Suspect 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 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 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 MoreDonald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, a callback to the department’s original...
Read MoreIn a move that has left anti-abortion advocates reeling, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly approved a request to manufacture a new abortion...
Read MoreTrump says Hamas is ready for peace, says ‘Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza’ Donald Trump just welcomed the response from Hamas to...
Read MoreAfter the cruelty, the mockery. As the first detainees were being hauled into Donald Trump’s controversial migrant jail in the inhospitable, steamy wetlands of the...
Read MoreA US appeals court has for now blocked the Trump administration from removing the temporary protective status of thousands of Afghans in the United States,...
Read MoreAfter moving to Ohio in 2013, Ibragim Chakhalidze’s father set up a trucking company just miles from where two of the country’s major road freight...
Read MoreThe Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is seeking a $1bn settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, a White House official said on Friday. The person was...
Read MoreAt least seven of the nine featured musical acts set to play in a concert series organized by the Trump administration to mark the United...
Read MorePaul Simon sang The Boxer. New York mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared with firefighters. When producer Lorne Michaels asked: “Can we be funny?”, Giuliani replied: “Why...
Read More“A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to...
Read MoreMuhammad Akbar Ali, a 21-year-old recent college graduate, won a runoff election for a state house seat in Atlanta’s suburbs earlier this month, becoming the...
Read MoreEven in the pre-Trump era, I had reservations about the annual black-tie celebration in Washington that some have dubbed “the nerd prom” but is more...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Saturday authorized the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass protests with police...
Read MoreThe White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, as war in the Middle East rages on,...
Read MoreDonald Trump has again threatened Iran, saying the US may launch new attacks if Tehran continues to refuse the significant concessions he wants before a...
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 MoreTrump pays tribute to Charlie Kirk Donald Trump is addressing the tens of thousands of people attending the memorial. The president says America is a...
Read MoreOklahoma’s superintendent, who has attracted national attention as he sought to install religion and rightwing viewpoints in Oklahoma schools, will resign to run a conservative...
Read MoreDonald Trump defended himself against criticism from fellow Republicans on Sunday as he appeared on the verge of agreeing a deal with Iran to end...
Read MoreTennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted...
Read MoreDonald Trump is gravely serious about running for a third term in violation of the US constitution, California governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday, warning...
Read MoreEJ Antoni, Trump’s pick to oversee job numbers, was at the Capitol on January 6 The White House confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that...
Read MoreDonald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent the sex offender...
Read MoreKristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, has said that only Americans should attend next year’s Super Bowl and warned that Ice agents “will be...
Read MoreDonald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats...
Read MoreThe US education department said on Monday it had terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding...
Read MoreDonald Trump said Monday he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political...
Read MoreBenjamin Netanyahu has said there is “no ceasefire in Lebanon” and Israel would continue “to strike Hezbollah with full force” as the country’s military launched...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s mass pardoning of those convicted in connection to the January 6 insurrection raised eyebrows last year, but more recently his pardons have appeared...
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 MoreIf you believe the early public opinion polls, Americans are uncertain about last weekend’s raid on Venezuela and the seizure of the country’s leader, Nicolás...
Read MoreThe number of LGBTQ+ Americans inquiring about moving to Canada has soared since Donald Trump’s re-election, campaigners have said, as people across the US wrestle...
Read MoreEver since Donald Trump returned to power, pundits have struggled to find apt analogies for his style of governance. Some liken his loyalty demands, patronage...
Read MoreThe Department of Justice’s release of millions of Jeffrey Epstein files has not only prompted questions about his crimes – but renewed attention on authorities’...
Read MoreLet’s play a fun game of Will This Get Me Deported? The first contestant is myself: a British-Palestinian green card holder in the US. I’ll...
Read MoreSoon after Twitch streamer Hasan Piker started campaigning with Democratic candidates this spring, an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal was published with the...
Read MoreLast week Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s health chief and a longtime vaccine sceptic, presented a report on children’s health by the Make America...
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 MoreAt the behest of Donald Trump, Texas Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional map to try and gain as many as five congressional...
Read MoreNancy Pelosi, a California Democratic representative and the first woman to serve as speaker, has announced she will retire from Congress, two years after stepping...
Read MoreDick Cheney, the former White House chief of staff, member of Congress, secretary of defense and US vice-president, has died, his family has said. He...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreSmall changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would...
Read MoreThe civil rights campaigner has died aged 84. Jackson was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination....
Read MoreThe surprise resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene reverberated through Saturday, as figures from across the political spectrum gave responses ranging from criticism to acclaim, including...
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 MoreLeading US investors and private equity firms could step up their foray into UK new-build housing after Donald Trump’s move to ban institutional companies from...
Read MoreLast week, the office of management and budget (OMB) revealed plans to freeze all outside funding for National Institutes of Health research this fiscal year,...
Read MoreBefore pleading “not guilty” at her first court hearing after she and her husband, Nicolás Maduro, were captured by US special forces, Cilia Flores made...
Read MoreThe leader of all Catholic chaplains in the United States’ armed forces has questioned how righteous the US military’s campaign in Iran is, saying that...
Read MoreDemocratic nominee Zohran Mamdani was elected on Tuesday as the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating the former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature One person was arrested overnight in connection with the protest in...
Read MoreZohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with...
Read MoreTrump goes after Zohran Mamdani Donald Trump has weighed in on Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York, saying: “the Democrats have crossed the line”. He...
Read MoreThe US supreme court starts a new term on Monday, and the nine justices are preparing to take on cases that could prove crucial to...
Read More“At long last, we have peace in the Middle East,” Donald Trump declared, as he and regional leaders signed a declaration meant to cement a...
Read MoreDonald Trump has weighed into a new fight – this time with two sports teams. The president wants Washington’s football franchise the Commanders and Cleveland...
Read MoreSchumer rejects Trump’s claim that bipartisan shutdown negotiations are under way Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Democrats...
Read MoreOpening summary Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news...
Read MoreDemocratic state representatives in Minnesota staged an overnight sit-in in their house chamber on Thursday after the Republican speaker failed to put a gun violence...
Read MoreThe cryptocurrency industry spent big and lost often in this week’s Illinois primaries. As the industry prepares to make massive donations in the 2026 midterm...
Read MoreDonald Trump is not generally noted as a student of history. Yet over the past year, his decisive reorientation of US foreign policy towards the...
Read MoreJohnson dismisses efforts to check Trump’s military power against Iran House speaker Mike Johnson dismissed efforts by lawmakers to advance a measure to check Trump’s...
Read MoreLast week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland...
Read MoreIn June 1981, I was a young pulmonary fellow at one of the three Los Angeles hospitals where the first five cases of an unusual...
Read MoreDemocratic senators introduced a bill Tuesday to ban immigration officers from concealing their identities while engaged in immigration enforcement activities. The “visible act”, introduced by...
Read MorePete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a...
Read MoreThe failure of negotiations to end the US war with Iran has unleashed a barrage of starkly partisan political responses, with leading Republicans making hawkish...
Read MoreDonald Trump observed blithely last week that if his cherished tariff regime is struck down by the US supreme court, he may need to “unwind”...
Read MoreAs top US health officials turn against some mRNA vaccines, experts fear for the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic and worry that other vaccines...
Read MoreRepublican US senator Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for re-election to a third term Wednesday. Daines withdrew his name just minutes before the...
Read MoreWhen USA Rugby (USAR) updated its eligibility requirements in February to ban trans women from competing, many players and fans were outraged. Within days, 300...
Read MoreDonald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’ Oliver Holmes Donald Trump has dismissed a secretive inquiry into the late sex...
Read MoreGrowing pressure on the Trump administration has prompted the US president to direct his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to seek the release of grand jury...
Read MoreArizona senator Mark Kelly warned that the Trump administration’s failed attempt to secure an indictment against him and five other Democratic lawmakers for a video...
Read MoreAt morning services at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday, congregants greeted one another with hugs and expressed gratitude for a rare piece...
Read MoreA federal judge ruled on Friday that officials at Florida’s state-run immigration jail, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, must give attorneys better access to their detained clients....
Read MoreFor such an uncannily successful politician, Donald Trump exhibits a perplexing political myopia. His most recent own-goal was endorsing Ken Paxton, a state attorney general,...
Read MoreForty-five years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton hotel in Washington, injuring the US president and three...
Read More“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Donald Trump exhorted the audience at a campaign event organized by the conservative Turning Point Action in...
Read MoreMarkwayne Mullin, the US homeland security secretary, used a visit to Asheville, North Carolina to call for a fundamental shift in the role of the...
Read MoreSenate passes short-term Fisa extension By a voice vote, the Senate passed a 10-day clean extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
Read MoreWhite House boasts family of suspect in Boulder attack ‘could be deported as early as tonight’ The White House is boasting on its official social...
Read MoreAfter an armed man attempted to breach the ballroom where Donald Trump was set to speak to White House journalists on Saturday, conspiracy theories immediately...
Read MoreThe FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington DC that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd...
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 MoreBrazil’s president rejects Trump’s effort to use tariffs to extract political concessions Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, firmly rejected Donald Trump’s demand that...
Read MoreWith the first primaries of the US midterm elections now under way, the cryptocurrency industry is injecting millions of dollars into congressional races across the...
Read MoreThe Trump administration on Tuesday said it had paused all immigration applications, including green card and US citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European...
Read MoreYou report that Donald Trump claims that the only thing limiting his power as commander-in-chief is his “own morality” (‘I don’t need international law’: Trump...
Read MoreThree days into its immigration crackdown in Maine, the Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had arrested “more than 100...
Read More‘It’s the opening of an opportunity,’ say Senate Democrats who broke ranks to end government shutdown The eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks...
Read MoreSince Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite’s legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to...
Read MoreThe multiple firsts achieved by New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, have been well chronicled: he is the first Muslim to occupy that role, the...
Read MoreAbby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023, managing a national...
Read MoreMore White House firings could be coming – reports Donald Trump is said to be considering removing other officials in his cabinet after forcing Pam...
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 MoreFor 40-year-old Cecilia Romero, the days before and after Halloween are not just any other holiday. It’s the time of year when she can take...
Read MoreIt was the hottest day of the year so far when the central air conditioning started blowing hot air in the mobile home where Richard...
Read MoreThe president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White...
Read MoreTrump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gang, appeals court rules Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog for...
Read MoreThe Trump administration blocked two permitted US wind energy projects from development this week, with an agreement to pay millions of dollars in refunds to...
Read MoreWith limited access to immigrants in detention, US attorneys are scrambling to understand the scope of California’s immigration raids, and the extent to which the...
Read MoreColumbia University agrees to pay more than $220m as settlement to Trump administration Columbia University announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with...
Read MoreThe first woman and African American to serve as the US librarian of Congress before Donald Trump fired her in May has not heard from...
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 MoreBill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world...
Read MoreThe US justice department has released more than 3m pages of documents related to its investigation into the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...
Read MoreThe White House has withdrawn Jared Isaacman as its nominee for Nasa administrator, abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Musk from consideration to lead...
Read MoreFor political connoisseurs of a certain vintage, it feels like deja vu all over again. To anyone who witnessed Bill Clinton’s presidency in the 1990s,...
Read MoreThe US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolás Maduro, follow a long history of interventions in South and Central America and...
Read MoreYadin Eldar, 21, has been betting on prediction markets since 2019. His friends think he’s “crazy”, he said. But the craze surrounding these platforms is...
Read MoreOne of two US national guard soldiers shot in a targeted attack near the White House this week has died, while the second is fighting...
Read MoreChina’s president, Xi Jinping, has warned of “clashes and even conflicts” with the US over Taiwan after meeting Donald Trump in Beijing. Xi’s remarks, published...
Read MoreThe first thing that grabbed me about the Rapture’s 2011 song It Takes Time to be a Man was the warbly, analogue fuzz of its...
Read MoreGlobal Times hails US president’s order to strip back government funding to news organisations he deems ‘radical’ Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the...
Read MoreJD Vance has weighed in on Donald Trump’s feud with Pope Leo, effectively telling the pontiff to stay in his lane after the head of...
Read MoreLate-night hosts covered alarming new comments by Donald Trump as well as his outburst at a heckler in Michigan. Jimmy Kimmel On Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
Read MoreA Detroit police department decision to reverse course on firing two officers who allegedly violated local law by coordinating an arrest with federal immigration agents...
Read MoreDHS spokesperson confirms detainees among the injured Tricia McLaughlin, who serves as the assistant secretary of Homeland Security, told Fox News today that detainees “were...
Read MoreThe idea that the political career of Donald Trump would be a goldmine for comedy died a long time ago, with the coffin accepting stray...
Read MoreFast food workers in California are demanding employers sign a pledge reaffirming workers’ rights amid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at workplaces across the...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Friday sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent sex offender Jeffrey...
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 MoreThe 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....
Read MoreDonald Trump signed a proclamation to restrict foreign student visas at Harvard University, the White House said on Wednesday. The order would suspend for an...
Read MorePalestinian actor Motaz Malhees said a travel ban imposed by Donald Trump is preventing him from attending Sunday’s Academy Awards, whose nominees include a movie...
Read More“You know, I’ve generally found that when I get involved in politics, it ends up badly,” Elon Musk mused on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast in November....
Read MoreThe US president, Donald Trump, has met China’s leader, Xi Jinping, for a momentous summit that will pack negotiations on global conflict, international trade and...
Read MoreGavin Newsom, California’s governor, on Thursday said state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan intended as a direct response to a Republican-led...
Read MoreThe Manhattan district attorney’s office said on Saturday that it is investigating a sexual assault allegation against Eric Swalwell, a Democratic congressman from California running...
Read MoreZohran Mamdani has reiterated his view that Donald Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot” just days after the pair had a surprisingly cordial meeting...
Read MoreWhat did the president not know (about his wife’s statement on Epstein), and when did he not know it? While it remains unclear why Melania...
Read MoreThe firings of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been reversed, according to several reports citing officials familiar with the...
Read MoreThe Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell is the latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign against his critics, the congressman confirmed on Thursday. NBC News reports that...
Read MoreDick Cheney, the former White House chief of staff, member of Congress, secretary of defense and US vice-president, has died, his family has said. He...
Read MoreThe Pentagon is again threatening to sever ties with Scouting America unless the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America reverts to “core...
Read MoreKen Paxton, the state attorney general, takes on four-term incumbent John Cornyn on Tuesday in the ugliest primary election of the year. The winner of...
Read MoreThe John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4...
Read MoreIn what appears to be a new front in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the media, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities. According to documents obtained by...
Read MoreOn the phone from his Atlanta house last week, John “Jack” Mazurek said he felt “a few pounds lighter”. It was no wonder. The 33-year-old...
Read MoreVeterans 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...
Read MoreHe has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting...
Read MoreFBI director Kash Patel appeared not to recognise the name of the white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black congregants at a US...
Read MoreSenior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the...
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Read MoreNew York, Los Angeles and Chicago airports are among 40 that will see reductions in flights from Friday as a result of the government shutdown,...
Read MoreA demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon. The man, Arthur...
Read MoreCuban officials have denounced the US seizure of the Skipper oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday, calling it an “act of piracy and maritime...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature US to send 200 troops to Israel to support and monitor...
Read MoreAs the ballots were counted on Wednesday in the Democratic primary election for mayor in New York City, a young candidate with little national name...
Read MoreDonald Trump has told his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...
Read MoreLawmakers from both sides of the aisle are urging companies and institutions to cut ties with Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers after documents released...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature How does Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza stands out from...
Read MoreUS Attorney to resign after Trump’s remarks calling for his removal over Letitia James investigation – reports US attorney Erik Siebert told employees on Friday...
Read MoreThe University of Virginia (UVA) received “explicit” notification from the Trump administration that the school would endure cuts to university jobs, research funding and student...
Read MoreDonald Trump has pardoned two south Florida shark divers convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks and a giant grouper from a fisherman’s longline several...
Read MoreThe White House has chosen a deputy of Robert F Kennedy Jr to serve as the acting head of the US Centers for Disease Control...
Read MoreUS treasury secretary Scott Bessent claimed on Sunday that the US and China have finalized the details of a deal transferring TikTok’s US version to...
Read MoreThe first episode of the new Secretary Kennedy Podcast, produced by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), opens with this quote from...
Read MoreHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, we’re examining the tech industry’s push for influence in two places separated by a time difference of 13...
Read MoreSenator Bernie Sanders introduces resolution to stop arms sales to Israel Senator Bernie Sanders just spoke on the Senate floor in support of two resolutions...
Read MoreFlorida has begun deporting people from the notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp, the state’s governor said, and deportations are expected to increase in the coming...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is seeking to finalize its overhaul of the federal government’s civil service system through a rule issued this week by the office...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreImmigration is one of the most divisive issues facing the United States, as it is in many countries. An ICE agent’s killing of Renee Good...
Read MoreDays after officially exiting the White House, Elon Musk has grown increasingly critical of President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill, describing it as a “disgusting...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years....
Read MoreAccording to Donald Trump’s White House, the US economy is booming, inflation is dead and jobs are surging. A blizzard of economic reports has cast...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Sunday that he invited the family of a national guard member fatally shot last week to the White House, adding that...
Read MoreDonald Trump signed a bill Wednesday directing the justice department to release files from the investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, surrendering in...
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 MoreWith Los Angeles convulsed by confrontation between pro-migrant protesters and military units dispatched by Donald Trump, no figure apart from the president has loomed larger...
Read MoreTyler Robinson appears in virtual court appearance Tyler Robinson is now appearing for his first, virtual court appearance from the Utah jail where he is...
Read MoreAdelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late progressive congressman Raúl Grijalva, won a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat left open when her...
Read MoreThe Senate voted on Monday night to pass a budget bill that will bring the government shutdown to an end if, as expected, it passes...
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 US’s top public health agency was plunged into chaos on Wednesday after the Trump administration moved to oust its leader Susan Monarez, sworn in...
Read MoreDeath toll in strike on Iranian bridge rises to 8 with almost 100 injured, Iran state media reports The death toll from Thursday’s attack on...
Read MoreA federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin...
Read MoreTrump says he wasn’t briefed on FBI raid on John Bolton’s home The president said he wasn’t briefed on the raid on John Bolton’s home,...
Read MoreKey events 25m ago Latest headlines 54m ago Trump says he assumes Denmark weighed in on Greenland deal 2h ago Russia, which is still attacking...
Read MoreIn this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again. Written and read by the Guardian...
Read MoreUtah governor says authorities have ‘a person of interest in custody’ The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, just said at a news conference on the...
Read MoreEric Trump has hinted that he or another of the Trump family could run for president when his father’s second term in the White House...
Read MoreLandstuhl is a unique place: a small town in the south-west of Germany, it is also very American. There are American fast food joints, nail...
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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 MoreSummary We’re wrapping up our live coverage of US politics for the day. Here are the latest developments: The US military said it conducted a...
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 MoreAfter years of claiming to be the vanguard of a new “America First” isolationist movement rebelling against the neoconservative policies of the George W Bush...
Read MoreThe California governor, Gavin Newsom, and Fox News host Jesse Watters have locked into a political tit-for-tat after the network figure admitted to mistakenly claiming...
Read MoreWealthy Americans are leading the charge in applications for New Zealand’s “golden visas” after rules on applying were relaxed. New Zealand’s coalition government in February...
Read MoreTMZ has only been in Washington DC for a matter of weeks, but the salacious gossip website is already having an impact: hounding politicians, tracking...
Read MoreThe Department of Homeland Security has signed a nearly $140m contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportation operations. The contract, signed with the...
Read MoreWere you bullied as a child? If so, congratulations. You are probably pretty interesting, or maybe you have an extreme body odor problem. Either way,...
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 MoreA Republican senator has vowed to block all Federal Reserve nominations after the justice department opened a criminal investigation into the Fed chair, Jerome Powell,...
Read MoreDonald Trump is lost in his fog of war. He compounds confusion with improvised fabrications as his naive expectation of a lightning victory has been...
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 MorePeter Mandelson was in his element. Lounging on a sofa one June evening at Butterworth’s, a bistro serving as the gastronomical centre of the Maga...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s move to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran came as those inside his orbit who were opposed to US intervention in the conflict...
Read MoreJen Kiggans, a Republican congresswoman, is facing calls from Democrats to resign for agreeing with a radio host after he said the top US House...
Read MoreRon DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, spent $1.2m of taxpayers’ money per day to open and operate the notorious immigration jail known as Alligator Alcatraz, court...
Read MoreTrump seeks $1.5tn for defense department in budget request to Congress Donald Trump has asked for $1.5tn in defense department funding in his latest budget...
Read MoreHegseth announces ‘Operation Southern Spear’ Pentagon mission to remove ‘narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere’ In a social media post, the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, just...
Read MoreSix months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office –...
Read MoreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe and of seeking to introduce an “age of authoritarianism”, as she...
Read MoreTrump administration lays off hundreds of Voice of America employees The Trump administration sent layoff notices today to more than 600 employees at Voice of...
Read MorePerhaps the most revealing post-mortem on Republicans’ election night meltdown came from the vice-president, JD Vance. After a night that saw Democratic governors elected in...
Read MorePope Leo said on Tuesday he hoped to spread the Christian message by speaking about peace, but that people were free to criticise him. Donald...
Read MorePam Bondi’s swift dismissal on Thursday underscores a reality that has met Trump loyalists from Jeff Sessions to Kristi Noem – no amount of loyalty...
Read MoreA rally on affordability in Pennsylvania on 9 December devolved into a racist tirade when Donald Trump said to the crowd: “We only take people...
Read MoreIsraeli military launches fresh strikes on Iran The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in the last hour that it had begun an “additional wave” of...
Read MoreFederal immigration agents have been involved in a sharp rise in shootings in recent months, coinciding with the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement efforts. Under...
Read MoreFederal authorities in Texas have arrested a man for allegedly threatening to shoot people at a pro-LGBTQ+ parade, to avenge the murder of Charlie Kirk....
Read MoreOn a cloudy Saturday afternoon, the Los Angeles central public library bustled with nearly 100 people making zines: small, DIY magazines made out of a...
Read More‘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...
Read MoreHere’s a recap of the day so far In a cabinet meeting that lasted for more than two hours, defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave more...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s long public campaign to get someone in his administration to bring criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director he fired in...
Read MoreThe Trump administration will start mass layoffs of federal workers if the president decides negotiations to end the government shutdown are “absolutely going nowhere,” a...
Read MoreTrump warns Iran ‘bad things’ will happen if they fail to make a ‘meaningful’ deal, and appears to set 10-day deadline for US military action...
Read MoreA divided US appeals court on Tuesday allowed US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, to resume her role at the agency, as Donald...
Read MoreJimmy Kimmel talked about Pam Bondi and this week’s judiciary hearings as well as the latest climate-destroying victory for the Trump administration. The late-night host...
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 MoreThe US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, faced the Senate finance committee in a tense and combative hearing on Thursday, during which lawmakers questioned...
Read MoreDonald Trump has threatened to launch a “guns-a-blazing” US military intervention in Nigeria, claiming that the west African country’s government has failed to prevent attacks...
Read MoreEnhanced subsidies that have kept health insurance premiums affordable for millions of Americans who use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expired at the end of...
Read MoreHegseth launches extraordinary attack on media over reporting on US strikes on Iran Hegseth is very aggressively and bizarrely attacking the press corps, claiming: Because...
Read MoreThe supreme court can’t do it – it’s packed with conservatives who owe him their jobs. Congress won’t do it – Republicans slavishly follow his...
Read MoreProtecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of new administrative and...
Read MoreOn 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,...
Read MoreThe television personality Dr Phil was embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers as they carried out controversial raids in Los Angeles that led...
Read MoreIt’s not straightforward, trying to assess a book written by someone whose stature and reputation loom large over the text. I have not read any...
Read MoreIn the latest sign the honeymoon is over between Donald Trump and his tech billionaire sidekick, Elon Musk, the president confirmed he will go ahead...
Read MoreTop Democrats issued a clear message to Donald Trump this week: either he fires Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, or they will impeach her....
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 MoreA federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funding and threatening hefty fines against the University of California amid the administration’s attempts...
Read MoreTwo US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate favored to win...
Read MoreA few days before Christmas in Pérez Zeledón, a city in Costa Rica, Greidy Mata stared at two photographs of her late brother. In one...
Read MoreA US judge dismissed a criminal indictment against Kilmar Ábrego García on Friday, finding that the Trump administration would not have prosecuted him had he...
Read MoreA Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over racist and antisemitic chat messages that circulated within the Young Republican political group, another substantial consequence in a...
Read MoreMarjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress late on Friday, saying she refused to be a “battered wife” following her public fallout with Donald Trump,...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety. Trump, in a Truth Social post...
Read MoreIs Donald Trump OK? Recently, he’s looked tired. His famous fake tan is a bit more sallow than usual and seems painted on more thickly...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has promised tens of thousands of federal agents carrying out his immigration crackdown that they will be paid during the government shutdown,...
Read MoreDonald Trump has said he regrets not getting the US national guard to seize voting machines after his 2020 election defeat ended his first presidency,...
Read MoreUtah’s Republican-controlled legislature is escalating its fight against the state’s anti-gerrymandering law after a series of court rulings threatened the congressional map that has long...
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 MoreEurope is on a trajectory towards nothing less than “civilisational erasure”, the Trump administration claims in its extraordinary new National Security Strategy, a document that...
Read MorePeter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. Over...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Federal Reserve to remove governor Lisa Cook, after the economist declared she had “no intention of...
Read MoreBessent says he’s ‘confident’ that Warsh will be confirmed by Senate Scott Bessent said that he was “confident” that Donald Trump’s pick to lead the...
Read MoreDemocrats in the US Senate vowed to force Republicans to vote on a $1.8bn “MAGA slush fund” established as part of a resolution of Donald...
Read MoreThe justice department filed new criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, on Tuesday. Comey was charged in federal court in the eastern...
Read MoreDemocrats call Trump’s DC police takeover ‘a distraction’ from Epstein, tariffs and tax bill Leading Democrats are lambasting Donald Trump’s decision to federalise the DC...
Read MoreThe US supreme court went out of its way on Monday to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections by...
Read MoreWhite House says no plans for Trump-Putin meeting in the immediate future There are no plans for Donald Trump to meet with Vladmir Putin “in...
Read MoreOn Wednesday morning, Mississippi’s governor, Tate Reeves, said that he was canceling a special legislative session that was scheduled to redraw the state’s supreme court...
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 MoreA recent graduate of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been held in an ICE processing center in Basile, Louisiana, for the...
Read MoreThe number of international students enrolling in US colleges and universities plunged this year as the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown on higher education began...
Read MoreAs federal immigration crackdowns in Minnesota continued on Tuesday, an initial report to Congress from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained by various news...
Read MoreThe names of the six US service members who died when a military refueling aircraft crashed over Iraq on Thursday have been released. The Pentagon...
Read MoreYa’akub Vijandre, a Muslim photojournalist, martial arts teacher and first responder who ICE detained in October for posting on social media, told the Guardian that...
Read MoreA reclusive billionaire, anti-tax crusader and major financial backer of Donald Trump has been named as the anonymous private donor who gave $130m to the...
Read MoreThe Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that...
Read MoreSeveral Republican lawmakers have begun speaking out against the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, with one senator going so far...
Read MoreFederal agents arrest former CNN anchor Don Lemon Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, his lawyer said...
Read MoreIt’s good to see the variety of entertainment available at the Royal Albert Hall expanding (More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes...
Read MoreWhat are the odds that the president can successfully sue his own government to recoup hundreds of millions in damages from past federal investigations? If...
Read MoreConstruction crews have started demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House to make way for Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, prompting widespread criticism...
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?...
Read MoreZohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with...
Read MoreErika Kirk – the widow of Charlie Kirk, the rightwing activist killed in Utah in September – has indicated she would be willing to support...
Read MoreWhat a privilege it is to be alive in such a peaceful and prosperous time. If you ignore the genocides in Sudan and Gaza, fighting...
Read MoreDemocrats say Trump administration ‘imploding’ after third cabinet member steps down Democrats are celebrating Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s departure from the Trump administration. “This administration is imploding,”...
Read MoreDonald Trump gave it a minute. At 9.01pm it was confirmed that the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton – a hardliner backed by the US...
Read MoreFederal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges...
Read More‘Your countries are going to hell’: recap of Donald Trump’s address to the UN general assembly In an address lasting almost an hour, more than...
Read MoreThe secretary of the Department of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, resigned this week after several controversies surrounding her brief tenure at the helm of the agency....
Read MoreThe Trump administration looks ever more like a criminal enterprise – and now it seems to have added war crimes to its repertoire. Though even...
Read MoreIn a tremendous upset of politics as usual, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old brown, Muslim, Democratic socialist who had little name recognition in February beat the...
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 MoreDaniel Kamalić was born and raised in New York City, where he spent his summers riding his bike around Brighton Beach before pedaling home to...
Read MoreAt a time when viewers are fleeing traditional television shows, the CBS Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes remains in a class of its own. The 12...
Read MoreTrump ran on a promise to lower costs on day one, but a year into his presidency, the real beneficiaries are his billionaire donors. Instead...
Read MoreThe US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday barely an hour before Donald Trump’s deadline to obliterate Iran was set to expire,...
Read MoreThe Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based...
Read MoreA dispute over the dismissal of Susan Monarez, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has intensified, with her attorneys asserting...
Read MoreThe House on Wednesday began voting on legislation that would end the longest government shutdown in US history, as Democrats voiced fury that the Senate-brokered...
Read MoreNewsom calls for a special election to introduce new US House maps Lauren Gambino “Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Gavin Newsom...
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