Donald Trump agreed to cut US tariffs on Switzerland from 39% to 15% as part of a new trade pact, lowering duties that strained economic...

Three states have moved to deploy hundreds of members of their national guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to...

If you’ve been listening to the Trump administration this week, you would be forgiven for being confused about who started the war, why America got...

California Democrat Eric Swalwell’s decision to suspend his campaign for governor on Sunday, even as he denies allegations from four women who accuse him of...

A key debate between candidates in New Jersey’s governor’s race descended into acrimony Sunday in a reflection of the tense national political climate over issues...

A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer...

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior aides conducted polygraphs on their own colleagues this spring, in some cases as part of an effort to flush out...

Proclaiming the US would “run” Venezuela after abducting its president and his wife, president Trump has now qualified his claim. Amid questions, including from top...

Trump accused of ‘turning the military on American citizens’ with Chicago national guard plan Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name...

Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu has hit back sharply at the Trump administration’s legal threats over sanctuary city immigration policies, declaring that “Boston will not back...

After two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Donald Trump went on...

As the ballots were counted on Wednesday in the Democratic primary election for mayor in New York City, a young candidate with little national name...

Hungary has a population of less than 10 million and an economy that produces a modest 1.1% of the European Union’s GDP. But on Sunday...

Europe’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...

She called it the “end times”. In a quiet living room in south Florida, a 42-year-old South American woman sat at her kitchen table signing...

Texas Republicans set to approve Trump-backed new congressional map after lengthy fight Texas Republicans on Wednesday will take up a new state congressional map intended...

Donald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday. Here are the facts on some...

A flock of Ice agents, some masked, some sporting military-operator fashion for show, smooshed the New York City comptroller, Brad Lander, up against a wall...

Over the past year, whistles have become a symbol of the collective resistance of ordinary people standing up to federal immigration enforcement. As the Trump...

For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in...

The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while...

The Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation”,...

Summer temperatures are rising and the US is bracing for another hot, dry and hectic wildfire season. But with the promise of extreme conditions in...

UK pharma sector awaits further details from Trump on tariff concessions from US Lisa O’Carroll Lisa O’Carroll is a senior Guardian correspondent covering trade. Deals...

Trump’s ‘exciting announcement’ will be related to the Pentagon, White House says Donald Trump’s “exciting announcement” expected at 2pm ET will be “related to the...

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family said on Tuesday. Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised...

As public outrage grows over the killing of two protesters by Donald Trump’s deportation agents in Minneapolis, the White House is going into damage-control mode....

Letitia James pushes back against ‘powerful voices trying to silence truth’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and...

New York City’s mayoral race is heating up, with Zohran Mamdani, the young progressive who leapt ahead of establishment figures in the primary to win...

In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put...

Donald Trump is not making America feel great again. Nine months into the second Trump administration, Americans are feeling pretty crummy. More than half –...

Trump claims he was the victim of ‘triple sabotage at the UN’, demands investigation Donald Trump demanded a formal investigation on Wednesday of three technical...

Resistance is growing to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, with the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, signing an executive order to counter the president’s move. The...

Donald Trump has told European leaders he believes a peace deal could be negotiated if the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, agrees to give up the...

Legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local...

Hegseth 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...

An hour before Trump said he’d cause the death of a “whole civilization” if Iran didn’t open the strait of Hormuz, an Iranian official said...

When Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, she said sanctuary cities had made her job hard. “Sanctuary cities do...

Joseph Tirrell was reaching the end of a vacation on 11 July, and watching TV at home. He checked his email on his phone and...

On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer...

Large crowds protested the Trump administration at more than 3,000 No Kings events nationwide, as well as in more than a dozen countries, on Saturday,...

On Saturday, as a crowd of thousands of people near the Washington Monument listened, a loudspeaker dramatically announced the names of America’s secretary of defense,...

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), the major philanthropic group funded by George Soros, has criticized the Trump administration for “politically motivated attacks on civil society”...

Trump claims he hasn’t been ‘overly interested’ about furor about his links to Jeffrey Epstein Asked about his denials that his name appears in the...

Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump’s mass federal layoffs The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass...

You hear such a lot from Maga Republicans about how liberals think Trump voters are stupid. But not nearly enough about the far more salient...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Wednesday. Here are the...

For the last two months, US forces have amassed outside Venezuela and carried out a series of lethal strikes on civilian boats. The Trump White...

Donald Trump’s justice department was hit with legal threats and scathing outrage after authorities released a limited, heavily redacted trove of Jeffrey Epstein files in...

The supreme court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around...

“Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement leaders have put out a petition calling for Donald Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin,...

Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files On the House floor today, congressman Ro Khanna named the six high-profile men that are included...

West Virginia is to deploy 300 to 400 national guard troops to Washington DC at the request of the Trump administration, the state’s governor said...

Good morning. Another week, another tirade against the UK from Donald Trump. The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has further inflamed tensions in the special relationship,...

1. Tensions continued to rise between Cuomo and Mamdani The debate made clear that the most heated rivalry was between Cuomo and Mamdani. From the...

A Bronx office of US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating. The...

The US Department of Justice said on Wednesday it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to clinics and doctors who offer gender-affirming care to minors....

Donald Trump has nominated the hospitality executive Scott Socha – whose company once sued to claim trademark rights to the name “Yosemite National Park” –...

A teenage transgender athlete in California, who has been at the center of widespread political attacks by rightwing pundits and the Trump administration, won in...

Sunday was International Women’s Day, which you’ll know because every company you’ve ever shopped with will have emailed you, taking this fine opportunity to suggest...

The Smithsonian will include Donald Trump’s two impeachments in an updated presentation “in the coming weeks” after references to them were removed, the museum said...

Trump orders nuclear submarines moved near Russia after ‘foolish and inflammatory statements’ from Medvedev Donald Trump has said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to...

New York City voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday in one of the most closely watched mayoral elections in the city’s history. Vying...

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump claimed he would quickly end the war in Gaza. Eight months after taking office, Trump finally decided to exert...

Four days after JD Vance reportedly asked top Trump administration officials to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around...

The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part...

For a quarter of a century, Russian media have cultivated a myth of Vladimir Putin’s inspired leadership. State propaganda allows no hint of presidential fallibility....

America has had its fair share of political dynasties – the Bushes, the Cheneys, the Kennedys – but has Donald Trump been quietly moulding his...

Donald Trump’s announcement calling off trade talks with Canada over its digital tax – and that he would impose retaliatory tariffs – demonstrates, once again,...

Trust-fund-Trump wants women to “tough it out” Donald Trump is a man with no medical training. However, that’s never stopped the very stable genius from...

Unreleased Epstein files include bawdy letter from Trump – report The Wall Street Journal reports that one of the documents in the justice department files...

Trump hosts GOP senators in Rose Garden amid White House construction work Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

The furore over Donald Trump’s ties with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued on Friday as new revelations about the pair’s relationship threatened to...

The Texas house of representatives remained without a quorum after the state’s Democratic lawmakers fled the state capital to prevent the legislature from adopting a...

Jimmy Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday saying Donald Trump “tried his best” to cancel him, but instead forced millions of people to watch his...

Texas House reconvenes, ready to pass GOP-drawn map The Texas house is starting up for legislative business again. The Republican majority is poised to pass...

Before 5am on Tuesday, Jesse Jackson Jr called to tell me his father and my friend, the Rev Jesse Louis Jackson, had died at 84...

NY AG Letitia James on her indictment: a ‘desperate weaponization of our justice system’ New York state attorney general Letitia James sent out this statement...

Two West Virginia national guard members shot on Wednesday near the White House in Washington are in critical condition. The incident happened near the Farragut...

Trump says he broke with Epstein for hiring away young women from Mar-a-Lago and ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One...

House Republicans have rejected legislation, passed by the Senate, that would finance most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but withhold funds from Immigration...

As scientists confirmed that March was the United States’ most abnormally hot month in recorded history, dozens of climate deniers gathered to promote misinformation and...

Let’s imagine it’s early 2031. Democrats hold a three-seat edge in the US House. California has just lost four seats to congressional reapportionment. Texas has...

Venezuelans around the world celebrated after the US government captured and removed the president, Nicolás Maduro. Crowds of people gathered in countries including Argentina, Chile...

The US health and human services (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has fended off an attack by conservative firebrand and Donald Trump influencer Laura...

Donald Trump has defended his administration’s increasingly violent immigration crackdown, describing the 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents as likely a “wonderful person” whose “tough”...

Trump announces death of Charlie Kirk Writing on his social network, Donald Trump just announced the death of Charlie Kirk. Trump wrote: The Great, and...

Trump calls Musk’s new political party ‘ridiculous’ and says Tesla owner is ‘off the rails’ Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the...

President Donald Trump solidified his takeover of Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday by hosting its flagship awards program –...

On a cold Saturday morning, a little over a week before the New York City mayoral election in November, I was at a park in...

Maga stalwarts break with Trump as he threatens to eradicate a ‘whole civilization’ Donald Trump’s threat to eradicate a “whole civilization” if Iran refuses a...

When the centre-left French politician Aurore Lalucq posted a warning last Wednesday that Donald Trump could cut off Europe from international payment systems, the clip...

The US deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, announced on Friday that the justice department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting...

The 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...

The South Lawn of the White House had never seen anything like it. The president of the United States was posing for the world’s media...

Jerome traveled a thousand miles from California to El Paso, Texas, so he could accompany Jenny to her immigration hearing. He and his wife had...

Trump breaks with Marjorie Taylor Greene, urging primary challenge Donald Trump turned on his former close ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene, denouncing the Maga congresswoman in...

Good morning. The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one of them and her husband,...

Pam Bondi posts footage of oil tanker seizure Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has released footage of the seizure of an oil tanker off...