The US Senate left Washington DC on Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of Donald Trump’s nominees, calling...

Supreme court rules against Colorado ‘conversion therapy’ ban The supreme court did, however, issue an opinion today, ruling against the state of Colorado’s ban on...

Republican congressman Thomas Massie has challenged Donald Trump over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on the...

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...

Chuck Edwards announced he would not run for re-election after the US House of Representatives ethics committee determined the US congressman “fostered a hostile work...

As the clock ticks toward the congressionally mandated deadline of 19 December by which Donald Trump’s justice department must release its files related to Jeffrey...

On the night of 26 February this year, the Michel family in Pennsylvania expected to see their loved one, Daphy, again very soon. After she...

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...

As scientists confirmed that March was the United States’ most abnormally hot month in recorded history, dozens of climate deniers gathered to promote misinformation and...

It is time to unfurl the “Mission Accomplished” banner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Paramount Global, the parent of CBS Television, has agreed to...

School nutrition workers and advocates have “lots of concerns about bananas”, said Erin Ogden, policy associate for federal child nutrition programs at the Center for...

Trump suggests there was no foul play in Graham’s death Donald Trump was also asked why the FBI was looking into the death of senator...

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is resigning from office in January Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Maga Republican congresswoman who was denounced by Donald Trump over...

The House of Representatives was at a standstill on Wednesday as Republican leaders continued to try to rally holdouts against Donald Trump’s megabill, with speaker...

For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in...

Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill is hanging in the balance as Republicans struggle to muster sufficient votes in the US House of Representatives. House speaker...

Information is missing on over half of deaths at work of people under the age of 18 in the US because of significant gaps in...

Trump says he broke with Epstein for hiring away young women from Mar-a-Lago and ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One...

US inflation moderated in January to 2.4%, an easing after Donald Trump’s tariffs triggered price fluctuations last year. Prices rose 0.2% from December to January,...

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...

A southern California community is calling for the release of a high school student whom US immigration agents arrested earlier this month while he was...

Federal workers are scrambling to figure out if they still have a job after the Trump administration launched a fresh wave of layoffs amid a...

As the midterm elections loom, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to rural West Virginia, a Republican party stronghold, to explore how soaring gas prices,...

Boulder county DA says 16 unused Molotov cocktails were recovered after attack The Boulder County district attorney, Michael Dougherty, just said that there were 16...

As the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection bureau, Chris Mufarrige is the top enforcer protecting Americans against predatory companies. He’s got an...

Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill has passed a procedural step in the US House of Representatives, paving the way for the possible passage of the...

The federal health department will begin a series of steps intended to curb antidepressant use in the US, Robert F Kennedy Jr announced this week....

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of all the second Trump administration has wrought for the day, but we will be back on Wednesday....

Ghislaine Maxwell offers to testify before Congress – but only with major conditions, including immunity Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to testify before Congress but has...

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...

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,...

Trump says he will direct attorney general to investigate Epstein’s involvement with Bill Clinton, Democratic donors and banks The president continued to post on Truth...

US government shuts down as midnight deadline passes The US government has officially shut down for the first time in nearly seven years, after congressional...

As the US continues making unprecedented changes to its vaccination recommendations, one figure appears unexpectedly: Tracy Beth Høeg, a Danish American sports physician and epidemiologist...

In a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump’s aggressive anti-immigrant agenda, the US supreme court ruled against the president’s highly contentious attempt to end the right...

He arrived in Alexandria exhausted and sick. It was early April, and Amilcar Lisser-Posadas – shackled at his hands and feet – had been transferred...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump says he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of...

The measure of a political party’s failure lies not in how many agnostics and opponents it fails to convert, but in how many loyalists it...

The stock market listing of SpaceX has led to an outpouring of celebration, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Yet those who rejoice in Elon...

Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of...

The UK is expected to slash its contribution to a leading aid fund combating preventable diseases, with charities warning this could lead to more than...

House passes Trump’s megabill, sends it to the president’s desk In a vote of 218-214, Republicans passed Trump’s megabill, sending it to the president’s desk...

The Department of Homeland Security conducted raids on multiple locations across Los Angeles on Friday, clashing with the crowds of people who gathered to protest....

US struck another vessel in the Pacific The US military carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing four men,...

Democrats should get louder in championing clean energy’s affordability and resilience from global shocks, according to some of the party’s leading voices on the climate....

Donald Trump dropped some of the US’s tariffs on Canada on Friday to “better serve the public interest” the White House said, handing a win...

Perhaps the most revealing post-mortem on Republicans’ election night meltdown came from the vice-president, JD Vance. After a night that saw Democratic governors elected in...

Closing summary This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close… but just for the day. We will be back at...

With health insurance premiums set to rise sharply for at least 22 million Americans who purchase their coverage through Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces using...

1. Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation days before his death Less than two weeks before Epstein died in jail in 2019, the files show...

House Democrats share Trump ‘birthday note’ to Jeffrey Epstein Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a scanned copy of a “birthday note” that...

California has outlawed child marriage, joining 17 other US states where the taboo practice is also banned. Under past state law, minors of any age...

Six months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office –...

Afghan man moving to US seized by immigration agents after green card application appointment The Trump administration is continuing its deportations policy, which has been...

Donald Trump hosted back-to-back White House meetings with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as Ukraine seeks more firepower for its air defenses and...

Since returning to office, Donald Trump has issued more than 1,800 pardons – to financial fraudsters, drug kingpins, January 6 insurrectionists and others. Unfortunately, Trump’s...

The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to...

NY AG Letitia James on her indictment: a ‘desperate weaponization of our justice system’ New York state attorney general Letitia James sent out this statement...

Pete Hegseth has failed to give Donald Trump an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to “dangerously exaggerated” statements to create an...

A White House teleprompter operator who left his post amid accusations that he used inside knowledge to make bets on Donald Trump’s speeches on an...

Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in a congressional special election in the western Nashville suburbs, which was being closely watched for signs...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal homeland security funding, including for disasters, for states that do not comply with...

Jacob Frey, the embattled mayor of Minneapolis, has warned fellow mayors that their city will be next in line to be targeted by federal immigration...

Senate’s latest war powers resolution fails in 49-50 vote as some Republicans side with Democrats Meanwhile, the latest attempt by Congress to rein-in president Donald...

Charles and Trump praise each other and laud ‘special relationship’ in banquet speeches True to form with an expectedly “big picture” style speech, the king...

Donald Trump has blamed “vandalism” for “real problems” at Washington’s reflecting pool after an algae bloom in the wake of a $14.2m renovation of the...

The next US presidential election is more than two years away but conservative media have wasted no time attacking expected Democratic contenders. In recent months,...

The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed...

“It is inescapable this bill will betray the promise Donald Trump made,” Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican senator, said on Sunday night, sandblasting the...

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,...

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...

The Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday advanced the nomination of Jay Clayton to serve as the US intelligence director, despite criticism from Democrats. Donald Trump...

Mexico formally requested that US state attorneys general criminally investigate cases of immigrants who have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody or during...

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...

On Saturday, as a crowd of thousands of people near the Washington Monument listened, a loudspeaker dramatically announced the names of America’s secretary of defense,...

“A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to...

US House Republicans advance Trump tax-cut bill opening way for debate The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut...

With a lifetime of political memories stretching back to John F Kennedy’s assassination and the Black civil rights struggles of the 1960s, Cheryl Johnson had...

On Thursday, 23 July, after weeks of escalating attacks between the US and Iran, Donald Trump told a reporter that Iran hadn’t received “enough pain...

On an overcast summer morning, Carolyn Boyd, an archeologist at Texas State University, stood at the foot of a cave in west Texas, looking up...

In the Georgia governor’s race, Geoff Duncan’s candidacy tests American politics as much as it tests his political appeal. The former Republican lieutenant governor of...

Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the...

When voters went to the polls in the 2022 midterm elections, all the ingredients were there for Joe Biden’s allies to suffer a wipeout. The...

Charlie Kirk, the founder of rightwing youth activist group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and a close ally of Donald Trump, was fatally shot while speaking...

Edwin Torres DeSantiago received a text message on Wednesday morning as he was tracking immigration enforcement across Minneapolis – a person was shot by ICE...

Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino were booed as they took to the field for the presentation ceremony before the US president attempted to gatecrash Spain’s...

The pastor of a historically Black church on St Louis’s north side, Rodrick Burton, has watched with bewilderment as the congressional race in his district...

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...

BBC journalists cannot wear T-shirts in the newsroom supporting the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter, the corporation’s director general Tim Davie has said. Davie said...

Donald Trump was quick to declare victory over Iran, but this weekend’s negotiations suggest that Tehran has the upper hand. His war of choice has...

I hate birthdays, especially my own, which is ominously arriving next month. I used to love them, back in those days when I had something...

Donald Trump met with billionaire Elon Musk, his once trusted adviser with whom the president had a spectacular public falling out, at a memorial event...

A few days before Christmas in Pérez Zeledón, a city in Costa Rica, Greidy Mata stared at two photographs of her late brother. In one...

The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday barely an hour before Donald Trump’s deadline to obliterate Iran was set to expire,...

Democrats have failed to win statewide office in Texas for 30 years. Before the midterms, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to San Antonio to...

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...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor has a group of Pakistani American aunties and uncles so excited that they are...

The European Union’s foreign policy chief has criticised US claims that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and rejected what she called “fashionable euro-bashing”. Kaja Kallas...

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...