The Senate on Tuesday moved swiftly to approve legislation that would force the release of investigative files related to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, hours...

Going door to door in western Wisconsin multiple times per week, Bill Hogseth tells strangers about his seizure. Hogseth, the co-executive director and lead organizer...

Donald Trump has hit Australian exports with new trade tariffs, claiming the country is not doing enough to combat forced labour, but the Albanese government...

The contrast in experience between the two men disagreeing over war and theology was striking. On the one side was Pope Leo XIV, the first...

CBS News was dealing with internal and external uproar on Monday after it pulled at the last minute an investigation for its flagship 60 Minutes...

Late-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump’s expletive-laden social media posts about the war in Iran and mocked his tonally jarring White House Easter egg roll....

Quincy, population 1,600, is not exactly the sort of place you regularly run into California’s most powerful Democratic lawmakers. Nestled deep in the Sierra Nevada,...

Donald Trump has kicked off America’s 250th birthday weekend with an attack on the ‘communist menace’ in America. The US president spoke for half an...

The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey...

The FBI raided the home of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic John Bolton early on Friday morning and later also turned up...

The Trump administration must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in an escalating legal war between the...

When the Democratic party’s governing body adjourned its meeting on Saturday in New Orleans, supporters of Palestine and an end of the genocide in Gaza...

Workers renovating one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Donald Trump may be risking their safety as they race...

On Thursday, when Robert F Kennedy Jr announced an effort to block medical treatments for transgender youth, he used the term “sex-rejecting procedures” in place...

By now, the cycle of Donald Trump supporters being slapped in the face by his policies is common enough that it shouldn’t warrant a response....

Last week, the US supreme court ruled that Idaho and West Virginia can continue enforcing their bans on transgender athletes playing on girls’ and women’s...

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 administration to use emergency funds to pay partial food aid benefits The Trump administration has said in a court filing that it plans to...

More White House firings could be coming – reports Donald Trump is said to be considering removing other officials in his cabinet after forcing Pam...

In spring 2004, Gen Anthony Zinni uttered about Iraq the dreaded words in US politics: “I spent two years in Vietnam, and I’ve seen this...

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....

The billions in profits big oil is reaping due to the Iran war may stymie the energy transition, experts and advocates fear, incentivizing oil and...

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, will be heading home following a record-setting deployment of more than 300 days that included...

Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking $7m at...

The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war...

The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter/X...

Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as the homeland security secretary, capping weeks of bipartisan complaints about her leadership after immigration...

US secret service and local police officers shot and killed an intruder armed with a shotgun early on Sunday after he breached the perimeter at...

The Trump administration has quietly recalled nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior overseas diplomats as the Trump administration plans to promote appointees loyal to the...

Dan Osborn is a man who does not like to lose, and if you had asked him on election night last year whether he would...

Considering he’s the self-declared hardest working president to ever hold the office, Donald Trump has spent a remarkable amount of the past year away from...

The US Senate has approved Donald Trump’s plan for billions of dollars in cuts to funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing the Republican...

The Pentagon said on Friday that it was deploying the United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, a serious escalation in the Trump...

Donald Trump sending Tom Homan to Minnesota, president announces on social media Donald Trump is dispatching his border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota. Trump made...

Two top US Republican lawmakers expressed concern on Saturday about the Pentagon’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Nato ally Germany. “We are very concerned...

Police arrested dozens of protesters and shot teargas into a crowd on Saturday night at a No Kings protest in Los Angeles. The conflict is...

Utah officials show new video of suspect fleeing roof after shooting At a news conference, Beau Mason, the head of Utah’s department of public safety,...

On 9 June, Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model. Three days later, the US government classified it as a dangerous munition, and used its...

Americans have long glorified their constitution and the rule of law. But Donald Trump’s volatile and vindictive presidency has increasingly replaced that philosophy with something...

Republicans could abandon $1bn security proposal for Trump’s ballroom complex Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Senate Republicans could strip Donald Trump’s...

To many observers, both in the US and abroad, Donald Trump has been behaving strangely recently. Especially online. As a government shutdown loomed in the...

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The US Senate voted to confirm Jay Clayton as the director of national intelligence on Tuesday, giving Trump another key ally directing the nation’s intelligence...

Germán Pineda, 32, just wanted to go home. After his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June, Pineda, a Honduran immigrant, spent four...

Video filmed from inside Ecuador’s consulate in Minneapolis shows an ICE agent trying to enter the building but being prevented by consulate staffers, according to...

Scott Wiener, the California state senator, is expected to run for the San Francisco congressional district long held by Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker,...

Donald Trump has said he cancelled planned military strikes against Iran on the basis of “rapidly” reaching a deal on its nuclear programme and the...

A Kentucky congressman singled out by Donald Trump on Christmas as a “lowlife” after co-authoring a law requiring the federal government to release all of...

The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna said on Tuesday that he and his Republican colleague Thomas Massie had forced the justice department to disclose the “hidden”...

The night Breonna Taylor died began quietly. She had spent the evening at home in Louisville. The 26-year-old was an emergency room technician, someone who...

It will be a definitive moment for King Charles III and the British monarchy. And for better or worse, it could help salvage UK-US relations...

When Democrats and Republicans were earlier this year locked in a standoff that had plunged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the longest partial...

Jim Justice, the Republican US senator, and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5m that the couple owes in back taxes shortly after...

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After nearly a decade of loudly complaining about the fact that modern US aircraft carriers use electromagnetic systems to launch fighter jets instead of steam-powered...

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...

Just when you thought Donald Trump was parody-proof, Gavin Newsom comes along to prove you wrong. Unhinged all-caps tweets with nonsensical punctuation? Insulting nicknames for...

A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Trump administration’s termination of more than $1bn in research grants at the National Institutes of Health was...

Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under the Biden administration, was one of the first officials to be fired by...

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September, Donald Trump and others pledged a no-holds barred crackdown on leftwing activists. “We have radical left lunatics...

‘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...

House Democrats file six articles of impeachment against defense secretary Pete Hegseth Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, and colleagues including John Larson of...

As 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...

Gregory Bovino, the border patrol commander who has become the public face of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is being swapped out for the border...

White House says ‘diplomacy’ is ‘always’ top option for Trump on Iran When asked about the possibility of US strikes against Iran, Leavitt said that...

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are urging companies and institutions to cut ties with Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers after documents released...

Veterans who helped the US’s Afghan allies find refuge in the US say they are outraged that a fellow veteran and advocate now faces federal...

Powell confirms Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump’s tariffs Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning...

This month marks exactly 10 years since Donald Trump coasted down an escalator at Trump Tower, declared his run for US president and accused Mexico...

Government shutdown could cost $14bn, congressional forecaster predicts The US government shutdown has temporarily slowed the economy, and while most of its ill effects will...

Federal agents arrest former CNN anchor Don Lemon Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, his lawyer said...

In a new court filing, attorneys for the Trump administration denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite reports and prior statements...

Good morning. The world’s attention has been fixed on Minneapolis for weeks now. The small midwestern US city has been under siege since Donald Trump’s...

Donald Trump came to office in 2017 after decades of bankruptcies and business failures. Yes, he was rich, but his latest financial disclosure, published this...

Last weekend, millions of us once again affirmed the foundation of the common good. Across America, people showed their solidarity – in opposition to Trump’s...

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

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...

One of the US so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) service’s best-known employees, 19-year-old Edward Coristine, has resigned from the US government, a White House...

Trump again defends decision to ‘send in the troops’ Donald Trump has again defended his decision to deploy the National Guard to LA, claiming if...

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Good morning. It looks like the bromance between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is over. Maybe for good. Last night an exasperated...

The US supreme court dealt a huge blow this term to roughly 1.3 million immigrants in the US, many of whom have resided in the...

Young people in the US are looking for Democrats to embrace economic populism and authentic candidates willing to fight for them, says the new leader...

Hegseth orders US Navy secretary to investigate Arizona senator Mark Kelly for ‘potentially unlawful comments’ in video Donald Trump’s defense secretary, the former Fox News...

Donald Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated US president, will visit Walter Reed national military medical center on Friday for what the White House...

Days before he was nominated as director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton discussed the potential of fraud in California’s elections, falsely saying the state’s laws...

The Trump administration will slash routine vaccine recommendations during childhood from 17 to 11 jabs – the biggest change to vaccines yet under the purview...

‘This is no time to be talking about pardons,’ says Trump when pressed about Maxwell Speaking to reporters at Prestwick airport, Trump denied reports that...

Karen Bass says Los Angeles being used as a ‘test case’ and ‘an experiment’ Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has accused the federal government of...

Al Sharpton calls his ‘mentor’ Jesse Jackson a ‘transformative leader who changed the world’ The civil rights campaigner, Al Sharpton, has paid tribute to his...

California lawmakers have passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses as the Trump administration continues...

Two small scars on either side of his left thigh remind Mario Torres of the worst day he has had during the two-plus years he...

The Trump administration’s “Make America healthy again” (Maha) agenda appears to be stalled as two of the government’s most influential public health positions sit empty....

For months Carl Ruby, a pastor at a church in Springfield, Ohio, and a prominent supporter of the city’s estimated 10,000 Haitian immigrants, had been...

If the controversy behind Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a series of dominoes that fell one after the other, from the late-night host making his comments...

The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with...

Starships are meant to fly, but Nicki Minaj’s musical career is now doing a Maga-propelled nosedive. For the past few months, the rapper and former...

Gabbard 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...

A person of interest detained after a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine has been released after the investigation...