Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging top aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline”. The investigation will build on...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump thanks Netanyahu for agreeing to Gaza plan He thanks Netanyahu...

Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers – two women and two Black men –...

Jimmy Kimmel emerged as more popular than Donald Trump after a spat with the president’s administration temporarily left the talkshow host off the air in...

People across all 50 US states on Thursday are joining marches and rallies at more than 1,500 sites to protest against the Trump administration and...

Donald Trump’s administration opposed efforts to expand the use of body cameras by immigration officers and sharply cut oversight staffing as it surged officers into...

After Donald Trump ordered the firing of a federal government official in charge of labor statistics, experts and opposition politicians have expressed alarm that the...

Donald Trump has said it will be clear within “probably 10 days” whether he can reach a nuclear deal with Iran, as the US military...

Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to also serve as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads...

Leavitt insists that Lindsey Halligan was legally appointed after federal judge tosses out indictments The White House press secretary insisted that Lindsey Halligan, the interim...

Democrats have described a raid on the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as “deeply disturbing” and a “rogue abuse of power” by the Trump administration....

Ro Khanna says this ‘document dump does not comply with’ law to compel full release of Epstein files “The justice department’s document dump this afternoon...

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...

In 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...

The US midterm elections are a month away and it’s looking rough for the Republicans. I wouldn’t discount devious schemes behind the scenes, but, on...

‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth summons military members for ‘State of the Force’ Ariana Baio The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is providing...

The terms of a purported 60-day deal to negotiate peace in the Iran war have trapped the Trump administration between mounting economic costs ahead of...

Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the...

A federal prosecutor fired last year over critical comments he had written as a private citizen about Donald Trump sued the justice department on Friday,...

A local government official in Iowa has said he would refuse to comply with orders from the Republican state governor to fly flags at half-staff...

The Fourth of July marks a momentous occasion for the US – 250 years of independence – but somehow Donald Trump has managed to make...

Kelcy Warren was among the top donors for Donald Trump’s 2024 White House bid, personally pouring at least $5m into the campaign and co-hosting a...

Top Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress on Thursday said that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, had not ordered the military to kill surviving members...

House oversight committee releases image of entire Epstein birthday album, with letter attributed to Trump The Republican-led House oversight committee has released digital images of...

A day after the White House barred CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One to provide pool television coverage of the president’s trip to Tennessee,...

As the US prepares to celebrate 250 years since its founding, Kai Wright sits down with Eddie Glaude Jr, a Princeton University professor, to talk...

Apparently, he likes to say her name with a French accent. “Na-tah-lee!” the president cries out, in that affected tone of faux-formality that one might...

Donald Trump observed blithely last week that if his cherished tariff regime is struck down by the US supreme court, he may need to “unwind”...

Trump and Powell clash on camera over Federal Reserve renovation cost Donald Trump just attempted to ambush Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, during his...

Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine...

The 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...

For many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has taught his loyal followers to do the same. During the 2016 presidential campaign, angry chants...

Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of “lying” on Sunday about the US congressman’s detention by armed settlers and Israeli soldiers during a...

The Trump administration has authorised a $30m grant to the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, making the US a direct backer of an aid organisation that...

How do we commemorate America’s democracy as Donald Trump undermines it? By embracing his opposition. The United States was founded by breaking from a monarchy....

Shutdown enters day 23 as Senate Republicans push bill to fund troops The government shutdown entered its 23rd day, with little end in sight. On...

The following text is a statement given by Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis mayor, at a press conference in the wake of the fatal shooting of...

Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday....

Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, stayed loyal to Donald Trump until the end – and nurtured the president’s grievances against his political...

After 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...

In the nine years that Gilah Mashaal has owned Needle & Skein, a yarn store in the suburbs of Minneapolis, she has tried to maintain...

It started in early May. Under cover of darkness, three people pried open a manhole cover in Queens, New York, and clambered down into the...

Spanish hotel chains. A Canadian mining firm. European shipping giants. Visa and Mastercard. Scores of foreign companies have been driven out of Cuba this summer...

The family of Kristen Galvan, a 15-year-old Houston girl who was sex trafficked and murdered, says law enforcement failed her twice by not protecting her...

The main Nuremberg trial ended, Winston Churchill warned of an iron curtain descending across Europe, It’s a Wonderful Life received its premiere and, at Jamaica...

Donald 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...

Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior envoy are heading to Egypt to begin ceasefire negotiations, the White House has said, as the Israeli prime minister,...

Dozens of people stood across the entrance gates to the Ellipse, the park south of the White House, on Sunday afternoon, holding protest signs and...

The Republican representative Ralph Norman, ⁠of South Carolina, has announced he will join the race to succeed the late senator Lindsey Graham, despite Donald Trump...

A city councilmember in Florida is facing backlash from national Indian American organizations, members of Congress, and local residents after posting a series of social...

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Sunday that he is suing Donald Trump over the alleged deployment of 300 California national guard personnel to Oregon....

Donald Trump and JD Vance have been snubbed, by not being invited to former vice-president Dick Cheney’s funeral, taking place on Thursday, according to a...

In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes – and other countries...

The television personality Dr Phil was embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers as they carried out controversial raids in Los Angeles that led...

Carlos Giménez, a Republican congressman from Florida, broke with the Trump administration on Sunday, calling on the White House to reconsider its push to eliminate...

Donald Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, have followed through on promises from the president’s administration to send in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

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...

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...

Key moments from cordial Trump-Mamdani Oval Office news conference The surprisingly cordial Oval Office meeting between Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist mayor-elect of New York...

Trump’s ‘antifa roundtable’ airs grievances of partisan conservative influencers So far, all of the fact witnesses contributing testimony at the White House “antifa roundtable” hosted...

Late last year, Donald Trump’s White House published a new National Security Strategy (NSS) outlining its vision for the world. At the time, the plan...

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...

Ron 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...

A few days before Christmas in Pérez Zeledón, a city in Costa Rica, Greidy Mata stared at two photographs of her late brother. In one...

Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as a “a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”, saying...

The US government has taken an unprecedented 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, according...

The United States is “not at war” in Venezuela, the Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on Monday, despite the weekend raid Donald...

Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche issued a formal order late on Sunday terminating Donald Trump’s $1.8bn “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a...

At the Purfeerst farm in southern Minnesota, the soybean harvest just wrapped up for the season. The silver grain bins are full of about 100,000...

Donald Trump pledged to pay every adult citizen in the US a $5,000 dividend if the Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterms,...

The national guard prepared to deploy on the streets of Washington DC on Tuesday night, a day after Donald Trump ordered their arrival to combat...

When I speak to Rebecca Solnit, she is beaming, and I can’t immediately figure out why. Her new book, The Beginning Comes After the End:...

Trump calls appeals court’s decision to halt ballroom construction ‘National Security Threat at the highest level’ Donald Trump called the decision to halt construction of...

On 22 January 2024, at the inauguration of the current Liberian president, Joseph Boakai, the US-based Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley paid tribute to the...

Congress braces for DHS shutdown as funding bill negotiations stall Congress is facing a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if doesn’t pass...

A US judge has halted the construction of Donald Trump’s $400m White House ballroom. The US president demolished the historic East Wing of the White...

The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently...

The Trump administration’s proposed cuts in federal funding for law enforcement and public health agencies could have a devastating impact on Alaska, which a Guardian...

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

Brown University agrees to pay $50m to settle dispute with Trump administration Brown University announced on Wednesday it “reached a voluntary agreement with the federal...

The US military seized another Venezuela-linked tanker known as Veronica in a pre-dawn action on Thursday. Monochrome video showed a helicopter flying next to the...

Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, as it decides whether to join the...

Hegseth says that he watched first strike but ‘didn’t stick around’ for the hours following, as he defends admiral’s decision to re-strike alleged drug trafficking...

Dan J Sullivan is a retired schoolteacher and US Forest Service employee living in the town of Petersburg in south-eastern Alaska, who is running as...

The so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK alliance is a...

One of Donald Trump’s closest and most devoted aides, Natalie Harp, has faced intense media scrutiny this week, after a Democratic senator, Jon Ossoff, name-checked...

Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized Donald Trump’s plan to hold a UFC fight on the White House lawn, as the president prepares to host seven...

The staggering sums gifted to Reform UK over the weekend have transformed the context for the representation of the people bill making its way through...

The next US presidential election is more than two years away but conservative media have wasted no time attacking expected Democratic contenders. In recent months,...

Despite growing pressure to lower interest rates to appease the president, the Federal Reserve voted to leave them unchanged. This week Jonathan Freedland speaks to...

Trump: ‘No deal until there’s a deal’ David Smith That was quick. Donald Trump left more questions than answers as he fawned over Vladimir Putin...

Two years ago, Zainab Bibi Ahmed thought she had turned her back on the Democrats for good. Now, she is volunteering for the party’s US...

A month after one of the largest sewage spills in US history began soiling the Potomac River, Donald Trump and the Maryland governor, Wes Moore,...

Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate...

Senate 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...

Jeffries calls for the release of ‘double tap’ strike video on suspected drug vessel Speaking to reporters today, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said that...

The 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...

John Bolton pleads not guilty John Bolton has pleaded not guilty to charges of mishandling classified information. Reuters is reporting that Bolton, the former national...

Law enforcement officials have identified the suspected gunman in Wednesday’s shooting of two national guard members near the White House as a man from Afghanistan,...