Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, homeland security officials have consistently argued that deportation officers are facing unprecedented threats. To better understand the dangers...

A US marine veteran has described feeling “betrayed” after Trump administration immigration agents beat and arrested his father at his landscaping job, the latest example...

Donald Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday it was “critically important” that the federal government retain control over the multibillion-dollar prediction market...

Donald Trump announced on Friday he was doubling foreign tariffs on steel imports to 50%, as he celebrated a “blockbuster” agreement for Japan-based Nippon Steel’s...

Donald Trump’s so-called “board of peace” has been announced as the US president seeks to manage the reconstruction of Gaza and its transitional administration amid...

Bowser says she ‘greatly appreciates’ impact of federal law enforcement surge on DC crime rate “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what...

A senior Democrat has called on Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure, to testify to Congress about...

Donald Trump managed to pull off a bit of a miracle on Sunday: he offended and upset many of his conservative Christian followers. Trump posted...

Discussions are reportedly under way within Donald Trump’s administration about the US possibly granting asylum to Jewish people from the UK, according to the Telegraph,...

At the behest of Donald Trump, Texas Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional map to try and gain as many as five congressional...

Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China. In...

Donald Trump has claimed that the US and China “feel very similar” about ending the war in Iran but offered no details about a possible...

When Max Miller ran for Congress in 2022, the Trump loyalist and former aide was unequivocal: inflation and the economy were “the top issue” for...

Tom Homan, the Trump administration “border czar”, on Sunday said he did not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer at the center of...

Donald Trump declined on Sunday to definitively rule out compensating individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers when his supporters attacked the US Capitol...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based...

Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs For a third time this week, a bipartisan group of Senators rallied to nullify the global “reciprocal” tariffs...

‘I am acutely conscious,” said Andy Burnham outside 10 Downing Street on Monday, “that I am the sixth person in the last 10 years to...

Calls for Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Maine, to withdraw his candidacy intensified Monday after a woman accused him of sexual...

As the United States prepares to mark its 250th anniversary on 4 July, the country faces a turbulent moment under the Donald Trump administration. The...

Trump blames ‘radical left political violence’ for killing of Charlie Kirk, fails to mention killing of Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota In an Oval Office address...

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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...

Rolex is facing scrutiny over its “concerning” decision to host Donald Trump in the Swiss watchmaker’s corporate box at the US Open final earlier this...

Oil prices have again topped $100 a barrel as widespread Iranian attacks on energy facilities in the Middle East overshadowed a vast release of government...

US treasury sanctions major Russian oil companies, calls for Russia to accept immediate ceasefire The Trump administration said on Wednesday it is “imposing further sanctions...

Mahmoud Khalil squinted in the afternoon sun as he walked away from the fences topped with razor wire, through two tall gates and out into...

A federal judge on Friday rejected Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made...

The justice department subpoenaed several top officials in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of its investigation into whether Minneapolis officials have conspired to impede federal...

Top Senate Democrat says he expects justice department to respond to Epstein demand by 15 August At the Capitol, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is...

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Trump in situation room with Hegseth and Caine amid Iran attack on US bases – report Joint Chiefs Chair General Dan Caine and Secretary Pete...

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 announced on Friday he had commuted the sentence of George Santos, the disgraced former New York representative and serial fabulist who had been...

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...

More than half of Americans disapprove of Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing and the construction of a new ballroom, according to a...

Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, offered few details and was evasive when asked about the deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran, saying...

In Donald Trump’s world there are weeks and then there are weeks. This one was a doozy. From declaring war on Tylenol to an escape...

Donald Trump on Sunday accused Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, of being an “illegal drug dealer” and threatened to immediately cut US funding to the country...

Donald Trump has issued another verbal attack against Pope Leo, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for...

Officials correct death toll in Ice shooting to say one person killed, two in critical condition The Department of Homeland Security just issued a correction...

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...

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....

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Trump tells foreign companies to ‘respect’ immigration law after Hyundai Ice raid Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

As the Trump administration ramps up its crackdown on immigration, undocumented workers in the construction industry claim raids and arrests have emboldened some contractors to...

The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack,...

Charlie Kirk inspired a generation of conservative youth. He toured campuses whipping up culture wars, actively courting controversy. But his horrific killing last week, in...

In Sand Point, Alaska, the radio dial is mostly empty. For a commercial broadcaster, running a station in this Aleutian Island fishing town of about...

Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with...

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Three days into its immigration crackdown in Maine, the Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had arrested “more than 100...

Jamieson Greer, a US trade representative, said on Monday that Washington and Beijing have struck a framework agreement on transferring TikTok to US-controlled ownership. Speaking...

The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said he met the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction, backtracking on his previous claims that...

In an unusual move, Donald Trump’s administration is using the US Department of Housing and Urban Development website to blame the looming government shutdown on...

When a camera records an act of lethal violence against someone in official custody, the state cannot hide what it typically keeps in the dark....

The United Nations and its agencies have long struggled with funding shortfalls. Now an entrenched problem is becoming an acute crisis in the shadow of...

The family of British political commentator Sami Hamdi, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in late October while on a speaking...

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A three-star navy rear-admiral fired by Pete Hegseth last year in the defense secretary’s purge of senior US military officials advanced to a Democratic runoff...

In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump has demanded homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face eviction, and again...

Democrats called on Tuesday for a congressional briefing over a stunning charade in which Donald Trump was secretly spirited to a different plane than the...

Pregnant women have reported bleeding, miscarriages, being shackled and other instances of medical neglect while in US immigration custody, according to a group of prominent...

Donald Trump’s war on science has been vicious and hugely damaging, but it is worth noting that he has lost some of its biggest battles....

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s plans and extended temporary protected status (TPS) for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including...

By a large, bipartisan margin, the US Senate on Friday approved a bill intended to punish Russia and countries that buy its petroleum exports over...

Donald Trump kicked off Independence Day by signing into law his sweeping tax and spending bill during a Fourth of July picnic at the White...

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More details have emerged about the six American service members who were killed in an unmanned aircraft system attack in the Shuaiba port in Kuwait...

Trump says Hamas is ready for peace, says ‘Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza’ Donald Trump just welcomed the response from Hamas to...

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1. Trump’s threats to New York City loomed large The Republican president’s threats to New York City dominated plenty of conversation during the debate. In...

Zelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that he plans to meet Trump in Washington on Monday after Trumps’s summit...

The killing of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week has triggered a wave of political disquiet in Washington, with some House Democrats fearing a...

Final New York mayoral debate begins Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa have taken the stage for a two-hour debate in Queens, New York,...

Closing summary It was election eve in many states across the country, which could be a test for how voters feel in the first year...

Donald Trump has suggested he already has a replacement in mind for the Federal Reserve governor he is trying to force, even as Lisa Cook...

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...

Trump has run out of cards to play in the midterm elections, which is why he’s now talking about the “communist menace”. He can’t talk...

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...

Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years....

The longest US government shutdown in history ended on Wednesday after more than 42 days, following the House of Representative’s passage of a bill negotiated...

A top US medical body has expressed “deep concern” to Robert F Kennedy Jr over news reports that the health secretary plans to overhaul a...

Video filmed from inside Ecuador’s consulate in Minneapolis shows an ICE agent trying to enter the building but being prevented by consulate staffers, according to...

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...

Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and legal US resident who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) following his pro-Palestinian activism,...

As Francesca Hong surged ahead in the final weeks of the chaotic Democratic primary to be Wisconsin’s next governor, the democratic socialist has become the...

Starships are meant to fly, but Nicki Minaj’s musical career is now doing a Maga-propelled nosedive. For the past few months, the rapper and former...

‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in...

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump claimed he would quickly end the war in Gaza. Eight months after taking office, Trump finally decided to exert...

A US government order to make drastic cuts in commercial air traffic amid the government shutdown has taken effect, with major airports across the country...

The US state department announced on Saturday that it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza in desperate need of medical care after an...

Supreme court decision ‘authorizes untold harm to transgender children’, says Justice Sotomayor in her dissent In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision “does...

Even as he threatened to escalate an unlawful war sold in part as preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump opened the door...

The troublesome Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington is “probably” going to be drained for repairs, Donald Trump has said, after algae blooms and peeling...

It might be most generous to characterize the behavior of major US media organizations since 2024 as negotiating between competing incentives. On the one hand,...

Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files On the House floor today, congressman Ro Khanna named the six high-profile men that are included...

News of a potential reopening of the strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquid gas pass, sent stock markets...

Donald Trump has pardoned a woman who ended up imprisoned for fraud a second time after he afforded her clemency during his first presidency. Adriana...