Donald Trump dropped some of the US’s tariffs on Canada on Friday to “better serve the public interest” the White House said, handing a win...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were involved in a shooting in southern California on Thursday, prompting a federal investigation. The Department of Homeland...

Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 “dividend” to all US adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress in November’s elections would not be...

Texas national guard troops have arrived in the Chicago area, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city. Chicago has already seen a...

Donald Trump announced Thursday he will sign an order instructing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pay Transportation Security Administration agents immediately. “I am...

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set its sights on Chicago in September, Chicagoans sprang into action to protect their immigrant neighbors: teaching each other...

The most-visited digital-first news publication dedicated to politics wasn’t Politico or Axios in May – it was the Hill, a Washington-based outlet that also still...

Colorado voters have spurned a conservative group’s effort to force police and prosecutors to aid the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Amendment 81, which failed...

Analysis: 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...

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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...

Hearing echoes of US military support for Shah of Iran, Democratic congressman calls for hearings on Saudi nuclear deal At House foreign affairs committee hearing...

The stars above New Jersey seemed aligned for Tom Kean Jr. The Republican congressman had a war chest of more than $2.4m in February, an...

The fallout between the US president, Donald Trump, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he...

‘Tonight, we made history,’ says Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year-old democratic socialist celebrates his apparent victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. Andrew...

‘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...

On the morning of 2 May, Florida teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two...

The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more...

In her piece on Lübeck (‘Fabulous museums and no queues’: five of the best under-the-radar city breaks in Europe, 6 September), Rachel Dixon didn’t mention...

Gold and silver prices have hit record highs and European stock markets have fallen, after the US president, Donald Trump, threatened to impose additional tariffs...

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:...

Trump-led board reportedly votes again to close Kennedy Center for renovations The board of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has once...

Democratic ex-presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have spoken out against the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old nurse in Minneapolis, the second person to be...

Recently Greg Bovino, infamous former Border Patrol commander, served as a star attraction at a “remigration summit” in Portugal; there he took selfies with Austrian...

When voters went to the polls in the 2022 midterm elections, all the ingredients were there for Joe Biden’s allies to suffer a wipeout. The...

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

On Friday, moments after a federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration needs to fully fund Snap food aid payments, the White House turned to...

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...

Supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett told House lawmakers that a sharp rise in threats against her and other justices is increasingly affecting her personal...

Within just a few weeks, the Trump administration has proposed multiple contradictory policies related to overdose prevention – some that could help save lives and...

Jazz drummer and vibes player Chuck Redd has successfully resisted a breach of contract lawsuit brought against him after he canceled a Christmas Eve performance...

GOP’s House-passed funding bill fails again in the Senate Earlier this afternoon, the Senate failed to advance Republicans’ stopgap funding bill once again in a...

Alaska US Senate candidate Mary Peltola has rejected the support of Kamala Harris, her fellow Democrat, after the 2024 presidential candidate sent out a seemingly...

Representative Eric Swalwell, the Democratic frontrunner in the fiercely contested race to be governor of California, has suspended his campaign amid a series of sexual...

Final New York mayoral debate begins Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa have taken the stage for a two-hour debate in Queens, New York,...

A Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over racist and antisemitic chat messages that circulated within the Young Republican political group, another substantial consequence in a...

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...

Fired CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at his old network of interfering with a broadcast segment looking at an immigration...

The Trump administration is escalating its fight with California ahead of next month’s midterm elections, warning that local officials who process and tabulate ballots submitted...

Information is missing on over half of deaths at work of people under the age of 18 in the US because of significant gaps in...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the use of the term “shylock” as antisemitic on Tuesday, without explaining that the slur had been used a day...

The mayor of a small town in the US state of Georgia has resigned shortly after firing his community’s entire police department, a step that...

Fascism is supposed to look a certain way: black-clad, uniformed, synchronised and menacing. It is not supposed to look like an overweight president who can’t...

Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the...

Since the surreal scene at the 2024 presidential inauguration, when a row of big tech titans took their VIP seats and signaled their new alliance...

When you have a developer as US president, you might expect some zhooshing up of the capital. A few buildings renovated, maybe some parks replanted....

Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’ Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

Foreign policy experts say they are not surprised at China’s efforts to exert its influence over local US communities after the mayor of a southern...

The Senate on Monday passed a bipartisan measure aimed at lowering housing costs by streamlining construction and permitting, ending months of fraught negotiations on a...

Donald Trump has thrown a convention to amp up the Republican base ahead of the midterm elections, but not everyone is thrilled about it. Dozens...

Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route...

Rap and EDM. Clips from action movies. Heads-up displays from video games. As the war with Iran approaches its second week, the White House has...

The US launched attacks against Iran on Saturday as part of a joint operation with Israel. Hours after the bombs started falling across Iran, Trump...

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car...

Experts, 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...

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...

Civil liberties advocates are warning that the Trump administration’s decision to strip visas from at least six foreign nationals over social media posts about Charlie...

In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at...

The leading US public health agency faced a number of top-level resignations on Wednesday after its director was ousted from her job, with one departing...

The left would do well to revisit New York’s Democratic primaries two weeks ago – it was a sunnier news cycle, yes, but those races...

This is a special election edition of How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Sign...

Mallory McMorrow, a Michigan Democrat, has dropped out of a contentious US Senate primary campaign, setting up a straight fight between the party’s progressive and...

Not long after governor Janet Mills had effectively dropped out of the primary race, a storm grew around Platner’s campaign. Rightwing operatives and liberal media...

Democrats 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...

US launches strikes on southern Iran The US military’s Central Command is saying US forces have carried out strikes on southern Iran in “self-defence”. The...

Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers – two women and two Black men –...

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty – the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming...

Jerome Powell, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, has warned that a single act of political interference in monetary policy could permanently destroy public...

US regulators will not review Moderna’s request to license a new, potentially more effective flu shot – even though the US Food and Drug Administration...

Donald Trump made over a thousand stock sales and purchases worth between $79m and $270m in July, according to a Guardian analysis of his latest...

After a rollout trumpeted by US officials, the US- and Israeli-backed effort that claimed it would return large-scale food deliveries to Gaza was born an...

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...

Donald Trump set the stage for his administration to lurch further to the right this weekend, claiming the US had taken a “giant step back”...

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” –...

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has taken aim at Elon Musk, warning that the tech mogul is trying to...

Bondi assigns prosecutor to lead investigation into Trump adversaries over Epstein ties Attorney general Pam Bondi announced today that she has assigned Jay Clayton, the...

The Democratic establishment had the money, the machinery and the candidate with national name recognition. Angie Nixon had a bookshop called Café Resistance and a...

The Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health...

Democrats have been consumed for the better part of two years by the same question: what went wrong in 2024? Next week, voters in the...

The justice department announced on Monday it was creating a loosely controlled and secretive $1.776bn fund to compensate Donald Trump allies as part of an...

A bitter primary contest between the four-term Republican US senator John Cornyn and the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, ended in a runoff on Tuesday....

Last week, during his State of the Union address on Tuesday and again on Friday, just before launching Operation Epic Fear, Donald Trump laid out...

New poll shows almost half of Americans say cost of living is ‘worst it’s ever been’ A new poll by Politico shows that 46% of...

Donald Trump appeared in no mood to patch things up with former top adviser Elon Musk on Friday, doubling down on his new hostility towards...

A Biden-era plan to implement a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Ohio, which would have eliminated tons of greenhouse gases from the...

‘My party crossed a line,’ Fetterman says of decision to splinter from Democrats over government shutdown John Fetterman – the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania who...

‘Dangerous power grab’: top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting Representative Robert Garcia, ranking member of the committee on oversight and government...

Republicans in the US House of Representatives banded together on Tuesday, 10 November, to derail an effort to impeach defense secretary Pete Hegseth. The chamber...

The abandoned homes and razed lots along the meandering Troublesome Creek in rural eastern Kentucky is a constant reminder of the 2022 catastrophic floods that...

What is being decided in the midterms and why do they matter? David Smith The US Congress has two chambers: the House of Representatives and...

Dana Leigh Marks had the kind of career most immigration judges dream of. At 32, she won a precedent-setting supreme court case that made it...

With the victory of progressive Abdul El-Sayed over representative Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic primary, prepare yourself to hear enormous quantities of bullshit about the...

Donald Trump’s Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool saga appears to be winding down after prosecutors dropped vandalism charges against former Olympian David Hearn – but not...

A shooting involving a border patrol agent near the US-Mexico border in Arizona has left an accused smuggler in critical condition, local authorities said on...

When Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long...

On 19 June, the New York Times published an article on the hostility toward minority members of the military at the Department of Defense and...

I am lead counsel in the challenge to Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. As I and my team help the ACLU legal director, Cecillia...

Donald Trump’s aggressive use of the presidential pardon power isn’t just controversial – it’s also stripping resources from victims of violent crime. According to new...

The party was on its knees. It failed to beat Donald Trump, a twice impeached convicted felon, and lost both chambers of Congress. Since November,...