The Trump administration said it would provide partial relief to recipients of food stamps on Monday as the federal government shutdown approached a record-breaking length....

On Monday, Paramount Skydance launched a $108bn takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, the entertainment giant that owns Hollywood movie studios, along with CNN, HBO...

House committee releases image of ‘sickening’ Trump birthday note to Epstein Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I...

A US senator has condemned the Trump administration after she alleged that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “attack dog” mauled one of her constituents....

A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump’s administration cannot impose mandatory detention on thousands of migrants held by US immigration authorities without first giving...

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...

A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside...

Ten years ago – before I became an investigative journalist – I found myself working as a color commentator for a Russian mixed martial arts...

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s health department is conducting a new review of mifepristone, the drug used in the majority of American abortions, claiming that a...

Illustration: Angelica Alzona/Guardian Design Months before Antonio Gracias took a leading role in the “department of government efficiency’s” dismantling of the federal government, he was...

Chinese students in the United States are questioning their future in the country after the state department announced last week that it would “aggressively” revoke...

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...

Donald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,...

Randy “Duke” Cunningham, whose feats as a US navy flying ace during the Vietnam war catapulted him to a House of Representatives career that ended...

Gavin Newsom, the California governor, announced the appointment of two prominent scientists who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months...

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused a reporter of being a “leftwing activist” during a heated confrontation on Thursday over the killing of...

1. Putting people over fish A delta smelt at the University of California Davis fish conservation and culture lab in Byron, California, on 15 July...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature One person was arrested overnight in connection with the protest in...

A US appeals court has let Donald Trump retain control over California’s national guard while the state’s Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the...

Ghislaine Maxwell urges supreme court to overturn her conviction Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has urged the supreme...

Inside a packed banquet hall in northern California in early August, tensions were flaring. As the representative Doug LaMalfa spoke to constituents in his district,...

The failure of this week’s peace talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff fits into a now well-established pattern of standoffs on...

The justice department on Tuesday charged a man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train last month with a...

Trump will send more tariff letters to foreign leaders ‘in the coming days’, White House says Donald Trump will send foreign leaders more letters notifying...

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from diverting funds from a multibillion-dollar grant program designed to protect communities against natural disasters. US...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff visits Gaza aid ‘death trap’ Peter...

Summer temperatures are rising and the US is bracing for another hot, dry and hectic wildfire season. But with the promise of extreme conditions in...

US supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...

Trump announces death of Charlie Kirk Writing on his social network, Donald Trump just announced the death of Charlie Kirk. Trump wrote: The Great, and...

Peter Thiel famously isn’t into academia. And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made...

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

Late-night hosts unpacked the Trump administration’s continued attempts to distract from and underplay the Epstein files. Jimmy Kimmel It took barely a glance at Donald...

White House says no plans for Trump-Putin meeting in the immediate future There are no plans for Donald Trump to meet with Vladmir Putin “in...

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said the Federal Reserve is and should be independent but that it had “made a lot of mistakes”, as...

Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech” in rural Pennsylvania this past week that began with his “wishing each and everyone one of...

Senator Mark Kelly on Sunday urged congressional Republicans to publicly reject Trump’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who stated that military personnel...

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’s efforts to deploy militarized immigration agents in US cities may finally be reaching a reckoning as he faces widespread opposition across the US,...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Thursday. Here are the...

When Donald Trump has something to say, he takes to Truth Social. Trump has used the platform to announce policies on everything from the economy...

James Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false...

Trump says he will sign order targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines ahead of 2026 elections Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive...

A man approached Ilhan Omar, a US representative, during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, sprayed an unidentified liquid in her direction and shouted at...

Closing summary Our live coverage is ending for the day. Thanks for reading along with us. Here is a summary of the key developments from...

Cryptocurrency multibillionaire Justin Sun could barely contain his glee. Last month, Sun publicly flaunted a $100,000 Donald Trump-branded watch that he was awarded at a...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Alison Singer, president and founder of the Autism Science Foundation, voiced...

Chicago’s mayor Brandon Johnson has ordered Chicago police to investigate and document alleged illegal activity by federal immigration (ICE) agents in the city, a move...

Authorities in Michigan are investigating after multiple people were stabbed at a Walmart in Traverse City, police said on Saturday. The Michigan state police said...

Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri’s governor, Mike Kehoe, signed the repeal of a law on Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to...

As Donald Trump menaces the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which funds a long list of progressive causes, Binaifer Nowrojee, the OSF president, says the global...

Representative Pramila Jayapal and 20 members of Congress are seeking the release of Rodney Taylor from Stewart detention center in Georgia, several weeks after the...

The Trump administration has promised tens of thousands of federal agents carrying out his immigration crackdown that they will be paid during the government shutdown,...

House expected to vote on Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill after narrowly passing Senate Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US...

Up to seven states will vote on abortion rights this year. But recent polling indicates that Democrats may not be able to count on the...

Colbert calls suspension of Kimmel after threats from FCC chair a ‘blatant assault on the freedom of speech’ In his opening monologue on Thursday night,...

The US government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the army played a role in causing the collision in January between an airliner...

The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need. A state department spokesperson confirmed...

Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at...

The Department of Justice has issued two subpoenas to Letitia James, the New York attorney general who has been repeatedly criticized by Donald Trump, according...

On 14 January, the Trump administration announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan to counter the Republican-led map-drawing effort in Texas aimed at...

The Guardian’s Tom Silverstone speaks to peaceful protesters and local residents in Washington DC, who express a mixture of anger, concern and curiosity over the...

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...

More than three dozen Democratic senators have begun an independent inquiry into the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following a huge change in how the...

The Smithsonian will include Donald Trump’s two impeachments in an updated presentation “in the coming weeks” after references to them were removed, the museum said...

Summary Thanks for reading the US politics live blog. We’re pausing the blog for now, and here is a look back at our top stories:...

A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti...

“You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war,” was the storied response of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to Frederic Remington after the illustrator...

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...

A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US justice department has...

The US supreme court starts a new term on Monday, and the nine justices are preparing to take on cases that could prove crucial to...

The Friday night before election day, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist running for mayor of New York City, walked the length of Manhattan, from...

Donald Trump’s announcement calling off trade talks with Canada over its digital tax – and that he would impose retaliatory tariffs – demonstrates, once again,...

Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the...

A Republican Indiana lawmaker whose child has Down syndrome has promised to oppose efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map to favor his party after...

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...

Protesters heckled the US president with pro-Palestinian slogans after he arrived at a restaurant in Washington DC. They chanted ‘Free Palestine. Trump is the Hitler...

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...

The response of Nigerians to the airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Sokoto state, north-western Nigeria are complicated. The rationale behind them has been...

With the prime minister’s Churchillian claims that “the front line is here”, the public might expect a military posture that meets the drama of the...

“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University...

He got by with a little help from his friends. From British royalty to White House alumni, from a Silicon Valley investor to a leftwing...

The Kennedy Center reportedly adopted bylaws earlier this year that would limit voting to Donald Trump-appointed trustees – a controversial move that appears to reveal...

The Trump administration is seeking to finalize its overhaul of the federal government’s civil service system through a rule issued this week by the office...

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement at the White House on Friday, in a deal brokered by the US that brings...

Members of Congress are urgently reviewing security arrangements following the weekend Minnesota shootings that claimed the lives of a Democratic state legislator and her husband,...

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...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be quaking in his boots at the decisive victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 4 November New York City...

Supreme court decision ‘authorizes untold harm to transgender children’, says Justice Sotomayor in her dissent In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision “does...

‘We are witnessing a full-blown coverup’: Democrats demanding access to unredacted files, says Raskin Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, has slammed the Department of...

Donald Trump falsely claimed that crime in Washington DC is “the worst it’s ever been” on Thursday, amid a federal takeover of the city’s police...

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...

A measure that would allow Texas residents to sue out-of-state abortion pill providers advanced to the desk of the governor, Greg Abbott, on Wednesday, setting...

Usha Vance learned her husband, JD, had been selected to be Donald Trump’s running mate “maybe five minutes” before the news was made public –...

In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at...

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, are scheduled to meet at the White House this afternoon in an encounter between two...

As a former federal prosecutor, I know that prosecutors should be guided by the facts. But in his determination to hound George Soros, Donald Trump...

Good morning. It looks like the bromance between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is over. Maybe for good. Last night an exasperated...

The family of British political commentator Sami Hamdi, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in late October while on a speaking...