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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 MoreThe relationship between the richest man in the world and the most powerful one has spectacularly exploded, as Elon Musk publicly agreed Donald Trump should...
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 MoreA federal court in Minneapolis is hearing arguments on Monday on whether the Trump administration’s deployment of 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota has crossed the...
Read MoreMisled by video of 2020 protests shown on Fox, Trump threatens to invade Portland and ‘wipe out’ protesters Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that...
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Read MoreDonald Trump changed the channel from Iran to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club...
Read MoreIn the emotionally and politically charged days since the killing of Charlie Kirk, the conservative youth activist who was a close ally of Donald Trump,...
Read MoreUS forces struck another alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three people, defense secretary Pete Hegseth has said, bringing the death toll from...
Read MoreThey also spent plenty of time seeking to reprimand each other by passing censures, as the House’s formal mechanism for discipline is known. A search...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s call for Republicans to back the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, an abrupt reversal, is a rare instance of the president being...
Read MoreIn mid-July, Erik Clemson signed on to a Zoom call from Honolulu, Hawaii, energized by a mayoral candidate in a city far across the country,...
Read MoreIran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, state media confirms Iranian state media has now reported that the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
Read MoreRepublican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado...
Read MoreThe Trump administration was deploying roughly 4,000 national guard members in Los Angeles on Monday in response to protests over immigration raids, in an extraordinary...
Read MoreIlhan Omar says ICE agents pulled her son over Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Minnesota...
Read MoreAt noon on Monday, Nicolás Maduro was escorted into a Manhattan federal courtroom following his capture early on Saturday in Caracas, completing the seized Venezuelan...
Read MoreThe White House maintained on Thursday that Donald Trump, despite his social media posts, did not mean that lawmakers who made a video saying troops...
Read MoreA federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say...
Read MoreUS government shuts down as midnight deadline passes The US government has officially shut down for the first time in nearly seven years, after congressional...
Read MoreSenate votes down Iran war powers resolution Senate Democrats were unsuccessful in getting a resolution passed to limit Donald Trump from single-handedly escalating the war...
Read MoreA person of interest in the shooting that killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday has...
Read MoreSince the Democrats’ sweeping victories on 4 November, a strange thing has happened among the party factions: a semblance of unity has emerged. At first,...
Read MoreGeorge Clooney has said he feels it was a “mistake” for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden in the 2024 US presidential election, adding that...
Read MoreTrump says he hopes ‘there will be others’ after Comey indictment Earlier, on the south lawn of the White House, Donald Trump took a few...
Read MoreWhen the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock. For years, she has sat as...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s administration is reportedly poised to be paid $10bn by investors as part of a deal to create a US-controlled version of TikTok. The...
Read MoreOn 25 February, in her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing, Casey Means, Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, called on the US government...
Read MoreA person of interest detained after a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine has been released after the investigation...
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump attacked several supreme court justices as “fools”, “lapdogs”, “disloyal to our constitution” and a “disgrace to our nation” after they ruled against...
Read MoreDonald Trump responded to Hunter Hess on Truth Social on Sunday, calling the Olympian a “real loser” and criticizing comments the US freestyle skier made...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s hyperbolic portrayal of crime in major American cities, and his deployment of the national guard in Washington DC ostensibly in an effort to...
Read MoreThe homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said that all federal agents in Minneapolis will immediately begin wearing body cameras and that the program will be...
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Read MoreSince Donald Trump returned to the presidency, homeland security officials have consistently argued that deportation officers are facing unprecedented threats. To better understand the dangers...
Read MoreCan someone explain to me why Megyn Kelly is so angry? In an interview with Piers Morgan, the political commentator began ranting so hard about...
Read MoreTrump Always Chickens Out – or Taco for short. Investors like narratives to explain the financial world, and they appear to have seized on this...
Read MoreThe US and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran on Saturday, killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Why did Trump decide (again)...
Read MoreThere is politics before the internet, and politics after the internet. Liberals are floundering, the right are flourishing, and what of the left? Well, it’s...
Read MoreFor many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has taught his loyal followers to do the same. During the 2016 presidential campaign, angry chants...
Read MoreThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently shared a video in which several pastors say women should no longer be allowed to vote, prompting one...
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 MoreThe morning after Zohran Mamdani’s startling mayoral victory in New York, the most arresting visual image was not of the mayor-elect celebrating in an applause-filled...
Read MoreA drag queen Christmas tour has become an annual holiday tradition in Florida – and in recent years, so has the ensuing backlash. Now in...
Read MoreAn Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote...
Read MoreDonald Trump has “manufactured a crisis” to justify the notion of sending federalized national guard troops into Chicago next, over the heads of local leaders,...
Read MoreJD Vance said Elon Musk was making a “huge mistake” going after Donald Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after...
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 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 staffer for Missouri Republican senator Eric Schmitt was previously fired from Ron DeSantis’s unsuccessful presidential campaign after making a video containing neo-Nazi imagery, and...
Read MoreWhite House deletes Trump post after furious backlash and says it was ‘erroneously’ made by a staffer Following an intense backlash this morning, the White...
Read More“From the vantage point of the newsroom, the first story is almost never the full story,” writes Jelani Cobb. “You hear stray wisps of information,...
Read MoreThe governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is widely regarded as one of the Democratic party’s leading contenders for the 2028 presidential election. He has also...
Read MoreTrump 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...
Read MoreResistance 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...
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 MoreMahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian rights activist, freed from Ice detention on Friday, returned to Columbia University on Sunday to renew his commitment to the cause...
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 MoreA long-awaited Department of Defense report found that US defense secretary Pete Hegseth violated departmental policies and put troops in danger when he shared secret...
Read MoreDonald Trump has ordered the deployment of the national guard to Portland, Oregon, authorizing “full force, if necessary”, ignoring calls from local and state officials...
Read MoreDonald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence...
Read MoreDonald Trump has responded to a recent podcast appearance by Robert De Niro, in which he called the president “an idiot”. Speaking on Monday’s episode...
Read MoreA growing number of federal agencies and staff are explicitly blaming Democrats for the current government shutdown. The political messaging by the agencies may be...
Read MoreTrump deploying military to Chicago on ‘flimsy pretext’, Illinois lawsuit alleges According to Illinois’ lawsuit, Donald Trump is deploying the military to Illinois based on...
Read MoreHouse committee releases image of ‘sickening’ Trump birthday note to Epstein Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I...
Read MoreAnaís Robles didn’t expect to get teargassed. The co-owner of Colibrí Cafe, the coffee shop that opened this year in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood, saw...
Read MoreSummer temperatures are rising and the US is bracing for another hot, dry and hectic wildfire season. But with the promise of extreme conditions in...
Read MoreSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has accused Donald Trump and his administration of turning the Department of Justice into “personal attack dogs against their political...
Read MoreAbout 200 US marines arrived in Los Angeles on Friday morning and detained a man soon after in the first known detention by active-duty troops...
Read MoreInside a packed banquet hall in northern California in early August, tensions were flaring. As the representative Doug LaMalfa spoke to constituents in his district,...
Read MoreA federal magistrate judge has ruled that the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican headquarters the night before the January...
Read MoreTrump heads to annual Nato summit as Rutte praises his ‘decisive action in Iran’ Trump left Washington DC this morning and is currently on his...
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Read MoreHegseth insists ‘we always have the backs of our commanders’ amid furor over who ordered second boat strike “We always have the backs of our...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part...
Read MoreFederal investigators have been interviewing multiple people who are pushing unfounded claims that Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, the Guardian has...
Read MoreRepublican lawmakers have moved to block a Democratic effort to force the release of the so-called Epstein files, a near-mythological trove of undisclosed information about...
Read MoreIndirect talks between Iran and the US on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme ended on Friday with a broad agreement to maintain a diplomatic...
Read MoreSenate agrees to automatically pass House bill requiring release of the Epstein files The Senate just agreed to a unanimous consent request from the Democratic...
Read MoreA majority of Canadians hold unfavourable views towards the United States, their closest ally, as frustration over trade policy and threats to Canada’s sovereignty persist....
Read MoreDemocratic senator Mark Kelly has said he refuses to be intimidated after US president Donald Trump accused a group of Democrats of “seditious behaviour punishable...
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 MoreUS government to shut down within hours if no funding deal agreed Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
Read MoreA group of Democrats accused by Donald Trump of “seditious behavior” have said that the US president is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
Read MoreNo dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces...
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 MoreAs the US woke to news that Donald Trump had bombed Iran, domestic discord was fast simmering. There was unrelenting outrage over ICE raids. There...
Read MoreA US district judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore legal services for potentially thousands of migrant families after officials violated a historic settlement...
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 MoreDonald Trump embodies dealmaking as the essence of a particular form of entrepreneurship. Every deal begins with his needs and every deal feeds his wants....
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 MoreIn a new court filing, attorneys for the Trump administration denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite reports and prior statements...
Read MoreI’ve got some good news and some bad news for you today. The bad news is, well, everything. As you may have noticed, the world...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration “wants nothing less than $500m from Harvard” as a condition for restoring billions of dollars in federal...
Read MoreJeffrey Epstein sympathized with Brett Kavanaugh during the then-supreme court nominee’s contentious 2018 confirmation and even suggested Republicans should have been harder on Christine Blasey...
Read MoreThe Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health...
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 MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump caps his Scottish visit by opening a new golf course...
Read MoreProtesters took to the streets after Donald Trump said he was deploying national guard troops to Washington DC and temporarily taking over the city’s police...
Read MoreTrump accused of ‘turning the military on American citizens’ with Chicago national guard plan Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name...
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 MoreIran has described the latest round of indirect talks with the US as “more constructive” than the previous set earlier this month, and said agreement...
Read MoreDonald Trump announced Saturday that the US had completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to destroy the country’s...
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 MoreDonald Trump has announced plans for the US navy to build a new generation of warships – known as “Trump-class”. The ships will be bigger,...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreBritain should have a completely independent nuclear deterrent as it can no longer rely on the US, Ed Davey is expected to say on Sunday....
Read MoreCharlie Kirk directed most of his rhetoric at the US political scene, but he also strayed into foreign affairs, drawing both favourable and critical comparisons...
Read MoreUS airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas Day were aided by intelligence provided by the Nigerian government, the country’s foreign minister said on Friday. Donald Trump...
Read MoreAs the US government shutdown stretched into its second day, Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the funding lapse as an “unprecedented opportunity” to further his...
Read MoreFor Nolan Lee, it felt like Minnesota in Washington DC on Wednesday night. Despite the most extreme cold in 150 years, about a thousand people...
Read MoreHave you ever tossed and turned at night wondering what the correct pronouns are for a lump of coal? No, me neither. However, it seems...
Read MoreWith nearly a month to go before the deadline for the US and China to reach a deal in their trade war, goodwill between the...
Read MoreIntent on vindication after spending four months in prison last year, the White House adviser Peter Navarro asked a federal appeals court on Sunday night...
Read MoreLet’s be honest: America needs another nuclear weapon about as much as Donald Trump deserves a Nobel peace prize. Yet on Thursday, the last remaining...
Read MoreTrump and Starmer to meet in Scotland with trade deal on the agenda Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose...
Read MoreAs Donald Trump deploys more troops to fight protesters in LA, and as plans come together for a military parade in Washington DC on the...
Read MoreWe need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of...
Read MoreA deadly shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas has been met with markedly different reactions from the political...
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 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 MoreThe leading US public health agency faced a number of top-level resignations on Wednesday after its director was ousted from her job, with one departing...
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 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 MoreWilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings – open meeting violations and other discrepancies...
Read MoreElon Musk has announced on social media that he is leaving his role in the Trump administration, a departure the White House confirmed was in...
Read MoreDonald Trump appeared in no mood to patch things up with former top adviser Elon Musk on Friday, doubling down on his new hostility towards...
Read MoreWhat to know about the anti-Trump No Kings protests Rachel Leingang Millions are expected to show out for protests on Saturday at more than 2,500...
Read MoreElon Musk has expressed contrition for some of his tweets about Donald Trump last week, in an apparent effort to retreat from an explosive falling...
Read MoreUS secretary of state Marco Rubio headed to Israel on Sunday amid tensions with US allies in the Middle East over Israel’s strike on Hamas...
Read MoreThe US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Saturday said the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace this week was unacceptable but that it...
Read MoreThe second Trump administration has been worse than Canada’s worst nightmare. The largest military force in the history of the world, across a largely undefended...
Read MorePeople with the power to change the direction of the Democratic party – the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) – met last...
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 MoreTop Senate Democrat says he’s ‘deeply disturbed’ after seeing footage of strikes on suspected drug boats Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate armed...
Read MoreDonald Trump says US strikes have “totally demolished” much of Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub and threatened that “we may hit it a few...
Read MoreThe European Union’s foreign policy chief has criticised US claims that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and rejected what she called “fashionable euro-bashing”. Kaja Kallas...
Read MoreFederal judge orders immigration facility in Chicago to improve its conditions Robert Gettleman issued a temporary restraining order requiring federal authorities to provide sanitary conditions...
Read MoreThe Utah governor, Spencer Cox, on Sunday told national talkshows that the man suspected of killing Turning Point USA executive director Charlie Kirk was living...
Read MoreIt was confirmed on Friday that the East Wing of the White House has now been completely destroyed, days after construction started on the planned...
Read MoreYou wouldn’t be alone if you feel that the US more closely resembles North Korea these days – with giant images of the dear leader...
Read MoreFrom Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled...
Read MoreWill he or won’t he? That’s the question many are asking regarding whether Donald Trump will join Israel’s attacks on Iran and take out one of...
Read MoreHe spent the twilight of his career denouncing Donald Trump as a threat to the republic he loved. But Dick Cheney arguably laid the foundations...
Read MoreDonald Trump is under pressure to spell out his vision for Iran amid the ongoing attacks on the country and reports of the first American...
Read MoreTrump casts doubt on commitment to defending Nato partners Before landing in Amsterdam, Donald Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One, the president apparently...
Read MoreSunday marked one year since Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, was arrested last year for his political advocacy. Below, he writes...
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 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 MoreAmericans are divided on major issues that the US supreme court is due to rule on in the coming weeks, but most agree on one...
Read MoreSean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, warned on Sunday that he was about make good on a threat to revoke millions in federal funds for...
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 MoreThe man charged with killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is expected...
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 MoreWhen Aliya Rahman accepted Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar’s invitation to attend the State of the Union address, she said she had no intention of disrupting...
Read MoreGreenland has demanded its red lines on sovereignty be respected after Donald Trump claimed an agreement with Nato would give the US full and permanent...
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 MoreUS immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in...
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 MoreA leading US congressman admits America must substantially boost its defence manufacturing capacity in order to sell Australia nuclear submarines under Aukus, floating the idea...
Read MoreSchumer says Senate Democrats will force vote on Trump’s tariffs on Canada Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will force the chamber to vote...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut New York City off from federal funds if favored mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, “doesn’t behave...
Read MoreThe US military announced the killing of another two men in “a lethal kinetic strike”on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in...
Read MoreLate-night hosts spoke about how Donald Trump’s presidency is proving unpopular with Americans, looking at the cruelty of his deportation strategy and the response to...
Read MoreThe Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it will furlough nearly half of its employees – around 34,000 workers – due to the ongoing government shutdown,...
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 MoreThe transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, and the FAA administrator, Bryan Bedford, said on Wednesday the federal government would be reducing airline traffic by 10% at...
Read MoreUS judge blocks Trump administration from suspending Snap food aid benefits A federal judge in Rhode Island has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to suspend...
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 MoreDonald Trump has said he believes Vladimir Putin is ready to make a deal on the war in Ukraine as the two leaders prepare for...
Read MoreI never thought it possible that you could look back on the Iraq war, and the foreign invasions of the “war on terror” in general,...
Read MoreThe US president says he is placing the Washington DC police department under federal control and deploying the national guard. Speaking at a press conference...
Read MoreRecovery from a recent surgery for colon cancer will not stop James Phipps, 75, from attending Saturday’s No Kings demonstration in Chicago, Illinois. “I have...
Read MoreNaoko Fujii’s great-grandfather Jotaro Mori was out fishing when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. When Mori returned home hours later, the FBI...
Read MoreThe family of 18-year-old Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz was shocked when they found out that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) had discreetly moved him out of...
Read MoreJust two days ago, Donald Trump told Republican members of Congress to cancel their vacation plans until his “big beautiful bill” is sewn up and...
Read MoreA Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming care for minors can stand, the US supreme court has ruled, a devastating loss for trans rights supporters in...
Read MoreAir travelers should expect worsening cancellations and delays this week even if the US government shutdown ends, as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rolled out...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is slowly dismantling the federal disaster management system that protects the nation from chemical catastrophes, such as fires and explosions at high-risk...
Read MoreAfter Donald Trump ordered the firing of a federal government official in charge of labor statistics, experts and opposition politicians have expressed alarm that the...
Read MoreTrump administration to sue Gavin Newsom over California’s new redistricting maps The Trump administration is suing California governor Gavin Newsom after the state adopted new...
Read More“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children,” Nelson Mandela observed 30 years ago....
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 MoreTwenty-six nations have pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to Ukraine, including an international force on land and sea and in the air, Emmanuel Macron...
Read MoreMore than 97% of immigrants detained in the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago had no criminal conviction, according to federal court records. The...
Read MoreWhen it comes to Ukraine peace talks, Donald Trump is “sick of meetings just for the sake of meetings”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt...
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 MoreViolent acts and threats at some ‘No Kings’ protests around the US A man intentionally drove an SUV into a crowd of protesters in Culpepper,...
Read MoreOn Monday, Paramount Skydance launched a $108bn takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, the entertainment giant that owns Hollywood movie studios, along with CNN, HBO...
Read MoreTrump says US will terminate trade talks with Canada over technology tax Trump has accused Canada of a “direct and blatant attack” on the US...
Read MoreDonald Trump alleged “triple sabotage” at the United Nations, after the US president was plagued by a series of unfortunate events surrounding his address to...
Read MoreMaga loyalists push claims that Trump ‘birthday note’ to Epstein is ‘fake’ Several allies of Donald Trump, also prominent Maga figures, have amplified claims that...
Read MoreStarships 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...
Read MoreJustice department to send federal monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey The justice department announced on Friday that it intends to send...
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 MoreUS senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, but hopes for a...
Read MoreThe fracas over the Jeffrey Epstein files – and declining poll numbers on every issue that won Donald Trump the 2024 election – indicate cracks...
Read MoreA federal judge on Friday blocked the justice department from serving subpoenas to Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in an inquiry purported to be about...
Read MoreWest 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...
Read MoreTop Senate Republican says he can ‘guarantee’ vote on key healthcare provision as government shutdown enters day 16 Hello, and welcome to the US politics...
Read MoreCDC immunization director cites ‘ongoing weaponization of public health’ for resignation – report “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because...
Read MoreProtesters heckled the US president with pro-Palestinian slogans after he arrived at a restaurant in Washington DC. They chanted ‘Free Palestine. Trump is the Hitler...
Read MoreThe conservative majority of United States supreme court justices has been widely criticized for granting Donald Trump an increasing amount of leeway to wield his...
Read MoreAn immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested by federal...
Read MoreGavin Newsom Gavin Newsom The term-limited governor has reprised his role as Democrats’ most visible Trump foil, setting off high-profile clashes with the president and...
Read MoreAs a former federal prosecutor, I know that prosecutors should be guided by the facts. But in his determination to hound George Soros, Donald Trump...
Read More‘We will not be bullied’: House Democrats confirm FBI requests for interviews over video to troops Four Democratic members of the US House, who appeared...
Read MoreRegarding Gaby Hinsliff’s article (Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke, 6 March), Dubai has...
Read MoreJeffries holds the floor for six hours Jeffries is still speaking, passing the six-hour mark. The Democratic leader just indicated that he plans to keep...
Read MoreGavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, told CBS News Sunday Morning he plans to make a decision on whether to run for president in 2028 once...
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 MoreAfter last year’s election, when Republicans made significant inroads in the state, New Jersey voters will cast ballots in an off-year, unpredictable gubernatorial race that...
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 MoreThere is a vast building, reportedly the size of seven football fields, in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix; ICE bought it for $70m. Another...
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 MoreDonald Trump will heap further pressure on the chief of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, on Thursday when the US president makes a visit to...
Read More‘We’ll probably have a shutdown,’ Trump says in Oval Office press conference Donald Trump has just said that the government will “probably” shut down, while...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s actions and incendiary remarks in the first year of his second presidential term have left many women, people of color and their allies...
Read MoreOfficials believe suspect may have targeted NFL in Manhattan office shooting, mayor Eric Adams says The gunman who opened fire in a Manhattan office building...
Read MoreTrump administration orders release of Epstein court documents The US Department of Justice asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts in...
Read MoreHello and Happy New Year. We have started 2026 with a geopolitical shock as the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and imprisoned him...
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 MoreSummary The Pentagon was reportedly aware there were survivors after a September attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, but the US military still...
Read MoreThe FBI is investigating an apparent impersonator who pretended to be the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in texts and calls to her...
Read MoreICC arrest warrant for Putin limits where any summit with Trump could take place The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Donald Trump could meet...
Read MoreDonald Trump has filed another lawsuit against a media company. This time though, he’s up against the billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Jonathan Freedland speaks...
Read MoreHouse Democrats on Wednesday demanded a briefing from the justice department on the removal of Gail Slater, who was forced to resign as head of...
Read MoreTrump arrives in Arizona for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service Donald Trump has arrived on Air Force One in Arizona for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. Trump,...
Read MoreOne 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...
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 MoreAmazon’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...
Read MoreHouse Democrats share Trump ‘birthday note’ to Jeffrey Epstein Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a scanned copy of a “birthday note” that...
Read MoreTrump says administration is ‘only’ going to make permanent cuts to ‘Democrat programs’ Trumps says that “we will be making cuts that are permanent and...
Read MoreFor an inveterate liar, Donald Trump is remarkably honest. The best guide to what he thinks is what he says. When forecasting his likely course...
Read MoreJohn Bolton pleads not guilty John Bolton has pleaded not guilty to charges of mishandling classified information. Reuters is reporting that Bolton, the former national...
Read MoreThe US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to...
Read MoreThe US defence secretary has claimed that President Trump ‘did not start’ the war with Iran but is ‘finishing it’, speaking at a Pentagon press...
Read MoreA US marine veteran has described feeling “betrayed” after Trump administration immigration agents beat and arrested his father at his landscaping job, the latest example...
Read MoreMore furloughs, more anxiety and more economic stress are bearing down on federal employees as the shutdown of the federal government continues into its fourth...
Read MoreA newly released batch of the so-called Epstein files on Tuesday includes many references to Donald Trump, including a claim by a senior US attorney...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s effort to get his justice department to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars is based on specious legal claims that would likely...
Read MoreDonald Trump has asked a US court to order a swift deposition for billionaire Rupert Murdoch in the president’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street...
Read MoreKamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California – a highly...
Read MoreWhen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection agents descended on North Carolina last month, many local businesses were ready to push...
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 MoreWant to hear a cute little story about JD Vance and a Dutch baby? Don’t worry, he didn’t deport it, he cooked one for breakfast....
Read MoreTwelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest in Washington have sued to get their jobs back, saying their action...
Read MoreAs the record-breaking federal government shutdown stretches toward day 38, US airspace is about to get a little less busy. The same cannot be said...
Read MorePowell 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...
Read MoreDonald Trump agreed to cut US tariffs on Switzerland from 39% to 15% as part of a new trade pact, lowering duties that strained economic...
Read MoreA bitter primary contest between the four-term Republican US senator John Cornyn and the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, ended in a runoff on Tuesday....
Read MoreFor those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch...
Read MoreTrump says he doesn’t think Ukraine will win back land taken by Russia during war Donald Trump said he didn’t think Ukraine would win back...
Read MoreIn an interview on Monday, CNN’s Boris Sanchez asked Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, whether Donald Trump intended to abide by...
Read More‘Killing jobs and jacking up prices’: Democrats lambast Trump over tariffs and weak jobs report Democratic lawmakers have slammed Trump’s “reckless and chaotic” tariff policies...
Read MoreWhen he sat down to talk about the US government shutdown with reporters from a closely read political newsletter this week, Chuck Schumer sounded as...
Read MoreAmericans in every state marched in protest against the Trump administration, giving voice to concerns that the country is sliding into authoritarianism. Millions turned out...
Read MoreDemocrats want your attention, and they’re done asking politely. Several months into Donald Trump’s second term, presidential aspirants, members of Congress and party officials are...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s...
Read MoreAn Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a...
Read MoreIt’s Black History Month in the UK, and it feels like it’s time for a rethink. Over the years, an event that started out as...
Read MoreDonald Trump has voiced his irritation with Vladimir Putin, telling a cabinet meeting he was getting increasingly frustrated with the Russian leader. The US president...
Read MoreCongresswoman Nancy Mace, a once moderate Republican turned Trump loyalist, officially launched her bid for governor of South Carolina on Monday. Currently serving her third...
Read More“Missing son.” “Missing father.” “Missing grandmother.” The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around...
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 MoreA man approached Ilhan Omar, a US representative, during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, sprayed an unidentified liquid in her direction and shouted at...
Read MoreVance reposts new footage from perspective of ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good Vice-president JD Vance has reposted video footage that is...
Read MoreFor this Labor Day, the Donald Trump administration has draped an enormous banner outside the US labor department with his portrait and the words “American...
Read MoreA tranche of documents released by the House oversight committee on Wednesday revealed that Jeffrey Epstein’s staff kept him apprised of Donald Trump’s air travel...
Read MoreA young political outsider with a fairly scant record becomes a sensation in a Democratic primary, capturing hearts and minds with a populist message and...
Read MoreFrance summoned the American ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging France had failed to do enough to stem...
Read MoreDonald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China. In...
Read MoreNancy Pelosi, the outgoing congresswoman and former House speaker, has conceded that she may not see a woman be elected US president in her lifetime....
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 MoreThe White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Thursday that a significant drawdown of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota was under way and he...
Read MoreBBC journalists cannot wear T-shirts in the newsroom supporting the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter, the corporation’s director general Tim Davie has said. Davie said...
Read MoreDonald Trump convened congressional leaders and cabinet secretaries at the White House on Thursday to make the case for passage of his marquee tax-and-spending bill,...
Read MoreDana Leigh Marks had the kind of career most immigration judges dream of. At 32, she won a precedent-setting supreme court case that made it...
Read MoreWe tend to think of censorship as the direct suppression of speech. We conjure images of mouths taped shut, courts seizing books and films, and...
Read MoreBowser says she ‘greatly appreciates’ impact of federal law enforcement surge on DC crime rate “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what...
Read MoreTensions between Michelle Wu, the mayor of Boston, and the Trump administration have been escalating in recent months over the administration’s aggressive immigration policies, with...
Read MoreElon Musk has expressed contrition for some of his tweets about Donald Trump last week, in an apparent effort to retreat from an explosive falling...
Read MoreOne year into the second Trump administration, an actual US foreign policy remains just a nice idea. Instead, the world has been forced to adapt...
Read MoreThe US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his...
Read MoreMarjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Georgia congresswoman who had a dramatic blow-up with Donald Trump despite being his longtime ally, announced on Friday she would...
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 MoreMorally, the decision facing the European Council in Brussels this week has been a no-brainer. Russia invaded Ukraine illegally and unilaterally. Moscow shows no sign...
Read MoreThe killing of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week has triggered a wave of political disquiet in Washington, with some House Democrats fearing a...
Read MoreSo it appears Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, agrees with many of us: she thinks Donald Trump’s cabinet is bonkers. From that...
Read MoreThis is the third Gulf war and umpteenth outbreak of conflict since the United States took over as the dominant power and influence in the...
Read MoreZohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race Zohran Mamdani will be the 111th mayor of New York City, after defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo...
Read MoreIt was a lovely May evening in Leavenworth, Kansas, but instead of strolling along the Missouri River or gardening, a group of locals sat on...
Read MoreGood morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics, with the shutdown entering its third day. Although the Senate is scheduled to return...
Read MorePope Leo came top with 42%. Donald Trump was just behind with 41%. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) scored 38% and TV host Stephen Colbert
Pope Leo came top with 42%. Donald Trump was just behind with 41%. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) scored 38% and TV host Stephen Colbert