Reactions on social media to the murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk have cost multiple people their jobs as authorities in numerous states clamp down...

Trump suggests there was no foul play in Graham’s death Donald Trump was also asked why the FBI was looking into the death of senator...

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

At least seven of the nine featured musical acts set to play in a concert series organized by the Trump administration to mark the United...

David Scott, a Georgia congressman and moderate Democrat representing Atlanta’s southern suburbs since 2003, has died at the age of 80. Scott’s health had been...

The Trump administration has reversed its decision to revoke the legal status of a four-year-old girl, receiving ongoing life-saving treatment in the US, and her...

You should keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and Stephen and Katie Miller as far away from your general vicinity as humanly possible. Many...

Dispatches: Trump – Moscow’s Man in the White House 9pm, Channel 4This film promises to be an explosive behind-the-scenes investigation into the biggest political story...

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

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...

Stanford University will cut $140m from its budget in the coming academic year, citing “consequences from federal policy changes” including “reductions in federal research support...

Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that the US military will begin integrating Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks. Speaking at the SpaceX...

Donald Trump told hundreds of supporters assembled inside a packaging plant in northern Kentucky on Wednesday that Iran’s military and nuclear capabilities had been significantly...

Doctors, lawmakers condemn Trump order calling for sweeping changes to childhood vaccines Medical experts and lawmakers are blasting Donald Trump’s executive order calling for sweeping...

On Thursday night, Donald Trump did it again, trashing another American tradition with his primetime address from the White House’s East Room about election integrity....

A top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories...

Across the country, Americans who depend on government help to buy groceries are preparing for the worst. As a result of the ongoing federal government...

Growing pressure on the Trump administration has prompted the US president to direct his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to seek the release of grand jury...

Trump ‘wouldn’t have wanted’ second strike on Caribbean boat Speaking to reporters on Air Force One yesterday, the president defended Hegseth, saying he believed his...

Donald Trump has said he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, possibly this year, in an attempt to revive the failed nuclear diplomacy...

Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he will raise US tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario...

The email landed in Lizzie Johnson’s in-tray in Ukraine just before 4pm local time. It came at a tough time for the reporter: Russia had...

Todd Blanche’s hopes of becoming US attorney general seemed to be in jeopardy on Wednesday after the Department of Justice did not provide written assurances...

Leslie Simon and Marc Bender had arrived in Havana for a 10-day holiday, despite their president’s repeated threats of military action against Cuba. The two...

Dozens of Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at US senator Chuck Schumer’s New York City office on Friday, leading to mass arrests as elected officials joined activists...

The FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, confirmed on Wednesday that he is stepping down in January. In a statement posted on social media, Bongino thanked...

Trump police takeover will create ‘immediate, devastating, and irreparable harm’ for DC, federal lawsuit says According to the federal lawsuit filed by the DC government...

California lawmakers have passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses as the Trump administration continues...

Donald Trump gave a rambling, freewheeling address at the Charlie Kirk memorial in Alabama on Sunday, taking aim at Joe Biden and trailing a major...

Amid escalating tensions with Venezuela and US military strikes on suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean, the US admiral who commands military forces in Latin...

Iran and the US are expected to meet for a further round of talks in Geneva this week in a sign that Donald Trump’s team...

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...

Trump signs order raising H1-B visa fee to $100,000 The Trump administration officially announced plans to raise the fee companies pay to sponsor H‑1B workers...

A federal judge on Friday halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren’t considering race in admissions. The...

The US Department of Justice is expected to release files relating to the disgraced late financier and sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, this evening. The Trump...

An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s...

Oregon’s governor says she told Kristi Noem ‘there is no insurrection in Oregon’ There was a bit of an unexplained delay earlier between Kristi Noem’s...

The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve, a significant escalation in Donald Trump’s extraordinary attack on...

‘We will not be bullied’: House Democrats confirm FBI requests for interviews over video to troops Four Democratic members of the US House, who appeared...

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has warned of “clashes and even conflicts” with the US over Taiwan after meeting Donald Trump in Beijing. Xi’s remarks, published...

As tanks rolled down Washington DC streets against the wishes of local leaders, mayors around the country planned for what they would do if the...

Eighteen American youth are demanding that a court immediately halt the Trump administration’s repeal of the scientific finding underpinning virtually all US climate regulations. The...

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right conspiracy theorist and bigot who also happens to be a Republican congresswoman,...

During his presidential campaign in October 2024, Donald Trump staged a photo op at a McDonald’s franchise in Pennsylvania, where he was briefly taught how...

As the adage goes: no plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy. Donald Trump entered the war with Iran with maximalist goals: eliminating...

More than 330,000 Haitian immigrants in the US are set to lose their ability to legally live and work in the country as the Trump...

A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction, a victory for the developer who said...

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...

A controversial law that grants the US government sweeping powers for warrantless surveillance is set to expire next week. Replacing it has inspired fierce debate...

It turns out that Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “candidate of peace”, is just as eager to start new wars. Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump...

As the US government shutdown stretched into its second day, Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the funding lapse as an “unprecedented opportunity” to further his...

On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer...

The 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...

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

Trump press secretary denies US position on Iran regime change has altered White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked just now about Trump’s statements...

This Fourth of July marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence promised liberty and equality for all – even as it excluded most of...

Donald Trump has again said that the US has “total control over the strait of Hormuz”, adding that Iran’s leadership was so hobbled by infighting...

A White House envoy said on Sunday he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year...

Donald Trump on Thursday posted an AI-generated social media video portraying himself as a doctor who claims to have cured some of his most prominent...

If the controversy behind Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a series of dominoes that fell one after the other, from the late-night host making his comments...

Dana Williamson, a top California political strategist with ties to the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, and gubernatorial hopeful Xavier Becerra, pleaded guilty on Thursday to...

The Iranian deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, confirmed in the early hours of Monday an agreement for an “immediate end” to the US-Iranian war, and...

Donald Trump’s nominee for a top diplomatic post has been withdrawn from consideration after a growing backlash over his past remarks on race and Jewish...

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...

House Democrats filed six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, accusing the defense secretary of “high crimes and misdemeanors”, in reference to the...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has opened an internal investigation into allegations that Gregory Bovino, a senior border patrol official, made disparaging remarks about...

Closing summary It was election eve in many states across the country, which could be a test for how voters feel in the first year...

The firings of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been reversed, according to several reports citing officials familiar with the...

Donald Trump promised to slash US electricity bills, but they have increased by 11% since he retook the White House, new data shows. Democratic lawmakers...

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...

Donald Trump and JD Vance to be among tens of thousands at Charlie Kirk memorial Donald Trump, JD Vance and other senior US administration officials...

Pentagon officials told top lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that the cost of the war against Iran has already exceeded $11.3bn in its...

The day so far In a rebuke to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, the supreme court upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in...

A reclusive billionaire, anti-tax crusader and major financial backer of Donald Trump has been named as the anonymous private donor who gave $130m to the...

As US regulators restrict Covid mRNA vaccines and as independent vaccine advisers re-examine the shots, scientists fear that an unlikely target could be next: cancer...

When it comes to the rise of autocracy in America, Justice Potter Stewart’s famous pronouncement on pornography might be particularly appropriate at the moment: “I...

The Florida legislature approved a new congressional map intended to maximize Republicans’ advantage in the state as part of the national redistricting battle that Donald...

Donald Trump on Friday morning launched a fresh defense of his conduct in the Jeffrey Epstein case after the scandal deepened on Thursday following a...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet JD Vance and Mike Johnson today Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose...

US Customs and Border Protection implemented a rule this week that will require airlines to disregard “X” sex markers on passports and input an “M”...

Bernie Sanders on Wednesday led a failed effort to block the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel, but the votes revealed a growing appetite...

US president Donald Trump may meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin as early as next week to discuss the war in Ukraine, White House officials...

Some of America’s key allies have backed Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, after the president and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered an...

‘All we want is full transparency’: Jeffries calls on DoJ to ‘comply with the law’ and release full Epstein files House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries...

Suspect in Colorado flamethrower attack told police he targeted ‘Zionist group’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I...

Tyler Robinson appears in virtual court appearance Tyler Robinson is now appearing for his first, virtual court appearance from the Utah jail where he is...

Federal appeals court moves to reconsider ruling in Trump’s favor on Portland troop deployment A decision in Donald Trump’s favor by a three-judge panel issued...

The US justice department has released more than 3m pages of documents related to its investigation into the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...

On a cold January day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, workers at a Whole Foods Market store in the heart of the city made history. Organizers won...

Leavitt 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...

The Trump administration is targeting US sanctuary cities in the next phase of its deportation drive, after an off-duty law enforcement officer was allegedly shot...

The US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won...

Democrats think they can flip the Senate blue in November, and they’re hoping a group of interesting characters will help them do it. This week,...

The Trump administration has released solicitations for a grant program meant to stop gun violence in underserved communities. But this year, the non-profits the grant...

By now, it is an event as regular and predictable as the tides: a Democrat wins an election, and Donald Trump says that that election...

Stock markets slipped amid confusion as to when – and at what level – new US tariffs would be applied, as Donald Trump’s self-imposed 9...

A federal judge threw out the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James on Monday, concluding that the prosecutor handling the case was unlawfully...

Donald Trump has demanded that congressional Republicans get to work on a party-line measure that would ensure defense spending reaches its highest level in decades...

This February, a story broke that seemed like it might finally be the one. Reporters at NPR had noticed that there were pages missing from...