As Donald Trump continues his drive to cull the federal workforce and consolidate his power, labor unions have emerged as some of his staunchest opponents....

Justice department to send federal monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey The justice department announced on Friday that it intends to send...

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

A federal judge has declined to stop the Pentagon from firing journalists who say they were illegally punished for speaking out about the need for...

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

Closing summary This brings our real-time chronicle of the second Trump administration to a close for the day. We will be back at it on...

Naveed Shah, a veteran and activist who served as an enlisted public affairs specialist – an army journalist – uncharacteristically found himself searching for words...

Trump refuses to answer ‘stupid question’ from Fox News about Russia helping Iran target Americans At the end of his White House roundtable on college...

Trump: ‘I view the strait of Hormuz as American territory’ Discussing the war with Iran at a South Carolina campaign event, Trump said: “I view...

Watching the Kamala Harris presidential campaign unfold last year, I remember thinking, and writing, about how striking it was that she had been rehabilitated almost...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suspended the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs that give approved participants a fast-track through bag...

Donald Trump on Saturday announced reforms intended to speed up access to medical research and treatment based on psychedelic drugs. The president signed an executive...

Donald Trump says he will be ‘not happy’ with any deal made over DHS funding Donald Trump sent mixed signals on a nascent deal emerging...

Washington 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....

Trump tells military generals ‘we’re under invasion from within’ “We’re under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many...

As national guard troops patrolled in Memphis – Tennessee’s second-largest city – for the first time on Friday, Democratic US senators Dick Durbin and Tammy...

Officials believe suspect may have targeted NFL in Manhattan office shooting, mayor Eric Adams says The gunman who opened fire in a Manhattan office building...

‘Your countries are going to hell’: recap of Donald Trump’s address to the UN general assembly In an address lasting almost an hour, more than...

As questions still swirl about the six people found dead inside a baking-hot railway car in Texas, immigration advocates warn that the US is about...

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...

Donald Trump’s administration is facing questions over whether it is using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “surveil political opponents” after after an investigative agent...

Labor unions, community leaders and faith groups are calling for an economic blackout in Minnesota on Friday to protest the surge of federal immigration agents...

Patty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents...

The polls did not look good for New York progressives this winter when the Working Families party began making its endorsements for city elections. An...

‘I want to see the truth come out,’ Hillary Clinton says after testimony to House committee on Epstein In a televised statement to reporters after...

Here’s a recap of the oral arguments at the supreme court Justices appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s argument to restrict birthright citizenship for hundreds...

Some historians are wary of discussing their work in light of modern events, comparing subjects to current political players. Not Matthew Pinsker of Dickinson College,...

The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said...

A US judge dismissed a criminal indictment against Kilmar Ábrego García on Friday, finding that the Trump administration would not have prosecuted him had he...

Opening Summary Videos emerged on Wednesday of a previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal agents, 11 days before the ICU nurse was fatally shot...

It’s an energizing time for democratic socialists across the country, and not only because New York state assembly member Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the...

CBS News was dealing with internal and external uproar on Monday after it pulled at the last minute an investigation for its flagship 60 Minutes...

Donald Trump’s administration ratcheted up its defence of the US’s weekend attacks on Iran, citing “new intelligence” to support its initial claim of complete success...

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...

Donald Trump changed the channel from Iran to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club...

Elon Musk mocks Trump’s claim Epstein files are a hoax In a series of posts on his social media platform X, Elon Musk mocked Donald...

In late August, the White House posted a real photograph on social media of a bald eagle standing atop the limp neck of a Canada...

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...

The Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing clean car rules that had been aimed at reducing planet-heating emissions and boosting electric vehicles. The...

The US military announced the killing of another two men in “a lethal kinetic strike”on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in...

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...

US airlines again canceled more than 1,000 flights on Saturday, the second day of the Federal Aviation Administration’s order to reduce air traffic because of...

The 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...

A Republican attempt to censure Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic delegate, over her real-time texts with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein collapsed on the House floor on Tuesday...

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

House Republicans passed Donald Trump’s funding cut proposal just after midnight on Friday – clawing back $9bn in federal dollars. The vote was split on...

National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday that she had stripped security clearances from 37 current and former national security officials, including some who...

The CEO of a Michigan credit union is no longer employed there, according to the organization, after she posted on social media what appeared to...

Dynamism, courage, and wit are words that few are likely to associate with the mainstream Democratic party, particularly after its capitulation to Republicans’ budget demands...

What 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...

Israeli military launches fresh strikes on Iran The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in the last hour that it had begun an “additional wave” of...

Donald 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,...

Days after pleading not guilty to conspiracy charges, Emmett Doyle took the stage at a dive bar in Minneapolis, and performed an Irish protest ballad....

Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled on...

Was it his charisma, communication skills or his captivating short-form videos? His high-profile endorsements or his clothing style? These elements were said to have contributed...

Sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. On the...

ICE kills man in Maine: what we know so far An ICE officer has fatally shot a man in Maine during what authorities described as...

Wali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat – or influencer – will decide his research is “woke”. He doesn’t have to...

Donald Trump has earned more than $1bn from his crypto businesses since returning to the White House, according to recent financial disclosures. Amid questions of...

The John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4...

Donald Trump’s move to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran came as those inside his orbit who were opposed to US intervention in the conflict...

More White House firings could be coming – reports Donald Trump is said to be considering removing other officials in his cabinet after forcing Pam...

Trump’s ‘antifa roundtable’ airs grievances of partisan conservative influencers So far, all of the fact witnesses contributing testimony at the White House “antifa roundtable” hosted...

When news broke that a safely Democratic seat in New York’s wealthiest congressional district was becoming vacant, it was inevitable that there would be a...

It was a gift to conspiracy theorists. Last week, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the alien.gov and aliens.gov web domains, adding both...

The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Federal Reserve to remove governor Lisa Cook, after the economist declared she had “no intention of...

Arizona’s attorney general is suing House speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election...

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...

Letitia James pushes back against ‘powerful voices trying to silence truth’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and...

She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her 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...

The Republican primary campaign for Georgia governor will go to a June runoff, with the lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, facing off against the healthcare billionaire...

JD Vance has said the US is “not at war” with Iran – but is with its nuclear weapons program, holding out a position that...

Donald Trump has selected Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing to an end a months-long search for a...

One year into the second Trump administration, an actual US foreign policy remains just a nice idea. Instead, the world has been forced to adapt...

As top US health officials turn against some mRNA vaccines, experts fear for the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic and worry that other vaccines...

Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives. “Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut Jim...

The Atlantic on Saturday republished a JD Vance essay that dismissed Donald Trump as “cultural heroin” exactly 10 years earlier, bringing back to the fore...

A Yosemite national park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan, while some park visitors could face prosecution under protest restrictions...

Nobody wants to hurt a child. The howl of pain, the tears, the look of betrayed shock all make it very hard to deliver a...

Xavier Becerra, the former Biden cabinet official whose California gubernatorial campaign survived a deeply underwhelming start, has advanced to the general election, in a stunning...

Former US president Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to...

A federal judge in Oregon on Friday blocked Donald Trump from deploying national guard troops to Portland, ruling there was no evidence of widespread violence...

Narcissus was cursed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Donald Trump is finding that his effort to overhaul...

Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. “It’s like Call of Duty,” one could be...

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan, embraced Donald Trump’s suggestion that the two represent “VERY DIFFERENT” versions of the US, pledging...

This month, we learned that, in the course of bombing a boat of suspected drug smugglers, the US military intentionally killed two survivors clinging to...

Democrats have seized on the deaths of three US troops killed in Iranian strikes to urge Donald Trump to urgently reverse his resumption of the...

Federal judge grants temporary restraining order, blocking mass firings of federal workers Judge Susan Illston has issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the firing of...

The Senate failed on Thursday to pass legislation that would keep federal workers deemed essential and troops paid throughout the ongoing government shutdown – now...

When Rosaly Estévez “self-deported” from Miami to Havana last November, US immigration officers bid farewell by removing her ankle monitor. The 32-year-old had been told...

A federal arts commission on Thursday approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing Donald Trump’s image to help celebrate the US’s...

When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would...

US citizens living in the Middle East say they’re “angry” at the US state department, criticising the Trump administration for having no “backup plan” to...

The Trump administration has reportedly been pushing to release records from an FBI investigation related to Eric Swalwell and alleged links to a Chinese agent...

While the Trump administration has argued that new restrictions on the size of federal student loans will lower tuition costs, public health officials and Democrats...

Protests continued on Tuesday outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey where US senator Andy Kim said he was pepper-sprayed by federal agents the...

If Donald Trump’s presidency has any theme (beyond self-promotion), it’s that his “America First” agenda will Make America Great Again. Unfortunately for the American people,...

Former FBI director James Comey, after his indictment on criminal charges of false statements and obstruction, said he was innocent and that he had faith...