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Jeffrey Epstein sympathized with Brett Kavanaugh during the then-supreme court nominee’s contentious 2018 confirmation and even suggested Republicans should have been harder on Christine Blasey...

The gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is believed to have...

In the latest sign the honeymoon is over between Donald Trump and his tech billionaire sidekick, Elon Musk, the president confirmed he will go ahead...

Oregon lawmakers demand ICE leave Portland after shooting Federal, state and local lawmakers representing Portland have issued statements condemning the shooting of two people by...

Democratic congresswoman criticizes Trump’s comments about a third term Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s Democratic representative, has criticized comments from Steve Bannon after the former White House...

Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions during a closed-door congressional deposition on Monday, prompting criticism from a House representative backing efforts to release Jeffrey Epstein...

Mass firings of US federal workers have begun, as Republicans work to exert pressure on Democrat lawmakers to end a government shutdown. The White House...

When we think of what governments do, we think of everything from building highways to waging war. What they also do is capture the world...

Days after officially exiting the White House, Elon Musk has grown increasingly critical of President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill, describing it as a “disgusting...

The threat of a world war. Political assassinations. Federal raids on unsuspecting migrants. There seems to be no end to terrifying news these days. In...

Supreme court decision ‘authorizes untold harm to transgender children’, says Justice Sotomayor in her dissent In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision “does...

They marched in their millions. Some waved the Stars and Stripes. Some clutched signs with slogans such as: “Nothing is more patriotic than protesting.” And...

On Thursday night, late night-hosts celebrated Kristi Noem’s firing, criticized Maga’s handling of the war in Iran and raised an eyebrow to Robert F Kennedy...

By now, many of us have a favorite part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time performance. It’s a dense, rich set that invites rewatching to...

Donald Trump has fired his controversial US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, after weeks of bipartisan complaints about her leadership. As the public face of...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) to the US, ruling that her deportation...

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...

Republicans are insisting that Donald Trump is “desperate” to end the government shutdown, which has now entered its 33rd day. The comments by the Republican...

Judge blocks Trump on birthright citizenship A federal judge in New Hampshire has again blocked Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and applied the...

Days before Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, an investment firm controlled by a senior member of the United Arab Emirates royal family...

New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was detained for several hours after being arrested at an immigration court. Lander, the city’s chief...

Utah governor says authorities have ‘a person of interest in custody’ The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, just said at a news conference on the...

In spring 2004, Gen Anthony Zinni uttered about Iraq the dreaded words in US politics: “I spent two years in Vietnam, and I’ve seen this...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature And that concludes our live coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s historic inauguration....

Maga loyalists push claims that Trump ‘birthday note’ to Epstein is ‘fake’ Several allies of Donald Trump, also prominent Maga figures, have amplified claims that...

Trump breaks with Marjorie Taylor Greene, urging primary challenge Donald Trump turned on his former close ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene, denouncing the Maga congresswoman in...

The Kennedy Center reportedly adopted bylaws earlier this year that would limit voting to Donald Trump-appointed trustees – a controversial move that appears to reveal...

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...

By the early 1980s, the Democratic party was facing a crossroads. The 1980 landslide election of Ronald Reagan, who clenched the presidency with a whopping...

A woman in Minneapolis has died as her neighbors fought Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation. On Wednesday morning, a group of local civilian protesters gathered...

Here’s a recap of the day so far Senate Republicans did not use the pro forma session today to try to pass a stopgap funding...

The Trump administration must continue reimbursing Planned Parenthood clinics for Medicaid-funded services, a federal judge ruled on Monday, in an escalating legal war between the...

US Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the second Trump...

Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory speech on Iran on Wednesday night was as puzzling as it was divorced from reality. I had hoped he would declare victory...

Police in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of such arrests,...

Threats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty, but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful vengeance in recent days...

I 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...

The US-Israeli war against Iran has exposed further divisions between the two countries after an Israeli strike on Iran’s largest gasfield angered US allies in...

Prior to his landslide election victory in 2010, which was to lead to 16 unbroken years in power, Viktor Orbán would tell supporters: “We have...

Donald Trump’s stages of insurrection have passed from trying to suppress one that didn’t exist, to creating one himself, to generating a local incident he...

A suspect has been arrested in southern Utah in connection with the fatal shooting of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, Spencer Cox said on Friday morning,...

Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy....

A group of men removed from the US to Djibouti, in east Africa, are stranded in a converted shipping container together with the US Immigration...

The US Secret Service shot and killed an armed intruder who breached the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida residence and private club in Palm...

Thousands have joined an economic blackout for International Workers’ Day, as part of 3,500 “May Day Strong” events across the country. Organizers have called for...

Federal officers use force on protesters during immigration raids at California farms Federal immigration officers, supported by national guard troops, used force against protesters, firing...

The occasion should have been marked by the joy of reaching the destination of US citizenship following the long odyssey of immigration. Instead, the ceremony...

Donald Trump’s victory in last November’s US presidential election presented Keir Starmer, Britain’s Labour prime minister, with a choice – and an opportunity. Either cosy...

Trump poised to send scores of federal agents to San Francisco Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and...

Donald Trump recorded a new video address on Sunday, vowing to avenge three American deaths after the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran and accusing the...

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...

Bondi says she is ‘thrilled’ about new private sector role following firing as attorney general In a statement on social media, Pam Bondi said that...

US House approves bill to force release of Epstein files in near-unanimous vote The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department...

House 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...

The Fourth of July celebration of freedom rings hollow this year. The contradictions built into a national commemoration of our triumph over autocracy feel newly...

The Democratic party is at a crossroads. It can continue to push policies that maintain a broken and rigged economic and political system and ignore...

Donald Trump has called for his government to re-examine every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration, after law enforcement officials identified...

Trump administration orders release of Epstein court documents The US Department of Justice asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts in...

1. Tensions continued to rise between Cuomo and Mamdani The debate made clear that the most heated rivalry was between Cuomo and Mamdani. From the...

Spring cleaning has begun at the White House. Donald Trump on Thursday fired Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the...

On Friday, Donald Trump claimed that he will reverse everything that Joe Biden has signed with an autopen. The automated signature machine has been a...

A Los Angeles school district is demanding an investigation of an incident last month, during which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents gathered at a...

Key takeaways from Trump-Netanyahu press conference And that’s it, the press conference is over. Trump said he wanted to move to the second phase of...

The US justice department is investigating Minnesota’s political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports....

Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about...

A coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s demand that their states turn over personal data of...

Today’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,...

Donald Trump’s escalating calls for the United States to seize or otherwise obtain Greenland has ignited fresh criticism from the president’s own Republican party, with...

You suspected that Maga had not conquered the Washington national cathedral when Bill Kristol was spotted at a men’s urinal conversing with Chris Wallace. You...

Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that adds as many as five Republican-friendly congressional districts, the supreme court ruled on Thursday, handing Donald Trump...

New York City has awoken to a ‘political earthquake’ as progressive residents celebrated the victory of the 33-year-old politician over his political establishment rival Andrew...

All over European media, the take seems to be similar – that the EU is “under pressure” to conclude some sort of deal with the...

A rising number of US airports are asking for donations to support employees affected by the partial government shutdown with airport security officials missing their...

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence who in 2019 was selling “No War With Iran” T-shirts, told the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday that...

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

Trump says Democrats released Epstein emails to ‘deflect’ from performance during government shutdown In a post on Truth Social, the president has addressed the batch...

Texas house passes partisan Republican congressional map after weeks of protest The Texas state house – which has a significant Republican majority – has approved a...

The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and...

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...

Democrats will stop Donald Trump from trying to steal this year’s midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives said...

The 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...

Donald Trump reportedly had a blunt message for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro: leave power – and your country – immediately. Sources told the Miami Herald...

A US appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood health centers in 22 states and...

The immigrant population of the United States, which has been growing for more than 50 years, has declined by more than a million people since...

Trump accused of ‘turning the military on American citizens’ with Chicago national guard plan Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name...

“We did not have a lot of money,” said JD Vance, placing hand on heart as he recalled his childhood in Middletown, Ohio in the...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Broadcaster in Windsor getting ready for Trump’s arrival. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters...

A second jazz band has pulled out of performing at the controversially renamed “Trump-Kennedy” center in Washington DC, giving just two days’ notice before their...

A pair of identical Indiana twins whose life on opposite ends of the US’s political divide recently propelled them to internet virality say it has...

Zattura Sims-El sorts through her utility bills in Baltimore, Maryland, on 13 January 2025. Before she sat down to speak with the Guardian, Zattura Sims-El...

North Carolina’s competitive Senate race came into shape on Tuesday, with former Democratic governor Roy Cooper and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley winning...

Kelcy Warren was among the top donors for Donald Trump’s 2024 White House bid, personally pouring at least $5m into the campaign and co-hosting a...

Liberal justices dissent in latest major US supreme court decision Per my last post, the supreme court has ruled 6-3 in a decision could embolden...

House Democrats on Wednesday demanded a briefing from the justice department on the removal of Gail Slater, who was forced to resign as head of...

When Hurricane Helene drowned western North Carolina in muck and floodwater last year, it caught folks off-guard. Now, local leaders in places like Asheville expect...

DHS spokesperson confirms detainees among the injured Tricia McLaughlin, who serves as the assistant secretary of Homeland Security, told Fox News today that detainees “were...

Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled her son over Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Minnesota...

George Clooney has said he feels it was a “mistake” for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden in the 2024 US presidential election, adding that...