Extremists are exploiting political violence on online platforms to recruit new people to their causes and amplify the use of violence for political goals, according...

Donald Trump has lost his Iran war. He is the Iranian hostage. Unlike the US embassy personnel captured as hostages for 444 days, Trump threw...

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he was reviewing whether his administration could arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if as expected the Israeli prime minister...

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he’s vowed to combat an orchestrated social media campaign of “vilification and demonization” that he says is responsible for...

Donald Trump announced Friday a new US oil agreement with Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez, saying the US will have “majority” control of 65bn barrels...

The veteran civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who has died aged 84, made history when he stood for the White House in 1984 and 1988....

ICE kills man in Maine: what we know so far An ICE officer has fatally shot a man in Maine during what authorities described as...

Dick Cheney, the former White House chief of staff, member of Congress, secretary of defense and US vice-president, has died, his family has said. He...

US Attorney to resign after Trump’s remarks calling for his removal over Letitia James investigation – reports US attorney Erik Siebert told employees on Friday...

Mary Beth Barone knows exactly who will be offended by her new Netflix special. “JK Rowling, Republicans, establishment Democrats, the British, the Irish and Zionists,”...

Donald Trump said Friday he will direct all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE” all use of artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic. The US Department of...

Trump makes misleading claims about crime in ‘red cities’ When asked if the president would consider sending National Guard troops to ‘red cities’ that are...

Trump plans to sign executive order restoring ‘Department of War’ name to Pentagon Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the...

Donald Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday it was “critically important” that the federal government retain control over the multibillion-dollar prediction market...

On an April morning at Winooski high school, the day started with a writing prompt: Do you feel safe in school? Why or why not?...

Anthony Weiner says politicians such as him and Donald Trump can survive scandals while qualified candidates like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton lose elections because...

US forces struck another alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three people, defense secretary Pete Hegseth has said, bringing the death toll from...

A federal jury in New Orleans on Thursday returned a split verdict after more than 30 hours of deliberations in a three-week-long blockbuster fraud and...

Donald Trump has loomed large over Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with European leaders, after the US president took aim at the Ukrainian leader once again. It...

Boulder attack suspect booked on multiple charges, including felony use of incendiary devices The suspect in the attack in Boulder is in custody after being...

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump permanently barred the justice department on Monday from releasing the former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the...

Donald Trump’s refusal to officially end a hugely controversial agreement giving him broad tax immunity and creating a $1.8bn slush fund underscored how the US...

In the past few days, Donald Trump turned the US presidency into a tool for his personal glory and vengeance. On Saturday, he threatened to...

Pacing inside the Kremlin last weekend, as news feeds churned out minute-by-minute reports of Donald’s Trump’s Venezuelan coup, Vladimir Putin may have been wondering what...

The White House will soon begin construction of a new $200m ballroom to be ready before Donald Trump’s term ends in early 2029. Press secretary...

The justice department’s partial release of the Epstein files on Friday signaled how the agency is using a variety of tactics to try to bury...

On a misty morning in May in south-west Washington state, Laura Oltmann, a 41-year-old dietitian, had barely clocked in when an unfamiliar overhead announcement echoed...

Social Circle, a small town in Georgia, is complaining that a proposed ICE “megacenter” would violate the state’s “public nuisance” law – meaning it would...

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is a chaotic person, but his Make America Healthy Again (Maha) agenda tends to follow a predictable...

Workers at the US Department of Energy say cuts and deregulations are undermining the ability for the department to function and will result in significant...

To non-journalists, receiving a government subpoena is a serious thing but probably not a violation of basic rights. To journalists, it’s quite a different matter...

Americans across all 50 states began marching in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into...

Protesters took to the streets after Donald Trump said he was deploying national guard troops to Washington DC and temporarily taking over the city’s police...

The way we commemorate history is often – too often – by celebrating an individual with a statue, a place name, a holiday. While some...

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to allow cryptocurrency and other alternative assets like private equity and real estate to be...

A US senator has condemned the Trump administration after she alleged that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “attack dog” mauled one of her constituents....

US supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...

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

Victor Marx wins Republican primary for Colorado governor The Associated Press reports that Victor Marx, a marines veteran and self-described “high-risk missionary”, whose extraordinary claims...

Kristi Noem, who was fired by Donald Trump after a rumbustious stint as homeland security secretary, is divorcing her husband, Bryon Noem, after 34 years...

On Friday evening thousands of protesters gathered outside the Kennedy Center in view of the marble facade that remained concealed by scaffolding and tarpaulins, to...

Twenty-five years after 9/11, two pieces of journalism, describing two different phenomena in contemporary New York, tell us a great deal about a city, and...

The Utah governor, Spencer Cox, has said the man suspected of killing Charlie Kirk comes “from a conservative family” but that “his ideology was very...

Federal Reserve governor Stephen Miran has resigned from his position as chair of the White House’s council of economic advisers, fulfilling a pledge he made...

Crowds gathered in Minneapolis on Wednesday to protest and hold a vigil for a woman killed during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown. The Minneapolis...

An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s...

Donald Trump is not known for taking advice, especially from foreign leaders who often seek to flatter and compliment the US president. But El Salvador’s...

From certain angles, it might appear as if President Trump is having a tough month. He messed up the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting...

FBI investigating shooting at Dallas immigration facility as ‘act of targeted violence’ Dallas police chief Daniel Comeaux says that the FBI is investigating the incident...

Senate agrees to automatically pass House bill requiring release of the Epstein files The Senate just agreed to a unanimous consent request from the Democratic...

Five years ago, a gunman went on a shooting rampage at three Atlanta-area spas, killing eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The brazen...

The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday he would have “great pause” about granting a pardon or commutation to Ghislaine Maxwell while another...

Donald ⁠Trump has said the US government will send a one-time $90 payment to more than 20 million Americans enrolled in Medicare, the ⁠health insurance...

The moment that the world found out that Dolly Parton had died, I was in a hair salon in the reddest congressional district in New...

The Fulton county commission chair, Robb Pitts, said at a press conference this morning that he received a phone call last Monday – two days...

A judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from federalizing or deploying the national guard in Illinois after Donald Trump ordered hundreds of troops to...

Key events Welcome to the Conversation We’re less than two months from the midterm elections that could have an outsized impact on the future of...

People across all 50 US states on Thursday are joining marches and rallies at more than 1,500 sites to protest against the Trump administration and...

“Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” Henry II was reputed to have muttered. His knights heard his pointed remark as an order. They...

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...

The justice department on Thursday joined a lawsuit brought by California Republicans to block the state’s new congressional map, escalating a legal battle over a...

Donald Trump’s attorney general Todd Blanche argued on Sunday that the administration was permitted to ban three news outlets from the White House because “it...

As a US battle group steamed to the Gulf in November 2002, competing Iraqi exiles, some championed by American insiders, jockeyed for position in the...

The US supreme court has allowed Donald Trump to continue his administration’s construction of a border wall in Texas’s Big Bend region, including parts of...

The media pundits have written article after article desperately trying to understand why progressive candidates, despite being heavily outspent, keep defeating establishment Democrats in primaries...

There is a version of this country in which Donald Trump tells Americans the truth he has been handed: that their elections are secure. Once,...

Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the...

This week the bipartisan furor over Donald Trump’s $1.8bn slush fund escalated to the point that the administration balked, saying they are no longer moving...

Ilhan 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...

The Epstein files fatally damaged Peter Mandelson. Gone was his reputation as Westminster’s great survivor: the politician who could weather any scandal and return to...

Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire investor, said he used artificial intelligence to pen his viral Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he sharply criticized the interference...

Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the Kennedy Center would close “immediately” and threatened to cancel a planned renovation of the institution if federal courts...

During Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’s Fight the Oligarchy tour stop in Michigan, Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed hit on bold populist policies like Medicare...

On 8 March, Mahmoud Khalil became the first among several college campus pro-Palestinian protesters to be detained by ICE. He was held for three months,...

The Department of Defense’s inspector general released the much-anticipated unclassified report on Thursday about Pete Hegseth’s disclosure of plans for military airstrikes in Yemen in...

Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange...

Mamdani triumphs on strong night for the Democrats It was an encouraging night for the left in America with Democratic wins in three key races...

As the US prepares to celebrate 250 years since its founding, Kai Wright sits down with Eddie Glaude Jr, a Princeton University professor, to talk...

If, as expected, Andy Burnham becomes the British prime minister later this month, one of his first telephone calls is likely to be with Donald...

US senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal have asked the heads of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to...

Progressive groups and lawmakers who rallied behind Graham Platner’s insurgent bid for a US Senate seat are now racing to decide where to transfer their...

The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican national committees the night before the January 6 insurrection...

Global Times hails US president’s order to strip back government funding to news organisations he deems ‘radical’ Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the...

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

Two federal courts reviewed the government’s evidence against journalist Don Lemon and declined to approve his arrest last week. But nevertheless, the attorney general, Pam...

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and...

NYU Langone Health, one of New York City’s major hospital networks, announced this week that it will shut down its gender‑affirming care program for minors,...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked ⁠an Icelandic hosting company on Thursday to take down or limit access to data related to thousands...

A majority of Canadians hold unfavourable views towards the United States, their closest ally, as frustration over trade policy and threats to Canada’s sovereignty persist....

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...

Donald Trump is going all out to pressure the Senate to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which he insists on calling the Save...

You can measure the disconnect between angry internet commentariat and real life Memphis residents by the length of the wait for a table at Tamboli’s...

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...

Key events You can follow continuing live coverage of the midterm primaries here: Share Summary Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you...

Donald Trump signed an executive action on Thursday forcing colleges and universities to submit data to prove they do not consider race in admissions, as...

US revokes visas from six foreign nationals for social media comments critical of Charlie Kirk In a stunning departure for an administration that came to...

The US has launched new strikes against targets in Iran for the second consecutive day, following through on Donald Trump’s promise to “hit them hard...

US forces hit another vessel allegedly carrying illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Trump said during his remarks at the Titans of the Sea:...

What a real pro-family agenda looks like I think we all need a little cheering up, don’t you? So allow me to interrupt the steady...