Ilhan Omar attacked with unidentified substance at town hall in Minneapolis Shrai Popat At her first town hall of the year in Minneapolis, congresswoman Ilhan...

Since January 6, roughly 2,000 ICE agents have been deployed to Minnesota under the pretext of responding to a fraud investigation. In practice, these largely...

When Rosaly Estévez “self-deported” from Miami to Havana last November, US immigration officers bid farewell by removing her ankle monitor. The 32-year-old had been told...

They could hear the shot that killed Renee Good in Tucson, Arizona. When Good, a mother of three, was fatally shot by an immigration agent...

A 31-year-old man has been charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, after a thwarted attack at Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner. Immediately after this,...

Donald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as “godless communists”...

Thousands chanted and marched in New York City on Friday to protest the Trump administration’s escalating mass deportation campaign. Among the protesters were young and...

As a microbiologist and infectious disease clinician, it has been tough to watch the recent devolution of public discourse on Covid-19 origins. It has been...

The US Senate has approved Donald Trump’s plan for billions of dollars in cuts to funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing the Republican...

A 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...

US Attorney to resign after Trump’s remarks calling for his removal over Letitia James investigation – reports US attorney Erik Siebert told employees on Friday...

A Texas federal prosecutor has subpoenaed NYU Langone Health (NYULH), a major hospital network in New York City, for information about minor patients who received...

US House approves bill to force release of Epstein files in near-unanimous vote The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department...

The Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC...

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...

White House names deputy health secretary Jim O’Neill acting CDC director In the sudden absence of the usually ubiquitous Donald Trump, a Trump administration official...

Judge blocks Trump on birthright citizenship A federal judge in New Hampshire has again blocked Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and applied the...

The chilling attacks that injured five men in Edinburgh at the weekend, including two who were struck as they left a mosque, have deepened the...

A Texas Democrat running to become the state’s attorney general has said he will investigate Elon Musk’s SpaceX company if elected, saying it “sure looks...

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...

It was quite a day in Davos. Donald Trump began his time at the World Economic Forum Wednesday with a rambling, racism-drenched speech in which...

Video filmed from inside Ecuador’s consulate in Minneapolis shows an ICE agent trying to enter the building but being prevented by consulate staffers, according to...

Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to give a $5,000 “dividend” to all US adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress in November’s elections would not be...

One year into the second Trump administration, an actual US foreign policy remains just a nice idea. Instead, the world has been forced to adapt...

Justices appear skeptical as Trump’s lawyers argue he ‘provided adequate process’ in attempt to fire Cook Throughout the first half today’s arguments, the Trump administration’s...

It was mid-December, and Ro Khanna was watching the calendar. The 19 December deadline for the justice department to comply with a new law the...

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...

Pete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a...

United Airlines is “looking into” a viral video showing a United Airlines employee threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a Mexican American...

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution....

George Santos, the former Republican congressman whose political career collapsed under a mountain of lies, has become the first person ever handed a lifetime ban...

When federal agents arrived at Georgia Fort’s front door to arrest her, she knew what to do: be a journalist. Fort, an independent Minnesota reporter...

At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new US poet laureate: the...

The Trump administration has moved to reclassify marijuana, more than four months after Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the attorney general to move...

Last Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American mother. Already, the federal investigation into the killing...

Texas governor Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the department of public safety to arrest and return any House member who had left the state and...

Hegseth seems to distance himself from admiral who ordered strike to kill survivors of suspected drug boat Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, seemed to...

Weeks after justice department officials released more than 3m investigative documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, there have not been any arrests in the US, prompting...

You 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...

After the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, the Guardian’s Rachel Leingang gives more detail on the rise in political violence in the US. She explains...

Lawmakers decry Trump’s pressure campaign on justice department to investigate political opponents As we reported over the weekend, the president has ramped up his demands...

Officials correct death toll in Ice shooting to say one person killed, two in critical condition The Department of Homeland Security just issued a correction...

Tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans. The mandatory...

Trump says he will direct attorney general to investigate Epstein’s involvement with Bill Clinton, Democratic donors and banks The president continued to post on Truth...

Democratic US representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick said she is resigning effective immediately, after a House committee found she violated ethics rules. The panel was set to...

Donald Trump has said that he wants Bill Pulte, his new acting director of national intelligence, to cut the office, which has already been significantly...

Ex-FBI director James Comey to appear in court on lying to Congress charge Good morning and welcome to our coverage of US politics with former...

Barely a month appears to go by without Donald Trump making a fresh attempt to destroy the international rules-based order. The US has pulled funding...

The Trump administration believes some noncitizens may not even have first amendment rights. And it’s turning that legal fantasy into a reality by making immigration...

When an up and coming feminist author and journalist bumped into Gloria Steinem at a women’s conference in Washington DC in 1971 she was awed...

For decades, a line of storefronts in Jeffersonville, Ohio, a town of 1,200 people 40 minutes south-west of Columbus, lay empty. But now locals are...

A Republican-controlled US Senate committee voted to hold Dr Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the veteran public health official repeatedly pleaded the fifth...

Republican congressman Thomas Massie challenged Donald Trump on Sunday over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on...

European leaders gathered in Washington on Monday for Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, in a show of support for the...

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”...

As Musk rallies voters to ‘kill the bill’, Trump aide says president is committed to passing it Donald Trump remains committed to passing his spending...

Democratic states sue to block postal service from carrying out Trump’s mail-in voting order Two dozen states and the District of Columbia filed a fresh...

Melania Trump nods to questions around absence: ‘I heard you missed me. Here I am’ Aaand, scratch that. The Trumps have arrived early. “Good afternoon....

Donald Trump is weighing up his options for responding to protests in Iran, including “very strong” military action, as deaths mount in a crackdown on...

Mike Johnson wants more time for negotiations as JD Vance blames Democrat over potential shutdown More reactions from Congressional leaders’ meeting with Trump on the...

A 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...

Four people have been arrested after images of Donald Trump alongside deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected on to Windsor Castle, where the US...

Ben Meiselas is a very busy man. So busy, he has to break off halfway through our interview to conduct an interview of his own,...

Between anti-immigrant zeal and a general disdain for any rules whatsoever, the Trump administration has shredded the constitutional order that makes government legitimate. This is...

A US district judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore legal services for potentially thousands of migrant families after officials violated a historic settlement...

Prediction markets are facing fresh bipartisan scrutiny in the US Senate as companies such as Kalshi and Polymarket continue to battle state-led efforts to regulate...

A run of volatility in domestic British politics in recent years has tracked a period of global turbulence, and yet foreign policy over the same...

The US will have complete, uncontested control of Iranian airspace within days, the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, declared Wednesday, saying Iran “cannot outlast” American military...

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...

Embattled FBI director Kash Patel has denied under oath recent allegations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences on the job, dismissing them as “baseless” during...

Republican senator Dan S Sullivan will be joined on the November ballot in Alaska by a challenger with a nearly identical name from the same...

The Democratic party seems more united than it has been in years, thanks to one man: Donald Trump. Opposition to his presidency has papered over...

A huge defense policy bill, revealed by US lawmakers on Sunday, does not include a provision that would have provided broad healthcare coverage for in...

Organizers of Saturday’s Independence Day parade in Washington DC abruptly canceled the event late on the eve of the event, with sweltering temperatures in the...

Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats...

A US federal judge will issue an injunction blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students. The university was in...

Nerves are frayed in Los Angeles, as the second largest city in the US is flooded with more than 2,000 federal troops tasked with protecting...

The lead prosecutor in former FBI director James Comey’s case over a social media post has withdrawn from the case, according to a new court...

The US Senate judiciary committee has scheduled a meeting early next week to consider Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general, as Donald Trump promised to...

That was the moment he knew it was true love. Donald Trump turned to gaze at Vladimir Putin as the Russian president publicly endorsed his...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Rachel Leingang A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against...

The 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...

Maine Democratic Party accuses Platner’s team of attempting to ‘put their thumb on the scale’ to select new nominee As we noted earlier, the Maine...

Although her husband, James “Fergie” Chambers, had been locked up in Spain for nearly a week, Stella Schnabel didn’t break down and cry until Thursday,...

A New York City business group sued mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday over his plan to create five municipally owned grocery stores. The Multicultural Business...

A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent wanted for shooting a Venezuelan man during the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota was arrested on Friday...

US senator Mark Kelly said it was “non-controversial” for him and other Democrats to implore military personnel to disobey “illegal orders” from the Trump administration...

The death of Renee has ignited anger across the US, with more than a thousand protests held across the country in the wake of the...

Security lines stretched for hours on Monday at US airports where unpaid Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) screening agents refused to report for duty and ICE...

The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, said he had apologised to the US president, Donald Trump, over an anti-tariff political advertisement and had told the...

The Trump administration will slash routine vaccine recommendations during childhood from 17 to 11 jabs – the biggest change to vaccines yet under the purview...

Donald Trump is facing the prospect of a politically damaging congressional vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files after attempts to press two female members...

Final 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,...

When Islamic State needed to move and disguise its money, it turned, US prosecutors said in 2023, to the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange: Binance. So...

‘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...

As federal immigration agents flooded the streets of Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles over the past year, cities across the US have been at the...

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...

Joe Biden repeatedly said that Donald Trump was an existential threat. Yet the former US president clung on to his party’s nomination when he ought...

The armies of lefty America and of Maga were assembled ready to watch their champions do battle. After all, Donald Trump had called Zohran Mamdani...