The Donald Trump aide Natalie Harp flooded a since-disabled social media account with pro-Trump posts on the day that the president’s supporters attacked the US...

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...

The execution of a former US army psychiatrist by firing squad is to be livestreamed after Pete Hegseth said it would be a public event....

Denmark and Greenland have said any agreement with the US to develop a significant military presence in the strategic Arctic territory will not compromise Greenland’s...

Epstein survivor describes abuse as lawmakers push for release of case files Survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and their advocates are rallying outside the...

Demonstrators clashed with federal immigration officials carrying out a raid on a farm in southern California, with authorities throwing what appeared to be smoke canisters...

A US-Iran ceasefire that began in early April has “terminated” hostilities between the two sides for the purposes of an approaching congressional war powers deadline,...

Newsom formally requests Trump administration rescind ‘unlawful’ deployment of national guard California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, said he has made a formal request to the Trump...

The Department of Justice on Friday released a long-awaited and huge tranche of documents detailing its investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a...

A Republican candidate for a key congressional district in Texas has come under scrutiny over a series of derogatory comments made about women in his...

Chris Stein More than 100 House Democrats on Wednesday voted to slash military aid to Israel, a significant rebuke of the longtime US ally as...

Let’s imagine it’s early 2031. Democrats hold a three-seat edge in the US House. California has just lost four seats to congressional reapportionment. Texas has...

Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche issued a formal order late on Sunday terminating Donald Trump’s $1.8bn “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a...

A federal jury in New Orleans on Thursday returned a split verdict after more than 30 hours of deliberations in a three-week-long blockbuster fraud and...

US military confirms 700 Marines are being deployed to Los Angeles amid protests The US military’s US Northern Command confirmed on Monday that a Marine...

Journalists from three US outlets were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning a day after Donald Trump said he would ban...

The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile...

Donald Trump signs order designating leftwing movement antifa as a domestic terror organization Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating ‘antifa’ as a domestic...

When Donald Trump launched a pre-emptive war on Iran with Israel in February, many in the country hailed the campaign as the crowning triumph of...

Sir Keir Starmer had years in opposition to prepare for government. His likely successor, Andy Burnham, has weeks. Unlike the outgoing prime minister, Mr Burnham will...

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump of Epstein ‘cover-up’ and calls for public testimony Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

Conservative backlash was supposed to put an end to the diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI) movement as companies were warned “go woke, go broke”. In...

Microsoft is suspended from applying for permanent residency for workers employed through a US visa program for high-skilled workers, JD Vance announced on Thursday. The...

In the late 19th century, after Reconstruction, US federal protections for Black voters began to erode. Southern states sought to reshape their electoral systems – through...

The stunning decision on Wednesday to suspend one of the United States’ most popular and influential late-night shows has come as Donald Trump and his...

Two US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate favored to win...

Last month, Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in congressional history, released a video advertisement in which she looks directly at the camera and says exactly...

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

The mezzanine floor of the Tampa Convention Center buzzes chaotically with rightwing chatter: conspiracy theories, grievance politics and Christian nationalism. Look in any direction and...

The only current American men’s UFC champion says he has been barred from Sunday’s fight card on the south lawn of the White House because...

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...

Donald Trump claimed he had found a way to pay US military troops despite the federal government shutdown, saying he had instructed his defence secretary,...

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...

Border patrol officers have become ubiquitous footsoldiers in Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, and lawyers and human rights advocates worry that the agency is expanding...

André spent 2025 trying to stay one step ahead of the Trump administration. Every morning, he woke up and downloaded as many government datasets as...

Texas House achieves quorum as Democrats return to statehouse The Texas House achieved quorum today for the first time in two weeks since state Democrats...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump, who is definitely...

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against...

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

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...

Just as voting was due to end in Brazil’s presidential runoff on 25 October, a supreme court justice ordered polling stations to stay open for...

Congressman Joaquin Castro met with five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father at the Dilley detention center in Texas today. In a post on social...

Obama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...

‘Dangerous power grab’: top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting Representative Robert Garcia, ranking member of the committee on oversight and government...

Days after Donald Trump announced a deal to import Russian diesel into the US in an effort to lower soaring pump prices, the world’s energy...

The United States has had its fair share of political dynasties – The Bushs, the Cheneys, the Kennedys… but has Donald Trump been quietly moulding...

Since Republicans last month slashed over $1bn in funds designated for public broadcasting, non-commercial TV and radio stations around the country have been reeling. The...

Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of “lying” on Sunday about the US congressman’s detention by armed settlers and Israeli soldiers during a...

On a quiet summer morning, above a small mid-western town, an American flag is waving in the breeze. The camera cuts to a father helping...

Benjamin Netanyahu has said the war with Iran will continue as long as the country has a stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which could...

When the Democratic party’s governing body adjourned its meeting on Saturday in New Orleans, supporters of Palestine and an end of the genocide in Gaza...

Donald Trump has labelled the continuing Epstein scandal a “Democrat hoax” and told reporters “I think it’s enough”, a day after his administration released more...

Farm workers in the US are reeling from the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, including increased raids and deportations, according to a new survey conducted...

The fallout between the US president, Donald Trump, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he...

The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, was in custody,...

The UK is expected to slash its contribution to a leading aid fund combating preventable diseases, with charities warning this could lead to more than...

Even by Trumpian standards, the event was promoted with intense hyperbole: nothing short, the US president suggested, of the “the most unforgettable birthday party any...

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...

This article is a collaboration between the Guardian and Enlace Latino NC, an independent bilingual publication. Read this article in Spanish. On a cold December...

The veteran civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who has died aged 84, made history when he stood for the White House in 1984 and 1988....

Trump plans to sign executive order restoring ‘Department of War’ name to Pentagon Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the...

US vice-president JD Vance has worn his religion on his sleeve since converting to Catholicism in 2019. He recently published a book, Communion: Finding My...

The relationship between the richest man in the world and the most powerful one has spectacularly exploded, as Elon Musk publicly agreed Donald Trump should...

Newsom says ‘democracy is under assault’ California governor Gavin Newsom has delivered a blistering address against the Trump administration, warning democracy is “under assault before...

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

The Republican senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday that he believed the White House adviser Stephen Miller “should go” and that his role in the...

The Democratic party and the climate movement have been “too cautious and polite” and should instead be denouncing the fossil fuel industry’s “huge denial operation”,...

Federal law enforcement agents searched a home in suburban Los Angeles early on Tuesday as part of an investigation into Eric Swalwell, who resigned from...

Washington was in a flurry late on Saturday as Donald Trump announced that the US had completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, directly...

A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, following reporting by the Guardian that...

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said Washington is expecting a response from Iran to its proposals for an interim deal to end...

Embattled FBI director Kash Patel has denied under oath recent allegations of excessive drinking and unexplained absences on the job, dismissing them as “baseless” during...

As two masked men dragged her into an unmarked SUV, Andrea Velez tried to focus on details she might later remember – one man’s red...

With the victory of progressive Abdul El-Sayed over representative Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic primary, prepare yourself to hear enormous quantities of bullshit about the...

In a different Washington, under a different president, a return to the well-worn playbook of all-out sanctions to counter Iran might have been the signal...

Chris Tackett started tracking extremism in Texas politics about a decade ago, whenever his schedule as a Little League coach and school board member would...

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...

The US Department of Justice has released the transcript and audio recording of an interview conducted by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, with the...

America’s main streets are a warzone. This should trouble every American, irrespective of their political leaning. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are near...

When the chief Republican budget writer took to the floor of the House of Representatives this week to tout a plan to spend tens of...

It was on 18 October 2024, just weeks before presidential election day that candidate Trump announced at a rally in Hamtramck, a small, diverse city...

The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said Nato allies were “very close, almost near consensus” to an agreement to significantly raise targets for defence spending...

Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around...

Nalia Mutz started her freshman year at the University of Lynchburg in 2022 knowing exactly where she wanted to be four years later: right on...

Joe Biden has said ‘these are dark days’ in the US, and accused the Trump administration of ‘doing its best to dismantle the constitution’ with...

Black voter turnout surged across US southern states where Republicans were accused of redrawing electoral maps to “diminish Black political power” in the wake of...

Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California’s national guard on the streets of Portland, Oregon, late on Sunday, the state’s...

The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just...

Trump suggests Saudi Arabia and Qatar sign Abraham accords as part of Iran peace deal In a new post on Truth Social, the US president,...

Swalwell’s campaign chairman resigns and calls on him to drop out of California governor’s race Congressman Jimmy Gomez, a Los Angeles Democrat who was the...

Monday It’s publication week for American Canto, the hastily turned around memoir by the former New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who took on the...

Donald Trump has been ordered by a US judge to cooperate with the discovery process mandated for his lawsuit against the BBC and to sit...

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it will furlough nearly half of its employees – around 34,000 workers – due to the ongoing government shutdown,...

House Democrats file six articles of impeachment against defense secretary Pete Hegseth Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, and colleagues including John Larson of...

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...

Trump would ‘fire’ Howard Lutnick if he saw video of testimony, say oversight Democrats Following closed-door testimony from Howard Lutnick before the House oversight committee...

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...

What happens when Elon Musk and a bunch of tech bros try to rip up the US government? Journalist Michael Lewis – the author of...

Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange...