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...

In the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good, Congresswoman Robin Kelly has announced the filing of three articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem,...

Donald Trump renewed his push Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills...

André spent 2025 trying to stay one step ahead of the Trump administration. Every morning, he woke up and downloaded as many government datasets as...

Donald Trump has suggested his controversial ally Bill Pulte will investigate “rigged elections” while serving as the country’s top intelligence official, as the US president...

“He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” said Donald Trump, addressing his discussions with Benjamin Netanyahu over their illegal war on Iran. The US...

The husband of Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Donald Trump’s labor secretary, has reportedly been barred from the labor department’s headquarters in Washington after at least two female...

The idea that the political career of Donald Trump would be a goldmine for comedy died a long time ago, with the coffin accepting stray...

South Carolina has had exactly one Black Democratic representative in Congress since 1897: James Clyburn. A proposal to redraw the state’s political map would dismantle...

DHS spokesperson confirms detainees among the injured Tricia McLaughlin, who serves as the assistant secretary of Homeland Security, told Fox News today that detainees “were...

Hamas 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...

Joe Biden has said ‘these are dark days’ in the US, and accused the Trump administration of ‘doing its best to dismantle the constitution’ with...

Hasan Piker calls it the bus driver test: “You get on a bus and you have 30 seconds to explain whatever online phenomena took place...

Fernando Viera Reyes, 50, suing over allegations of inhumane conditions at an ICE facility Fernando Viera Reyes fled to the US from El Salvador during...

A recap of overnight events in DC As the federal takeover of the DC police and deployment of national guard troops entered its fourth night,...

It turns out that Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “candidate of peace”, is just as eager to start new wars. Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump...

A limited US government shutdown came into effect on Saturday – the third of Donald Trump’s second term – after negotiations between the White House...

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...

Thousands of protesters hit the streets in cities across the United States on Friday to protests to demand the withdrawal of federal immigration agents from...

‘I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,’ says Bill Clinton in opening statement on Epstein ties Former president Bill Clinton has delivered his opening...

Satirical holiday displays mocking Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, portraying the newborn Jesus and his parents, Mary and Joseph, as victims of heavy-handed tactics by...

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday called Donald Trump’s remarks labeling her a traitor and a lunatic “hurtful” but said she hopes she and...

Democrats have criticized Donald Trump’s travel ban on 12 countries as “reckless” and “discriminatory”, with some warning the policy may be an effort to distract...

Bill Clinton told a congressional committee on Friday he “had no idea of the crimes” Jeffrey Epstein was committing and insisted he “did nothing wrong”...

The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said...

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

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,...

Donald Trump has selected Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing to an end a months-long search for a...

Trump is the ultimate showman. He’s a master of it, a billionaire Barnum, but with a greed so insatiable it moves him ever further from...

This week, ICE’s detention of a five-year-old boy wearing a Spider Man backpack in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights quickly became a defining image...

Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Alex Molina Jesús usually came home from school to a raucous scene: the family TV blaring, his mom loudly cooking dinner...

Donald Trump threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by...

Good morning. You may have heard a saying along the lines that “when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. So...

White House says that second strike on vessel was legal and conducted in ‘self-defence’ In response to questions from reporters today, Karoline Leavitt defended the...

Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building. Carrying...

In late April, the Department of Justice announced that it was ending a decades-long consent decree in Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, in a school district that...

A US government order to make drastic cuts in commercial air traffic amid the government shutdown has taken effect, with major airports across the country...

The Trump administration is targeting US sanctuary cities in the next phase of its deportation drive, after an off-duty law enforcement officer was allegedly shot...

Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent the sex offender...

Donald Trump has said he will issue an executive order to mandate voter identification at all US elections, with “no exceptions”. “Voter I.D. Must Be...

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...

Cory Doctorow Photograph: Paula Salischiker/The Guardian Dear Comrade Trump: On this, the occasion of your 80th birthday, I write to extend my sincere thanks for...

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Saturday said the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace this week was unacceptable but that it...

Cándido Álvarez has made it his policy never to go to the doctor. “Not when I’m sick, not even when it’s serious,” he said. “I...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has opened an internal investigation into allegations that Gregory Bovino, a senior border patrol official, made disparaging remarks about...

When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met for a welcome ceremony in Tiananmen Square this week with the world’s gaze on them, they mirrored one...

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had never presented the final version of the indictment filed against James Comey to a full federal grand jury,...

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Donald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding...

In just 14 months, Daniel Suhr, the 40-year-old president of a two-person, Chicago-based, conservative legal organization called the Center for American Rights, has emerged as...

1. Trump and Mamdani <3 New York The president likes a winner and he loves New York – and both were clear on Friday, when...

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...

Britain’s attorney general has warned ministers that getting involved in Israel’s war against Iran could be illegal beyond offering defensive support, it has emerged. Richard...

After the FBI seized elections materials from Fulton county last month, Donald Trump returned once again to his false claim that he beat Joe Biden...

Trump police takeover will create ‘immediate, devastating, and irreparable harm’ for DC, federal lawsuit says According to the federal lawsuit filed by the DC government...

Tamila Vashchuk and her husband, Mykola, are minor celebrities in this corner of Ohio. The Ukrainian couple have appeared on the cover of local magazines...

The so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK alliance is a...

It started with a whisper. Marco Rubio interrupted Donald Trump’s roundtable event with conservative influencers discussing antifa, speaking quietly into Trump’s ear. Rubio handed the...

Trump arrives amid ear-splitting roar from crowd inside stadium Lauren Gambino at the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona An ear-splitting roar just broke out...

New York City’s three mayoral contenders had a fiery debate on Wednesday night in their final televised face-off less than two weeks before voters decide...

As national guard troops patrolled in Memphis – Tennessee’s second-largest city – for the first time on Friday, Democratic US senators Dick Durbin and Tammy...

Donald Trump ramped up his trade rhetoric this week, firing off more than 20 letters to governments outlining new tariff rates if agreements aren’t reached...

Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives. “Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut Jim...

In the Georgia governor’s race, Geoff Duncan’s candidacy tests American politics as much as it tests his political appeal. The former Republican lieutenant governor of...

The Guardian’s Oliver Holmes looks at how Donald Trump’s book The Art of the Deal could shed light on the president’s negotiation tactics in the...

‘I think what Trumpism is about, is an understanding that the system in America is not working for working-class people,” says Bernie Sanders, sat in...

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

Ghislaine Maxwell urges supreme court to overturn her conviction Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has urged the supreme...

The chilling attacks that injured five men in Edinburgh at the weekend, including two who were struck as they left a mosque, have deepened the...

On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, the Los Angeles central public library bustled with nearly 100 people making zines: small, DIY magazines made out of a...

Tina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation...

Is there something “radically left” about being anti-Nazi? That was the question a judge put to the lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, which has...

Summary Thank you for following the Guardian’s US politics live blog today. Here are some of the standout moments of the day The US Department...

In his inaugural address this January, Donald Trump declared that his proudest legacy would be that of “a peacemaker and unifier”, pledging that US power...

‘Killing jobs and jacking up prices’: Democrats lambast Trump over tariffs and weak jobs report Democratic lawmakers have slammed Trump’s “reckless and chaotic” tariff policies...

A federal jury has found three protesters, including a US military veteran of the war in Afghanistan, guilty on felony conspiracy charges on Thursday for...

The Department of Justice’s release of millions of Jeffrey Epstein files has not only prompted questions about his crimes – but renewed attention on authorities’...

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 issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Thursday. “President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon...

When Donald Trump was elected the first time round, the works of the German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt flew off the shelves in the US. It...

The gunman behind a deadly shooting at Brown University in December appeared to have been aggrieved by personal failures and sought retribution against those he...

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...

On 24 January, Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents while he was helping another civilian in Minneapolis who had been knocked to the ground...

Former interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan – who was appointed by Donald Trump and led failed prosecutions against two of the president’s political opponents –...

Trump says Ukraine is able to win back all the land it lost since the beginning of the invasion In a post on Truth Social,...

The Trump administration believes some noncitizens may not even have first amendment rights. And it’s turning that legal fantasy into a reality by making immigration...

Millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday at roughly 2,000 sites nationwide in a demonstration dubbed “No Kings”, planned...

Senator Mark Kelly on Sunday urged congressional Republicans to publicly reject Trump’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who stated that military personnel...

Jon Stewart airs Trump ‘approved’ Daily Show Jon Stewart has hosted the first edition of The Daily Show since his fellow late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel,...

The US Senate failed on Thursday to re-open the government and to vote to fund the military during the federal government shutdown, ensuring that the...

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

Rochelle Bilal, Philadelphia’s sheriff, warned ICE agents last week: “If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will...

Donald Trump may agree to drop his massive $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the launch of a $1.7bn fund to...

Liban Mohamed, a 27-year-old son of Somali immigrants, is headed into a high-stakes Utah Democratic primary in June after narrowly winning the state party convention...

Securing Jewish votes was never going to be a straightforward ride for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral hopeful who is on track to...

A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent wanted for shooting a Venezuelan man during the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota was arrested on Friday...

Xavier Becerra arrived at Dulan’s on Crenshaw grinning like a man who couldn’t believe his luck. Joining him at the south Los Angeles soul food...

The US supreme court appeared poised on Monday to curtail how mail-in ballots can be counted if they arrive after election day, which would affect...

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