The 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...

I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. I hope Neilsen (or whoever...

Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who heads the US Senate’s commerce committee, has urged Donald Trump to support international efforts by an airline trade group...

There was a whirlwind of emotions on the streets of Caracas on Sunday, 24 hours after the first-ever large-scale US attack on South American soil...

“The more Epstein documents get released, the more we see how he had so many powerful friends, and that’s ultimately what helped him,” commented the...

US Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the second Trump...

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, called for a national “billionaires tax” on Friday as he fights a ballot measure targeting the ultra-wealthy in his home state....

Democrats need to take bolder and more aggressive actions to oppose the Trump administration, protesters across the US told the Guardian during a day of...

Americans outside the nation’s capital will soon be able to get limited-edition passports that feature a picture of Donald Trump and celebrate the 250th anniversary...

In early August, dozens of Democratic lawmakers fled Texas for Illinois, denying Republicans the quorum needed to pass new congressional maps projected to give the...

The US government has already paid back tens of billions of dollars in tariffs it collected before the supreme court ruled them illegal, according to...

Details about the shooting at the White House correspondents’ gala have started to surface as the alleged shooter is set to be charged. The suspect...

Top 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...

Set foot in the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition marking America’s 250th birthday and it is immediately clear this is not the kind of jingoistic,...

US midterm voters overwhelmingly support Pepfar, an initiative to end HIV/Aids that also has strengthened health systems against other infectious disease threats but has come...

It was set to be the most expensive project that the beaten-down manufacturing sector of Erie, Pennsylvania, had seen in decades. In a blighted corner...

The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, appeared before a House judiciary committee hearing on Wednesday to defend the justice department’s handling of files involving the...

Most US adults think Donald Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction during his second presidency, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll...

A five-year-old boy and his father were back in Minneapolis on Sunday after being released from a Texas immigration detention center where they were held...

Trump says he will meet Putin in Alaska next week Donald Trump said he plans to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska next Friday, 15 August....

One 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...

Maybe she was born with it, maybe it’s Mar-a-Lago face Forget expensive moisturizers or designer clothes. Ladies, if you want a quick and easy glow-up,...

The Trump administration has started the process to transfer $725m to the United Nations, a congressional notification seen by Reuters ⁠showed – a move aid...

Key takeaways from Trump-Netanyahu press conference And that’s it, the press conference is over. Trump said he wanted to move to the second phase of...

Supreme court agrees to hear case over law that bans drug users from possessing guns The supreme court has agreed to hear a case to...

Despite rare and overwhelming bipartisan support, a US bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing for Americans is being held hostage by Donald Trump....

As the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection bureau, Chris Mufarrige is the top enforcer protecting Americans against predatory companies. He’s got an...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based...

Zohran Mamdani, who holds a lead in polling ahead of New York City’s mayoral election on Tuesday, reportedly received a call Saturday from his fellow...

European Council pledges to back Ukraine in joint statement on Trump-Putin summit The European Council have released a joint statement by the French president, Emmanuel...

Barack Obama headlined a rally Saturday in Virginia to try to secure a victory for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who leads in polls days...

Donald Trump’s unjustified war on Iran and the resulting global fuel crisis is a continuing reminder that true energy security and independence will continue to...

US regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has thrown her support behind Abdul El-Sayed, the doctor and progressive Democrat seeking the party’s nomination in Michigan’s closely watched US Senate race....

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 threatened the European Union with additional and “substantial” tariffs after Brussels imposed a series of steep fines on US tech giants. The...

Texas Republicans advance map that reignited US redistricting wars Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I...

“That’s the tactic they use,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island senator, pondering whether Donald Trump might attach his name to the John F Kennedy...

Donald Trump is reportedly weighing a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius amid stalled plans from the UK to cede sovereignty of the...

In a broadly-worded executive order issued Monday evening, Donald Trump declared “antifa”– the decentralized antifascist movement – as a “domestic terrorist organization”. With his order,...

Donald Trump signed a sweeping new proclamation that will bar or partially restrict entry from nearly 20 countries, citing national security concerns. The ban prohibits...

Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, offered few details and was evasive when asked about the deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran, saying...

DHS announces plan for immigration detention center in Nebraska The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will open a new migrant detention facility in...

The gerrymandering wars are back. Perhaps they never really went away. Extreme GOP gerrymanders have remade American politics over the last 15 years. They have...

* Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday sued California over state policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ school sports, alleging that their participation violates...

‘If somebody walks into your office and says they’re friends with Donald Trump, they’re either exaggerating the relationship, or they don’t understand the relationship,” says...

A far-right Republican candidate in Florida’s governor’s race has been accused of stiffing a high school debate champion over the better part of $11,000 in...

Trump says he wants a ‘Department of War’ not a ‘Department of Defense’ Donald Trump just said for the third time today that he plans...

In describing his foreign policy agenda, Donald Trump has proclaimed an “America First” policy. But on Saturday the US president threatened to launch attacks in...

Democrats hold firm on healthcare demands as US government remains shut Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. We will be bringing you...

Late-night hosts covered alarming new comments by Donald Trump as well as his outburst at a heckler in Michigan. Jimmy Kimmel On Jimmy Kimmel Live!...

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...

Before sexual assault allegations ended his California gubernatorial bid, representative Eric Swalwell had carved out a niche as one of the Democrats most enthusiastically willing...

As consumers watch the price of gasoline and airline tickets rise, experts say that the war in Iran will continue to drive up prices across...

Ontario premier issues pause of advert criticizing Trump tariffs Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, said that he has spoken with Canadian prime minister Mark...

Four prominent US human rights organizations have accused the Trump administration of using its “crippling” sanctions regime against the international criminal court (ICC) to undermine...

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s...

There is a version of this country in which Donald Trump tells Americans the truth he has been handed: that their elections are secure. Once,...

The scale of last weekend’s “No Kings” protests is now becoming clearer, with one estimate suggesting that Saturday was among the biggest ever single-day protests...

At 12.23pm on Wednesday, as the rightwing influencer and provocateur Charlie Kirk was addressing a large crowd at Utah Valley University, a single shot rang...

Hours before fresh military strikes were exchanged in the strait of Hormuz, vice-president JD Vance continued to reiterate the administration’s triumphant line on the war...

Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing congresswoman and former House speaker, has conceded that she may not see a woman be elected US president in her lifetime....

Trump says he is not concerned ‘at all’ that his threat to bomb Iranian infrastructure could amount to war crimes Trump gave an unclear answer,...

Brandon Sigüenza saw his first federal immigration agent just one minute before he was arrested by one. He and his friend, Patty O’Keefe, were following...

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...

Democrats have promised to fight what they say is a “full-blown cover-up” of the Epstein files after the Trump administration on Sunday effectively declared its...

Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Tuesday that he was indefinitely extending a ceasefire with Iran at the request of Pakistan, which...

A southern California community is calling for the release of a high school student whom US immigration agents arrested earlier this month while he was...

The first step toward ending the US government shutdown has been made after a handful of Democrats and dozens of Republicans voted to advance legislation...

Despite Trump’s claim, US intelligence briefed senators on Monday that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, Warner says Despite Donald Trump’s recent claim that...

Georgia’s Republican primary runoff voters chose US representative Mike Collins over former college football coach Derek Dooley to lead the party’s bid to challenge US...

Fired CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at his old network of interfering with a broadcast segment looking at an immigration...

Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would...

A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his...

If, like me, you’re a faithful reader of the New York Post, the election of Zohran Mamdani as the new mayor of Gotham was the...

Across the country, in front yards and on main streets, at dairy breakfasts and inside breweries, voters are delivering a similar message to Democratic primary...

Donald Trump has received rapturous acclaim from congressional Republicans as he touted a “brilliant” and “incredible” attack on Venezuela that led to the capture of...

The US federal government shut down on Wednesday after Democrats opted against voting for a Republican funding plan in order to seek concessions on healthcare...

Thousands were gathering in Arizona on Sunday for a public memorial honoring Charlie Kirk, the rightwing youth organizer who was fatally shot during an event...

The growth in global demand for “green” office buildings has slowed after Donald Trump’s assault on environmental protection policies caused a slump in interest in...

If there is to be a peace deal between the United States and Iran, it will have to go through a familiar obstacle: Benjamin Netanyahu....

Nigel Farage has appeared before a US congressional hearing on censorship. In an opening statement, the Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin accused the British politician of...

Donald Trump on Saturday evening hosted the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees in the Oval Office for a medal-presentation ceremony, celebrating country music singer George Strait,...

John McAuliff, a 33-year-old small business owner and former civil servant, was one of the more unlikely Democrats to win election to Virginia’s legislature this...

The Trump administration’s push to expand oil and gas extraction across the US is set to bring drilling near cherished natural and cultural sites, raising...

US inflation moderated in January to 2.4%, an easing after Donald Trump’s tariffs triggered price fluctuations last year. Prices rose 0.2% from December to January,...

Civil liberties advocates are warning that the Trump administration’s decision to strip visas from at least six foreign nationals over social media posts about Charlie...

Donald Trump told Vladimir Putin that ending Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine was critical and that he was prepared to help, reported Russia’s TASS news...

Four men deported by the US to Eswatini and denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while detained in a maximum security prison have the...

After years of claiming to be the vanguard of a new “America First” isolationist movement rebelling against the neoconservative policies of the George W Bush...

Hillary Clinton to testify in US House panel’s Epstein probe Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Former US secretary of state Hillary...

Progressives in the UK and US are grappling with the same question. Why have rightwing populists become so much more successful at tapping into public...

Her sharpest words were not in the body of her opinion. They were tucked away in a footnote. That subtle placement speaks volumes about Ketanji...

NYU Langone Health, one of New York City’s major hospital networks, announced this week that it will shut down its gender‑affirming care program for minors,...

When Steven Fleischman took over as president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in 2025, he knew that controversy was practically part...

The stock market listing of SpaceX has led to an outpouring of celebration, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Yet those who rejoice in Elon...

In their quest to undo Donald Trump’s grip on voters, Democrats have staked their hopes on one word above all others: affordability. It has become...

A federal judge has concluded that the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Kilmar Ábrego García on human smuggling charges may be an illegal retaliation after...

Sean “Dog” Duffy is a legend in the lumberjack world: a three-time world champion in the 90ft lumberjack speed climb who is renowned for his...