Naoko Fujii’s great-grandfather Jotaro Mori was out fishing when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. When Mori returned home hours later, the FBI...

For more than a decade he built his brand on two words: “You’re fired!” And in his first term in the White House, Donald Trump...

Republican Steve Hilton, the former UK political operative turned Fox News personality, has advanced to the November general election in the race to become California’s...

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...

Crowds amassed across the US in planned No Kings protests on Saturday, opposing what participants view as Donald Trump’s increasingly autocratic tendencies and anti-democratic actions...

The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said...

After the New York Times published an article in early June about the Senate candidate Graham Platner’s treatment of the women he dated, the story’s...

All the elaborate efforts of the European allies to prevent Donald Trump from prostrating himself before Vladimir Putin came to naught at their summit meeting...

The US supreme court has supported Donald Trump’s attempt to limit lower-court orders that have so far blocked his administration’s ban on birthright citizenship, in...

Ro Khanna, the US congressman, publicly revealed the names of six men whose identities were redacted from the Jeffrey Epstein files, including Leslie Wexner, a...

Donald Trump announced Friday that he is withdrawing his support and endorsement of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime ally and previously fierce defender...

Trump nominates economist at the Heritage Foundation as the new BLS commissioner President Donald Trump announced he is nominating EJ Antoni, the chief economist at...

Pope Leo has said the world is being ‘ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen...

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...

At least three events connected to Mexican Independence Day have been canceled or postponed in Chicago, amid reports that Donald Trump plans to send troops...

In the early morning of 14 June, according to authorities, Vance Luther Boelter, disguised as a police officer and wearing body armor and a face...

Two children – a nine-year old boy and his six-year old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed...

The US supreme court will hear a hugely consequential case on Wednesday that will determine the future of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil...

It’s worth noting that Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan was the latest win for progressives across the country, many of whom challenged establishment-backed Democrats in...

This February, Pat McAfee was broadcasting live on ESPN, the most watched sports network in the US, when he aired a salacious rumor about the...

Trump claims ‘pictures’ show ‘vandals’ cut a 350ft slit in the reflecting pool floor but declines to show evidence In an entirely predictable development, when...

Have we ever seen a year in recent memory begin with as much deliberate turmoil as 2026 has? Less than two weeks into 2026, we...

The Trump administration has issued subpoenas to several New York Times journalists after the newspaper reported on security concerns with the president’s new plane, according...

The man charged in connection with the recent shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was a doomsday “prepper” who instructed his family to...

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...

Trump’s justice department reportedly opens criminal investigation of E Jean Carroll, who won sexual abuse case against Trump CNN reports that the US Department of...

National guard troops arrive in LA National guard troops have arrived in Los Angeles, according to footage broadcast by news network ABC7. The video showed...

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...

Law enforcement and local government officials across the US have over the last year expressed concerns that immigration operations were interfering with police work and...

For years she was one of Donald Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers. Marjorie Taylor Greene trafficked in racist statements, indicated support for executing Democrats and...

Donald Trump loves a construction project. He’s building a ballroom, revamping a reflecting pool, and overseeing the construction of a skyline-altering arch in Washington DC....

While unrest and new vaccine restrictions have kept US health agencies in headlines, there’s one vaccine program in particular that Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary...

The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently...

Things seem to be going well at the CDC, the federal agency charged with protecting US public health. By “well” I mean terrible, thanks to...

The Democratic National Committee’s decision to block the release of its own autopsy report on the 2024 election is stunning but not surprising. Averse to...

When Air Force One took off from Turkey after July’s Nato summit, almost everyone believed Donald Trump was on board … but he wasn’t. Jonathan...

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...

Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the...

Donald Trump ramped up his trade rhetoric this week, firing off more than 20 letters to governments outlining new tariff rates if agreements aren’t reached...

Khalil says he filed claim ‘because they think they are untouchable’ Mahmoud Khalil said in a statement that he wanted to send a message that...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump, who is definitely...

An unverified rumor that Venezuelan gang members were preparing to kill police officers spread like wildfire through US law enforcement agencies last year, internal records...

Donald Trump has nominated Jay Clayton, former head of the top US markets watchdog, to be the country’s leading intelligence official. The US president faced...

The US military has conducted “a lethal strike” against an alleged “drug vessel” from Venezuela, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has announced amid growing...

“From the vantage point of the newsroom, the first story is almost never the full story,” writes Jelani Cobb. “You hear stray wisps of information,...

The US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to...

Let’s play a fun game of Will This Get Me Deported? The first contestant is myself: a British-Palestinian green card holder in the US. I’ll...

Survivors, lawmakers and watchdog groups accused Donald Trump’s justice department of withholding records it is legally required to release following the disclosure of millions of...

Ryan McElroen had spent years repairing the New York City subway underground when he got the opportunity to work in the middle of the ocean....

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...

Key moments from cordial Trump-Mamdani Oval Office news conference The surprisingly cordial Oval Office meeting between Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist mayor-elect of New York...

‘If this is how they respond to a senator with a question, imagine what they’re doing across the country,’ says Padilla Padilla goes on: If...

An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a...

Jimmy Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday night, calling government threats to silence comedians “anti American”, as he broke his silence about the suspension from...

Hunter Demster Hunter Demster, a longstanding Memphis activist, is at the center of a network of residents intent on documenting the activities of the taskforce....

Supreme court agrees to hear case over law that bans drug users from possessing guns The supreme court has agreed to hear a case to...

The interior department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as Donald Trump’s administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks...

She was now one of the family. When Donald Trump addressed supporters in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, in early December, he asked: “Susie Trump – do...

The way we commemorate history is often – too often – by celebrating an individual with a statue, a place name, a holiday. While some...

The US Postal Service prepared to publish a final ⁠rule late ⁠on ​Friday to impose new requirements on states to provide the federal government with...

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has filed a lawsuit claiming Donald Trump has no authority to fire her. The lawsuit – filed by Cook in...

The anger was raw and resolute. Speaking at the Republican congressman Mike Flood’s town hall in Lincoln, Nebraska, a woman pointed to the estimated $450m...

More than 330,000 Haitian immigrants in the US are set to lose their ability to legally live and work in the country as the Trump...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights, according...

Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast examines the US president’s moves to build a US$300m ballroom at the same time as a government shutdown leaves millions...

Catherine Lucey, who covers the White House for Bloomberg News, was doing what reporters are supposed to do: asking germane questions. Her query to Donald...

This story was originally published by the Trace, a non-profit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. As Philadelphia’s district...

US troops have been sent to Israel as part of the peace deal approved on Thursday to support and help monitor the ceasefire, according to...

A US judge on Tuesday granted the justice department’s bid to dismiss cases against ‌members of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia who took part in...

The intensively discussed files related to the disgraced former financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein passed a significant milestone on Tuesday when Congress voted overwhelmingly...

On 9 July, the body of Ann Widdecombe, an uncompromising, staunchly conservative former UK government minister turned TV personality and spokesperson for the radical-right Reform...

Good morning. The world’s attention has been fixed on Minneapolis for weeks now. The small midwestern US city has been under siege since Donald Trump’s...

Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday that declares all Department of Homeland Security employees will receive pay and benefits during the agency’s partial shutdown....

The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the fourth-largest agency in the US government, became the longest partial shutdown in US history on...

The European pharmaceutical industry has condemned the US move to put 15% tariffs on medicines imported from the EU, calling the taxes a “blunt instrument”...

The left would do well to revisit New York’s Democratic primaries two weeks ago – it was a sunnier news cycle, yes, but those races...

A scrapbook for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday released on Monday contains a photo of him holding a novelty check bearing Donald Trump’s signature, along with...

Donald Trump said on Friday night he was “immediately” terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota, further targeting a program seeking to...

The Trump administration is targeting sanctuary cities in the next phase of its deportation drive after labelling them “sanctuaries for criminals” following the shooting of...

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 Democratic party faces a crucial test of its direction today as voters in the midwestern swing state of Michigan decide whether to nominate for...

A controversial move by the Pentagon to reclassify casualties in the Iran war is being taken by US military veterans as a sign of disrespect...

At least seven people have been killed and dozens injured in several shootings in Chicago since Friday, police said, with Donald Trump once again calling...

Two protesters have been blinded by so-called “less-lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to...

Donald Trump falsely claimed that crime in Washington DC is “the worst it’s ever been” on Thursday, amid a federal takeover of the city’s police...

Crosses, shofars and “Appeal to Heaven” flags. Rioters praying with their hands aloft as police officers are brutalised. January 6 2021 is widely remembered as...

Jeffries’ ‘magic minute’ speech passes the eight-hour mark The minority leader’s marathon floor speech has stretched into its eighth hour. Jeffries began speaking shortly before...

Leavitt insists that Lindsey Halligan was legally appointed after federal judge tosses out indictments The White House press secretary insisted that Lindsey Halligan, the interim...

A (small) handful of US Senate Republicans issued a legislative rebuke to president Donald Trump’s world-rattling trade tariffs in a rare alignment with their Democratic...

Donald Trump has hailed a supreme court decision to limit federal judges’ powers to block his orders on a nationwide basis as a “monumental victory”...

Wisconsin voters will decide on Tuesday whether to nominate a democratic socialist for the state’s highest office in the latest test of an anti-establishment wave...

Shutdown enters day 23 as Senate Republicans push bill to fund troops The government shutdown entered its 23rd day, with little end in sight. On...

Trump calls again on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates Donald Trump has – once again – called on Jerome Powell, the...

Senate fails to pass funding bill to reopen government for 10th time The Senate has rejected a House-passed funding bill that would reopen the federal...

The first time a woman I’ll call Shoshana went toBrandi Carlile’s music festival, she arrived alone. She had just been through another unsuccessful round of...

Trump administration officials say they are undertaking a broad re-examination of asylum cases and green cards issued to citizens of certain countries, after the shooting...

Trump would ‘fire’ Howard Lutnick if he saw video of testimony, say oversight Democrats Following closed-door testimony from Howard Lutnick before the House oversight committee...

A district judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard’s international students from entering the United States after the Ivy League university...

South Carolina voters have chosen Darline Graham as the Republican nominee for US Senate, the seat formerly held by her late brother, Lindsey, on November’s...