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...

As the US reaches record-breaking rates of illness and hospitals scramble to care for flu patients, officials have stopped fully recommending the flu shot, casting...

Justice department told Trump in May that his name is in the Epstein files – WSJ “When justice department officials reviewed what attorney general Pam...

The suspected gunman in the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner that has roiled Washington has been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old...

In the days after his killing, Charlie Kirk was remembered by his allies as a great debater. A quote taken from a widely shared video...

The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about possibly bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats...

Donald Trump has repeatedly described Keir Starmer as a “good man”, distancing himself from the attacks on the UK prime minister mounted by other figures...

The US president made the threat during a US cabinet meeting after reports of discussions between Iran and Oman about jointly charging a toll for...

The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year....

Missouri Republicans approved a new congressional map on Friday that adds an additional GOP-friendly seat in Congress, a boost to Donald Trump as he tries...

A grassroots organization of health professionals have released a report outlining major health challenges in the US and calling for the removal of Robert F...

Donald Trump vowed to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars” during his inauguration speech last year, a bold promise that spoke to...

The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with...

A bitter primary contest between the four-term Republican US senator John Cornyn and the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, ended in a runoff on Tuesday....

Trump says UK should consider using military to stop illegal immigration Q: [From Jack Elsom from the Sun] To Trump, have you any advice for...

Trump administration lays off hundreds of Voice of America employees The Trump administration sent layoff notices today to more than 600 employees at Voice of...

Tamila Vashchuk and her husband, Mykola, are minor celebrities in this corner of Ohio. The Ukrainian couple have appeared on the cover of local magazines...

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...

Donald Trump is persistent. In his first term as president, he withdrew the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) on 6 July 2020, giving...

Good morning. A federal trade court has ruled Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs regime illegal, a dramatic twist that could block the president’s controversial global trade...

Less than a year after signing legislation that will pull nearly 12 million Americans off health insurance by gutting Medicaid, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated...

The supreme court on Thursday cleared the way for the deportation of several immigrants who were put on a flight in May bound for South...

Noem confirms Ice is processing Kilmar Ábrego García for deportation In a statement, following Kilmar Ábrego García’s detention today, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi...

IDF orders people to flee homes in Beirut as it warns of further strikes The Israeli military has again ordered people to flee their homes...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed it is sending a team to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV...

DC mayor: ‘this action today is unsettling and unprecedented’ Bowser says that her office plans to follow the law, and cooperate with the federal government....

A new policy memo issued last week by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), requiring many foreigners in the US to leave the country and...

Donald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today...

A group of Democrats accused by Donald Trump of “seditious behavior” have said that the US president is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

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...

Up to seven states will vote on abortion rights this year. But recent polling indicates that Democrats may not be able to count on the...

On any given day, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard teems with tourists and street performers clustered near the area’s many landmarks. But in recent months, the...

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...

Californians were frustrated and underwhelmed as they headed to the polls to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s primary election, where voters will eliminate all but...

This February, a story broke that seemed like it might finally be the one. Reporters at NPR had noticed that there were pages missing from...

Former US senator Bob Packwood, a moderate Oregon Republican whose reputation as a champion of abortion and women’s rights was spoiled at the end of...

‘It’s the opening of an opportunity,’ say Senate Democrats who broke ranks to end government shutdown The eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks...

Peter Mandelson was in his element. Lounging on a sofa one June evening at Butterworth’s, a bistro serving as the gastronomical centre of the Maga...

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has refused to acknowledge that the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump around the world are taxes on Americans....

Last week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland...

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...

The US Senate failed on Thursday to re-open the government and to vote to fund the military during the federal government shutdown, ensuring that the...

Was it the blanket that did it? On Thursday, Donald Trump announced he fired Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, in a post on...

Odd things are happening in the markets. Last Monday, 15 minutes before Donald Trump posted an announcement that “productive talks” with Iran had taken place,...

Donald Trump threatened to use emergency powers to deploy more troops into Democrat-led cities, as his attempts to mobilise the military faced legal challenges. The...

Intimations of world war three – the big one, nuclear Armageddon – didn’t arise yesterday. But they got more urgent when Donald Trump was elected...

Multiple agencies confirm reductions in force are under way The Guardian has independently confirmed that reductions in force (RIFs) are under way at the following...

It was a warm morning in rural Virginia. I was cutting into a pile of downed logs – wild cherry, oak and black locust –...

The day so far The White House announced a new rule restricting the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary...

Donald Trump launched attacks against Iran on Saturday as part of a joint operation with Israel after they developed intelligence that they could simultaneously target...

The US supreme court on Wednesday appeared poised to protect birthright citizenship, the longstanding policy that babies born in the US are American citizens, in...

A federal judge in California sided with Anthropic in its case against the Department of Defense on Thursday, ordering a temporary pause on the government’s...

Marjorie Taylor Greene for president. Randy Bone rolled the idea around in his hands for a second as he stood inside his wife’s antique shop...

The story is co-published with Public Domain, an investigative newsroom that covers public lands, wildlife and government Thousands of people gathered at the steps of...

When a federal judge in Mississippi ordered a sweeping rollback of the state’s strict school vaccine rules in 2023, the ruling hit some doctors like...

Patel ‘sparked mass confusion’ over Charlie Kirk shooting suspect, says Durbin Durbin says Patel “sparked mass confusion” by announcing too early that the suspect in...

The attack mounted jointly by Israel and the US on Iran had been planned for months, but the timing, in the midst of negotiations between...

The Trump administration is targeting US sanctuary cities in the next phase of its deportation drive, after an off-duty law enforcement officer was allegedly shot...

Markwayne Mullin, the US homeland security secretary, used a visit to Asheville, North Carolina to call for a fundamental shift in the role of the...

Investment in renewable energy has continued to increase around the world despite moves by Donald Trump’s White House to cancel and derail low-carbon projects. In...

Trump issues tariff letters to six more countries But before he meets with west African leaders, Donald Trump is now announcing more trade notices to...

Trump Always Chickens Out – or Taco for short. Investors like narratives to explain the financial world, and they appear to have seized on this...

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...

The Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell is the latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign against his critics, the congressman confirmed on Thursday. NBC News reports that...

Donald Trump has seized control of Washington DC’s police force and ordered the national guard to the capital in an extraordinary move that bypassed the...

On 4 July – as Americans celebrated their country’s independence – Donald Trump signed into law his sweeping tax and spending bill. Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful...

I was surprised that your feature (‘What did I just watch?’ The TV shows that utterly baffle us – but we can’t switch off, 20 January) did...

“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Donald Trump exhorted the audience at a campaign event organized by the conservative Turning Point Action in...

Donald Trump has instructed the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, not to intervene in protests occurring in cities led by Democrats unless local authorities ask...

A Republican sheriff in California has confiscated additional ballot materials from a special election, escalating his conflict with state lawmakers who say he is conducting...

The national guard troops Donald Trump sent to Illinois can remain in the state and under federal control but can’t be deployed, an appeals court...

Good morning. There are two Donald Trumps: the candidate, and the president. Donald Trump the candidate spent much of his campaign presenting himself as a...

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...

More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during...

Donald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding...

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities. According to documents obtained by...

Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, called Chicago “a war zone” on Sunday after federal agents shot a woman and the governor of Illinois...

Jill Biden said she had been “frightened” as she watched Joe Biden’s faltering performance during his 2024 presidential debate, and thought her husband might have...

Donald Trump embodies dealmaking as the essence of a particular form of entrepreneurship. Every deal begins with his needs and every deal feeds his wants....

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration, but just for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump turned...

When the centre-left French politician Aurore Lalucq posted a warning last Wednesday that Donald Trump could cut off Europe from international payment systems, the clip...

The European Commission is considering plans to delay parts of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, after intense pressure from businesses and Donald Trump’s administration. The...

The Trump administration is reportedly pushing the justice department to pursue hundreds of denaturalization cases, in which Americans born outside of the US are stripped...

Rightwing politicians and media issued grave warnings about Zohran Mamdani. The election of the democratic socialist would, according to some, cause a spike in crime,...

In what would be an upset victory that may carry implications for Democrats nationwide, the progressive activist Analilia Mejia on Tuesday was on the verge...

Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York City on Tuesday evening after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids related to “selling...

At a packed town hall meeting last month in Laredo for James Talarico, the 36-year-old Democrat vying for a US Senate seat in Texas, Cristina...

ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments after FCC chair threatens fines ABC bowed to pressure from the Federal Communications Commission on...

When federal agents arrived at Georgia Fort’s front door to arrest her, she knew what to do: be a journalist. Fort, an independent Minnesota reporter...

The government of Eswatini announced on Thursday it received four more “third country” deportees from the United States, as part of the Trump administration’s multimillion-dollar...

The US supreme court on Friday allowed members of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to access the sensitive records kept by the Social...

Donald Trump has warned he is not ready to seek a deal to end the US-Israeli offensive against Iran, saying that though he thought Tehran...

Securing Jewish votes was never going to be a straightforward ride for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral hopeful who is on track to...

Colorado’s governor Jared Polis commutes sentence of Tina Peters, 2020 election denier Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, announced on Friday that he has decided to...

Europe is on a trajectory towards nothing less than “civilisational erasure”, the Trump administration claims in its extraordinary new National Security Strategy, a document that...

The US supreme court on Friday allowed Donald Trump’s administration to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants. The justices issued an emergency...

Brown University has reached an agreement with the Trump administration that will reinstate nearly $50m in research funding and close several federal investigations into the...

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...

A couple of weekends ago, as dusk was falling over the Escandón neighbourhood of Mexico City, Abel Ortiz was startled by the sound of two...