If there is one campaign promise that Donald Trump has kept, it is his pledge to deliver “mass deportations”. Two years later, voters are living...

Vladimir Putin loves bombing Ukraine and taking his shirt off – not necessarily in that order. The Russian leader is well known for his macho...

The Trump administration is doubling to $50m a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s...

If Zohran Mamdani had not intended it as a campaigning opportunity, he probably wouldn’t have worn a full suit – the universal candidate’s uniform. But...

The justice department has sued the state of Minnesota over its sanctuary city immigration policies, making it the latest locality to face legal threats as...

House Republicans on Wednesday agreed to begin the process of writing a $95bn bill to fund the war with Iran as well as provide new...

Unlike his garrulous father, Barron Trump seems to be a man of few words. The president’s youngest son has been busy flogging energy drinks and...

The US Senate has opened debate on what Donald Trump calls his “big beautiful bill” as new analysis says changes made to it in the...

Could anything be more embarrassing yet more chilling than the White House’s giggling new teen-YouTuber-type supercut of badass moments of imagined American or quasi-American machismo...

The Democrats had a great day on Tuesday. It’s crucial that they hone their economic message for next year’s midterms to focus on affordability and...

The US Senate on Sunday took a key vote on a bill that would end the record-setting federal government shutdown without extending the healthcare subsidies...

A year has proved to be a long time on the scales of US justice. Less than 12 months ago, the US supreme court was...

At the Purfeerst farm in southern Minnesota, the soybean harvest just wrapped up for the season. The silver grain bins are full of about 100,000...

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...

More than 30 members of Congress have urged Donald Trump’s top officials to end the use of the Guantánamo Bay naval base for immigrant detention...

‘I think I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries...

Nestled between two mountain ranges at the crook of central California’s coastline sits a valley known as the “salad bowl of the world”. Farm workers...

Hegseth orders US Navy secretary to investigate Arizona senator Mark Kelly for ‘potentially unlawful comments’ in video Donald Trump’s defense secretary, the former Fox News...

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 has claimed that he cancelled a second wave of attacks on Venezuela because it was cooperating with the US on oil infrastructure and...

Donald Trump’s acceptance of a two-week ceasefire in Iran has exposed fresh divisions in his Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, with some supporters expressing...

Former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley told US lawmakers he repeatedly shared confidential and market-sensitive bank ⁠information with Jeffrey Epstein and ⁠was at one ​point...

As the extraordinary Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani shows, there’s a new bellwether in American politics. For years, Ohio played that...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage for the day, but we’ll be back on Tuesday. Here are the latest developments: The supreme court ruled...

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it had paused all immigration applications, including green card and US citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European...

Donald Trump has said he will issue an executive order to mandate identification for all US elections, a move likely to be challenged in court...

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,...

Federal agents have arrested hundreds of immigrants off New York and New Jersey streets in recent months in a stealth enforcement campaign that disproportionately targeted...

On Friday evening thousands of protesters gathered outside the Kennedy Center in view of the marble facade that remained concealed by scaffolding and tarpaulins, to...

After two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Donald Trump went on...

Analysis: trickle release on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties Sam Levine The justice department’s partial release of the Epstein files on Friday...

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...

House set to vote on release of Epstein documents after Trump U-turn Lauren Gambino In July, Democratic congressmen Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie turned...

Leading Democrats quickly papered over whatever qualms they had about progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed after his win in the Michigan Senate primary was confirmed on...

For more than 200 years, common wisdom and policymakers have assumed that to get people to work, you had to make them hungry. New work...

A demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon. The man, Arthur...

The US supreme court declared many of Donald Trump’s tariffs illegal on Friday, in a sharp rebuke that topples a key pillar of the president’s...

As officials continue to investigate the motives of Tyler Robinson – the 22-year-old accused of shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk – many Republicans have been...

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...

Reality television personality Spencer Pratt is running to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. Pratt announced his campaign on Wednesday at a rally to...

The Barack Obama presidential center opened in Chicago on Thursday after more than a decade in the making amid a musical fanfare and paeans to...

The Utah legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled on Monday that the Republican-controlled body drew them in...

Pentagon says US ‘conducted strikes against Iran’ on Friday in response to strait of Hormuz ship attack United States Central Command, which directs US military...

It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary...

Not long ago, it was common wisdom among social media influencers that they shouldn’t talk politics. There was a widespread belief among their crowd that...

Trump speaks at US park police headquarters Donald Trump’s motorcade just arrived at the United States Park police headquarters in Anacostia, in south-east Washington DC....

On a warm evening in June, hundreds of people holding candles marched toward the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of the US...

The pillow salesman, Trump supporter and election denier Mike Lindell has offered to personally fund a recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in...

Trump hails indictment of Comey: ‘Justice in America’ In a sharp departure from the tradition that presidents should not comment on criminal cases, Donald Trump...

The closely watched New York mayoral and governor’s races appear to be forming into shapes that will bring little comfort to centrist Democrats, with elections...

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

More than 400 endangered animal and plant species could face accelerated extinction after the Donald Trump administration’s decision to rescind a rule that has protected...

A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s request to immediately lift her order blocking the deployment of federalized national guard...

On the back of hailing US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities as a “victory for everybody”, president Trump has claimed success at the Nato summit...

Democrats are condemning two Republican members of Congress who said, in the wake of the mass shooting in Australia, that the US should ban Muslims...

Trump says ‘some contractor error’ in reflecting pool renovation while still blaming former Olympian for vandalism Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge that “some contractor error”...

Democratic states sue to block postal service from carrying out Trump’s mail-in voting order Two dozen mainly Democratic‑led states and the District of Columbia filed...

Late-night hosts mocked the Republican party’s inaugural “America First” award for Donald Trump as he finally reveals the “present” he received from Iran. Jimmy Kimmel...

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...

On 10 June, a snowy-haired American in his 60s addressed the residents of a remote Greenland hamlet. He was there to tell them about a...

Senate postpones Casey Means confirmation hearing after she goes into labor The Senate has postponed its confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general,...

Here in the Americas, we have a peculiar tradition. Every time there is a major election, prominent figures on the right find themselves compelled to...

Trump says he wasn’t briefed on FBI raid on John Bolton’s home The president said he wasn’t briefed on the raid on John Bolton’s home,...

And so Katie Zacharia joins the mayfly ranks of Liz Truss, Anthony Scaramucci, New Coke, CNN+ and Quibi. To say she burned twice as bright...

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...

Closing summary We’re wrapping up our live coverage for the day, but we’ll be back on Tuesday. Here is a summary of today’s developments: Donald...

As federal immigration agents flooded the streets of Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles over the past year, cities across the US have been at the...

There is just one week to go until the winner of the World Cup is crowned, and it has been a memorable tournament, not least...

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection agents descended on North Carolina last month, many local businesses were ready to push...

Senate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the $400m...

Maine secretary of state’s office confirms it received Platner’s letter, ending his candidacy for US Senate The Maine secretary of state’s office issued a statement...

Donald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency, promising them in...

Prosecutors dropped the last remaining charges against Atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara last week after he was arrested while livestreaming a protest in June. But the...

Videos of Bill Clinton, the former US president, and Hillary Clinton, the former US secretary of state, answering questions about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein...

Trump claims he will send $5,000 to every citizen if Republicans hold on to control of Congress Trump has claimed he will send every citizen...

Is it woke to wash your hands? Pete Hegseth seems to think so. Back in 2019 when he was still just a Fox News host...

Donald Trump has again lashed out at Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, saying he should focus on “fixing his broken country” and trying to end the...

More patients may die as a result of plans drawn up by the Trump administration to cut billions of dollars from the National Cancer Institute...

White House officials and attorneys for Washington DC have agreed to scale back the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department. Under an agreement...

The latest phase of the Trump administration’s offensive against Harvard University is a comprehensive review of the university’s federally funded research programs, and the threat...

Supreme court decision on nationwide injuctions a ‘travesty for rule of law’, says liberal justice Here’s more from the liberal justice’s dissents on Trump v...

The US military has issued new media restrictions demanding that journalists pledge not to gather any information – including unclassified documents – that has not...

Have you ever tossed and turned at night wondering what the correct pronouns are for a lump of coal? No, me neither. However, it seems...

Initial takeaways of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview transcripts The transcripts are more than 300 pages, but here it goes … Blanche said, on record, that their...

Scott MacFarlane, the CBS News justice correspondent most known for his extensive coverage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, surprised colleagues on Monday morning by...

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car...

The White House issued a full-throated defense of Donald Trump’s reference to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a “piggy” on Thursday, claiming without evidence that...

Donald Trump’s labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down, the administration announced on Monday, after a series of misconduct allegations, including claims of an affair...

A federal judge in Hawaii has ruled that commercial fishing is illegal in the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument, a federally protected area in...

At Pee Wee’s Place, a bar and restaurant in Crescent Springs, northern Kentucky, biscuits and gravy go for $6 and liver and onions for $14.75....

We shouldn’t beat around the bush: Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s military attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression. There is no lawful...

The man who attempted to ambush the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with a question about his supposed allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood – which...

US treasury sanctions major Russian oil companies, calls for Russia to accept immediate ceasefire The Trump administration said on Wednesday it is “imposing further sanctions...

It started with a whisper. Marco Rubio interrupted Donald Trump’s roundtable event with conservative influencers discussing antifa, speaking quietly into Trump’s ear. Rubio handed the...

Trump ally pledges to ‘work with people’ he disagrees with after Arizona primary win Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Andy Biggs...

Trump asks for ‘prayers’ for Charlie Kirk after shooting at Utah university Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social about the shooting at Utah Valley...

A California sheriff’s decision to seize about 650,000 ballots based on specious allegations of fraud has raised considerable alarm bells that similar efforts to undermine...

Key events Blanche attorney-general nomination stalls over Trump IRS lawsuit Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney-general...

As the cleanup continues from this month’s torrential rain storms and flooding in Texas that left more than 120 dead, recently departed officials from the...