Trump says he ‘can’t believe’ Kimmel back on ABC Good morning and welcome to our coverage of US politics as Donald Trump has made clear...

CDC director Susan Monarez was fired after resisting changes to vaccine policy that were advanced by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and that she...

Dan Osborn is a man who does not like to lose, and if you had asked him on election night last year whether he would...

The justice department on Tuesday charged a man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train last month with a...

Jade Johnson has a word to describe the experience of going hungry in one of the world’s richest countries. “Humbling.” The last time she endured...

A 43-year-old woman and mother of two with advanced cancer says she is experiencing life-or-death delays in treatment because of the Trump administration’s cuts to...

Misled by video of 2020 protests shown on Fox, Trump threatens to invade Portland and ‘wipe out’ protesters Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that...

Most US adults support legal abortion three years after Roe overturn, new poll finds Good morning, and welcome to the US politics blog. Today we’re...

Jakub Krupa Here’s some more on Trump’s comments about Putin. Talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he said: “That was a war that should...

How did a political nobody, Zohran Mamdani, beat one of New York’s best-known establishment figures, Andrew Cuomo? Rachel Leingang speaks to Moira Donegan about how...

Inside an armored vehicle, an army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the US-Mexico border wall...

The day so far Vote-a-rama is under way in the Senate on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that would enact his domestic tax and spending agenda...

The man charged with killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, is expected...

The Trump administration has released solicitations for a grant program meant to stop gun violence in underserved communities. But this year, the non-profits the grant...

New York City’s mayoral race is heating up, with Zohran Mamdani, the young progressive who leapt ahead of establishment figures in the primary to win...

A group of white male lawmakers were playing cards in a back room while their female colleagues gave speeches on the Minnesota house floor. They...

Donald Trump’s decision to boycott Cop30, withdraw the US from the Paris agreement and illegally terminate a slew of investments in renewable energy will not...

JD Vance will reportedly host a meeting on Wednesday evening at his residence with a handful of senior Trump administration officials to discuss their strategy...

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...

A federal magistrate judge declined to sign off on charges against Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, in connection with a protest at a Minnesota...

It will go down in history as the “Bah! Humbug!” address. Surrounded by Christmas trees and garlands before a fireplace, Donald Trump on Wednesday gave...

A January 6 defendant who urged fellow rioters to kill police officers should be fired from his job at the justice department, three senate Democrats...

Late-night hosts took aim at JD Vance over his unusual birthday demand and Donald Trump over his disastrous tariffs. Stephen Colbert On The Late Show,...

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...

Texas House reconvenes, ready to pass GOP-drawn map The Texas house is starting up for legislative business again. The Republican majority is poised to pass...

US Attorney to resign after Trump’s remarks calling for his removal over Letitia James investigation – reports US attorney Erik Siebert told employees on Friday...

A Kentucky congressman singled out by Donald Trump on Christmas as a “lowlife” after co-authoring a law requiring the federal government to release all of...

The dress code for Lisa Copeland’s big night out: what would Melania wear? The 60-year-old real estate entrepreneur and nine other friends were headed to...

The national guard prepared to deploy on the streets of Washington DC on Tuesday night, a day after Donald Trump ordered their arrival to combat...

A T-shirt worn by Beyoncé during a Juneteenth performance on her Cowboy Carter tour has sparked a discussion over how Americans frame their history and...

“You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war,” was the storied response of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to Frederic Remington after the illustrator...

The people of New York have spoken. Despite all the odds, a 34-year-old Muslim Democratic socialist has been elected to lead the largest city in...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments. Donald Trump hosted Zohran Mamdani,...

After Donald Trump’s justice department failed on Friday to release all documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, multiple Congress...

George Monbiot is right that having a written constitution would be better than not having one if the far right takes power (We must act...

The Smithsonian will include Donald Trump’s two impeachments in an updated presentation “in the coming weeks” after references to them were removed, the museum said...

Donald Trump is not making America feel great again. Nine months into the second Trump administration, Americans are feeling pretty crummy. More than half –...

Late-night hosts talked cratering public opinion on the Trump administration’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in US communities and the president’s apparent preference...

Protesters heckled federal law enforcement officials as they reportedly stopped dozens of cars at a checkpoint along a busy street in Washington DC on Wednesday...

Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that he has found a way to pay US military troops despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, saying he has...

Retired brigadier general Shawn Harris had been all geared up for a campaign to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene next November, and then the far-right representative...

The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict legal...

On 2 September, the US government released grainy footage of a fishing boat ploughing through the waters of the Caribbean sea. Suddenly, after a flash...

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) is leaving the agency, a senior Trump administration official said on Monday. David Richardson resigned...

Late-night hosts spoke about the controversial behavior of a small group of Democrats and Donald Trump’s continued destruction of the White House. Stephen Colbert On...

Boulder attack suspect booked on multiple charges, including felony use of incendiary devices The suspect in the attack in Boulder is in custody after being...

With Los Angeles convulsed by confrontation between pro-migrant protesters and military units dispatched by Donald Trump, no figure apart from the president has loomed larger...

It has been said many times, but saying it appears to have no consequences: our system of checks and balances is failing. The US supreme...

Outrage over Democrats’ video on illegal orders defies ‘common sense and basic morality’, Ron Paul says Ron Paul, the former Republican congressman and presidential candidate,...

Jon Stewart airs Trump ‘approved’ Daily Show Jon Stewart has hosted the first edition of The Daily Show since his fellow late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel,...

Trump’s border czar says immigration officials to escalate operations in sanctuary cities Border czar Tom Homan said Monday that immigration officials will escalate operations in...

Vilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She...

Donald Trump is weighing up his options for responding to protests in Iran, including “very strong” military action, as deaths mount in a crackdown on...

The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review...

Federal investigators have been interviewing multiple people who are pushing unfounded claims that Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, the Guardian has...

Senate Republicans race to resolve tax and health issues in Trump’s tax bill to meet 4 July deadline Republicans in Congress are scrambling to resolve...

Donald Trump has his hands in multiple pies around the world. Not satisfied with the Middle East, the president is attempting to end the war...

You can see how it works. First, the case against asylum seekers is based on the impact on public services and the costs of accommodation....

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not an “independent” agency, its chairman suggested on Wednesday, as the word was scrubbed from its online mission statement....

1. The summit produced slim pickings … in other words, no deal As Donald Trump conceded during his brief press conference with Vladimir Putin, “understanding”...

The end of violence in Baltimore is a litany of stories that weren’t told in 90-second clips on the evening news, about shootings that didn’t...

A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents sparked an “outrageous” FBI raid on a Washington...

Speaking in the Oval Office this week, Donald Trump had something he wanted to clarify. “I’m not a dictator. I don’t like a dictator,” the...

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...

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...

Unreleased Epstein files include bawdy letter from Trump – report The Wall Street Journal reports that one of the documents in the justice department files...

The Trump administration on Monday asked the supreme court to allow it to fire the director of the US Copyright Office. The administration’s newest emergency...

Johnson defends administration’s move to keep military paid during shutdown The House speaker has said that the Trump administration has “every right” to move around...

Mike Johnson wants more time for negotiations as JD Vance blames Democrat over potential shutdown More reactions from Congressional leaders’ meeting with Trump on the...

Bernie Sanders, the venerable democratic socialist senator from Vermont, was not in a mood to pull punches. “Trump is undermining our democracy and rapidly moving...

When Laura Wittmann decided this week to submit her resignation from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to...

‘An alarming abuse of power’: Democratic governors condemn Trump’s deployment of National Guard Democratic governors have condemned Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the California national...

The giant and catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, didn’t reach Apalachicola Bay in 2010, but the threat of...

The Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC...

Monarez: ‘I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity’ “I had refused to commit to approving vaccine recommendations without evidence, fire career officials...

Days before Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, an investment firm controlled by a senior member of the United Arab Emirates royal family...

Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in his administration’s pressure...

‘They fired the first shot, Texas’, Newsom says before signing bill to put redistricting to California’s voters California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation on Thursday...

Last week, the office of management and budget (OMB) revealed plans to freeze all outside funding for National Institutes of Health research this fiscal year,...

Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing measures of praise and...

In an incredibly polarised society, there are fewer and fewer things that seem to unite both sides of the aisle in the US political system....

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website has been changed to reflect the belief of Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health and...

Democrats have criticized Donald Trump’s travel ban on 12 countries as “reckless” and “discriminatory”, with some warning the policy may be an effort to distract...

The Trump administration has pushed through a flurry of actions on the final day of 2025, including drastic reversals on two high key issues. Donald...

Donald Trump observed blithely last week that if his cherished tariff regime is struck down by the US supreme court, he may need to “unwind”...

The detention by immigration authorities of a Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer is illegal, and he must be given...

The red carpet is being used increasingly as a platform for protest – and one accessory in particular has become key: the pin badge. At...

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...

One of the main media takeaways from the 2024 election was the much-discussed “vibe shift”. That is, a resurgence of cultural conservatism and a backlash...

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...

US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard now backs Trump’s claim Iran could have nuclear weapon in ‘weeks’ Two hours after Donald Trump again said that she...

A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti...

As San Francisco’s pride festivities came to a close last week, a cloud hung over the otherwise joyful celebrations as the city’s LGBTQ+ community learned...

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 party was on its knees. It failed to beat Donald Trump, a twice impeached convicted felon, and lost both chambers of Congress. Since November,...

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,...

The Trump administration will block organizations that receive US foreign aid from subsidizing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and what the administration calls “gender...

In their quest to undo Donald Trump’s grip on voters, Democrats have staked their hopes on one word above all others: affordability. It has become...

Obama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...