Utah’s Republican-controlled legislature is escalating its fight against the state’s anti-gerrymandering law after a series of court rulings threatened the congressional map that has long...

Donald Trump has promised not to attack Iran before November’s US midterm elections, outlining a pause on the protracted war he has struggled to end...

Last week, the US supreme court ruled that Idaho and West Virginia can continue enforcing their bans on transgender athletes playing on girls’ and women’s...

Thousands of people from across the country descended on Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, on Saturday. They arrived by bus, by car and by plane...

Trump says US must be ‘very careful’ in removing mandates for ‘vaccines that are so amazing’ Asked about Florida’s move to lift mandates on vaccinations...

After spending weeks accusing Nigeria’s government of failing to tackle the persecution of Christians, Donald Trump announced a series of strikes on the west African...

Donald Trump is gravely serious about running for a third term in violation of the US constitution, California governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday, warning...

Edwin Torres DeSantiago received a text message on Wednesday morning as he was tracking immigration enforcement across Minneapolis – a person was shot by ICE...

When Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he claimed it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it...

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

Construction crews have started demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House to make way for Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, prompting widespread criticism...

In the global attention economy, one titan looms over all others. Donald Trump can command the gaze of the world at a click of those...

Donald Trump says he considers Sean ‘“Diddy” Combs “sort of half-innocent” despite his criminal conviction in federal court in July – but the president called...

DOJ announces charges against five men for alleged plot to attack UFC White House event The justice department has announced charges against five men for...

US supreme court announces funding will run out this weekend The US supreme court is expected to run out of federal funding on Saturday, according...

During a White House ceremony on 9 April 1963, then president John F Kennedy bestowed honorary citizenship on former prime minister Winston Churchill, remembering how...

Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, began the first edition of her YouTube show with a vow to unmask “the evil-doers” attempting to bring down...

Brash and bellicose, he sounded more like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman. “Death and destruction from the sky all day long,” Pete Hegseth,...

As soon as Oscar’s deportation flight landed at the La Lima airport in Honduras, he put on his baseball cap. On the airport shuttle toward...

Fourteen months after Robert F Kennedy Jr was sworn in as US health secretary, the country’s prime public health agency over which he presides is...

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran, oyster farmer and progressive activist, has won the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in Maine. Platner won 72% of...

You report that Donald Trump claims that the only thing limiting his power as commander-in-chief is his “own morality” (‘I don’t need international law’: Trump...

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A key chapter in the fascist playbook has always been to convince the public that it is living in such a state of mortal danger...

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and...

After a scramble in the Senate, Republicans voted on Saturday to advance Trump’s signature “big, beautiful” bill, with a 51-49 vote. Republicans had been divided...

US President Donald Trump has said his administration intends to maintain a pause on asylum decisions for “a long time”, after an Afghan national allegedly...

The US supreme court is hearing oral arguments over Donald Trump’s bid to fire a Federal Reserve governor this morning, as his administration continues its...

Four days after JD Vance reportedly asked top Trump administration officials to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around...

As Abba’s Dancing Queen played, Donald Trump walked across a lawn featuring cornhole, oversized Connect Four, a ferris wheel and a food tent offering short...

If you’ve been listening to the Trump administration this week, you would be forgiven for being confused about who started the war, why America got...

The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review...

Burnham says ‘public will be the boss’ in any future decisions about closer relationship with EU Burnham confirmed that he wanted to open a discussion...

A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors...

Donald 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...

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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...

Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu has hit back sharply at the Trump administration’s legal threats over sanctuary city immigration policies, declaring that “Boston will not back...

Jimmy Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday saying Donald Trump “tried his best” to cancel him, but instead forced millions of people to watch his...

An African elephant weighing roughly 4 tons that was brought to the Texas Republican party’s annual convention to excite attenders ended up drawing widespread attention...

On Wednesday morning, Pedro Sánchez delivered a 10-minute televised address with the rather bland title: “An institutional declaration by the prime minister to assess recent...

The outbreak of hantavirus on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius illuminates major gaps in the US public health system – a worrying sign for...

The Trump administration has waived a slew of environmental and historical preservation laws that would allow it to build a towering border wall that cuts...

Amid an unprecedented energy crisis and the rapid buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure, progressive lawmakers have unveiled a new policy to place a moratorium on...

Federal agents can resume sweeping immigration operations in Los Angeles after the US supreme court lifted an order barring the Donald Trump administration from stopping...

As federal immigration crackdowns in Minnesota continued on Tuesday, an initial report to Congress from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained by various news...

A week after Donald Trump made a series of misleading claims about vaccines – including that some injections look “like the size of a soda...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Rachel Leingang A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against...

After a year in which US journalists faced a dramatic increase in violence from law enforcement, news organizations and advocacy groups have recently tried to...

Leavitt insists that Lindsey Halligan was legally appointed after federal judge tosses out indictments The White House press secretary insisted that Lindsey Halligan, the interim...

The US education department said on Monday it had terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding...

Unpaid forced leave and mass firings are hardly the first things to spring to mind as hallmarks of a golden age of the American worker....

A US appeals court has rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting before November’s high-stakes midterm elections, dealing a fresh blow...

Deputy attorney general planning to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell ‘in coming days’ As the Republican party remains in a state of flux over the Jeffrey...

Democratic Virginia House speaker says legislature will ‘respect’ Supreme court decision Don Scott, the Democratic speaker of the Virginia House, said that the legislature will...

Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under the Biden administration, was one of the first officials to be fired by...

Donald Trump has cast doubt on the prospect of a diplomatic breakthrough by claiming Iran had not yet “paid a big enough price” for its...

This week the bipartisan furor over Donald Trump’s $1.8bn slush fund escalated to the point that the administration balked, saying they are no longer moving...

Trump urges Microsoft to fire Lisa Monaco, who coordinated investigation of Trump’s effort to overturn 2020 election After a frustrating morning of watching American golfers...

Jessica Plichta was arrested on 3 January after a live interview with a local news station about a Grand Rapids, Michigan, protest against the Trump...

Senior Trump official says president hasn’t decided when to nominate replacement for Lisa Cook Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council,...

A congressional hearing on Tuesday titled “How the Corruption of Science Has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines” largely consisted of a debate over...

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 Massachusetts woman who told police that she brought homemade firebombs to the US Capitol to kill Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, was sentenced...

Lawyers for Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor, called Trump administration allegations of mortgage fraud against her “baseless” on Monday and accused the administration of...

In the last US Senate hearing before Kristi Noem’s ouster, some of the fiercest criticism the homeland security secretary received came not from outraged Democrats,...

Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California – a highly...

The FBI is investigating an apparent impersonator who pretended to be the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in texts and calls to her...

The family of 18-year-old Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz was shocked when they found out that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) had discreetly moved him out of...

Elections too often get pigeonholed. The hot take, or simplistic analysis, would have it that just one issue – often the issue the source so...

Federal prosecutors examined whether Donald Trump showed a classified map to people on his plane after his first term, including to his now White House...

Wisconsin voters sent another liberal justice to the state supreme court, with Chris Taylor beating the conservative Maria Lazar and giving liberals a 5-2 edge...

White House would back forensic analysis of signature on Epstein letter Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics amid the ongoing...

A US civil rights agency has sued a bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products it accuses of sex discrimination over an employee networking event that...

Two unvaccinated individuals have died of measles in Pennsylvania, state health officials announced on Tuesday. The deaths are the first in the state in 35...

Republican congressman Thomas Massie challenged Donald Trump on Sunday over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on...

US health officials are reportedly planning to release data on child deaths and serious side effects they would attribute to Covid-19 vaccines, raising alarm among...

Late-night hosts recapped Markwayne Mullin’s risible confirmation hearing for homeland security secretary and Maga’s struggles to sell the war in Iran to sticker-shocked Americans. Stephen...

Joe Walsh half jumped out of his seat when discussion at the Third Way conference in Charleston turned to how Democrats sound to voters. “Tone!...

Donald Trump on Wednesday revoked a 2021 executive order on promoting competition in the US economy issued by Joe Biden, the White House said. The...

Organizers challenging Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map say they turned in enough signatures on Tuesday to block the map from going into effect and to force...

Before he announced his Senate candidacy, a political hopeful in Virginia did something not so unusual in this day and age: he logged on to...

A divided US appeals court on Tuesday allowed US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, to resume her role at the agency, as Donald...

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Kilmar Ábrego García has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania after a federal judge in Maryland ordered his release on Thursday. Ábrego...

A staffer for Missouri Republican senator Eric Schmitt was previously fired from Ron DeSantis’s unsuccessful presidential campaign after making a video containing neo-Nazi imagery, and...

Donald Trump has announced that the US will “guide” ships trapped by the Iran war out of the Gulf through the strait of Hormuz on...

Trump tells Republicans not to deal with Democrats until voting law passed Donald Trump urged Republicans in Congress to hold the line and not make...

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Fury at Donald Trump was the coin of the realm, as thousands of California delegates, activists and elected officials gathered in San Francisco this weekend,...

Top Democrats erupted with fury on Friday and challenged more Republicans to respond to Donald Trump posting a racist video that depicted Barack and Michelle...

The US supreme court has ruled that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map, in a landmark decision that effectively guts a major section...

The Democratic nominee for governor in Iowa bluntly answered a question that scores of national Democrats have thus far refused to respond to. Asked by...

A new Trump administration rule allows hunters to bait bears on federal lands in Alaska with bacon, doughnuts, meat scraps or other human foods typically...

On 2 June, at St Mark’s Episcopal church in Washington DC, people packed the sanctuary – elders in denim jackets, seminarians in collars, organizers clutching...

Opening summary: Trump says more oil tankers will be seized near Venezuela Good morning, US President Donald Trump has said he was leaving the possibility...

Donald Trump has escalated tensions between Washington and one of its closest Latin American allies, declaring the US will slash assistance to Colombia and enact...

The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a...

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...