It was as close as Donald Trump might get to a lucid statement of his governing doctrine. “I may do it. I may not do...
Read MoreIt was as close as Donald Trump might get to a lucid statement of his governing doctrine. “I may do it. I may not do...
Read MoreGeothermal is one of the most promising clean energy sources in the US, providing 24/7 renewable power that could meet rising energy demand from AI...
Read MoreOdd things are happening in the markets. Last Monday, 15 minutes before Donald Trump posted an announcement that “productive talks” with Iran had taken place,...
Read MoreThe US Senate is preparing for a key procedural vote Saturday as Republicans race to pass Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and...
Read MoreScott MacFarlane, the CBS News justice correspondent most known for his extensive coverage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, surprised colleagues on Monday morning by...
Read MoreThroughout Bad Bunny’s mesmerizing performance during the Super Bowl, the word “America” kept expanding, like an accordion, stretching out to embrace people of all nationalities....
Read MoreDonald 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,...
Read MoreThe US labor market grew by more than expected last month, recovering some of the damage inflicted by the federal government shutdown, according to official...
Read MoreDonald Trump has dismissed speculation that he is in ill health, saying he was busy on the Labor Day weekend giving media interviews and visiting...
Read MoreRepublican senators have defended Donald Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran, but some Democrats, while welcoming the elimination of the Iranian senior leadership,...
Read MoreWhen he showed up to work on 27 June, Mike Gordon was having one of the best weeks of his career. Gordon, a federal prosecutor...
Read MoreTrump threatened to commit genocide and Iran came to the table. A little threat – plus the deaths of thousands of Iranians and 13 Americans,...
Read MoreThe US is extraordinary. One day it goes to the far side of the moon and revives the space age. On the same day, its...
Read MoreThe US president, Donald Trump, has said Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been captured and are on their way to...
Read MoreThe FBI director, Kash Patel, is denying allegations detailed in a new report that he drinks to excess and has been unreachable at times during...
Read MoreSupreme court agrees to hear case over law that bans drug users from possessing guns The supreme court has agreed to hear a case to...
Read MoreTrump says he’s ‘very confident’ a ceasefire deal can be reached as Netanyahu arrives at White House Benjamin Netanyahu just arrived at the White House,...
Read MoreIlhan Omar attacked with unidentified substance at town hall in Minneapolis Shrai Popat At her first town hall of the year in Minneapolis, congresswoman Ilhan...
Read MoreAmericans go to the polls, with elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California We are restarting our live coverage of US politics....
Read MoreBowser says she ‘greatly appreciates’ impact of federal law enforcement surge on DC crime rate “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what...
Read MoreTrump breaks with Marjorie Taylor Greene, urging primary challenge Donald Trump turned on his former close ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene, denouncing the Maga congresswoman in...
Read MoreFederal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had never presented the final version of the indictment filed against James Comey to a full federal grand jury,...
Read MoreDonald Trump has warned he could cut financial aid to Argentina if his ally Javier Milei loses crucial legislative elections later this month. “If he...
Read MoreStephen Miller insists the East Wing of the White House ‘is not part of The White House’ In an appearance on Fox News on Friday,...
Read More‘This is no time to be talking about pardons,’ says Trump when pressed about Maxwell Speaking to reporters at Prestwick airport, Trump denied reports that...
Read MoreAs Donald Trump unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office – while...
Read MoreNearly five months into his second term, Donald Trump has announced a new sweeping travel ban that could reshape the US’s borders more dramatically than...
Read MoreNancy Pelosi, a California Democratic representative and the first woman to serve as speaker, has announced she will retire from Congress, two years after stepping...
Read MoreMore than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have accused Melania Trump of “shifting the burden” on to them after she called on Congress...
Read MoreIn late January 2025, 10 days after Donald Trump was sworn in for a second time as president of the United States, an economic conference...
Read MoreDonald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any...
Read MoreThe UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of “diminishing” the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers, as the US president faced a fierce...
Read MoreThe US Senate opened debate on Donald Trump’s sprawling domestic policy legislation on Sunday, the package of tax cuts, increased spending on immigration enforcement, and...
Read MoreSchumer rejects Trump’s claim that bipartisan shutdown negotiations are under way Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Democrats...
Read MoreUtah governor Spencer Cox confirmed today that Tyler Robinson, 22, is the prime suspect in the murder of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk was...
Read MoreFor months, Donald Trump and his administration have been using violent crime as a justification for ramping up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) operations and...
Read MoreTrump says administration is ‘only’ going to make permanent cuts to ‘Democrat programs’ Trumps says that “we will be making cuts that are permanent and...
Read MoreJD Vance has said the US is “not at war” with Iran – but is with its nuclear weapons program, holding out a position that...
Read MoreMike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing measures of praise and...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreWhen South Korea’s biggest online retailer revealed last year that a data breach had compromised tens of millions of customer accounts, it appeared to be...
Read MoreIn a break with Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled Congress approved a funding bill for multiple key government agencies and institutions in January. Some of those...
Read MoreTrump’s South Korea visit met with protests amid trade talks Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I’ll...
Read More“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Donald Trump exhorted the audience at a campaign event organized by the conservative Turning Point Action in...
Read MoreSean “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...
Read MoreSenate fails to pass funding bill to reopen government for 10th time The Senate has rejected a House-passed funding bill that would reopen the federal...
Read MoreDonald Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated US president, will visit Walter Reed national military medical center on Friday for what the White House...
Read MoreIt might be most generous to characterize the behavior of major US media organizations since 2024 as negotiating between competing incentives. On the one hand,...
Read MoreCould anything be more embarrassing yet more chilling than the White House’s giggling new teen-YouTuber-type supercut of badass moments of imagined American or quasi-American machismo...
Read MoreA manager for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election bid has abandoned a high-profile lawsuit against the Daily Beast, 10 months after complaining the news outlet...
Read MoreDonald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the...
Read MoreMaduro lands in New York before helicopter transfer amid high security Hello, this is Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok, taking over from my colleagues in London....
Read MoreSotomayor: ruling on nationwide injunctions is ‘open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution’ In a rare move, Justice Sonia Sotomayor read from the...
Read MoreAs Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America’s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating what they claim is...
Read MoreTwo brothers of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot and killed in January by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, have described...
Read MoreThe US president, Donald Trump, has announced that his administration has begun developing the so-called ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system, set to be finished before...
Read More‘I think I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries...
Read MoreUS supreme court announces funding will run out this weekend The US supreme court is expected to run out of federal funding on Saturday, according...
Read MoreCalifornia state supreme court rejects Republican effort to stop mid-decade redistricting On Wednesday night, the California state supreme court declined an emergency request by Republican...
Read MoreLeavitt calls Trump-appointed judge ‘untethered in reality’ following national guard ruling Karoline Leavitt said that the ruling from Karin Immergut, a Trump-appointed federal judge, was...
Read MoreThomas Chatterton Williams, a public intellectual of some standing in the US, dislikes the Trumpian right for its erratic authoritarianism. But he dislikes its hysterical leftwing critics...
Read MoreThe second episode of South Park’s abrupt 28th season was meant to air this past Wednesday (the immediately preceding season 27 was just five episodes)...
Read MoreDonald Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean region, it was...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Wednesday the transportation department is rescinding $4bn in US government funding for California’s high-speed rail project. The department said there was...
Read MoreHe wanted to give the king’s speech. Donald Trump entered the US House chamber on Tuesday like a medieval monarch, with Republicans lined up eager...
Read MoreTrump calls any Jewish person voting for Mamdani ‘stupid’ and continues election day posts The president continues to weigh in on the off-cycle election races...
Read MoreThe US military has conducted “a lethal strike” against an alleged “drug vessel” from Venezuela, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has announced amid growing...
Read MoreThe collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America...
Read MoreThe interior department announced today new “America-first” entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and “resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026”...
Read MoreTyler Robinson appears in virtual court appearance Tyler Robinson is now appearing for his first, virtual court appearance from the Utah jail where he is...
Read More“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children,” Nelson Mandela observed 30 years ago....
Read MoreHe has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting...
Read MoreFederal agents clashed with protesters in Minneapolis on Tuesday, nearly a week after the fatal shooting of Renee Good. People who had gathered in protest...
Read MoreDonald Trump declared he “should be listened to” by the Federal Reserve, as he weighs candidates to lead the central bank amid an extraordinary campaign...
Read MoreGrowing up in the West Bank, Leqaa Kordia was separated from family in Gaza by Israeli restrictions on movement between the territories. So aunts and...
Read MoreIn June 2024, a divided US supreme court handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card. Across 43 pages, chief justice John Roberts demolished the long-held belief...
Read MoreThe Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, accused Democrats of being “not serious” in negotiations to end the federal government shutdown, while the Democratic leader accused...
Read MoreTrump meeting Russ Vought to discuss cutting ‘Democrat agencies’ and whether cuts will be permanent Donald Trump is up and truthing as the White House...
Read MoreOil prices plunged by almost 15% and global stock markets have rallied sharply after the US and Iran agreed a two-week conditional ceasefire. Investors hailed...
Read MoreSenior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the...
Read MoreDonald Trump has sent mixed signals about potential US intervention in Venezuela, playing down concerns of imminent war against the South American nation but saying...
Read MoreHoman says administration is drawing down 700 immigration enforcement officers Speaking to reporters today, Tom Homan said that the Trump administration will draw down 700...
Read MoreHegseth seems to distance himself from admiral who ordered strike to kill survivors of suspected drug boat Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, seemed to...
Read MoreA US federal appeals court at a hearing on Thursday appeared skeptical that the Trump administration could legally punish Mark Kelly, a Democratic US senator,...
Read MoreThe US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won...
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump’s Department of Justice requested the release of grand jury transcripts in criminal proceedings against sex-traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the move...
Read MoreICC arrest warrant for Putin limits where any summit with Trump could take place The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Donald Trump could meet...
Read MorePowell confirms Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump’s tariffs Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning...
Read MoreThe US Coast Guard was searching for survivors of a US military strike against a convoy of suspected drug vessels in the Pacific Ocean, officials...
Read MorePowell confirms Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump’s tariffs Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning...
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Read MoreDonald Trump on Saturday said he had ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his criticism...
Read MoreA prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140m, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed on...
Read MoreLeavitt calls Trump-appointed judge ‘untethered in reality’ following national guard ruling Karoline Leavitt said that the ruling from Karin Immergut, a Trump-appointed federal judge, was...
Read MoreA Democratic senator has sounded the alarm about her own party’s failings, urging colleagues to “slaughter some sacred cows” if they want to combat Donald...
Read MoreTulsi Gabbard, the director of US national intelligence, hoped to uncover evidence that Barack Obama and his national security team conspired to undermine Donald Trump...
Read MoreOne of Graham Platner’s high school yearbooks shows him babyfaced with a buzzcut, holding a sign proclaiming, in part: “Free Palestine.” The image is accompanied...
Read MoreOne crisp morning in 2018, Sandra Ibarra pulled on a pair of gloves to ward off the winter chill and picked up the first cardboard...
Read MoreUS struck another vessel in the Pacific The US military carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing four men,...
Read MoreAn Egyptian family of six has been taken back into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, days after they were released from a detention facility in...
Read MoreJames 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...
Read MoreAs the first Pride month under Donald Trump’s second presidency approaches, LGBTQ+ businesses are stepping up, evolving quickly to meet the community’s growing concerns. Since...
Read MoreQuestions over his friendship with convicted sex offender, Jeffery Epstein, continue to haunt Donald Trump, this time with the release of a birthday letter that...
Read MoreTulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, did not inform the White House that her office was revoking the security clearances of 37 people –...
Read MoreIt would have taken a heart of stone to watch the death of the Trump-Musk bromance without laughing. Democrats passed the popcorn on Thursday night...
Read MoreThe Department of Homeland Security has signed a nearly $140m contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportation operations. The contract, signed with the...
Read MoreNever before in American history have so few had so much wealth and power. Today, the top one per cent owns more wealth than the...
Read MoreGavin Newsom’s recent mockery of Donald Trump proves that imitation isn’t always the sincerest form of flattery. Amid the ongoing battle over congressional redistricting, Newsom’s...
Read MoreWe are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end...
Read MoreAmid the ruins of the building that was once the Tehran home of the Iranian nuclear scientist Ahmadreza Zolfaghari, workmen are underway demolishing the remains,...
Read MoreTexas House achieves quorum as Democrats return to statehouse The Texas House achieved quorum today for the first time in two weeks since state Democrats...
Read MoreThe extraordinary arrests of the journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort last week are a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the press...
Read MoreActing attorney general claims Comey ‘threatened the life of the president’ in announcing charges At a news conference on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the former defense...
Read MoreRepublicans and Democrats have been engaged in a political tug of war in legislatures, courts and the ballot box to narrow the battlefield of 2026...
Read MoreOpening summary: Trump says more oil tankers will be seized near Venezuela Good morning, US President Donald Trump has said he was leaving the possibility...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Tuesday announced a naval blockade of “sanctioned oil vessels” leaving and heading to Venezuela, sharply escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas. The...
Read MoreWhile colleges and universities slow down during summer break, Ahniwake Rose is busy wondering what the fall semester will hold for the nation’s 37 tribal...
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump posted during his first term on what was then called Twitter, his attacks and rants differed significantly from US federal agency staff’s...
Read MoreA Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country...
Read MoreThe secretary of state of the United States of America is openly slopping around in a pair of too-big shoes that he has to wear...
Read MoreExperts, officials and lawmakers decry Trump administration’s rollback on landmark climate finding Dharna Noor In response to the Trump administration’s rescission of the endangerment finding...
Read MoreA divided US appeals court on Tuesday allowed US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, to resume her role at the agency, as Donald...
Read MoreToday’s recap Democrats took a victory lap after Tuesday’s election day wins with the chair of Democratic National Committee saying the party “is all gas,...
Read MoreThe White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night was upended by gunshots, prompting the immediate evacuation of Donald and Melania Trump. Hundreds of guest including...
Read MoreThe Senate on Tuesday gave swift approval to legislation that will force the release of investigative files related to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, following...
Read MoreClosing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi,...
Read MoreTrump: nothing will be good enough for ‘lunatics’ requesting Epstein files US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had asked the justice department...
Read MoreIn another one of those strange and unprecedented moments of the Trump years, the president of the United States showed up at the supreme court...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s mega-bill has been widely criticized in the press. News outlets and Democrats have warned that millions of people could be stripped of their...
Read MoreAbout 700 US marines were en route to Los Angeles on Tuesday after Donald Trump mobilized them the day before in response to protests over...
Read MoreRalph Abraham, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s principal deputy director, has stepped down, the agency said on Monday, announcing the exit of...
Read MoreTrump says Ukraine is able to win back all the land it lost since the beginning of the invasion In a post on Truth Social,...
Read MoreThe US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey...
Read MoreA counseling program in Alabama for people with HIV, helping them get into treatment and housing. A training program in New Hampshire for first responders...
Read MoreTina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation...
Read MoreI am a proud Jewish American. My father fled Poland in 1921 to escape poverty and antisemitism. Those in his family who stayed were murdered...
Read MoreDonald Trump granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who had just begun a seven-year prison sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6bn...
Read MoreThe US supreme court has allowed Alabama to go ahead with its seventh execution using the contested method of nitrogen gas, a form of suffocation...
Read MoreEpstein survivors call out Trump’s justice department for ‘extreme redactions’ in latest file release Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse released a new...
Read MoreClosing summary Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a...
Read MoreAnyone planning to travel to a US city hosting World Cup matches this summer might want to leave now. World Cup travelers could face long...
Read MoreDoJ racing to redact documents ahead of deadline to release Epstein files – report Congress has mandated that the Trump administration release a trove of...
Read MoreThe US deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, announced on Friday that the justice department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Monday ordered the approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other...
Read MoreFederal 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...
Read MoreWhat to know about the anti-Trump No Kings protests Rachel Leingang Millions are expected to show out for protests on Saturday at more than 2,500...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of...
Read MoreMyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal...
Read MoreWhat a real pro-family agenda looks like I think we all need a little cheering up, don’t you? So allow me to interrupt the steady...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a...
Read MoreUtah officials have released the county dispatch audio on the moment police were alerted to the shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday. Kirk...
Read MoreVice-president JD Vance’s attempt to deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s handling of the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has backfired, triggering...
Read MoreMadison Sheahan, a Trump ally and the second-ranking official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said on Thursday she was ditching her leadership position to...
Read MoreTwo West Virginia national guard members shot on Wednesday near the White House in Washington are in critical condition. The incident happened near the Farragut...
Read MoreThe Florida congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost said he was assaulted by a man who said Donald Trump would deport him at a party during the...
Read MoreClosing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Two West Virginia national guard...
Read MoreDonald Trump hand-delivered a personal letter from first lady Melania Trump to Russian leader Vladimir Putin raising the plight of Ukrainian and Russian children caught...
Read MoreUS officials have issued an urgent appeal for help from the public as they continue to search for the shooter of conservative activist Charlie Kirk,...
Read MoreThe White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Thursday that a significant drawdown of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota was under way and he...
Read MoreThe words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have...
Read MoreMamdani triumphs on strong night for the Democrats It was an encouraging night for the left in America with Democratic wins in three key races...
Read MoreThe justice department on Thursday asked election officials in Fulton county, Georgia, to turn over records related to the 2020 election, a request that underscores...
Read MoreThe homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said that all federal agents in Minneapolis will immediately begin wearing body cameras and that the program will be...
Read MoreBen Meiselas is a very busy man. So busy, he has to break off halfway through our interview to conduct an interview of his own,...
Read MoreWith months of escalation between US cities and the Trump administration amid the deployment of national guard troops, former military officials released a report on...
Read MoreLess than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation, several documents within...
Read MoreWhen the United States celebrated its bicentennial on 4 July 1976, it marked the occasion with the opening of the National Air and Space Museum’s...
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long...
Read MoreWith the unveiling of the prospective Trump presidential library, which, in its timing and substance looked for all the world like an April fool, the...
Read MoreDowning Street was forced to insist that Britain will not yield sovereignty over the Falkland Islands after a leaked Pentagon email proposed the US should...
Read MoreSenator Bernie Sanders introduces resolution to stop arms sales to Israel Senator Bernie Sanders just spoke on the Senate floor in support of two resolutions...
Read More‘We made history’: Mamdani celebrates after shocking Cuomo in New York City mayoral primary Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. We start...
Read MoreTrump threatens to take ‘federal control’ of DC after Doge staffer attack Hello, and welcome to the day’s live US politics coverage. I’m Shrai Popat...
Read MoreDonald Trump promoted the false claim that Barack Obama has earned $40m in “royalties linked to Obamacare” in a post to his 11 million followers...
Read MoreSaturday’s US strikes on Iran provoked conflicting reactions from isolationist Republicans who support Donald Trump’s Make America great again (Maga) movement, catching them – like...
Read MoreWhen a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the...
Read MoreThe US Department of Justice has moved to eliminate rules protecting LGBTQ+ people from sexual abuse in prisons, a shift advocates say is “reckless and...
Read MoreCalifornia’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation that will ask the state’s voters to decide in November if they approve of redrawn congressional districts that tilt...
Read MoreWhen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection agents descended on North Carolina last month, many local businesses were ready to push...
Read MoreWhen Senate Democrats decided in September to use the government funding bill to put up a fight over expiring healthcare subsides, it set the stage...
Read MoreRepublican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado...
Read MoreHouse oversight committee releases image of entire Epstein birthday album, with letter attributed to Trump The Republican-led House oversight committee has released digital images of...
Read MoreMarkwayne Mullin defended his ability to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and expressed regrets for comments he made about a US citizen killed...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s call for Republicans to back the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, an abrupt reversal, is a rare instance of the president being...
Read MoreThe failure of negotiations to end the US war with Iran has unleashed a barrage of starkly partisan political responses, with leading Republicans making hawkish...
Read MoreIt was a lovely May evening in Leavenworth, Kansas, but instead of strolling along the Missouri River or gardening, a group of locals sat on...
Read MoreThe governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is widely regarded as one of the Democratic party’s leading contenders for the 2028 presidential election. He has also...
Read MoreLate-night hosts tore into Donald Trump’s intimidation tactics at the supreme court hearing on birthright citizenship and another judge’s order to halt construction of his...
Read MoreMarco Rubio impostor using AI to contact multiple senior officials – report An unknown fraudster has used artificial intelligence to impersonate the US secretary of...
Read MoreA long-awaited Department of Defense report found that US defense secretary Pete Hegseth violated departmental policies and put troops in danger when he shared secret...
Read MoreDonald and Melania Trump appeared in good spirits as they settled in on the high table at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC...
Read MoreThe reaction speed of southern states to the US supreme court’s decision last week in Louisiana v Callais has been breathtaking for voting rights activists....
Read MoreZohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, and Donald Trump had a ‘productive’ meeting in the Oval Office. The president repeatedly stepped in to...
Read MoreSenate kicks off vote-a-rama on ‘big, beautiful bill’ as GOP scrambles to meet 4 July deadline The Senate resumed its final debate on the “big,...
Read MoreDonald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the...
Read MoreAfter a year of effusive praise and expressions of love for each other, Elon Musk and Donald Trump exploded their political partnership in dramatic fashion...
Read MoreMaps can guide us home. They show us where we are, where we have been and where we might go. Electoral maps can do something...
Read MoreA feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts – things you...
Read MoreTrump administration officials have defended carrying out a follow-up strike on a drug boat that killed survivors on 2 September by arguing that its objective...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Saturday authorized the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass protests with police...
Read MoreDonald Trump hopes of extricating himself from his war on Iran were dealt another blow on Saturday after Tehran closed the strait of Hormuz again...
Read MorePope Leo came top with 42%. Donald Trump was just behind with 41%. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) scored 38% and TV host Stephen Colbert...
Read MoreDemocracy may be dying in the US. Whether the patient receives emergency treatment in time will determine whether the condition becomes terminal. Before Donald Trump’s...
Read MoreA recent graduate of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been held in an ICE processing center in Basile, Louisiana, for the...
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long...
Read MoreBernie Sanders will on Wednesday make a probably unsuccessful attempt to block sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel that will double as a litmus...
Read MoreAmazon’s Melania Trump documentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking $7m at...
Read MoreDonald Trump on Friday morning launched a fresh defense of his conduct in the Jeffrey Epstein case after the scandal deepened on Thursday following a...
Read MoreIt’s not straightforward, trying to assess a book written by someone whose stature and reputation loom large over the text. I have not read any...
Read MoreShockingly, inexplicably, Donald Trump keeps finding new places to put his face. Also, his name. Or initials. Or one of those drawings of a turkey...
Read MoreKeir Starmer has said the conflict engulfing the Middle East could continue “for some time” as he insisted the best way forward in the longer...
Read MoreMamdani celebrated with his mother, Mira Nair, his wife, Rama Duwaji, and his father, Mahmood Mamdani Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian Share on Facebook Share...
Read MoreDonald Trump is a despot and the US is a democracy. These things can be true simultaneously but not indefinitely. There is now deadlock in...
Read MoreThe US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed a list of “sanctuary” states, cities and counties from its website following sharp criticism from a sheriffs’...
Read MoreBill and Hillary Clinton announced they would not comply with a subpoena demanding congressional testimony about their relationships to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, while...
Read MoreUS revokes visas from six foreign nationals for social media comments critical of Charlie Kirk In a stunning departure for an administration that came to...
Read MoreDuring an early March appearance on CNBC, the Paramount Skydance chief executive, David Ellison, cited a statistic he has come to rely on when laying...
Read More‘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...
Read MoreCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom on Trump: ‘He’s hoping for chaos’ On Sunday, California governor Gavin Newsom urged protestors to stay peaceful, saying that Donald Trump...
Read MoreDemocrat Eileen Higgins was elected mayor of Miami on Tuesday night in a stunning upset victory that reversed a run of recent Republican successes in...
Read MoreThe scene around Washington’s Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seemed to fit Donald Trump’s most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal...
Read MoreIn the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good, Congresswoman Robin Kelly has announced the filing of three articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem,...
Read MoreRepublican US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she believes in demons, surmising that they might be aliens who fell from heaven, and claims...
Read MoreNew York City’s mayoral race is heating up, with Zohran Mamdani, the young progressive who leapt ahead of establishment figures in the primary to win...
Read MoreThe US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in...
Read MoreIt appears Donald Trump is following through on his threats to reduce US military presence in Europe. The Pentagon announced on Friday that 5,000 troops...
Read MoreThe county of Louisa in eastern Iowa is so rural that there is not a single stoplight on its roads, and its largest town, Wapello,...
Read MoreClosing summary This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to an end for the day. The president is ensconced at his Palm...
Read MoreDonald Trump has trapped himself in his war with Iran by announcing that his intention is regime change. That uncertain objective is linked to his...
Read MoreFor about 2,000 students attending high school in Dayton, Ohio, there won’t be a bus in sight when they walk out the door for the...
Read MoreI read Zoe Williams’ piece on Americans renouncing their citizenship with particular and personal interest (‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the...
Read MoreEuropean stock markets have edged higher and cryptocurrencies rebounded amid signs that a new front in the US-China trade war may not be a severe...
Read MoreMass firings of US federal workers have begun, as Republicans work to exert pressure on Democrat lawmakers to end a government shutdown. The White House...
Read MoreThe US is set to lose between $7bn and $14bn as a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown, according to the congressional budget office....
Read MoreThe Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC...
Read MoreThe Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based...
Read MoreJD Vance has weighed in on Donald Trump’s feud with Pope Leo, effectively telling the pontiff to stay in his lane after the head of...
Read MoreDonald Trump has floated the idea of ending the filibuster – a procedural technique in Congress that allows a minority of senators to block legislation...
Read MoreDonald Trump spent the night at his family-owned golf resort in Scotland but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration, claiming...
Read MoreTrump administration asks supreme court to allow deployment of national guard in Chicago area The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to...
Read MoreThe list of musical artists canceling gigs at the Kennedy Center, which Donald Trump has attempted to rename the “Trump-Kennedy Center”, in Washington DC continues...
Read MoreBenjamin Netanyahu arrived back in Israel on Friday without a ceasefire in the Gaza war despite heady predictions from US and Israeli officials that this...
Read MoreAs a US battle group steamed to the Gulf in November 2002, competing Iraqi exiles, some championed by American insiders, jockeyed for position in the...
Read MoreThe suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the...
Read MoreUS 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...
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Read MoreBrandon 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...
Read MoreAs Donald Trump reels from political fallout related to his justice department’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, the US president has directed his loyal...
Read MorePope Leo XIV, born in Dolton, Illinois, and a White Sox baseball fan, has been anointed by Chicagoans as the “South Side Pope”, appearing via...
Read More‘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...
Read MoreDonald Trump has dismissed Iran’s latest peace proposals as stupid and denied he was under any domestic pressure to reach a deal. Referring to the...
Read MoreDonald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today...
Read MoreDowning Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on...
Read MoreA US appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood health centers in 22 states and...
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Read MorePresident Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday....
Read MoreA group of progressive politicians and advocates are reframing emissions-cutting measures as a form of economic populism as the Trump administration derides climate policy as...
Read MoreBefore sexual assault allegations ended his California gubernatorial bid, representative Eric Swalwell had carved out a niche as one of the Democrats most enthusiastically willing...
Read MoreThe second and final debate before early voting in New York City’s mayoral race was a bitter affair, with sharp exchanges and few courtesies. Zohran...
Read MoreThe day so far Vote-a-rama is under way in the Senate on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that would enact his domestic tax and spending agenda...
Read MoreTrump and Starmer to meet in Scotland with trade deal on the agenda Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s standing with Hispanic adults has dropped notably since he took office at the start of the year, according to a new poll. Polling...
Read MoreNew York City’s three mayoral candidates, Independent Andrew Cuomo, Democrat Zohran Mamdani, and Republican Curtis Sliwa, faced off in the first general election debate in...
Read MoreFirst responders brief Trump in Kerr county Donald Trump was greeted in Kerrville, Texas, by Governor Greg Abbott. The president is there to observe recovery...
Read MoreA visit to downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, hours after Donald Trump falsely declared the city “war ravaged” to justify the deployment of federal troops,...
Read MoreWashington is negotiating with Havana’s leadership to strike a deal, Donald Trump has said, days after threatening Cuba’s reeling economy with a virtual oil blockade....
Read MoreWilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings – open meeting violations and other discrepancies...
Read MorePetition to trigger House vote on release of Epstein files reaches required total Shortly after Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of...
Read MoreThe Trump administration’s ICE raids across southern California have had disastrous effects on the region’s immigrants and swept up US citizens in the process, community...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Friday that he expected more people whom he considers his political enemies to face criminal charges, a day after the justice...
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Read MoreHakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader and New York Democratic congressman, said Donald Trump had “manufactured a crisis” to justify sending federalized national guard troops...
Read More“Mandarin hotel! Out of Puerto Rico!” was the refrain of dozens of demonstrators on 21 April 2025 as they took over the lobby of the...
Read MoreThe US and China have agreed to substantially lower tariffs on each other’s goods for 90 days after negotiations. Speaking in Geneva, the US treasury...
Read MoreA Texas-sized showdown is brewing deep in the heart of the largest red state in the US. As early voting begins on Tuesday for the...
Read MoreIn a combative series of interviews on Sunday, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said that “both sides are going to have to make...
Read MoreA federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin...
Read MorePart of Donald Trump’s pitch to voters was that, if he became president again, he would rein in government spending and not send US troops...
Read MoreHouse passes bill to reopen government, Trump plans to sign measure after dinner with Wall Street bankers The House voted 222-209 to approve legislation to...
Read MoreA trove of documents related to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was has been released by the US justice department. Comprised of thousands of...
Read MoreThe man charged with killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is expected...
Read MoreSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has accused Donald Trump and his administration of turning the Department of Justice into “personal attack dogs against their political...
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Read MoreInvestigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC...
Read MoreDonald Trump has tried his usual tactics when it comes to getting the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates: bully when persuasion doesn’t work,...
Read MoreJoseph Tirrell was reaching the end of a vacation on 11 July, and watching TV at home. He checked his email on his phone and...
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Read MoreDonald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a senior Kremlin official last month that achieving peace in Ukraine would require Russia gaining control of Donetsk...
Read MoreThe University of Michigan regent Jordan Acker, who helped lead the university’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian students, appears to have made obscene sexual comments about a...
Read MoreA federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities....
Read MoreTurning Point USA, the influential rightwing college group founded by Charlie Kirk, has brought Kirk’s message to a campus with a long history of leftwing...
Read MoreMamdani: ‘In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light’ In a defiant speech, Mamdani vowed to change to city hall –...
Read MoreThe FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, confirmed on Wednesday that he is stepping down in January. In a statement posted on social media, Bongino thanked...
Read MoreOn a Tuesday in December, a Guardian reporter and photographer set out around Atlanta to ask people how they felt about food, 11 months into...
Read MoreToday’s recap Democrats took a victory lap after Tuesday’s election day wins with the chair of Democratic National Committee saying the party “is all gas,...
Read MoreA federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreA group of 40 House Democrats have described “grave concerns” over the Trump administration’s secretive program of deportation flights and demanded the Federal Aviation Administration
A group of 40 House Democrats have described “grave concerns” over the Trump administration’s secretive program of deportation flights and demanded the Federal Aviation Administration