An Egyptian family of six has been taken back into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, days after they were released from a detention facility in...

James Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false...

As the first Pride month under Donald Trump’s second presidency approaches, LGBTQ+ businesses are stepping up, evolving quickly to meet the community’s growing concerns. Since...

Questions over his friendship with convicted sex offender, Jeffery Epstein, continue to haunt Donald Trump, this time with the release of a birthday letter that...

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, did not inform the White House that her office was revoking the security clearances of 37 people –...

It would have taken a heart of stone to watch the death of the Trump-Musk bromance without laughing. Democrats passed the popcorn on Thursday night...

The Department of Homeland Security has signed a nearly $140m contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportation operations. The contract, signed with the...

Never before in American history have so few had so much wealth and power. Today, the top one per cent owns more wealth than the...

Gavin Newsom’s recent mockery of Donald Trump proves that imitation isn’t always the sincerest form of flattery. Amid the ongoing battle over congressional redistricting, Newsom’s...

We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end...

Amid the ruins of the building that was once the Tehran home of the Iranian nuclear scientist Ahmadreza Zolfaghari, workmen are underway demolishing the remains,...

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...

The extraordinary arrests of the journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort last week are a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the press...

Acting attorney general claims Comey ‘threatened the life of the president’ in announcing charges At a news conference on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the former defense...

Republicans and Democrats have been engaged in a political tug of war in legislatures, courts and the ballot box to narrow the battlefield of 2026...

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 on Tuesday announced a naval blockade of “sanctioned oil vessels” leaving and heading to Venezuela, sharply escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas. The...

While colleges and universities slow down during summer break, Ahniwake Rose is busy wondering what the fall semester will hold for the nation’s 37 tribal...

When Donald Trump posted during his first term on what was then called Twitter, his attacks and rants differed significantly from US federal agency staff’s...

A Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country...

The secretary of state of the United States of America is openly slopping around in a pair of too-big shoes that he has to wear...

Experts, officials and lawmakers decry Trump administration’s rollback on landmark climate finding Dharna Noor In response to the Trump administration’s rescission of the endangerment finding...

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...

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,...

The White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night was upended by gunshots, prompting the immediate evacuation of Donald and Melania Trump. Hundreds of guest including...

The Senate on Tuesday gave swift approval to legislation that will force the release of investigative files related to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, following...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi,...

Trump: nothing will be good enough for ‘lunatics’ requesting Epstein files US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had asked the justice department...

In another one of those strange and unprecedented moments of the Trump years, the president of the United States showed up at the supreme court...

Donald Trump’s mega-bill has been widely criticized in the press. News outlets and Democrats have warned that millions of people could be stripped of their...

About 700 US marines were en route to Los Angeles on Tuesday after Donald Trump mobilized them the day before in response to protests over...

Ralph Abraham, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s principal deputy director, has stepped down, the agency said on Monday, announcing the exit of...

Trump says Ukraine is able to win back all the land it lost since the beginning of the invasion In a post on Truth Social,...

The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey...

A counseling program in Alabama for people with HIV, helping them get into treatment and housing. A training program in New Hampshire for first responders...

Tina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation...

I am a proud Jewish American. My father fled Poland in 1921 to escape poverty and antisemitism. Those in his family who stayed were murdered...

Donald Trump granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who had just begun a seven-year prison sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6bn...

The US supreme court has allowed Alabama to go ahead with its seventh execution using the contested method of nitrogen gas, a form of suffocation...

Epstein survivors call out Trump’s justice department for ‘extreme redactions’ in latest file release Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse released a new...

Closing summary Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a...

Anyone planning to travel to a US city hosting World Cup matches this summer might want to leave now. World Cup travelers could face long...

DoJ racing to redact documents ahead of deadline to release Epstein files – report Congress has mandated that the Trump administration release a trove of...

The US deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, announced on Friday that the justice department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting...

Donald Trump on Monday ordered the approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other...

Federal Reserve governor Stephen Miran has resigned from his position as chair of the White House’s council of economic advisers, fulfilling a pledge he made...

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...

Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of...

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal...

What a real pro-family agenda looks like I think we all need a little cheering up, don’t you? So allow me to interrupt the steady...

Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a...

Utah officials have released the county dispatch audio on the moment police were alerted to the shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday. Kirk...

Vice-president JD Vance’s attempt to deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s handling of the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has backfired, triggering...

Madison Sheahan, a Trump ally and the second-ranking official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said on Thursday she was ditching her leadership position to...

Two West Virginia national guard members shot on Wednesday near the White House in Washington are in critical condition. The incident happened near the Farragut...

The Florida congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost said he was assaulted by a man who said Donald Trump would deport him at a party during the...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Two West Virginia national guard...

Donald Trump hand-delivered a personal letter from first lady Melania Trump to Russian leader Vladimir Putin raising the plight of Ukrainian and Russian children caught...

US officials have issued an urgent appeal for help from the public as they continue to search for the shooter of conservative activist Charlie Kirk,...

The White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Thursday that a significant drawdown of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota was under way and he...

The words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have...

Mamdani triumphs on strong night for the Democrats It was an encouraging night for the left in America with Democratic wins in three key races...

The justice department on Thursday asked election officials in Fulton county, Georgia, to turn over records related to the 2020 election, a request that underscores...

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said that all federal agents in Minneapolis will immediately begin wearing body cameras and that the program will be...

Ben Meiselas is a very busy man. So busy, he has to break off halfway through our interview to conduct an interview of his own,...

With months of escalation between US cities and the Trump administration amid the deployment of national guard troops, former military officials released a report on...

Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation, several documents within...

When the United States celebrated its bicentennial on 4 July 1976, it marked the occasion with the opening of the National Air and Space Museum’s...

When Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long...

With the unveiling of the prospective Trump presidential library, which, in its timing and substance looked for all the world like an April fool, the...

Downing Street was forced to insist that Britain will not yield sovereignty over the Falkland Islands after a leaked Pentagon email proposed the US should...

Senator Bernie Sanders introduces resolution to stop arms sales to Israel Senator Bernie Sanders just spoke on the Senate floor in support of two resolutions...

‘We made history’: Mamdani celebrates after shocking Cuomo in New York City mayoral primary Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. We start...

Trump threatens to take ‘federal control’ of DC after Doge staffer attack Hello, and welcome to the day’s live US politics coverage. I’m Shrai Popat...

Donald Trump promoted the false claim that Barack Obama has earned $40m in “royalties linked to Obamacare” in a post to his 11 million followers...

Saturday’s US strikes on Iran provoked conflicting reactions from isolationist Republicans who support Donald Trump’s Make America great again (Maga) movement, catching them – like...

When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the...

The US Department of Justice has moved to eliminate rules protecting LGBTQ+ people from sexual abuse in prisons, a shift advocates say is “reckless and...

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation that will ask the state’s voters to decide in November if they approve of redrawn congressional districts that tilt...

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...

When Senate Democrats decided in September to use the government funding bill to put up a fight over expiring healthcare subsides, it set the stage...

Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado...

House oversight committee releases image of entire Epstein birthday album, with letter attributed to Trump The Republican-led House oversight committee has released digital images of...

Markwayne Mullin defended his ability to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and expressed regrets for comments he made about a US citizen killed...

Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to back the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, an abrupt reversal, is a rare instance of the president being...

The failure of negotiations to end the US war with Iran has unleashed a barrage of starkly partisan political responses, with leading Republicans making hawkish...

It was a lovely May evening in Leavenworth, Kansas, but instead of strolling along the Missouri River or gardening, a group of locals sat on...

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...

Late-night hosts tore into Donald Trump’s intimidation tactics at the supreme court hearing on birthright citizenship and another judge’s order to halt construction of his...

Marco Rubio impostor using AI to contact multiple senior officials – report An unknown fraudster has used artificial intelligence to impersonate the US secretary of...

A long-awaited Department of Defense report found that US defense secretary Pete Hegseth violated departmental policies and put troops in danger when he shared secret...

Donald and Melania Trump appeared in good spirits as they settled in on the high table at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC...

The reaction speed of southern states to the US supreme court’s decision last week in Louisiana v Callais has been breathtaking for voting rights activists....

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, and Donald Trump had a ‘productive’ meeting in the Oval Office. The president repeatedly stepped in to...

Senate kicks off vote-a-rama on ‘big, beautiful bill’ as GOP scrambles to meet 4 July deadline The Senate resumed its final debate on the “big,...

Donald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the...

After a year of effusive praise and expressions of love for each other, Elon Musk and Donald Trump exploded their political partnership in dramatic fashion...

Maps can guide us home. They show us where we are, where we have been and where we might go. Electoral maps can do something...

A feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts – things you...