Viktor Orbán (top) and Donald Trump. The US president and those around him have long talked up Orbán’s Hungary Composite: Guardian On a sunny April...
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Read MoreTrump plans to sign executive order restoring ‘Department of War’ name to Pentagon Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the...
Read MoreA US civil rights agency has sued a bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products it accuses of sex discrimination over an employee networking event that...
Read MoreThe US military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth said. Hegseth said...
Read MoreWiles suggests real goal of Trump’s boat strikes is to topple Venezuela’s Maduro Wiles also said of Trump’s Venezuela strategy: He wants to keep on...
Read MoreIt was a normal Tuesday morning for Mohamed when he left his San Diego, California, house for his daily exercise in mid-January. But as he...
Read MoreSuspect in Colorado flamethrower attack told police he targeted ‘Zionist group’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I...
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 MoreThe temperature hovered around zero degrees as news crews and mourners stopped by the site where another Minneapolis resident was shot and killed by federal...
Read MoreTrump’s South Korea visit met with protests amid trade talks Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I’ll...
Read MoreThe US military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on US personnel, two US...
Read MoreState department plans mass layoffs with cuts to nearly 1,800 staff Andrew Roth The US state department has announced that it plans to move forward...
Read MoreJustice department told Trump in May that his name is in the Epstein files – WSJ “When justice department officials reviewed what attorney general Pam...
Read MoreThe US Secret Service announced on Sunday morning that an armed man was shot and killed after entering the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s...
Read MoreDonald Trump was quick to declare victory over Iran, but this weekend’s negotiations suggest that Tehran has the upper hand. His war of choice has...
Read MoreDonald Trump is dispatching a so-called “God squad” of top officials to revoke protections for endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, purportedly to protect...
Read MoreThe first step toward ending the US government shutdown has been made after a handful of Democrats and dozens of Republicans voted to advance legislation...
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 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 MoreHow did a political nobody, Zohran Mamdani, beat one of New York’s best-known establishment figures, Andrew Cuomo? Rachel Leingang speaks to Moira Donegan about how...
Read MoreHundreds of counterprotesters on Saturday drowned out a far-right activist’s attempt to hold a small rally in support of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Tuesday called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said they should be sent back home in a rant that came as the administration is...
Read MoreWarren says DoJ only dropped ‘bogus’ investigation of Powell to ‘clear the path’ for Warsh confirmation Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate banking...
Read MoreWhen it comes to the rise of autocracy in America, Justice Potter Stewart’s famous pronouncement on pornography might be particularly appropriate at the moment: “I...
Read MoreA US federal appeals court has ruled that most of president Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, describing the levies as “unbounded in scope, amount and...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States a second time from what is essentially the beacon of global culture and heritage – Unesco –...
Read MoreFour 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...
Read MoreAs the clock ticks toward the congressionally mandated deadline of 19 December by which Donald Trump’s justice department must release its files related to Jeffrey...
Read MoreTop House Democrat demands immediate vote on extending healthcare subsidies Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has called on Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker, to...
Read MoreInvestigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC...
Read MoreOver the past few weeks, a random kaleidoscope of images has been flashing through my head. Some are characters from movies not seen since childhood....
Read MoreLove Actually may be a terrible movie, but it provides one speech that’s hard not to wish into reality this Christmas. Keir Starmer, the actual,...
Read MoreThey come on buses, in cars and RVs. Some ride on motorcycles. Every Sunday afternoon, convoys of protesters from all over Florida, and others from...
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 MoreBernie Sanders has joined in on growing public calls for Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to resign, after recent chaos across US...
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 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 MoreArnold Schwarzenegger brags in his X profile that “I killed the Predator”, but even he was shocked when, as the freshly elected governor of California...
Read MoreDonald Trump has fired his controversial US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, after weeks of bipartisan complaints about her leadership. As the public face of...
Read MoreA federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year and voided mass...
Read MoreDemocrats on Capitol Hill offered apologies and promises of accountability on Tuesday amid often harrowing testimony from people who had experienced violent encounters with federal...
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 MoreClosing summary Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a...
Read MoreRepublican senators have defended Donald Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran, but some Democrats, while welcoming the elimination of the Iranian senior leadership,...
Read MoreStarmer and Trump to hold talks as PM warned UK faces ‘huge dilemma’ over relationship with US Good morning. It’s day two of the state...
Read MoreZohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...
Read MoreThe end of violence in Baltimore is a litany of stories that weren’t told in 90-second clips on the evening news, about shootings that didn’t...
Read MoreThe death of Renee has ignited anger across the US, with more than a thousand protests held across the country in the wake of the...
Read MoreIn just the few weeks since he’s taken over the justice department’s top job on an interim basis, Todd Blanche has aggressively moved to deploy...
Read MoreFootage posted by US Southern Command and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, appears to show the US military intercepting a Venezuela-linked tanker in the...
Read MoreA federal judge on Monday declined to immediately block the Trump administration from deploying national guard troops to Chicago, Illinois, after the state became the...
Read MoreObama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...
Read MoreTrump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech” in rural Pennsylvania this past week that began with his “wishing each and everyone one of...
Read MoreIt’s not quite a new year resolution, and it’s certainly not a prediction. Think of it instead as a hope or even a plea for...
Read MoreBy the early 1980s, the Democratic party was facing a crossroads. The 1980 landslide election of Ronald Reagan, who clinched the presidency with a whopping...
Read More‘We are witnessing a full-blown coverup’: Democrats demanding access to unredacted files, says Raskin Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, has slammed the Department of...
Read MoreThe US Senate on Thursday rejected competing proposals to address the imminent expiration of subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans, greatly increasing the...
Read MoreEurope’s relationship with the US is unmoored, but it has also lost its bearings with regard to China, caught by competing forces that pull and...
Read MoreDonald Trump has told European leaders he believes a peace deal could be negotiated if the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, agrees to give up the...
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 vast protests and all-caps social media posts to acrimonious legislative hearings and pugnacious White House statements, Washington has perhaps never been noisier. But since...
Read MoreNYU 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,...
Read MoreDonald Trump says he is firing the first female director of the National Portrait Gallery, which contained a caption that referenced the attack on the...
Read MoreMissouri Republicans approved a new congressional map on Friday that adds an additional GOP-friendly seat in Congress, a boost to Donald Trump as he tries...
Read MoreCrowds amassed across the US in planned No Kings protests on Saturday, opposing what participants view as Donald Trump’s increasingly autocratic tendencies and anti-democratic actions...
Read MoreTrump breaks with Marjorie Taylor Greene, urging primary challenge Donald Trump turned on his former close ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene, denouncing the Maga congresswoman in...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s nominee to lead a federal watchdog agency, Paul Ingrassia, withdrew on Tuesday following a report that Ingrassia described himself as having a “Nazi...
Read MoreA landlord jailed for decades after he attacked a Palestinian American boy and his mother has died. Three months ago, Joseph Czuba was sentenced to...
Read MoreDoing the same thing and expecting a different result – that’s the definition of insanity. So I fall into despair when I hear yet another...
Read MoreTrump administration to use emergency funds to pay partial food aid benefits The Trump administration has said in a court filing that it plans to...
Read MoreDonald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday. Here are the facts on some...
Read MoreNothing is quite as it used to be along Nicollet Avenue. The spot where Alex Pretti was gunned down by federal agents has been cordoned...
Read MoreThe man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with...
Read MoreThe “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has apparently been dissolved with eight months still remaining on its contract, ending a drawn-out campaign of invading federal...
Read MoreThe ancient Roman grave marker recently found in the back yard of a New Orleans home had evidently been inherited and left there by the...
Read MoreUS ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, Germany’s chancellor says The United States is ready to be part of security guarantees for...
Read MoreOpening summary: Trump says more oil tankers will be seized near Venezuela Good morning, US President Donald Trump has said he was leaving the possibility...
Read MoreOn 28 January, hundreds of protesters gathered near the Dilley immigration processing center in south Texas, where hundreds of children are being held. Days earlier,...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Sunday mused about giving most Americans $2,000 funded by tariff revenues collected by the president’s administration – an evident bid to rally...
Read MoreWithin just a few weeks, the Trump administration has proposed multiple contradictory policies related to overdose prevention – some that could help save lives and...
Read More1. Trump’s threats to New York City loomed large The Republican president’s threats to New York City dominated plenty of conversation during the debate. In...
Read MoreTop Republicans are portraying Donald Trump as a “big-hearted president” who is desperate to reopen the US government, even as he delays food assistance funding...
Read MoreProtesters heckled federal law enforcement officials as they reportedly stopped dozens of cars at a checkpoint along a busy street in Washington DC on Wednesday...
Read MoreOn Wednesday morning, Pedro Sánchez delivered a 10-minute televised address with the rather bland title: “An institutional declaration by the prime minister to assess recent...
Read MoreLabor unions, community leaders and faith groups are calling for an economic blackout in Minnesota on Friday to protest the surge of federal immigration agents...
Read MoreIt has taken barely two weeks for Donald Trump to turn the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk to his political advantage, unleashing an unprecedented peacetime...
Read MoreScott Bessent has gained a reputation as one of Donald Trump’s suavest enablers but his dismissal of Denmark as “irrelevant” is likely to earn him...
Read MoreTrump says anyone who protests at Saturday’s military parade ‘will be met with very heavy force’ Donald Trump warned people against protesting at this weekend’s...
Read MoreTrump says Senate should scrap the filibuster to end the government shutdown President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so...
Read MoreKilmar Ábrego García has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania after a federal judge in Maryland ordered his release on Thursday. Ábrego...
Read MoreRo Khanna, the US congressman, publicly revealed the names of six men whose identities were redacted from the Jeffrey Epstein files, including Leslie Wexner, a...
Read MoreLeavitt calls Trump-appointed judge ‘untethered in reality’ following national guard ruling Karoline Leavitt said that the ruling from Karin Immergut, a Trump-appointed federal judge, was...
Read MoreCrowds 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...
Read More“Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is the music of a people who will not be...
Read MoreImmigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as a “a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”, saying...
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 MoreMounting pressure over President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has reportedly rattled and divided Republican congress members so...
Read MoreMinnesota governor Tim Walz appealed to Donald Trump to withdraw federal agents from Minnesota on Sunday, a day after US border patrol officers shot and...
Read MoreThe US supreme court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’s 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump likely discriminated...
Read MoreJustices appear skeptical as Trump’s lawyers argue he ‘provided adequate process’ in attempt to fire Cook Throughout the first half today’s arguments, the Trump administration’s...
Read MoreThe measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is undergoing more scrutiny by the Trump administration in their ongoing reassessment of vaccines despite the worst measles...
Read MoreTwo teenagers were charged on Monday with offenses including terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction after they allegedly threw improvised explosive devices during...
Read MoreThe US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is experiencing “severe” staff shortages at all its hospitals, with the number of shortages increasing by 50% this...
Read MoreTimothy Garton Ash has produced an excellent list of safeguards against extremism (My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late, 25 November)....
Read MoreTrump nominates economist at the Heritage Foundation as the new BLS commissioner President Donald Trump announced he is nominating EJ Antoni, the chief economist at...
Read MoreAfter Donald Trump’s justice department failed on Friday to release all documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, multiple Congress...
Read MoreThe US has built a portal that will allow Europeans to view blocked content including alleged hate speech and terrorism, according to Reuters. The portal,...
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 MoreFresh from toppling the president of Venezuela and taking control of the world’s largest oil reserves, the Trump administration’s top diplomat arrived at the Munich...
Read MoreDonald Trump has claimed there have been talks between the US and Iran over the past day in which the two sides had “major points...
Read MoreTrump-Putin meeting is under way The summit between the two leaders and their respective cabinet officials began at 11.32am local time. Share Updated at 15.59 EDT...
Read MoreUS supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s administration has taken new steps toward dismantling the US Department of Education by reassigning many of its responsibilities to other federal agencies. The...
Read MoreOpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster...
Read MoreThe 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, empty room with a...
Read MoreHarvard University said on Thursday that Donald Trump’s move to bar foreign nationals seeking to study at the Ivy League school from entering the United...
Read MoreNational tragedy used to bring national unity. If only momentarily, partisanship was put aside, and people of all political persuasions came together. No more. The...
Read MoreConstituents booed Republican congresswoman Ashley Hinson at a town hall in her Iowa district Wednesday when she praised Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending plan and spoke approvingly...
Read MoreStephen Colbert was feeling under the weather on Wednesday night but didn’t pull his punches, despite being “on enough steroids to be named the secretary...
Read MorePolice say video suggests ‘lone gunman’ shot two national guard members in Washington DC A review of video from the scene of the shooting of...
Read MoreWhether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the...
Read MoreZohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...
Read MoreThe FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale, according to a...
Read MoreIn the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, members of the George W Bush administration presented the case for war exhaustively, repeatedly, and in...
Read MoreThe sheriff’s office for metro Phoenix spent millions of dollars budgeted for compliance costs in a racial profiling case over Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns on...
Read MoreWhen a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would...
Read MoreDonald Trump has told Netflix to remove the Democratic foreign policy expert Susan Rice from its board or “face the consequences”, while the streaming platform...
Read MoreAdvocacy group urges court to uphold birthright citizenship With the supreme court set to decide the legality of Trump’s order to heavily restrict birthright citizenship,...
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump reassured the world that he would not, after all, use force to acquire Greenland – after days of threatening as much –...
Read MoreDonald Trump has moved to deploy the national guard to Chicago, the White House confirmed on Saturday, even as a federal judge blocked his administration...
Read MoreThe “time has come” for the Working Families party, the progressive third party’s national director said after a year of big wins and a growing...
Read More‘I think I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries...
Read MoreDonald Trump claimed he had found a way to pay US military troops despite the federal government shutdown, saying he had instructed his defence secretary,...
Read MoreThe FBI director, Kash Patel, has a lot on his plate just now. There’s the shooting death of the armed man who entered Donald Trump’s...
Read MoreAt the White House on Wednesday, the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters Donald Trump’s decision to dispatch the military to Los Angeles had been...
Read MoreWhat in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, last week? They surely weren’t investigating a crime. Nor...
Read MoreDonald Trump has confirmed a long-awaited meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will happen in Washington this week, setting up an in-person clash...
Read MoreA year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his...
Read MoreWhen Senate Democrats decided in September to use the government funding bill to put up a fight over expiring healthcare subsides, it set the stage...
Read MoreNewsom formally requests Trump administration rescind ‘unlawful’ deployment of national guard California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, said he has made a formal request to the Trump...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Maya Yang The US Department of Homeland Security is now requiring...
Read MoreUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to open a new call center to help law enforcement agencies track down unaccompanied migrant children. According to...
Read MoreGeorge Monbiot is right that having a written constitution would be better than not having one if the far right takes power (We must act...
Read MoreJohn Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling and transmitting classified information Hugo Lowell A federal grand jury has indicted John Bolton, the former national security...
Read MoreTrump: Powell doing ‘a terrible job’ but will ‘make a change in eight months’ when his term ends Trump was asked about his alleged plans...
Read MoreUS supreme court rulings are “not just an opinion poll” of its nine judges’ beliefs, conservative Amy Coney Barrett says, as she and her colleagues...
Read MoreA generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation...
Read MoreThe exodus from Hollywood to shores not presided over by Donald Trump has been busy and loud. Ellen DeGeneres, Robin Wright and Courtney Love moved...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Closing summary It’s just passed 1.45am in Caracas and 12.45am in...
Read MoreThe FBI has taken full control of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)...
Read MoreDonald Trump has cleared the way for Nvidia to begin selling its powerful AI computer chips to China, marking a win for the chip maker...
Read MoreWith the unveiling of the prospective Trump presidential library, which, in its timing and substance looked for all the world like an April fool, the...
Read MoreThe US state department announced on Saturday that it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza in desperate need of medical care after an...
Read MoreA federal judge on Friday morning issued a temporary restraining order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Ábrego García just hours before he was...
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 MoreAverage US fuel prices have exceeded $4 a gallon for the first time in four years, piling pressure on drivers as Donald Trump’s war on...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is moving to arrest thousands of people already legally admitted to the US as refugees and detain them indefinitely for aggressive “rescreening”,...
Read MoreThe Pentagon knew boat attack left survivors, AP sources say The Pentagon was aware there were survivors after a September attack on a boat in...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreDonald Trump threatened to fire Jerome Powell if he stays on as US Federal Reserve chair past the end of his tenure and doubled down...
Read MoreTrump breaks with Marjorie Taylor Greene, urging primary challenge Donald Trump turned on his former close ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene, denouncing the Maga congresswoman in...
Read More“He’s the driving force. I don’t think Trump would have gone in and captured Nicolás Maduro if it hadn’t been for Marco Rubio pushing him...
Read MoreUS reportedly ready for next phase of Venezuela military operations Trump has been escalating pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and has now labelled him...
Read MoreTexas Republicans advance map that reignited US redistricting wars Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I...
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 MoreDemocratic state representative Melissa Hortman has died, as has her husband, Mark, the state’s governor, Tim Walz, confirmed at a press conference on Saturday. He...
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Read MoreStudents, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the...
Read MoreNoem confirms Ice is processing Kilmar Ábrego García for deportation In a statement, following Kilmar Ábrego García’s detention today, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi...
Read MoreUS revokes visas from six foreign nationals for social media comments critical of Charlie Kirk In a stunning departure for an administration that came to...
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 MoreAlmost a year after the 2024 election there are still some houses with “Harris” signs in their windows dotted around my liberal Philadelphia neighbourhood. The...
Read MoreGabbard strips security clearance from dozens of intelligence officials Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will...
Read MoreSenators slammed Ticketmaster for raising ticket fees following a regulatory crackdown on hidden charges as revealed in a report by the Guardian last week. The...
Read MoreHouse Democrats filed six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, accusing the defense secretary of “high crimes and misdemeanors”, in reference to the...
Read MoreTrump says he signed bill mandating the release of the Epstein files Donald Trump said in a post on his social media platform that he...
Read MoreThe UK government believed an “unconventional presidential administration” required an “unconventional ambassador” when it appointed Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, a cabinet minister has said....
Read MoreThe Trump administration announced it is suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state. The secretary of...
Read MoreHouse GOP fiscal hawks demand big changes to megabill As we’ve reported, members of the House Freedom Caucus were expected to meet with the president...
Read MoreTrump arrives in Europe for annual Nato summit Air Force One has landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, bringing Donald Trump to a Nato summit at...
Read MoreIn October 2002, George W Bush laid out his case for taking the US to war against Iraq in a half-hour speech televised around the...
Read MoreInitial takeaways of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview transcripts The transcripts are more than 300 pages, but here it goes … Blanche said, on record, that their...
Read MoreNews outlets, including CBS, are free to run their editorial operations as they see fit. If they independently decide to hire a bias ombudsman, that’s...
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 MoreAfter granting unconditional pardons to 1,500 people who participated in the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack at the start of his presidency, Donald Trump...
Read MoreThe “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has apparently been dissolved with eight months still remaining on its contract, ending a drawn-out campaign of invading federal...
Read MoreIt’s just gone midday on Linea, one of the main roads through Havana’s Vedado neighbourhood, and Javier Peña and Ysil Ribas have been waiting since...
Read MoreA bill introduced this week by California lawmakers would ban federal immigration agents from being stationed outside polling places, responding to concerns that Immigration and...
Read MoreThe attack mounted jointly by Israel and the US on Iran had been planned for months, but the timing, in the midst of negotiations between...
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 MoreA powerful committee that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Friday against recommending that people obtain...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC...
Read MoreThe United States seems determined to turn its back on the rest of our planetary neighbors. The Trump administration’s recent decision to withdraw from 66...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest point of his second term, amid mounting frustration over the cost of living and the US-Israel...
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 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 MoreUS health officials appear to be shying away from voicing negative views of vaccines in public as November’s midterm elections loom and key polling indicates...
Read MoreThe fallout between the US president, Donald Trump, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he...
Read MoreRepublican congressman and vocal Donald Trump critic Don Bacon is reportedly not going to seek re-election during the midterm races in 2026. The conservative politician...
Read MoreI know that child labour is generally frowned upon but, in this economy, sometimes you’ve got to put your kid to work. Last week I...
Read MoreThe US economy surged over the summer, the commerce department announced on Tuesday, with gross domestic product (GDP) – a broad measure of the value...
Read MoreDonald Trump has declined to definitively say he will not seek an unconstitutional third term as US president. “I would love to do it: I...
Read MoreRo Khanna says this ‘document dump does not comply with’ law to compel full release of Epstein files “The justice department’s document dump this afternoon...
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 MoreDonald Trump’s approval rating has hit its worst level during his two terms in office, with more than six in 10 Americans disapproving of the...
Read MoreMaduro lands in New York before helicopter transfer amid high security Hello, this is Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok, taking over from my colleagues in London....
Read MoreSir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with...
Read MoreThe Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, has urged Donald Trump to abandon his “illegal warmongering” and begin “serious talks” with his administration as mystery continued to...
Read MoreThe Democratic party seems more united than it has been in years, thanks to one man: Donald Trump. Opposition to his presidency has papered over...
Read MoreThe California governor, Gavin Newsom, called the potential deployment of US marines in his state “deranged” after the secretary of defense threatened the use of...
Read MoreFrigid January weather prompted Donald Trump’s second inauguration to be held in the rotunda of the US Capitol, an iconic room ringed by busts of...
Read MoreThe former CNN anchor Don Lemon has warned the US must “keep fighting” for its right to a free press, calling it “the breath in...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is cancelling another $175m in funding for California’s high-speed rail, marking another setback for the state’s much-delayed project. The US transportation department...
Read MoreOn 1 January, to mark his inauguration as mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani threw a block party. As he was sworn in outside city...
Read MoreIn 2017, watching a two-hour Bastille Day procession, Donald Trump told the French president that we’d have one too, only better. That time, the grown-ups...
Read MoreDonald 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...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s threat to take control of Greenland “one way or the other” has left the territory and its sovereign power Denmark reeling and the...
Read MoreAny Lucia López Belloza will not be home for Christmas. The 19-year-old freshman was on a business scholarship at Babson College near Boston, when she...
Read MoreDonald Trump placed the DC Metropolitan police department under federal control on Monday, deploying the national guard while describing a “lawless” city in ways that...
Read MoreDonald and Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening after the event was interrupted by gunfire. A suspect was...
Read MoreOn Friday, Donald Trump claimed that he will reverse everything that Joe Biden has signed with an autopen. The automated signature machine has been a...
Read MoreLatino voters delivered sweeping support to Democratic candidates across multiple states in Tuesday’s off-year elections, reversing what many Republicans had come to believe was a...
Read MoreThe man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican national committees the night before the January 6 insurrection...
Read MoreSean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, hauled his family into a van for a wholesome, seven-month trek across the nation, which was filmed for an...
Read MoreIt’s Miller Meltdown Time Some couples bond over shared hobbies; others over shared values. The Maga bigwigs Stephen and Katie Miller, on the other hand,...
Read MoreThousands have joined an economic blackout for International Workers’ Day, as part of 3,500 “May Day Strong” events across the country. Organizers have called for...
Read MoreDonald Trump has threatened to use “every tool in our arsenal” to crack down on pharmaceutical giants if they fail to cut drug prices for...
Read MoreIn 2021, Bri Adams was pregnant with her first child and began signing up for waitlists for childcare – eight, to be exact. She was...
Read MoreThe rustle of a notepad. The click of a pen lid. On a floral-patterned sofa sits Dustin Hoffman with long hair, big collar and a...
Read MoreA guest of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was arrested by Capitol police during the State of the Union address. Omar had invited...
Read MoreAs a big fan of citizen science, I have spent the past month conducting a very important experiment. While I am not quite as hardcore...
Read MoreA federal judge ruled on Saturday that a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate at a board meeting about Donald Trump’s plan to close down...
Read MoreThree hundred and sixty-five days after Donald Trump swore his oath of office and completed an extraordinary return to power, many historians, scholars and experts...
Read MoreUS lawmakers responded to reports that the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, as thousands of US troops assemble in the...
Read MoreIn Donald Trump’s world there are weeks and then there are weeks. This one was a doozy. From declaring war on Tylenol to an escape...
Read MoreDonald Trump withdrew on Thursday an invitation for Canada to join his “board of peace” initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts. “Please let this Letter...
Read MoreWhite House halts $2.1bn of Chicago infrastructure funding The federal government put $2.1bn earmarked for Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office and Management and Budget...
Read More‘If this is how they respond to a senator with a question, imagine what they’re doing across the country,’ says Padilla Padilla goes on: If...
Read MoreNigel Farage has appeared before a US congressional hearing on censorship. In an opening statement, the Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin accused the British politician of...
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 MoreDonald Trump on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including a...
Read MoreA US government order to make drastic cuts in commercial air traffic amid the government shutdown has taken effect, with major airports across the country...
Read MoreA group of New Yorkers has filed a lawsuit against the state’s board of elections alleging that its congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes the voting power...
Read MoreThe US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won...
Read MoreColumbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against...
Read MoreEvidence shows Kash Patel lied about Chris Van Hollen ‘drinking on taxpayer dime during the day’ There are hardly enough hours in the day to...
Read MoreYou don’t need a doctor to tell you America’s healthcare system is broken, but I’ll tell you anyway. Having led two public health departments, I’ve...
Read MoreDonald Trump has told European leaders he believes a peace deal could be negotiated if the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, agrees to give up the...
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 MoreDonald Trump has said he did not know a raid by the FBI on the home of his former adviser turned critic, John Bolton, was...
Read MoreDonald Trump has said he plans to meet Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, days after launching an attack that resulted in the capture of...
Read MoreDonald Trump has threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on Mexico if it does not immediately provide additional water to help US farmers, accusing...
Read MoreThe man suspected of planting pipe bombs in Washington DC the night before the 6 January 2021 deadly attack on the US Capitol by supporters...
Read MoreOver the past year, whistles have become a symbol of the collective resistance of ordinary people standing up to federal immigration enforcement. As the Trump...
Read MoreThe White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, as Donald Trump continues to permit the Chinese-owned platform to operate in the US despite...
Read MoreUS treasury secretary Scott Bessent has refused to acknowledge that the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump around the world are taxes on Americans....
Read MoreToday the US army will parade in style along the National Mall in Washington DC to celebrate its 250th anniversary. This also just happens to...
Read MoreA measure that would allow Texas residents to sue out-of-state abortion pill providers advanced to the desk of the governor, Greg Abbott, on Wednesday, setting...
Read MoreA Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US justice department has...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Robert Reich Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is...
Read MoreIt is ‘clear’ the US raid on Venezuela ‘undermined a fundamental principle of international law’, UN human rights office says A spokesperson for the UN...
Read MoreDHS formally announces New Orleans immigration operation The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had started its immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans today....
Read MoreThe US has launched another strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people, the US Southern Command said. The command, which oversees combatant...
Read MoreAs the Watergate scandal unfolded, new editions of the Washington Post newspaper were rushed over to the White House at night so Richard Nixon, the...
Read MoreThe man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, is set to...
Read MoreIn January of 2017, I sent a tentative email to a few dozen friends and acquaintances who I suspected were also freaked out by the...
Read MoreUS federal law enforcement officers on Saturday fatally shot an American citizen in Minneapolis, the second such killing in less than three weeks. The killing...
Read MorePope Leo has said the world is being ‘ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen...
Read MoreStarmer and Trump to hold talks as PM warned UK faces ‘huge dilemma’ over relationship with US Good morning. It’s day two of the state...
Read MoreDoing the same thing and expecting a different result – that’s the definition of insanity. So I fall into despair when I hear yet another...
Read MoreDonald Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportation. Since he took office, his administration has reshaped immigration enforcement across the country. The Guardian US,...
Read MoreA prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140m, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed on...
Read MoreThe US health and human services (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has fended off an attack by conservative firebrand and Donald Trump influencer Laura...
Read MoreWhite House says it will appeal against Harvard ruling The Trump administration said it will appeal a judge’s ruling ordering the federal government to reverse...
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 MoreDonald Trump says he considers Sean ‘“Diddy” Combs “sort of half-innocent” despite his criminal conviction in federal court in July – but the president called...
Read MoreNewsom says ‘democracy is under assault’ California governor Gavin Newsom has delivered a blistering address against the Trump administration, warning democracy is “under assault before...
Read MoreThe Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid...
Read MoreTrump-Putin meeting is under way The summit between the two leaders and their respective cabinet officials began at 11.32am local time. Share Updated at 15.59 EDT...
Read MoreFinal 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,...
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 MoreDemocrats think they can flip the Senate blue in November, and they’re hoping a group of interesting characters will help them do it. This week,...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Tuesday announced a naval blockade of “sanctioned oil vessels” leaving and heading to Venezuela, sharply escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas. The...
Read MoreMarkwayne Mullin says he’s considering pulling US customs agents from airports in sanctuary cities Homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News he’s thinking about...
Read MoreDonald Trump has said that he plans to rebrand the ‘Department of Defense’ by returning to the pre-1947 name, the ‘Department of War’. The US...
Read MoreThey are the files that America – and the world – has long waited to see: a huge cache of documents at the Department of...
Read MoreMillions 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...
Read MoreHouse Democrats fail to pass war powers resolution by unanimous consent The push from House Democrats to pass a war powers resolution by unanimous consent...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s voracious desire for retribution has quickly evolved into a regular and predictable system. In the year since his election, the president’s rage and...
Read MoreFacing images of violent white mobs defending racial segregation, the condemnation of the world and of its own citizens, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act,...
Read MoreAs the US government shutdown continues, nearly 42 million people face a threat to their food supply. Funding for the Snap program – commonly known...
Read MoreA critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent...
Read MoreRepublican senators indicate they won’t confirm Paul Ingrassia to special counsel role Some Republican senators have said they don’t support Paul Ingrassia’s nomination to lead...
Read More1. The summit produced slim pickings … in other words, no deal As Donald Trump conceded during his brief press conference with Vladimir Putin, “understanding”...
Read MoreDon’t be fooled. When it comes to Donald Trump, what might look like a full retreat is almost always a mere tactical withdrawal, designed to...
Read MoreMiami archbishop condemns Florida detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Florida’s most senior Catholic leader, Archbishop Thomas Wenski, has condemned the new immigration detention center...
Read MoreA raid by federal immigration authorities on Saturday in New York City was thwarted by about 200 protesters, several of whom were arrested after scuffles...
Read MoreIt was a curious question: who was going to pay A$895 (US$640, £476) to see Michelle Obama speak at 12.30pm on a Tuesday in Melbourne?
It was a curious question: who was going to pay A$895 (US$640, £476) to see Michelle Obama speak at 12.30pm on a Tuesday in Melbourne?