Israeli prime minister,...
Read MoreDonald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today...
Read MoreScott Wiener, the California state senator, is expected to run for the San Francisco congressional district long held by Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker,...
Read MoreTrump imposes sweeping new travel ban, barring all entries from 12 countries, most from 7 more Donald Trump imposed a sweeping new travel ban in...
Read MoreThe terms of a purported 60-day deal to negotiate peace in the Iran war have trapped the Trump administration between mounting economic costs ahead of...
Read MoreDonald Trump has again said that the US has “total control over the strait of Hormuz”, adding that Iran’s leadership was so hobbled by infighting...
Read MoreThe US supreme court will hear a hugely consequential case on Wednesday that will determine the future of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil...
Read MoreThe European Commission is considering plans to delay parts of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, after intense pressure from businesses and Donald Trump’s administration. The...
Read MoreA federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked US sanctions against Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the Palestinian territories, finding that the Trump administration likely...
Read MoreThe Clinton-Epstein connection I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in a makeshift situation room in Mar-a-Lago, there’s a whiteboard with “very high IQ strategies...
Read MoreThe United States has suspended visa approvals for nearly everyone who holds a Palestinian passport, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The restrictions go...
Read MoreTourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans. The mandatory...
Read MoreDonald Trump reposted an AI-generated video of him flying a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump” and dumping brown sludge onto protestors, in...
Read MoreCharlie Kirk, the far-right activist killed this week while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University, never graduated from the community college he...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Republican-led committees launching probes There’s been a swift response from lawmakers...
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Read MoreFor five years, an asylum-seeking woman attended routine check-ins with immigration authorities without issue. At her most recent appointment in October, she was unexpectedly ordered...
Read MoreBeing a member of the Pentagon press corps was once one of the more prestigious assignments in US journalism, a position reserved for heavy hitters...
Read MoreThe US government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the army played a role in causing the collision in January between an airliner...
Read MoreOnce upon a time there was a boy called Baron Trump, who was growing weary of his privileged life at Trump Castle. Then, one fateful...
Read MoreThe 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,...
Read MoreThe poignancy of the anonymous author’s article describing life in Tehran is almost too much to bear (‘Don’t die’: the two words that sum up...
Read MoreTrump announces he will send national guard to Memphis, with Chicago ‘probably next’ Donald Trump announced he will deploy the national guard to Memphis during...
Read MoreThe deadly Texas floods could signal a new norm in the US, as Donald Trump and his allies dismantle crucial federal agencies that help states...
Read MoreSenate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the $400m...
Read MoreExperts, officials and lawmakers decry Trump administration’s rollback on landmark climate finding Dharna Noor In response to the Trump administration’s rescission of the endangerment finding...
Read MoreThe Democratic congressman Ro Khanna read out the names of six wealthy men included in the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a post on X at...
Read MoreSpeaking in the Oval Office this week, Donald Trump had something he wanted to clarify. “I’m not a dictator. I don’t like a dictator,” the...
Read MoreIn the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently,...
Read MoreUS forces on Saturday evening struck another vessel illegally carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump said on Sunday to thousands of sailors...
Read MoreThree people were killed in a US strike on another alleged drug-trafficking boat, the fifth such deadly attack in as many days, military officials have...
Read MoreDonald Trump announced Friday that he is withdrawing his support and endorsement of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime ally and previously fierce defender...
Read MoreFor more than 200 years, common wisdom and policymakers have assumed that to get people to work, you had to make them hungry. New work...
Read MoreHouse Democrats share Trump ‘birthday note’ to Jeffrey Epstein Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a scanned copy of a “birthday note” that...
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reapproved the weedkiller dicamba for use on genetically modified soybeans and cotton, a pesticide that has raised widespread concern...
Read MoreDemocrats must not let Jeffrey Epstein die. They must highlight how this saga exposes the president for who he has always been. In the decade...
Read MoreFederal judge grants temporary restraining order, blocking mass firings of federal workers Judge Susan Illston has issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the firing of...
Read MoreDonald Trump is not generally noted as a student of history. Yet over the past year, his decisive reorientation of US foreign policy towards the...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Wednesday the transportation department is rescinding $4bn in US government funding for California’s high-speed rail project. The department said there was...
Read MoreDonald Trump was described as “that dog that hasn’t barked” in an email by Jeffrey Epstein. Don’t tell Kristi Noem, who has a way of...
Read MoreIn a broadly-worded executive order issued Monday evening, Donald Trump declared “antifa”– the decentralized antifascist movement – as a “domestic terrorist organization”. With his order,...
Read MoreIran will completely close strait of Hormuz if Trump acts on threats to target power plants – statement The Reuters news agency is carrying a...
Read MoreMarkwayne Mullin, the US homeland security secretary, used a visit to Asheville, North Carolina to call for a fundamental shift in the role of the...
Read MoreMaps can guide us home. They show us where we are, where we have been and where we might go. Electoral maps can do something...
Read MoreAnyone planning to travel to a US city hosting World Cup matches this summer might want to leave now. World Cup travelers could face long...
Read MoreIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet JD Vance and Mike Johnson today Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose...
Read MoreKhalil says he filed claim ‘because they think they are untouchable’ Mahmoud Khalil said in a statement that he wanted to send a message that...
Read MoreDonald Trump has told his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...
Read MoreIt 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...
Read MoreTexas house passes partisan Republican congressional map after weeks of protest The Texas state house – which has a significant Republican majority – has approved a...
Read MoreFour days after JD Vance reportedly asked top Trump administration officials to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around...
Read MoreThe second and final debate before early voting in New York City’s mayoral race was a bitter affair, with sharp exchanges and few courtesies. Zohran...
Read More‘If somebody walks into your office and says they’re friends with Donald Trump, they’re either exaggerating the relationship, or they don’t understand the relationship,” says...
Read MoreHouse oversight committee releases image of entire Epstein birthday album, with letter attributed to Trump The Republican-led House oversight committee has released digital images of...
Read MoreRecap of today’s news Thank you for reading along with us today! It was a busy end of the week as we monitored the ongoing...
Read MoreA rally on affordability in Pennsylvania on 9 December devolved into a racist tirade when Donald Trump said to the crowd: “We only take people...
Read MoreUS House Republicans advance Trump tax-cut bill opening way for debate The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreBBC journalists cannot wear T-shirts in the newsroom supporting the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter, the corporation’s director general Tim Davie has said. Davie said...
Read MoreDonald Trump has signed an executive order making it easier to fire thousands of the best-paid workers in the US government aspart of a broader...
Read MoreFor almost as long as she’s been a mother, Sara Laughlin has known where she could turn for help in Troy, a western Ohio town...
Read MoreIn a rare interview former justice department special counsel Jack Smith has hit back against accusations that the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump he oversaw...
Read MoreIllustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian As I write these words, the No 1 trending story on the Guardian is titled: “The history and future of societal...
Read MoreThe Republican-led US Senate has passed a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in...
Read MoreDemocrats reacted with outrage to their party colleague John Fetterman’s decision to advance the nomination of Republican US senator Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary....
Read MoreIn mid-July, Erik Clemson signed on to a Zoom call from Honolulu, Hawaii, energized by a mayoral candidate in a city far across the country,...
Read MoreDemocratic minority leader passes fourth hour of speaking on House floor Hakeem Jeffries, now passing four hours on the House floor, said the tax and...
Read MoreAs authorities at the federal and state levels parse the details of the fatal shooting of far-right activist Charlie Kirk at a university in Utah,...
Read MoreDowning Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on...
Read MoreIt can’t be easy being the youngest son of a man who compares himself to the son of God. Rather a lot to live up...
Read MoreFederal appeals court moves to reconsider ruling in Trump’s favor on Portland troop deployment A decision in Donald Trump’s favor by a three-judge panel issued...
Read MoreWhen the United States and Israel began bombing Iran over the weekend they set in motion a war that has engulfed the region. In Australia,...
Read MoreEarlier this summer, Republican lawmakers gathered around Donald Trump and applauded as he sat before a desk outside the White House and put his signature...
Read MoreWhile it’s true no president or political leader has ever used social media quite as prolifically as Donald Trump, no recent secretary of defense has...
Read MoreThe day so far The White House announced a new rule restricting the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary...
Read MoreDonald Trump will back a plan to cede unoccupied Ukrainian territory to Russia to secure an end to the war between the two countries, it...
Read MoreSenate fails to pass bill to keep essential federal workers and troops paid throughout government shutdown The Senate has failed to pass legislation that would...
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Read MoreKristi Noem first denied that federal agents were using chemical agents against protesters, then after being shown video footage turned to blaming the protesters themselves,...
Read MoreDemocrats welcome temporary supreme court ruling that restores access to abortion pills, but note ‘fight is just beginning’ In response to the supreme court’s decision...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as the homeland security secretary, capping weeks of bipartisan complaints about her leadership after immigration...
Read MoreTwo US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate favored to win...
Read MoreThe University of Virginia (UVA) received “explicit” notification from the Trump administration that the school would endure cuts to university jobs, research funding and student...
Read MoreDonald 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....
Read MoreFury at Donald Trump was the coin of the realm, as thousands of California delegates, activists and elected officials gathered in San Francisco this weekend,...
Read MoreOn Central Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina, Manolo’s Bakery has become a focal point for resistance to the upscaled immigration raids since border patrol officers...
Read MoreA nearly blind Burmese refugee who was abandoned by border patrol agents has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, city officials confirmed. Nurul Amin...
Read MoreFor Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in...
Read MoreIt will be a definitive moment for King Charles III and the British monarchy. And for better or worse, it could help salvage UK-US relations...
Read MoreWhile colleges and universities slow down during summer break, Ahniwake Rose is busy wondering what the fall semester will hold for the nation’s 37 tribal...
Read MoreThe US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey...
Read MoreJohnson dismisses efforts to check Trump’s military power against Iran House speaker Mike Johnson dismissed efforts by lawmakers to advance a measure to check Trump’s...
Read MoreThe former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he...
Read MoreTulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence who in 2019 was selling “No War With Iran” T-shirts, told the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday that...
Read MoreThe US justice department said on Friday it had intervened in a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s xAI challenging a Colorado law aimed at regulating artificial...
Read MoreHegseth says he anticipates military will remain in LA for 60 days Pete Hegseth has told the House committee that he’s anticipating military personnel to...
Read MoreBefore he announced his Senate candidacy, a political hopeful in Virginia did something not so unusual in this day and age: he logged on to...
Read MoreThe average reading and math scores of American high school seniors fell to their lowest levels in two decades in 2024, according to new national...
Read MoreIt was set to be the most expensive project that the beaten-down manufacturing sector of Erie, Pennsylvania, had seen in decades. In a blighted corner...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the US diplomatic posture...
Read MoreGood morning. The UN has demanded that Israel’s investigations into unlawful killings in Gaza, including its “double-tap” bombing of Nasser hospital, which killed 20 people...
Read MoreThe US news cycle remained fixed on Donald Trump’s ICE crackdown in Minnesota on Monday as outrage and calls for accountability mount following the fatal...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MorePresident Trump’s tariffs remain in place, at least for now, after an appeals court ruled that his administration can continue to collect import fees. The...
Read MoreFBI says it has recovered weapon believed to have been used to kill Charlie Kirk Speaking to the press, Robert Coles, the Special Agent in...
Read MoreDays after issuing him a pardon, Donald Trump criticized US House member Henry Cuellar of Texas for deciding to run for re-election as a Democrat....
Read MoreThree months ago, Manpreet was looking forward to her 11th birthday party. Her brother Guri, 12, was excited about his class field trip for Black...
Read MoreUS midterm voters overwhelmingly support Pepfar, an initiative to end HIV/Aids that also has strengthened health systems against other infectious disease threats but has come...
Read MoreOn 17 April, at a briefing on the Iran war, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth told reporters he had been “sitting in church with my...
Read MoreTom Steyer has built his campaign for governor of California around affordability – and taxing the uber-wealthy. It is perhaps an unusual message for a...
Read MoreTexas Democrats who left the state say they experienced a bomb threat at their Illinois hotel on Wednesday morning amid an ongoing clash with Republicans...
Read MoreSummary Donald Trump declined to deliver a message of national unity when he addressed tens of thousands of people gathered for the memorial to honor...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was recently recorded warning CBS News to broadcast a new interview with the president in full and...
Read MoreThe Senate voted on Monday night to pass a budget bill that will bring the government shutdown to an end if, as expected, it passes...
Read MoreTikTok has reached a deal to form a joint venture that will allow it to continue operating in the US, five years after Donald Trump...
Read MoreIn describing his foreign policy agenda, Donald Trump has proclaimed an “America First” policy. But on Saturday the US president threatened to launch attacks in...
Read MoreKristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Sunday that Donald Trump wants to have the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) “remade” instead of eradicated...
Read MoreJeffries calls for the release of ‘double tap’ strike video on suspected drug vessel Speaking to reporters today, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said that...
Read MoreThe White House has withdrawn Jared Isaacman as its nominee for Nasa administrator, abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Musk from consideration to lead...
Read MoreBenjamin Netanyahu arrived back in Israel on Friday without a ceasefire in the Gaza war despite heady predictions from US and Israeli officials that this...
Read MoreThe owner of a Donald Trump-themed hamburger restaurant chain in Texas is facing deportation after immigration authorities under the command of the president detained him....
Read MoreA city councilmember in Florida is facing backlash from national Indian American organizations, members of Congress, and local residents after posting a series of social...
Read MoreThe US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump’s LA national guard deployment cost taxpayers $120m, Newsom says Dani...
Read MoreWith no end of the federal government shutdown in sight, an estimated 750,000 workers remain furloughed. Hundreds of thousands more are working without pay. They...
Read MoreGood morning. You may have heard a saying along the lines that “when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. So...
Read MoreThe largely supine Republicans in Congress had no apparent trouble as Donald Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of suspected drug runners...
Read MoreCommunities are on edge as the long-discussed arrival of federal law enforcement and Ice agents to Chicago is reportedly set to begin in the coming...
Read MoreThree days after Californians headed to the polls, key races in the primary election remained too close to call and experts warned the counting could...
Read MoreAs top US health officials turn against some mRNA vaccines, experts fear for the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic and worry that other vaccines...
Read MoreThe people of Arizona’s seventh congressional district – a vast territory extending across the state’s south, along the Mexican border – have been denied representation...
Read MoreThe US has backed down in its tariff war with China. Thanks to Donald Trump’s egotistical diplomacy, rare earths can again flow one way, soya...
Read MoreDonald Trump has claimed the world is “richer, safer and much more peaceful than it was just one year ago” as he hosted a launch...
Read MoreDonald Trump claimed on Saturday that he has found a way to pay US military troops despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, saying he has...
Read MoreDonald Trump has said his administration is planning to produce a list on Friday of “Democrat programs” that will be closed as a result of...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has sent more immigration agents to Minnesota, part of escalating attacks and rhetoric against the state and its immigrant populations in what...
Read MoreDonald Trump raised the global duty on imports into the US to 15% on Saturday, doubling down on his promise to maintain his aggressive tariff...
Read MoreFrom New York to San Francisco, millions of Americans hit the streets to voice their anger over Trump’s policies Continue reading…source
Read MoreIt was a lovely May evening in Leavenworth, Kansas, but instead of strolling along the Missouri River or gardening, a group of locals sat on...
Read MoreThe words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winning writer who has been critical of Trump since his first...
Read MoreVeterans who helped the US’s Afghan allies find refuge in the US say they are outraged that a fellow veteran and advocate now faces federal...
Read MoreIlhan Omar says ICE agents pulled her son over Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Minnesota...
Read MoreShe was now one of the family. When Donald Trump addressed supporters in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, in early December, he asked: “Susie Trump – do...
Read MoreGeorge Clooney has said he feels it was a “mistake” for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden in the 2024 US presidential election, adding that...
Read MoreOne of the surest signs of an authoritarian regime is the ubiquity of its leader. Mussolini’s face was plastered across fascist Italy. In North Korea,...
Read MoreA new Trump administration plan to ditch Pfas drinking water regulations and instead attempt to destroy “forever chemicals” on a wide scale tears a page...
Read MoreMore than 145,000 US children have likely experienced a parent being detained by immigration authorities since the start of Donald Trump’s second presidency, according to...
Read MoreA series of high-profile and under-the-radar decisions by US health agencies have scientists and doctors questioning the extent of the agencies’ control over public communications...
Read MoreDonald 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...
Read MoreEric Adams has obtained citizenship and a passport from Albania, the Balkan country which received effusive compliments from the former New York City mayor during...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Saturday announced reforms intended to speed up access to medical research and treatment based on psychedelic drugs. The president signed an executive...
Read MoreDonald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had spoken with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, but he did not provide details on what the two leaders...
Read MoreWorkers renovating one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Donald Trump may be risking their safety as they race...
Read MoreIn the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes – and other countries...
Read MoreI read Zoe Williams’ piece on Americans renouncing their citizenship with particular and personal interest (‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the...
Read MoreA 37-year-old nurse named Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday. Protesters on Saturday were on the streets...
Read MoreA federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s request to immediately lift her order blocking the deployment of federalized national guard...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Alison Singer, president and founder of the Autism Science Foundation, voiced...
Read MoreImmigration 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...
Read MoreDozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC on Thursday for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, as...
Read MoreWhen Melania Trump arrives in Britain for her husband’s second state visit next month, it will not just be the photographic pack straining every lens...
Read MoreSo much for low viewership: Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback monologue is now his most-viewed one on YouTube. The nearly 30-minute segment, in which Kimmel acknowledged his...
Read MoreJohn McAuliff, a 33-year-old small business owner and former civil servant, was one of the more unlikely Democrats to win election to Virginia’s legislature this...
Read MoreDemocrats and Republicans celebrate passage of bill to release Epstein files Hello and thank you for joining us on the US politics live blog. I’m...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Fabiola Cineas Thousands of protesters are rallying across the Washington, DC...
Read MoreIf Donald Trump’s presidency has any theme (beyond self-promotion), it’s that his “America First” agenda will Make America Great Again. Unfortunately for the American people,...
Read MoreThe US Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreDonald Trump announced on Thursday that he is re-establishing the presidential fitness test, a way of assessing the fitness level of American students. The test...
Read MoreJust over a week ago, Iranian and American officials were set to meet for a fresh round of negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program. Now the...
Read MoreAlmost exactly a decade since the start of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access pipeline gained national and international attention, new disputes are...
Read MoreA few dozen protesters rallied outside the New Jersey statehouse in Trenton on Monday afternoon. They carried handmade signs with messages such as “U made...
Read MoreDonald Trump has claimed the world is “richer, safer and much more peaceful than it was just one year ago” as he hosted a launch...
Read MoreTrump posts more tariff letters, with highest rate at 40% Donald Trump has posted more tariff letters addressing a number of countries on his Truth...
Read MoreDon Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was arrested late on Thursday on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in...
Read MoreNicholas Enrich was working in Kenya in 2003 when the then US president George W Bush signed a landmark $15bn, five-year commitment to combat HIV,...
Read MoreThe collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America...
Read MoreMamdani celebrated with his mother, Mira Nair, his wife, Rama Duwaji, and his father, Mahmood Mamdani Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian Share on Facebook Share...
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles to London, Istanbul to Warsaw, cities are making rightwing populists angry. Their liberal elites, immigrants, net zero policies, leftwing activists, globalised businesses,...
Read MoreDonald Trump has reportedly given a secret directive to the Pentagon to use the military to target Latin-American drug cartels that his administration has designated...
Read MoreLast week, the office of management and budget (OMB) revealed plans to freeze all outside funding for National Institutes of Health research this fiscal year,...
Read MoreIt reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy. A succession of opposition politicians, including Alex Padilla, a US senator, are handcuffed...
Read MoreIn June 1981, I was a young pulmonary fellow at one of the three Los Angeles hospitals where the first five cases of an unusual...
Read MoreA federal judge ruled on Thursday that the terminations of hundreds of humanities grants last year by the Trump administration’s so-called “department of government efficiency”...
Read MoreNo dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces...
Read MoreThe Washington DC national guard began deploying on the city’s streets on Tuesday night, as the city’s mayor toughened her response to Donald Trump taking...
Read MoreThe US Senate on Thursday advanced a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela, after he ordered...
Read MoreHamas accepts some elements of Trump’s Gaza plan but says others require further negotiations As we get more from Hamas’s statement trickling in, the group...
Read MoreDonald Trump has nominated Kari Lake, a longtime ally and former TV anchor who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor, to serve as the next US...
Read MoreRooting out corruption in government is at the center of Saikat Chakrabarti’s campaign for Congress. And if elected next year, the 39-year-old former Silicon Valley...
Read MoreA prominent environmental organizer calling for a nationwide moratorium on datacenters as he runs for the Democratic nomination in a swing Michigan congressional district has...
Read MoreIt might not have been at the same level as pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys, or January 6 US capitol attack participants – but the mayor of...
Read MoreRepresentative Tony Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, announced on Monday he was stepping down from Congress after acknowledging an extramarital affair with a staffer. Gonzales,...
Read MoreThe White House maintained on Thursday that Donald Trump, despite his social media posts, did not mean that lawmakers who made a video saying troops...
Read MoreAs San Francisco’s pride festivities came to a close last week, a cloud hung over the otherwise joyful celebrations as the city’s LGBTQ+ community learned...
Read MoreA federal appeals court on Friday blocked Donald Trump’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have permission to live and work...
Read MorePeter Mandelson was not subject to in-depth security vetting prior to his appointment as ambassador to Washington, the government has said. The Cabinet Office conducted...
Read MoreThis February, Pat McAfee was broadcasting live on ESPN, the most watched sports network in the US, when he aired a salacious rumor about the...
Read MoreTrump 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...
Read MoreMillions of people around the world are having their lives upended by floods, storms and heatwaves worsened by the climate crisis. Those forced to flee...
Read MoreTrump defends Pam Bondi as his base calls for attorney general’s dismissal Donald Trump has defended attorney general Pam Bondi amid calls from Maga world...
Read MoreTrump says he intends to cancel all executive orders signed by Joe Biden using an autopen Donald Trump has said that he is cancelling all...
Read MoreJohnson defends administration’s move to keep military paid during shutdown The House speaker has said that the Trump administration has “every right” to move around...
Read MoreDeke Dunne relocated to Washington DC from Wyoming in 2008 to pursue a career in politics. Though a progressive himself, he worked as a legislative...
Read MoreMore than 115 education scholars have condemned the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher...
Read MoreTrump to survey damage from deadly floods during Texas visit In about an hour, we expect president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump to...
Read MoreKeir Starmer has suggested the US is trying to interfere in British democracy after JD Vance, the US vice-president, blamed the murder of the British...
Read MoreThe Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based...
Read MoreThe conservative majority of United States supreme court justices has been widely criticized for granting Donald Trump an increasing amount of leeway to wield his...
Read MoreThreats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty, but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful vengeance in recent days...
Read MoreWhy exactly so many people drowned in the terrible Independence Day floods that swept through Texas’s Hill Country will probably have multiple explanations that take...
Read MoreSupreme court backs Trump on aggressive immigration raids The supreme court has again backed Donald Trump’s hardline approach toward immigration today, allowing federal agents to...
Read MoreMore than half of Americans disapprove of Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing and the construction of a new ballroom, according to a...
Read MoreGhislaine Maxwell offers to testify before Congress – but only with major conditions, including immunity Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to testify before Congress but has...
Read MoreSenate Democrats on the finance committee are calling for health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to resign as he is set to testify before the...
Read MoreOne of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US is creating a clinic that officials say will be a place for transgender youth to detransition...
Read MoreA local government official in Iowa has said he would refuse to comply with orders from the Republican state governor to fly flags at half-staff...
Read MoreThe way we commemorate history is often – too often – by celebrating an individual with a statue, a place name, a holiday. While some...
Read MoreIt was the hottest day of the year so far when the central air conditioning started blowing hot air in the mobile home where Richard...
Read MoreIf posts coming from the White House were to be believed, the US-Israel war on Iran looks something like scenes from Top Gun, Braveheart and...
Read MoreSecuring Jewish votes was never going to be a straightforward ride for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral hopeful who is on track to...
Read More‘I want to see the truth come out,’ Hillary Clinton says after testimony to House committee on Epstein In a televised statement to reporters after...
Read MoreThe US government has evidence that a federal agent was shot by the suspect during an alleged recent attempt to assassinate Donald Trump at the...
Read More1. Putting people over fish A delta smelt at the University of California Davis fish conservation and culture lab in Byron, California, on 15 July...
Read MoreFBI says it has recovered weapon believed to have been used to kill Charlie Kirk Speaking to the press, Robert Coles, the Special Agent in...
Read MoreGood morning. A federal trade court has ruled Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs regime illegal, a dramatic twist that could block the president’s controversial global trade...
Read MoreTrump calls Musk’s new political party ‘ridiculous’ and says Tesla owner is ‘off the rails’ Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the...
Read MoreUS immigration authorities extended activity in the Los Angeles area on Saturday in the wake of protests at a federal detention facility and a police...
Read MoreWill Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Saturday offered only a vague description of what he meant by his demand for an unconditional surrender by Iran’s current regime, while...
Read MoreClosing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Two West Virginia national guard...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Monday began the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, a move that...
Read MorePete Hegseth on Saturday doubled down on his defense of US military strikes on alleged drug cartel boats in the Caribbean, arguing that Donald Trump...
Read MorePeter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. Over...
Read MoreMamdani: ‘In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light’ In a defiant speech, Mamdani vowed to change to city hall –...
Read MoreThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently shared a video in which several pastors say women should no longer be allowed to vote, prompting one...
Read MoreÖzden Bennett’s first reaction after learning of her younger sister’s killing was disbelief. Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi had traveled to the occupied West Bank just three...
Read MoreTrump heads to annual Nato summit as Rutte praises his ‘decisive action in Iran’ Trump left Washington DC this morning and is currently on his...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s nomination of Republican senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to be the president’s next head of homeland security on Sunday advanced toward final confirmation...
Read MoreFormer US president Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware and has tapped a group of former aides, friends and political...
Read MoreHundreds of national guard troops remained in the Chicago area as city and Illinois officials awaited a judge’s decision to stop Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration...
Read MoreIn a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent in a Tennessee jail after his return from a Salvadorian...
Read MoreDavid Scott, a Georgia congressman and moderate Democrat representing Atlanta’s southern suburbs since 2003, has died at the age of 80. Scott’s health had been...
Read More‘This is no time to be talking about pardons,’ says Trump when pressed about Maxwell Speaking to reporters at Prestwick airport, Trump denied reports that...
Read MoreAnalysis: trickle release on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties Sam Levine The justice department’s partial release of the Epstein files on Friday...
Read MoreAt the White House on Friday, Donald Trump endorsed his vice-president’s baseless claim that Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent in...
Read MoreIn the early hours of 13 June, more than 200 Israeli fighter jets began pummeling Iran with bombs, lighting up the Tehran skyline and initiating...
Read MoreIn the state department of past administrations, how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would...
Read MoreNew Yorkers will find out the identity of their next mayor on Tuesday, in a race that will decide who will run, and defend, the...
Read MoreA dispute over the dismissal of Susan Monarez, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has intensified, with her attorneys asserting...
Read More“I’m a bit of an insomniac. So at almost 2am, I was awake, actually, and the first explosion, I swear I thought it was an...
Read MoreDonald Trump has warned he could cut financial aid to Argentina if his ally Javier Milei loses crucial legislative elections later this month. Trump’s remarks...
Read MoreTrump files lawsuit against BBC over edit of January 6 speech President Donald Trump officially filed a $10bn lawsuit against the BBC on Monday after...
Read MoreFor Maurene Comey, abruptly fired as a US federal prosecutor without explanation, it may feel like a case of like father, like daughter. Comey was...
Read MoreDonald Trump signed a bill Wednesday directing the justice department to release files from the investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, surrendering in...
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Musicians who dropped out of the Great American State Fair said they were tricked. “I HAVE INFORMED MY AGENTS THAT I WILL NOT BE PERFORMING
Musicians who dropped out of the Great American State Fair said they were tricked. “I HAVE INFORMED MY AGENTS THAT I WILL NOT BE PERFORMING