The Trump administration said refunds of tariffs struck down by the US supreme court “will take time”, according to court documents filed by the Department...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: A federal judge tossed out...

Trump administration officials have defended carrying out a follow-up strike on a drug boat that killed survivors on 2 September by arguing that its objective...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Georgia congresswoman who had a dramatic blow-up with Donald Trump despite being his longtime ally, announced on Friday she would...

Hollywood’s home state of California will more than double annual tax incentives for film and television production to $750m under a measure passed by the...

The Democratic politicians on the national scene, charged with leading the opposition, continue to bring a butterknife to the ongoing gunfight that is US politics...

Trump says he has directed attorney general to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony Minutes after announcing that he intends to sue the Wall...

To many observers, both in the US and abroad, Donald Trump has been behaving strangely recently. Especially online. As a government shutdown loomed in the...

Nearly two decades after his second tour, Nathan Wendland is still troubled by his experiences in Iraq. Like 700,000 other Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the...

Donald Trump is under pressure to spell out his vision for Iran amid the ongoing attacks on the country and reports of the first American...

The US secretary of state has confirmed Donald Trump’s announcement that all trade negotiations with Canada have been suspended. Marco Rubio spoke during a visit...

Thousands chanted and marched in New York City on Friday to protest the Trump administration’s escalating mass deportation campaign. Among the protesters were young and...

With the public’s outrage and attention focused on the deadly surge of federal agents in Minneapolis, immigration operations have quietly continued across the US –...

About 850 officers and agents took part in a “massive law enforcement surge” across Washington DC on Monday night and made nearly two dozen arrests,...

Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of...

In mortarboards and crimson-fringed gowns, thousands of students were joined by smiling families for the centuries-old ritual of graduation day. But this year was different....

Number of Democrats say they won’t vote for DHS funding amid alarm over ICE tactics Multiple democrats say they will not vote to fund the...

In his 130 days as a special government employee, the world’s richest man slashed his way through federal agencies, laying off government employees and gaining...

US airlines canceled 1,460 flights on Saturday, the second day of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) order to reduce air traffic because of the government...

Trump shares carriage procession with King Charles Here are some pictures from the carriage procession. Members of the Royal Navy Ceremonial Guard line up the...

Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a once moderate Republican turned Trump loyalist, officially launched her bid for governor of South Carolina on Monday. Currently serving her third...

In June 2024, a divided US supreme court handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card. Across 43 pages, chief justice John Roberts demolished the long-held belief...

Elon Musk further criticizes Trump’s spending bill, saying a new one should be drafted Elon Musk, who only days ago left his role in Donald...

What is happening in Charlotte? North Carolina’s largest city is reeling from a series of immigration raids that have arrested more than 100 people, leading...

Donald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today...

Trump to address UN general assembly as US allies recognize Palestinian statehood Following the news that the Secret Service intercepted a threat to distrupt cellular...

A man was fatally shot during a vehicle stop on the outskirts of Chicago by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers after attempting to...

Throughout Bad Bunny’s mesmerizing performance during the Super Bowl, the word “America” kept expanding, like an accordion, stretching out to embrace people of all nationalities....

West Virginia is to deploy 300 to 400 national guard troops to Washington DC at the request of the Trump administration, the state’s governor said...

Trump continues attacks on Federal Reserve chair Donald Trump has continued his attacks on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell today, calling him a “stupid guy”...

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The Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, admitted at a Senate hearing on Wednesday that there had been a political “sea change” and he no...

The government of Eswatini announced on Thursday it received four more “third country” deportees from the United States, as part of the Trump administration’s multimillion-dollar...

The New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday evening attended a vigil in Manhattan convened by Israelis for Peace, an anti-occupation group...

Opening summary US lawmakers have shared their concerns over escalating tensions between the US and Venezuela after US forces seized an oil tanker off the...

Justice department will release Epstein files within 30 days, Bondi says The US justice department will release files from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein within...

New poll shows overwhelming majority of Americans opposed to military action in Venezuela A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows that 70% of Americans are opposed...

Will Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...

Democratic ex-presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have spoken out against the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old nurse in Minneapolis, the second person to be...

On 25 February, in her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing, Casey Means, Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, called on the US government...

Los Angeles city council member Nithya Raman formally entered the race for mayor on Saturday, unveiling her campaign during a press conference. Representing areas that...

Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

Trump gets royal welcome in Japan as he meets emperor Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will...

Geothermal is one of the most promising clean energy sources in the US, providing 24/7 renewable power that could meet rising energy demand from AI...

By rolling back a bedrock climate legal determination, the Trump administration has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability law, green groups have...

Summary Here’s a wrap-up of the day’s key events: Transportation secretary Sean Duffy warned of the impacts of the shutdown on the aviation industry and...

Plus ça change. At the turn of the millennium, Australia was in the throes of “one of its periodic bouts of angst over its place...

In the opening weeks of Donald Trump’s second term, Gavin Newsom wagered that peacemaking was best: a tarmac greeting for Air Force One, an Oval...

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...

The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna read out the names of six wealthy men included in the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a post on X at...

Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing congresswoman and former House speaker, has conceded that she may not see a woman be elected US president in her lifetime....

Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark said on Monday it will buy Kenvue for more than $40bn in a landmark deal for the consumer sector, as the Tylenol...

“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University...

Zohran Mamdani pulled in almost double the funds of his nearest rivals for New York City mayor between early July and mid-August, as the candidates...

Donald Trump has landed in Switzerland for the Davos global gathering as Nato’s secretary general said “thoughtful diplomacy” was the only way to deal with...

The honeymoon between Donald Trump and Elon Musk appears to be over, after the tech billionaire announced his official exit from the White House to...

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders press incoming CBS owner on ‘side deal’ with Trump and cancelling Colbert Citing concerns over possible violations of bribery laws,...

Hundreds of staff gathered outside the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Thursday to support the public health leaders who resigned, or were fired by the...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Dolton, Illinois, and a White Sox baseball fan, has been anointed by Chicagoans as the “South Side Pope”, appearing via...

Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around...

So it appears Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, agrees with many of us: she thinks Donald Trump’s cabinet is bonkers. From that...

After a rollout trumpeted by US officials, the US- and Israeli-backed effort that claimed it would return large-scale food deliveries to Gaza was born an...

Every morning, Alicia Mercado makes the 50-minute drive from her home in Columbus to Springfield, where she runs the Adasa Latin Market store. She opened...

Donald Trump has claimed the world is “richer, safer and much more peaceful than it was just one year ago” as he hosted a launch...

A recent tweet from the US Department of Defense boasts about the killing capabilities of the US military as follows: “Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing”....

As two masked men dragged her into an unmarked SUV, Andrea Velez tried to focus on details she might later remember – one man’s red...

Donald Trump has stepped up his demand to annex Greenland but said the US would not use force to seize it during a rambling, invective-laden...

US Senate Democrats are launching an investigation into whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the CBS parent company, Paramount, prevented Stephen Colbert, the network’s...

The possibility of US intervention in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran is exposing sharp divisions in president Donald Trump’s base, with some of...

‘This is no time to be talking about pardons,’ says Trump when pressed about Maxwell Speaking to reporters at Prestwick airport, Trump denied reports that...

Donald Trump has asked a US court to order a swift deposition for billionaire Rupert Murdoch in the president’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street...

Several US federal agencies on Tuesday began blaming Democrats for an impending government shutdown at midnight in a move that experts say appears to violate...

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...

Kamala Harris lost last year’s US presidential election because she chased the wrong voters with the wrong message, ultimately demobilising the very base that she...

No dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces...

The Trump administration has so radically transformed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) independent watchdog teams that thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration...

The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year....

A newly released batch of the so-called Epstein files on Tuesday includes many references to Donald Trump, including a claim by a senior US attorney...

“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...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration, but just for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump turned...

Trump police takeover will create ‘immediate, devastating, and irreparable harm’ for DC, federal lawsuit says According to the federal lawsuit filed by the DC government...

Seventh-generation farmer Brian Harbage grows corn, soybeans and grass, and runs a cattle operation across five counties in western Ohio. In the world of agriculture,...

US power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with more unhealthy air toxins and an unlimited amount of planet-heating...

The secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t...

A landlord jailed for decades after he attacked a Palestinian American boy and his mother has died. Three months ago, Joseph Czuba was sentenced to...

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey called on Sunday for the federal government to allow his state to become involved in the investigation of an Immigration and...

What do you do when you discover your best friend is abusive to their partner at home? That question, or something similar, should be addressed...

Donald Trump is not known for taking advice, especially from foreign leaders who often seek to flatter and compliment the US president. But El Salvador’s...

Donald Trump signs order designating leftwing movement Antifa as a domestic terror organization Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating ‘Antifa’ as a domestic...

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...

The top House Republican said he won’t negotiate with Senate Democrats as the government shutdown dragged into its 14th day on Tuesday, while defending the...

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...

Maxwell’s lawyer suggests Trump might be sympathetic to her case for a pardon After Donald Trump reminded everyone on Friday that he is “allowed to”...

Trump’s South Korea visit met with protests amid trade talks Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I’ll...

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...

Hegseth says he anticipates military will remain in LA for 60 days Pete Hegseth has told the House committee that he’s anticipating military personnel to...

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 –...

Donald Trump appeared in no mood to patch things up with former top adviser Elon Musk on Friday, doubling down on his new hostility towards...

Donald Trump has moved to deploy the national guard to Chicago, the White House confirmed on Saturday, even as a federal judge blocked his administration...