Suspect in Colorado flamethrower attack told police he targeted ‘Zionist group’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I...

The rustle of a notepad. The click of a pen lid. On a floral-patterned sofa sits Dustin Hoffman with long hair, big collar and a...

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, a callback to the department’s original...

In a move that has left anti-abortion advocates reeling, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly approved a request to manufacture a new abortion...

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...

After the cruelty, the mockery. As the first detainees were being hauled into Donald Trump’s controversial migrant jail in the inhospitable, steamy wetlands of the...

A US appeals court has for now blocked the Trump administration from removing the temporary protective status of thousands of Afghans in the United States,...

After moving to Ohio in 2013, Ibragim Chakhalidze’s father set up a trucking company just miles from where two of the country’s major road freight...

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...

The Trump administration is seeking a $1bn settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, a White House official said on Friday. The person was...

At least seven of the nine featured musical acts set to play in a concert series organized by the Trump administration to mark the United...

Paul Simon sang The Boxer. New York mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared with firefighters. When producer Lorne Michaels asked: “Can we be funny?”, Giuliani replied: “Why...

“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...

Muhammad Akbar Ali, a 21-year-old recent college graduate, won a runoff election for a state house seat in Atlanta’s suburbs earlier this month, becoming the...

Even in the pre-Trump era, I had reservations about the annual black-tie celebration in Washington that some have dubbed “the nerd prom” but is more...

Donald Trump on Saturday authorized the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass protests with police...

The White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, as war in the Middle East rages on,...

Donald Trump has again threatened Iran, saying the US may launch new attacks if Tehran continues to refuse the significant concessions he wants before a...

US supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...

Trump pays tribute to Charlie Kirk Donald Trump is addressing the tens of thousands of people attending the memorial. The president says America is a...

Oklahoma’s superintendent, who has attracted national attention as he sought to install religion and rightwing viewpoints in Oklahoma schools, will resign to run a conservative...

Donald Trump defended himself against criticism from fellow Republicans on Sunday as he appeared on the verge of agreeing a deal with Iran to end...

Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted...

Donald Trump is gravely serious about running for a third term in violation of the US constitution, California governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday, warning...

EJ Antoni, Trump’s pick to oversee job numbers, was at the Capitol on January 6 The White House confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that...

Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent the sex offender...

Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, has said that only Americans should attend next year’s Super Bowl and warned that Ice agents “will be...

Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats...

The US education department said on Monday it had terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding...

Donald Trump said Monday he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political...

Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is “no ceasefire in Lebanon” and Israel would continue “to strike Hezbollah with full force” as the country’s military launched...

Donald Trump’s mass pardoning of those convicted in connection to the January 6 insurrection raised eyebrows last year, but more recently his pardons have appeared...

It’s just gone midday on Linea, one of the main roads through Havana’s Vedado neighbourhood, and Javier Peña and Ysil Ribas have been waiting since...

If you believe the early public opinion polls, Americans are uncertain about last weekend’s raid on Venezuela and the seizure of the country’s leader, Nicolás...

The number of LGBTQ+ Americans inquiring about moving to Canada has soared since Donald Trump’s re-election, campaigners have said, as people across the US wrestle...

Ever since Donald Trump returned to power, pundits have struggled to find apt analogies for his style of governance. Some liken his loyalty demands, patronage...

The Department of Justice’s release of millions of Jeffrey Epstein files has not only prompted questions about his crimes – but renewed attention on authorities’...

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...

Soon after Twitch streamer Hasan Piker started campaigning with Democratic candidates this spring, an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal was published with the...

Last week Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s health chief and a longtime vaccine sceptic, presented a report on children’s health by the Make America...

The exodus from Hollywood to shores not presided over by Donald Trump has been busy and loud. Ellen DeGeneres, Robin Wright and Courtney Love moved...

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...

Nancy Pelosi, a California Democratic representative and the first woman to serve as speaker, has announced she will retire from Congress, two years after stepping...

Dick Cheney, the former White House chief of staff, member of Congress, secretary of defense and US vice-president, has died, his family has said. He...

When Donald Trump was elected the first time round, the works of the German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt flew off the shelves in the US. It...

Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would...

The civil rights campaigner has died aged 84. Jackson was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination....

The surprise resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene reverberated through Saturday, as figures from across the political spectrum gave responses ranging from criticism to acclaim, including...

On Friday, Donald Trump claimed that he will reverse everything that Joe Biden has signed with an autopen. The automated signature machine has been a...

Leading US investors and private equity firms could step up their foray into UK new-build housing after Donald Trump’s move to ban institutional companies from...

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,...

Before pleading “not guilty” at her first court hearing after she and her husband, Nicolás Maduro, were captured by US special forces, Cilia Flores made...

The leader of all Catholic chaplains in the United States’ armed forces has questioned how righteous the US military’s campaign in Iran is, saying that...

Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani was elected on Tuesday as the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating the former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature One person was arrested overnight in connection with the protest in...

Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with...

Trump goes after Zohran Mamdani Donald Trump has weighed in on Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York, saying: “the Democrats have crossed the line”. He...

The US supreme court starts a new term on Monday, and the nine justices are preparing to take on cases that could prove crucial to...

“At long last, we have peace in the Middle East,” Donald Trump declared, as he and regional leaders signed a declaration meant to cement a...

Donald Trump has weighed into a new fight – this time with two sports teams. The president wants Washington’s football franchise the Commanders and Cleveland...

Schumer rejects Trump’s claim that bipartisan shutdown negotiations are under way Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Democrats...

Opening summary Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news...

Democratic state representatives in Minnesota staged an overnight sit-in in their house chamber on Thursday after the Republican speaker failed to put a gun violence...

The cryptocurrency industry spent big and lost often in this week’s Illinois primaries. As the industry prepares to make massive donations in the 2026 midterm...

Donald Trump is not generally noted as a student of history. Yet over the past year, his decisive reorientation of US foreign policy towards the...

Johnson dismisses efforts to check Trump’s military power against Iran House speaker Mike Johnson dismissed efforts by lawmakers to advance a measure to check Trump’s...

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...

In June 1981, I was a young pulmonary fellow at one of the three Los Angeles hospitals where the first five cases of an unusual...

Democratic senators introduced a bill Tuesday to ban immigration officers from concealing their identities while engaged in immigration enforcement activities. The “visible act”, introduced by...

Pete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a...

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...

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”...

As top US health officials turn against some mRNA vaccines, experts fear for the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic and worry that other vaccines...

Republican US senator Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for re-election to a third term Wednesday. Daines withdrew his name just minutes before the...

When USA Rugby (USAR) updated its eligibility requirements in February to ban trans women from competing, many players and fans were outraged. Within days, 300...

Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’ Oliver Holmes Donald Trump has dismissed a secretive inquiry into the late sex...

Growing pressure on the Trump administration has prompted the US president to direct his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to seek the release of grand jury...

Arizona senator Mark Kelly warned that the Trump administration’s failed attempt to secure an indictment against him and five other Democratic lawmakers for a video...

At morning services at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday, congregants greeted one another with hugs and expressed gratitude for a rare piece...

A federal judge ruled on Friday that officials at Florida’s state-run immigration jail, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, must give attorneys better access to their detained clients....

For such an uncannily successful politician, Donald Trump exhibits a perplexing political myopia. His most recent own-goal was endorsing Ken Paxton, a state attorney general,...

Forty-five years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton hotel in Washington, injuring the US president and three...

“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...

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...

Senate passes short-term Fisa extension By a voice vote, the Senate passed a 10-day clean extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...

White House boasts family of suspect in Boulder attack ‘could be deported as early as tonight’ The White House is boasting on its official social...

After an armed man attempted to breach the ballroom where Donald Trump was set to speak to White House journalists on Saturday, conspiracy theories immediately...

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington DC that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd...

Trump says he signed bill mandating the release of the Epstein files Donald Trump said in a post on his social media platform that he...

Brazil’s president rejects Trump’s effort to use tariffs to extract political concessions Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, firmly rejected Donald Trump’s demand that...

With the first primaries of the US midterm elections now under way, the cryptocurrency industry is injecting millions of dollars into congressional races across the...

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it had paused all immigration applications, including green card and US citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European...

You report that Donald Trump claims that the only thing limiting his power as commander-in-chief is his “own morality” (‘I don’t need international law’: Trump...

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...

‘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...

Since Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite’s legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to...

The multiple firsts achieved by New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, have been well chronicled: he is the first Muslim to occupy that role, the...

Abby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023, managing a national...

More White House firings could be coming – reports Donald Trump is said to be considering removing other officials in his cabinet after forcing Pam...