A group of conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a rightwing version of late-night talkshows like the Tonight Show and the...

Congress will subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned sex trafficker who was a close associate of the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to testify amid a political...

Top House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary, in response...

Newly uncovered photos and video footage published by CNN show more links between the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, including Epstein’s attendance at...

Being a member of the Pentagon press corps was once one of the more prestigious assignments in US journalism, a position reserved for heavy hitters...

Mike Johnson, the US House speaker, said on Wednesday he would put the bill compelling the release of government files related to late sex offender...

Florida has begun deporting people from the notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp, the state’s governor said, and deportations are expected to increase in the coming...

In an incredible U-turn, Donald Trump this week signed a bill directing the justice department to release more files from the investigation into the convicted...

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...

A US government order to make drastic cuts in commercial air traffic amid the government shutdown has taken effect, with major airports across the country...

‘If this is how they respond to a senator with a question, imagine what they’re doing across the country,’ says Padilla Padilla goes on: If...

A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately block the Trump administration from deploying national guard troops to Chicago, Illinois, after the state became the...

Federal Reserve governor Stephen Miran has resigned from his position as chair of the White House’s council of economic advisers, fulfilling a pledge he made...

Peter Mandelson was not subject to in-depth security vetting prior to his appointment as ambassador to Washington, the government has said. The Cabinet Office conducted...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Robert Reich Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is...

Six weeks ago, Alex Winter was on stage at the first night of previews for Waiting for Godot – the latest Broadway revival of Samuel...

The justices of the US supreme court – even its conservatives – have traditionally valued their institution’s own standing. John Roberts, the current US chief...

Cuban officials have denounced the US seizure of the Skipper oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday, calling it an “act of piracy and maritime...

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...

Three states have moved to deploy hundreds of members of their national guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to...

It has not been a brilliant weekend for Donald Trump. On Sunday administration officials fanned out on US political shows to defend the president’s policies...

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...

Donald Trump’s followers, and the conspiracist influencers turned-government officials through whom he persuades them, have turned on the president and US attorney general after they...

The FBI raided the home of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic John Bolton early on Friday morning and later also turned up...

The Teamsters International president, Sean O’Brien, is putting the “working class in jeopardy” by allying with Donald Trump, according to a prominent labor activist challenging...

Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied Republicans a legislative quorum on Monday by leaving the state, preventing, at least for now, plans proposed by...

Trump announces he will send national guard to Memphis, with Chicago ‘probably next’ Donald Trump announced he will deploy the national guard to Memphis during...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing backlash once again, this time from a Japanese artist who has condemned the agency for using,...

Emma Petty Addams is used to navigating political divides. She grew up as a conservative Mormon in California’s progressive San Francisco Bay Area. She identified...

The draft trade agreement with China announced by Donald Trump on Wednesday would ease concerns from top US military suppliers about rare-earth metals and magnets...

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...

Texas Senate passes GOP-drawn map, while House Democrats continue to deny quorum The Texas Sentate has passed a GOP-drawn congressional map, that would give Republicans...

A bipartisan group of public health advocates have defeated a proposal to kill state food safety laws that was pushed by what some critics have...

By the early 1980s, the Democratic party was facing a crossroads. The 1980 landslide election of Ronald Reagan, who clinched the presidency with a whopping...

Since the Democrats’ sweeping victories on 4 November, a strange thing has happened among the party factions: a semblance of unity has emerged. At first,...

Boulder attack suspect booked on multiple charges, including felony use of incendiary devices The suspect in the attack in Boulder is in custody after being...

Unreleased Epstein files include bawdy letter from Trump – report The Wall Street Journal reports that one of the documents in the justice department files...

Even within the freak show that is Donald Trump’s cabinet, the health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has a singular knack for...

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to use tariffs to revitalise American industry, bringing jobs home and helping to make America great again. But...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime Republican ally who previously fiercely defended Donald Trump and his Maga movement, said on Saturday she had been contacted by...

Democratic US representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio sued Donald Trump on Monday to seek the removal of his name from the John F Kennedy Center...

In the five months since Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the Oval Office in late February, Ukrainian officials have worked hard to repair...

Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and detained in one of that country’s most notorious prisons, was physically...

As Democrats reckon with a deep intra-party divide that threatens their ability to repair the party’s image and win back voters, Ken Martin said he...

JD Vance met with Republican lawmakers in Indiana on Thursday to encourage them to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable to the...

Senate rejects Democratic resolution to keep government funded The Senate has rejected a stopgap funding bill, drawn up by congressional Democrats, that would keep the...

Hundreds of staff gathered outside the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Thursday to support the public health leaders who resigned, or were fired by 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,...

The multiple firsts achieved by New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, have been well chronicled: he is the first Muslim to occupy that role, the...

‘It’s the opening of an opportunity,’ say Senate Democrats who broke ranks to end government shutdown The eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks...

The suspect accused of shooting two National Guard members on Wednesday was Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, a man from Afghanistan living in Bellingham, Wash, FBI director...

The residential community was lodged near a national forest on the outskirts of Scottsdale, Arizona. Forbidding gates and sentry posts restricted access to the exclusive...

Hegseth orders US Navy secretary to investigate Arizona senator Mark Kelly for ‘potentially unlawful comments’ in video Donald Trump’s defense secretary, the former Fox News...

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 first travel ban in 2017 had an immediate, explosive impact – spawning chaos at airports nationwide. This time around, the panic and chaos...

Arizona senator Mark Kelly warned that the Trump administration’s failed attempt to secure an indictment against him and five other Democratic lawmakers for a video...

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...

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...

Olivia Rodrigo has criticized the Trump administration after one of her songs was featured in a government video promoting deportation efforts. A clip posted on...

Trump says he has not thought about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell Further to my earlier post about Trump referring to the ongoing investigation when asked about...

Sotomayor: ruling on nationwide injunctions is ‘open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution’ In a rare move, Justice Sonia Sotomayor read from the...

Eleanor Holmes Norton, a non-voting House delegate representing Washington DC, announced on Tuesday that she would not seek another term in Congress. “With fire in...

Senior Ukrainian and Russian officials are to meet this week in Switzerland for a second round of talks brokered by the Trump administration, days before...

Australia’s politicians have thrown their support behind an ABC journalist who was berated by Donald Trump after asking questions about the US president’s personal business...

Disgraced former US congressman George Santos said on Sunday that his prison sentence had been “disproportionate”, but that he had been served “a very large...

As the cleanup continues from this month’s torrential rain storms and flooding in Texas that left more than 120 dead, recently departed officials from the...

A T-shirt worn by Beyoncé during a Juneteenth performance on her Cowboy Carter tour has sparked a discussion over how Americans frame their history and...

Republican congressman and vocal Donald Trump critic Don Bacon is reportedly not going to seek re-election during the midterm races in 2026. The conservative politician...

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September, Donald Trump and others pledged a no-holds barred crackdown on leftwing activists. “We have radical left lunatics...

In just 14 months, Daniel Suhr, the 40-year-old president of a two-person, Chicago-based, conservative legal organization called the Center for American Rights, has emerged as...

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...

When Melania Trump arrives in Britain for her husband’s second state visit next month, it will not just be the photographic pack straining every lens...

Brown University has reached an agreement with the Trump administration that will reinstate nearly $50m in research funding and close several federal investigations into the...

It’s not quite a new year resolution, and it’s certainly not a prediction. Think of it instead as a hope or even a plea for...

Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to supporters in Washington before they stormed the...

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 conservative commentator Katie Pavlich didn’t want to give anything away before her debut as a primetime host for NewsNation, a cable news channel that...

Before 5am on Tuesday, Jesse Jackson Jr called to tell me his father and my friend, the Rev Jesse Louis Jackson, had died at 84...

White House boasts family of suspect in Boulder attack ‘could be deported as early as tonight’ The White House is boasting on its official social...

Rights groups have sued to protect voter information that was seized by the FBI in a controversial raid in Georgia at the behest of Donald...

Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety. Trump, in a Truth Social post...

“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...

In 1980, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, an unrepentant former leader of the Nazi women’s bureau in Berlin from 1934 to 1945, described her former job to historian...

In his 130 days as a special government employee, the world’s richest man slashed his way through federal agencies, laying off government employees and gaining...

Democrats will retake the US House’s majority in the 2026 midterm elections, the chamber’s former speaker Nancy Pelosi has confidently predicted – and she hopes...

A 10-year-old Minnesota girl has been released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after a month in detention in Dilley, Texas, school officials...

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Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States had carried out a strike on a second Venezuelan boat and killed three alleged terrorists he...

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...

A US marine veteran has described feeling “betrayed” after Trump administration immigration agents beat and arrested his father at his landscaping job, the latest example...

A 37-year-old nurse named Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday. Protesters on Saturday were on the streets...

Federal judge grants temporary restraining order, blocking mass firings of federal workers Judge Susan Illston has issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the firing of...

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US Coast Guard officials said on Sunday that they are tracking an oil tanker in international waters close to Venezuela, according to Reuters, marking the...

Government accountability organization accuses agriculture secretary of unlawfully refusing to use emergency fund created to prevent food stampt disruptions during shutdowns A government accountability organization...

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner spoke in Davos on Thursday about the ‘board of peace’ plans for Gaza’s postwar redevelopment at an event on the...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal homeland security funding, including for disasters, for states that do not comply with...

Trump administration backs away from abolishing FEMA, Washington Post reports Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I...

Days after officially exiting the White House, Elon Musk has grown increasingly critical of President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill, describing it as a “disgusting...