Newsom formally requests Trump administration rescind ‘unlawful’ deployment of national guard California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, said he has made a formal request to the Trump...

Republicans have expressed tentative skepticism of the agreement Donald Trump has reached with Iran, and urged the White House to release more information. The memorandum...

DOJ announces charges against five men for alleged plot to attack UFC White House event The justice department has announced charges against five men for...

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

Let’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...

A bill introduced this week by California lawmakers would ban federal immigration agents from being stationed outside polling places, responding to concerns that Immigration and...

Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries,” a day after two national guard members were shot in Washington...

Johnson says Schumer declined a vote on Obamacare subsidies and says it’s not ‘appropriate’ for it to be part of stopgap funding bill Mike Johnson...

Trump finds time to pursue social media feud with Marjorie Taylor Greene Before Donald Trump stepped into his meeting with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte, and...

Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier...

On Tuesday, we learned that the US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson had died at the age of 84. Tributes flooded in from political figures...

Donald Trump has again threatened Iran, saying the US may launch new attacks if Tehran continues to refuse the significant concessions he wants before a...

Trump threatened to commit genocide and Iran came to the table. A little threat – plus the deaths of thousands of Iranians and 13 Americans,...

Violent acts and threats at some ‘No Kings’ protests around the US A man intentionally drove an SUV into a crowd of protesters in Culpepper,...

Almost exactly a decade since the start of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access pipeline gained national and international attention, new disputes are...

A popular proposal in California to impose a wealth tax on billionaires has gained enough signatures to qualify for the ballot in November, state officials...

A group of Florida lawmakers were denied entry on Thursday into the new Florida-based immigration jail dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” one day after the first immigrant...

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...

Donald Trump renewed his push Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills...

Mexico has extradited 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as US authorities ratchet up...

Senate fails to pass short-term funding bill that would avert government shutdown The Republican-controlled Senate has failed to pass a short-term funding bill that would...

Eight migrants lost their last-ditch effort to halt their deportation to South Sudan by the Trump administration on Friday, clearing the way for their imminent...

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...

Hollywood’s home state of California will more than double annual tax incentives for film and television production to $750m under a measure passed by the...

Donald Trump has proven himself to be an “unchecked, incompetent, unhinged president,” and his opposition must follow leaders who are ready to “fight fire with...

Donald Trump has broken his silence on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, complaining that people who “innocently met” the convicted paedophile could have...

For two weeks at the end of August. “Alligator Alcatraz”, the harsh immigration jail in the Florida Everglades notorious for allegations of inhumane treatment and...

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that aimed to rein in Donald Trump’s power to wage war against Iran without congressional authorization. The 53-47...

Donald Trump has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran, trying to bring an end to a war he helped start. Satisfied his work is done...

The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has long been consumed by the neurological condition autism – what causes it, and whether there’s a...

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 man charged in connection with the recent shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was a doomsday “prepper” who instructed his family to...

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago airports are among 40 that will see reductions in flights from Friday as a result of the government shutdown,...

More than 450 arrests since surge of federal law enforcement in DC, White House says There have been over 450 arrests by federal law enforcement...

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

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...

Donald Trump has moved to deploy the national guard to Chicago, the White House confirmed on Saturday, even as a federal judge blocked his administration...

Pope Leo has reiterated his disapproval of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying foreigners in the US are being treated in an “extremely disrespectful way”. Leo,...

The Fourth of July celebration of freedom rings hollow this year. The contradictions built into a national commemoration of our triumph over autocracy feel newly...

More than 3,100 anti-authoritarian protests are scheduled across the US and at least 15 other countries on Saturday. All these events will take place under...

The next general election will be no ordinary democratic contest. Not the usual swing of the pendulum this way or that. It will be a...

The US immigration system is a scam that dehumanizes people for profit. Communities across the country have had enough. The protests in Los Angeles have...

Donald Trump has landed in Switzerland for the Davos global gathering as Nato’s secretary general said “thoughtful diplomacy” was the only way to deal with...

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

Lorenda Lewis is so tired she can barely keep her head straight. Surrounded by her six young children at a cafe in Dearborn, Michigan, she...

A political candidate in the New York City suburbs went for a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean this past spring and never returned. Petros...

US president Donald Trump has urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender...

In just one week Venezuela’s president was kidnapped by the US, Donald Trump talked of needing Greenland, the UK and France agreed to deploy troops...

“Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts.” These were the words of the senior White House aide Kellyanne Conway on NBC television’s Meet the...

Utah governor Spencer Cox confirmed today that Tyler Robinson, 22, is the prime suspect in the murder of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk was...

Nearly 50% of the 30 busiest US airports faced shortages of air traffic controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday, leading to flight...

The family of a Costa Rican man who was deported from the United States in a vegetative state and died shortly after arriving back in...

Oregon attorney general says America is ‘on a dangerous path’ following appeals court ruling The Oregon attorney general, Dan Rayfield, has issued a statement following...

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...

Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy....

DC mayor Bowser hardens stance on Trump, calls deployment of national guard an ‘authoritarian push’ Muriel Bowser last night hardened her stance on Donald Trump...

Oklahoma’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...

Democratic US senator Cory Booker has criticized both his own political party as well as its Republican counterpart for being “feckless” in ceding congressional war...

Donald Trump has denied the indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a campaign of retribution against his political opponents. The US...

The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, as Donald Trump continues to permit the Chinese-owned platform to operate in the US despite...

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington DC that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd...

It started with a whisper. Marco Rubio interrupted Donald Trump’s roundtable event with conservative influencers discussing antifa, speaking quietly into Trump’s ear. Rubio handed the...

New York governor calls for national assault weapons ban after Manhattan office shooting New York governor Kathy Hochul is calling for Congress to pass a...

The House passed legislation Thursday that would aid Ukraine and sanction key segments of the Russian economy, overriding objections from Republican leaders who warned the...

Extremists are exploiting political violence on online platforms to recruit new people to their causes and amplify the use of violence for political goals, according...

The Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, has urged Donald Trump to abandon his “illegal warmongering” and begin “serious talks” with his administration as mystery continued to...

Billionaires are “treading on very, very thin ice,” Bernie Sanders warned on Wednesday during a fiery speech in Los Angeles, imploring California voters to fight...

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...

The US supreme court will hear a hugely consequential case on Wednesday that will determine the future of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump’s legal woes mount as supreme court to rule on trade...

It’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...

Federal agents clashed with protesters in Minneapolis on Tuesday, nearly a week after the fatal shooting of Renee Good. People who had gathered in protest...

This story was published in collaboration with Mission Local. The mayor of San Francisco said on Thursday that Donald Trump had simply called him –...

Democratic lawmakers are raising questions about why Tulsi Gabbard, the president’s director of national intelligence, was “lurking” in Fulton county on Wednesday while FBI agents...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has accused Donald Trump and his administration of turning the Department of Justice into “personal attack dogs against their political...

Love Actually may be a terrible movie, but it provides one speech that’s hard not to wish into reality this Christmas. Keir Starmer, the actual,...

Robert F Kennedy’s “clean sweep” of a critical vaccine advisory panel spread shock and dismay among health experts, as many warned the health secretary’s decision...

The White House has chosen a top aide to health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to temporarily lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after the US...

For decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics. Across the political spectrum, from grassroots climate campaigners to elite UN negotiators,...

‘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...

Barack Obama has said the US is in the middle of a “tug of war” between two visions of the future, criticising progressives for becoming...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order vowing to use all measures including US military action to defend the energy-rich nation of Qatar – though...

With quips, memes and jabs, Democrats cheered Donald Trump’s firing of attorney general Pam Bondi on Thursday, while the president’s Republican allies praised her relatively...

On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They...

Earlier this year, Liam Elkind seized an opportunity to ask his longtime congressman, Jerry Nadler, what everyday New Yorkers like himself could do to help...

Crowds amassed across the US in planned No Kings protests on Saturday, opposing what participants view as Donald Trump’s increasingly autocratic tendencies and anti-democratic actions...

The honeymoon between Donald Trump and Elon Musk appears to be over, after the tech billionaire announced his official exit from the White House to...

President Donald Trump had this May hailed a “total reset” of US-China relations, but trade relations between the world’s two-largest economies have faltered since, highlighting...

Things seem to be going well at the CDC, the federal agency charged with protecting US public health. By “well” I mean terrible, thanks to...

Summary of the day so far Here is a summary of the latest developments: The Jimmy Kimmel Live! show has been indefinitely suspensded the after...

Donald Trump has again said that the US has “total control over the strait of Hormuz”, adding that Iran’s leadership was so hobbled by infighting...

Khalil says he filed claim ‘because they think they are untouchable’ Mahmoud Khalil said in a statement that he wanted to send a message that...

In Sand Point, Alaska, the radio dial is mostly empty. For a commercial broadcaster, running a station in this Aleutian Island fishing town of about...

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, settled a lawsuit filed against it by Donald Trump for $16m last week. It came after Disney...

FCC commissioner accuses CBS of ‘corporate capitulation’ in Colbert row Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will...

Scenes in LA is ‘chaos provoked by the administration’, says LA mayor as she reissues call for peaceful protest Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has...

The 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...

The office of the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, requested “a passive approach to Juneteenth messaging”, according to an exclusive Rolling Stone report citing a...