Donald Trump has cleared the way for Nvidia to begin selling its powerful AI computer chips to China, marking a win for the chip maker...

Donald Trump has threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on Mexico if it does not immediately provide additional water to help US farmers, accusing...

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...

A key chapter in the fascist playbook has always been to convince the public that it is living in such a state of mortal danger...

It was the week in which Republicans took a beating at the polls, the government shutdown became the longest in history, and 42 million people...

Officials believe suspect may have targeted NFL in Manhattan office shooting, mayor Eric Adams says The gunman who opened fire in a Manhattan office building...

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has said that the next independent Department of Justice “should investigate” the private donations that have funded the construction of...

Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine...

FCC commissioner accuses CBS of ‘corporate capitulation’ in Colbert row Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will...

Donald Trump has told his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...

Maybe she was born with it, maybe it’s Mar-a-Lago face Forget expensive moisturizers or designer clothes. Ladies, if you want a quick and easy glow-up,...

The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, is set to...

ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments after FCC chair threatens fines ABC bowed to pressure from the Federal Communications Commission on...

Trump’s pivotal meeting with Putin to begin shortly Welcome to our coverage of the US president’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. This will...

Two West Virginia national guard members were hospitalized in critical condition after they were shot near the White House in Washington. Local officials and federal...

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...

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...

The New Orleans mayor, LaToya Cantrell, was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on corruption charges involving a purported romance with her former bodyguard....

The EU could “respond swiftly and decisively” against the “unjustified” US visa bans on five Europeans involved in combating online hate and disinformation, a European...

The Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health...

I knew they would come here. If you’re a president hell-bent on retreading 2020 and retaliating against your enemies, the midwestern state that started the...

DHS formally announces New Orleans immigration operation The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had started its immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans today....

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...

A recent graduate of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been held in an ICE processing center in Basile, Louisiana, for the...

Many of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria...

A person of interest detained after a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine has been released after the investigation...

Trump says business leaders telling him mass deportations are taking good workers away Donald Trump has said that he has heard from business leaders that...

The US’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has contended to the podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire...

The New York Times columnist David Brooks appeared in multiple photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that were released on Thursday by the House...

Every time you think US politics could not possibly get any stupider, it does. Today’s instalment of “we live in hell, where politicians are passing...

Violent acts and threats at some ‘No Kings’ protests around the US A man intentionally drove an SUV into a crowd of protesters in Culpepper,...

Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s...

For the past eight months, David Harold Pugh has found his “spot” outside the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC. He keeps...

Trump-Putin meeting is under way The summit between the two leaders and their respective cabinet officials began at 11.32am local time. Share Updated at 15.59 EDT...

Congressional Republicans are pushing for passage of a rescissions package, legislation requested by Donald Trump that will claw back $9bn in funding intended for foreign...

The US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolás Maduro, follow a long history of interventions in South and Central America and...

What to know about the anti-Trump No Kings protests Rachel Leingang Millions are expected to show out for protests on Saturday at more than 2,500...

Foreign investment into the US could be threatened by Donald Trump’s new “revenge” taxes, analysts have warned. A provision within the president’s One Big Beautiful...

Donald Trump has escalated tensions between Washington and one of its closest Latin American allies, declaring the US will slash assistance to Colombia and enact...

Donald Trump is facing a widening crisis amid a report claiming that his name appears in US justice department files about Jeffrey Epstein as Congress...

“I’ve often said: Trump could cure cancer and people would still criticise him,” observed Brian Glenn, a rightwing reporter standing in the Oval Office. “It’s...

New Yorkers will find out the identity of their next mayor on Tuesday, in a race that will decide who will run, and defend, the...

Donald Trump was booed and cheered at the US Open during the national anthem before Sunday’s men’s final. When stadium monitors showed him saluting as...

Law enforcement officials have identified the suspected gunman in Wednesday’s shooting of two national guard members near the White House as a man from Afghanistan,...

Donald Trump on Sunday accused Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, of being an “illegal drug dealer” and said he would move to immediately cut US funding...

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A US district judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding funds previously awarded to 14 states for electric vehicle charger infrastructure. Seattle-based judge Tana...

More furloughs, more anxiety and more economic stress are bearing down on federal employees as the shutdown of the federal government continues into its fourth...

When Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long...

Supreme court appears likely to rule in favor of states that ban transgender athletes in school sports After more than three hours of arguments, the...

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...

On Sunday the late rightwing activist Charlie Kirk is set to be hailed by Donald Trump as a martyr of the Make America Great Again...

A Texas judge has expanded a restraining order against former congressman Beto O’Rourke and his political organization over its fundraising for Democratic state lawmakers who...

As national guard troops patrolled in Memphis – Tennessee’s second-largest city – for the first time on Friday, Democratic US senators Dick Durbin and Tammy...

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...

It was a solemn pledge at the heart of Donald Trump’s “America first” appeal. A “Make America great again” (Maga) foreign policy would mean the...

Only two more Republicans needed to force House vote on Epstein files release, congressman says Democratic congressman Ro Khanna says the House will be compelled...

In mid-July, Erik Clemson signed on to a Zoom call from Honolulu, Hawaii, energized by a mayoral candidate in a city far across the country,...

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...

The mezzanine floor of the Tampa Convention Center buzzes chaotically with rightwing chatter: conspiracy theories, grievance politics and Christian nationalism. Look in any direction and...

Billionaires are “treading on very, very thin ice,” Bernie Sanders warned on Wednesday during a fiery speech in Los Angeles, imploring California voters to fight...

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...

Donald Trump will heap further pressure on the chief of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, on Thursday when the US president makes a visit to...

Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to...

As a former federal prosecutor, I know that prosecutors should be guided by the facts. But in his determination to hound George Soros, Donald Trump...

Trump poised to send scores of federal agents to San Francisco Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and...

The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, appeared before a House judiciary committee hearing on Wednesday to defend the justice department’s handling of files involving the...

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...

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...

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...

Trump administration to sue Gavin Newsom over California’s new redistricting maps The Trump administration is suing California governor Gavin Newsom after the state adopted new...

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...

The declaration of a ceasefire in Gaza in October brought initial relief to its inhabitants. Yet officials there said Israeli strikes killed 33 people, including...

Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut New York City off from federal funds if favored mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, “doesn’t behave...

The US Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a...

It was a friendship that spanned three different decades. To Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein was a “terrific guy”. Epstein believed himself to be Trump’s “closest...

The US justice department is believed to be reviewing more than 5m pages of documents relating to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – an effort...

In Somerville, Massachusetts, a community bike path has, in recent months, become a hotly contested political constituency. A cat with a distinctive black smudge on...

Here’s a recap of the day so far In a cabinet meeting that lasted for more than two hours, defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave more...

Donald Trump spent the night at his family-owned golf resort in Scotland but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration, claiming...

Furloughed government workers may not be entitled to back pay according to White House memo – reports Government workers who have been furloughed since the...

Lander released from federal custody New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was just released from federal custody and was seen leaving the...

A federal judge in Oregon on Friday blocked Donald Trump from deploying national guard troops to Portland, ruling there was no evidence of widespread violence...

Charles and Trump praise each other and laud ‘special relationship’ in banquet speeches True to form with an expectedly “big picture” style speech, the king...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to 34 “sanctuary cities” and counties that limit cooperation with federal immigration...

Despite Trump’s claim, US intelligence briefed senators on Monday that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, Warner says Despite Donald Trump’s recent claim that...

For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch...

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has settled a long-running defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over lies...

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....

Republican and Democratic senators Lindsey Graham and Mark Kelly have dug their heels in over the government shutdown – which is now approaching two weeks,...

In a tremendous upset of politics as usual, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old brown, Muslim, Democratic socialist who had little name recognition in February beat the...

Kamala Harris announces she won’t run for California governor Lauren Gambino Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that...

The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to back the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members...

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...

Elon Musk may believe his money bought the presidential election and the House of the Representatives for the Republicans. But he is discovering painfully 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....

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...

Supreme court clears way for Trump to gut education department The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the...

GOP’s House-passed funding bill fails again in the Senate Earlier this afternoon, the Senate failed to advance Republicans’ stopgap funding bill once again in a...