I hate birthdays, especially my own, which is ominously arriving next month. I used to love them, back in those days when I had something...

JD Vance, the vice-president, flew with the casket of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk from Utah, where he was fatally shot, to Arizona, where the...

At least seven people have been killed and dozens injured in several shootings in Chicago since Friday, police said, with Donald Trump once again calling...

Trump faces criticism over to order to rebrand Pentagon as ‘Department of War’ Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics where...

After a year in which US journalists faced a dramatic increase in violence from law enforcement, news organizations and advocacy groups have recently tried to...

Bombing will not make Iran go away. US bombs will not destroy the knowhow needed to build a nuclear weapon or the will do so,...

A federal judge on Friday blocked the justice department from serving subpoenas to Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in an inquiry purported to be about...

After deploying the national guard to the streets of the American capital, Donald Trump is now eyeing longer-term powers over authorities, saying on Wednesday that...

The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in...

As the cleanup continues from this month’s torrential rain storms and flooding in Texas that left more than 120 dead, recently departed officials from the...

This article was produced in partnership with Floodlight For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90m acres – about the size...

US reportedly ready for next phase of Venezuela military operations Trump has been escalating pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and has now labelled him...

The veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi expressed concern about “the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear” at CBS News and her uncertainty about...

I’ll admit it: I’m more of a Simpsons guy than a South Park guy. Nothing really against those South Park guys – I’ve caught plenty...

Rochelle Bilal, Philadelphia’s sheriff, warned ICE agents last week: “If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will...

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove, a top justice department official and former defense attorney for Donald Trump, to a lifetime seat on a...

A leading US congressman admits America must substantially boost its defence manufacturing capacity in order to sell Australia nuclear submarines under Aukus, floating the idea...

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...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature How does Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza stands out from...

Donald Trump has trapped himself in his war with Iran by announcing that his intention is regime change. That uncertain objective is linked to his...

Jim Justice, the Republican US senator, and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5m that the couple owes in back taxes shortly after...

Kash Patel sues the Atlantic over article alleging heavy drinking and absences FBI director Kash Patel has filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic magazine over...

Two top US Republican lawmakers expressed concern on Saturday about the Pentagon’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Nato ally Germany. “We are very concerned...

RFK Jr ‘weaponizing public health’ and ‘putting millions of American lives at risk’, ousted CDC director’s lawyers say Susan Monarez was removed from her position...

Democrats use rare law to push for Epstein files release On Capitol Hill today, Senate Democrats – led by minority leader Chuck Schumer – will...

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...

For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in...

The Trump administration is embracing an intimidation strategy to silence critical media coverage. Here’s how it works: a federal agency launches a pretextual investigation into...

The two agents who fatally shot a man in Minneapolis over the weekend have been on administrative leave since Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security...

A Washington DC grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers who were denounced by Donald Trump after they made a video urging troops to...

The Trump administration has agreed to take a financial loss in order to make it easier for Americans to walk away from their US citizenship....

Donald Trump has called for his government to re-examine every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration, after law enforcement officials identified...

Newsom calls Republican redistricting to eliminate Black-majority congressional districts ‘stone-cold racism’ Asked on Thursday for his response to Republican efforts to eliminate majority-Black congressional districts...

Pentagon officials told top lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that the cost of the war against Iran has already exceeded $11.3bn in its...

Yadin Eldar, 21, has been betting on prediction markets since 2019. His friends think he’s “crazy”, he said. But the craze surrounding these platforms is...

In the Georgia governor’s race, Geoff Duncan’s candidacy tests American politics as much as it tests his political appeal. The former Republican lieutenant governor of...

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...

As the Israel-Gaza war nears its two-year mark, and as images of starving people and utter devastation flood social media, cracks seem to be emerging...

What a real pro-family agenda looks like I think we all need a little cheering up, don’t you? So allow me to interrupt the steady...

The US-Iran ceasefire is entering yet another round of escalation since it came into effect on 8 April. This week, there have been further strikes...

Stephen Miller is the man behind Donald Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, from separating children and their parents at the southern border to the sharp...

The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming...

A rally on affordability in Pennsylvania on 9 December devolved into a racist tirade when Donald Trump said to the crowd: “We only take people...

Protests have been taking place across the US following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer taking part...

Almost exactly a decade since the start of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access pipeline gained national and international attention, new disputes are...

At the Purfeerst farm in southern Minnesota, the soybean harvest just wrapped up for the season. The silver grain bins are full of about 100,000...

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Last week, Vladimir Putin responded with characteristic disdain to an open letter from Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling for face-to-face talks. Declining to mention Ukraine’s president by...

The exiled Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has experienced firsthand how intolerant governments can silence political satire. And he had a short message this week for...

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...

Donald Trump reposted an AI-generated video of him flying a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump” and dumping brown sludge onto protestors, in...

A federal judge has concluded that the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Kilmar Ábrego García on human smuggling charges may be an illegal retaliation after...

Following the fatal shooting earlier this month of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, his colleagues received reassurance that they continued to...

Acting US attorney general Todd Blanche announced the indictment of former Cuban president Raúl Castro on Wednesday, in what is seen as an escalation in...

The US supreme court struck down a restrictive gun law in the state of Hawaii that bans people from carrying guns in certain public spaces...

Texas house passes partisan Republican congressional map after weeks of protest The Texas state house – which has a significant Republican majority – has approved a...

1. ‘Who is being protected?’ Clinton heavily criticised the House of Representatives’ oversight committee – and its Republican majority – in her opening statement. The...

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it will furlough nearly half of its employees – around 34,000 workers – due to the ongoing government shutdown,...

On the Fourth of July, the Trump administration’s new savings accounts for children went live. These ‘Trump accounts’, created as part of the One Big...

The secretary of state of the United States of America is openly slopping around in a pair of too-big shoes that he has to wear...

The “time has come” for the Working Families party, the progressive third party’s national director said after a year of big wins and a growing...

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,...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Following Kirk shooting, new poll shows drop in positive direction of...

Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+...

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...

Supreme court decision on nationwide injuctions a ‘travesty for rule of law’, says liberal justice Here’s more from the liberal justice’s dissents on Trump v...

Zohran Mamdani vowed to “reinvent” New York City in a speech on his first day as mayor, promising “a new era” for America’s largest city...

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and...

The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 50,000 for the first time, as ballooning tech valuations, robust corporate earnings and hopes of lower interest rates drive...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in the process of creating an urgent and massive new internal database of non-US citizens who are “employed...

With nearly all polls closed across Texas on Tuesday evening, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and state representative James Talarico were locked in a fiercely contested and...

A high-profile Democrat has expressed concerns with party candidate Graham Platner’s Maine US Senate campaign amid revelations that Platner reportedly sent a number of sexually...

Legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local...

On the shelf in my library, I have an autographed copy of a book written by a former Republican congressman from New York, John LeBoutillier,...

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to use tariffs to revitalise American industry, bringing jobs home and helping to make America great again. But...

The Department of Justice has asked several large California counties to provide detailed personal information of non-citizens who got on to the state voter rolls,...

Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no...

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....

A federal judge on Wednesday said he was resuming his long-stalled court proceeding to determine whether Trump administration officials willfully violated a court order by...

‘We made history’: Mamdani celebrates after shocking Cuomo in New York City mayoral primary Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. We start...

A federal judge ruled on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must release a Minneapolis man and asylum seeker who has been unlawfully detained...

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Acting attorney general claims Comey ‘threatened the life of the president’ in announcing charges At a news conference on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the former defense...

An Egyptian family of six has been taken back into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, days after they were released from a detention facility in...

Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, as it decides whether to join the...

Gold and silver prices have hit record highs and European stock markets have fallen, after the US president, Donald Trump, threatened to impose additional tariffs...

The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s recent statements on Saturday that the airspace above...

Trump plans to sign executive order restoring ‘Department of War’ name to Pentagon Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the...

Timothy Garton Ash has produced an excellent list of safeguards against extremism (My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late, 25 November)....

Todd Blanche, the acting US attorney general, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of...

It wasn’t quite the calamity of February, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy was publicly humiliated in the Oval Office by Donald Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance....

Donald Trump reportedly had a blunt message for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro: leave power – and your country – immediately. Sources told the Miami Herald...

Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s out-of-touch comments on grocery prices, the longest-ever government shutdown and a dramatic White House press conference on Ozempic. Seth Meyers...

More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during...

A prominent environmental organizer calling for a nationwide moratorium on datacenters as he runs for the Democratic nomination in a swing Michigan congressional district has...

Early Saturday morning, Minnesota woke to the news of two targeted attacks on its lawmakers. A gunman killed the top Democratic state legislator, Melissa Hortman,...

The only current American men’s UFC champion says he has been barred from Sunday’s fight card on the south lawn of the White House because...

Barney Frank, the former US representative who made history as one of the first out gay members of Congress, died on Tuesday night. He was...