Donald Trump has given Iran 48 hours to reopen the strait of Hormuz to shipping or face the destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran...
Read MoreDonald Trump has given Iran 48 hours to reopen the strait of Hormuz to shipping or face the destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran...
Read MoreThe majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports. Friday’s total of 466 layoffs across...
Read More‘We’re just gonna kill people’: Trump says he doesn’t need a declaration of war for strikes on suspected drug smugglers Donald Trump’s statement on Thursday...
Read MoreThe attack mounted jointly by Israel and the US on Iran had been planned for months, but the timing, in the midst of negotiations between...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Tuesday morning comments threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” in Iran have raised alarms among...
Read MoreFormer inspector general calls for audit of Epstein files release to be conducted ‘without undue influence’ Mark Greenblatt, who was the inspector general for the...
Read MoreJohn Bolton pleads not guilty John Bolton has pleaded not guilty to charges of mishandling classified information. Reuters is reporting that Bolton, the former national...
Read MoreAll told, Democrats already seem as though they’re headed for a great midterm election. Voters already troubled by the state of the economy now have...
Read MoreTrump administration urge judges to release Epstein-Maxwell grand jury transcripts Hello and welcome back to our coverage of US politics. Donald Trump’s administration urged two...
Read MoreSaturday saw the greatest number of protests in US history, when more than 8 million people at 3,300 No Kings events took to the streets...
Read MoreA guest of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was arrested by Capitol police during the State of the Union address. Omar had invited...
Read MoreThe New York City mayoral election may be remembered for the remarkable win of a young democratic socialist, but it was also marked by something...
Read MoreWhite House officials sought to rapidly distance Donald Trump and top officials from their initial portrayals of the man fatally shot by federal officials in...
Read MoreThe Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell is the latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign against his critics, the congressman confirmed on Thursday. NBC News reports that...
Read MoreFor generations they have borne the mantle of strength and authority inherited from J Edgar Hoover’s Depression-era G-men, a label supposedly affixed after the arrest...
Read MoreSince 2020, the stock market has more than doubled. Americans who own substantial financial assets are reveling in economic success. For everyone else, the economy...
Read MoreEurope’s relationship with the US is unmoored, but it has also lost its bearings with regard to China, caught by competing forces that pull and...
Read More‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in...
Read MoreTrump says he will meet Putin again in Budapest after ‘productive’ call Donald Trump has said that his call with Vladimir Putin – which lasted...
Read MoreTed Cruz warned Donald Trump, his fellow Republican, that he would face a “bloodbath” in the November midterm elections if prices continued to rise, prompting...
Read MoreAs Jeffrey Epstein survivors and their supporters continue searching for justice and transparency in the US, a bipartisan group of politicians is trying to rework...
Read MoreAbdul El-Sayed clinches Democratic nomination in bitter fight for Michigan US Senate seat Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic nomination in the US Senate seat...
Read MoreI joined the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in April 2007 at the age of 17. DSA back then was a small group with an...
Read MoreThe fallout between the US president, Donald Trump, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he...
Read MoreA 10-year-old Minnesota girl has been released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after a month in detention in Dilley, Texas, school officials...
Read MoreAn anti-crime taskforce ordered by Donald Trump onto the streets of Memphis has been accused of targeting community observers with widespread intimidation including “immense force”....
Read MoreWest 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...
Read MoreThe US Senate opened debate on Donald Trump’s sprawling domestic policy legislation on Sunday, the package of tax cuts, increased spending on immigration enforcement, and...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down, the administration announced on Monday, after a series of misconduct allegations, including claims of an affair...
Read MoreSome of the US’s biggest companies are coming under increasing pressure to speak out about the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s operations in...
Read MoreIt is a well-known adage in politics that success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. Except when Donald Trump is involved, in which...
Read MoreDonald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China. In...
Read MoreWhite House says that second strike on vessel was legal and conducted in ‘self-defence’ In response to questions from reporters today, Karoline Leavitt defended the...
Read MoreState department plans mass layoffs with cuts to nearly 1,800 staff Andrew Roth The US state department has announced that it plans to move forward...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s new tariff rates of as much as 40% for 14 countries have drawn muted responses from the hardest hit Asian countries who are...
Read MoreSummary That’s all for our live coverage for the day, thanks for following along. Some key stories from the day: Share Updated at 20.15 EST Key...
Read MoreCDC immunization director cites ‘ongoing weaponization of public health’ for resignation – report “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because...
Read MoreMillions of acres of Alaska wilderness will lose federal protections and be exposed to drilling and mining in the Trump administration’s latest move to prioritize...
Read MoreThe Department of Homeland Security conducted raids on multiple locations across Los Angeles on Friday, clashing with the crowds of people who gathered to protest....
Read MoreAmerica’s big birthday has come at a bad time. On Saturday it will be a divided nation that marks 250 years since 13 North American...
Read MoreJamieson 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...
Read MoreThe Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board described the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities as “a military occupation”. Local leaders have used...
Read MoreNational tragedy used to bring national unity. If only momentarily, partisanship was put aside, and people of all political persuasions came together. No more. The...
Read MoreThe US military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three people, as the Trump administration wages...
Read MoreWe in the rest of the world have had to hear a lot – such a lot – about what this US government and its...
Read MoreThe Trump administration broke new ground in its offensive against alleged fraud in Minnesota’s social services on Thursday as the US Department of Justice announced...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has once again put Dreamers on a rollercoaster ride. The federal government is sending mixed signals about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreA judge’s order to stop construction work on the White House ballroom poses security risks, the Trump administration argued in an emergency motion that seeks...
Read MoreSupreme court extends ruling that halts Snap benefits rollout across the US The supreme court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full Snap payments, amid...
Read MoreTrump calls Senate bill a ‘very big victory’ in Arlington cemetery remarks The president has congratulated House speaker Mike Johnson and Senate majority leader John...
Read MoreDonald Trump is still high on the capture of Nicolás Maduro. The easy abduction of the Venezuelan president didn’t just grant Trump control of the...
Read MoreDonald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency, promising them in...
Read MoreDonald Trump has promised an expanded immigration crackdown in several large Democratic-led cities as apparent vengeance for “No Kings” protests against his administration on Saturday...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill has passed a procedural step in the US House of Representatives, paving the way for the possible passage of the...
Read MoreTrump would ‘fire’ Howard Lutnick if he saw video of testimony, say oversight Democrats Following closed-door testimony from Howard Lutnick before the House oversight committee...
Read MoreA few years ago, towards the end of the second Obama administration, a friend and her wife flew back to New York from a holiday...
Read MoreFor as long as I can remember, the White House correspondents’ dinner was where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other’s...
Read MoreA lawyer who represented Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico...
Read MoreDemocratic nominee Zohran Mamdani was elected on Tuesday as the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating the former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate...
Read MoreTrump pays tribute to Charlie Kirk Donald Trump is addressing the tens of thousands of people attending the memorial. The president says America is a...
Read MoreIt has been a challenging year for Head Start. The Trump administration first froze funding and cut staff, forcing many centers to close temporarily or...
Read MoreThe internet blackout across Iran is meant to prevent protests from spreading, and observers from witnessing the crackdown on them. But it’s also emblematic of...
Read MoreAs the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, marking the official birth of the new nation, it is worth remembering...
Read MoreThroughout the two years of the Gaza war, Israeli bombing has been so intense that, in certain weather conditions, its echoes can be heard here...
Read MoreSummary Donald Trump declined to deliver a message of national unity when he addressed tens of thousands of people gathered for the memorial to honor...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s posting of a video depicting former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes was the most overtly racist act...
Read MoreDonald Trump announced a fresh crackdown on “fraud” in Democratic states and tapped JD Vance to lead the charge. Officials swiftly announced a string of...
Read MoreDemocratic members of Congress from California and New York say that they were blocked from entering federal detention facilities over the weekend while seeking to...
Read MoreAs two masked men dragged her into an unmarked SUV, Andrea Velez tried to focus on details she might later remember – one man’s red...
Read MoreFifty-three allegations of workplace sexual harassment have been made against at least 30 House and Senate lawmakers over the past two decades, an advocacy group...
Read MoreIn the run-up to last month’s mayoral election in Dayton, Ohio, candidate Shenise Turner-Sloss found herself up against it. Her opponent, mayor Jeffrey Mims, was...
Read MoreIran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began...
Read MoreThe UK is expected to slash its contribution to a leading aid fund combating preventable diseases, with charities warning this could lead to more than...
Read MoreThe day so far Election day is ongoing throughout the country. We’re bringing you the latest from some of the most pivotal contests, including the...
Read MoreMillions of people will go to the polls in New York City in November, but in a closely watched election for mayor it’s a high-profile,...
Read MoreConstruction crews have started demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House to make way for Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, prompting widespread criticism...
Read MoreIt was a hot, dry afternoon, sometime in the spring of 2009. I was wearing an oversized T-shirt and a pair of shorts twice the...
Read MoreThe John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4...
Read MoreThe first step toward ending the US government shutdown has been made after a handful of Democrats and dozens of Republicans voted to advance legislation...
Read MoreDonald Trump observed blithely last week that if his cherished tariff regime is struck down by the US supreme court, he may need to “unwind”...
Read MoreThe US supreme court has refused Donald Trump’s attempts to immediately fire a Federal Reserve governor, in a landmark ruling that limits a president’s authority...
Read MoreDonald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any...
Read MoreSenate Republicans on Tuesday passed a major tax and spending bill demanded by Donald Trump, ending weeks of negotiations over the comprehensive legislation and putting...
Read MoreStock markets slipped amid confusion as to when – and at what level – new US tariffs would be applied, as Donald Trump’s self-imposed 9...
Read MoreDemocrats on House oversight committee release new Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a tranche of...
Read MoreThere was no debate about record crowd sizes this time. With the temperature plunging to 27F (-3C) and a wind chill making it feel far...
Read MoreThe US congressman Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained him during a visit to the Israel-occupied West Bank recently, describing the experience as a...
Read MoreThe Democratic congressman Ro Khanna read out the names of six wealthy men included in the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a post on X at...
Read MoreTrump will host Kennedy Center Honors The president has said he will host the Kennedy Center Honors, at the insistence of his chief of staff...
Read More“You know, I’ve generally found that when I get involved in politics, it ends up badly,” Elon Musk mused on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast in November....
Read MoreA Guatemalan man has become the first person to die in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Fort Bliss army base...
Read MoreA US federal judge in Boston on Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to “rectify the mistake” it made by deporting a college student...
Read MoreOne crisp morning in 2018, Sandra Ibarra pulled on a pair of gloves to ward off the winter chill and picked up the first cardboard...
Read MoreThe US Secret Service announced on Sunday morning that an armed man was shot and killed after entering the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s...
Read MoreOn 2 June, at St Mark’s Episcopal church in Washington DC, people packed the sanctuary – elders in denim jackets, seminarians in collars, organizers clutching...
Read MoreGavin Newsom, California’s governor, has called Donald Trump a “stone cold liar”, condemned the federal deployment of troops in Los Angeles as “theater” and “madness”...
Read MoreTexas Democrats in the state legislature denied Republicans a legislative quorum on Monday by leaving the state, preventing, at least for now, plans proposed by...
Read MoreA federal judge in Pennsylvania on Monday ordered the National Park Service to reinstall a slavery exhibit at a Philadelphia historic site, pending the outcome...
Read MoreIt is inevitable that too much will be laid on Zohran Mamdani’s head. So large is the vacuum on the left of politics that his...
Read MoreThe US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said he met the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction, backtracking on his previous claims that...
Read MoreAs House Republican leaders move to hold a vote on legislation to reopen the US government, top Democrats vowed on Tuesday to oppose the bill...
Read MoreThe agency that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters is eliminating jobs for more than 500 employees, a Trump administration official said....
Read More“I feel so betrayed and so angry. This is not what I voted for.” “This cemented permanent deep state power.” “I’m concerned about being able...
Read MoreAn immigration judge in Baltimore has denied Kilmar Ábrego García’s bid for asylum on Thursday, but he has 30 days to appeal. Ábrego’s case has...
Read MoreThe terms of a purported 60-day deal to negotiate peace in the Iran war have trapped the Trump administration between mounting economic costs ahead of...
Read MoreUS government shuts down as midnight deadline passes The US government has officially shut down for the first time in nearly seven years, after congressional...
Read MoreAs Iran and Israel exchange missile attacks for a fourth day, Democrats in Washington are moving swiftly to reassert congressional authority over US military engagement...
Read MoreThe White House issued a full-throated defense of Donald Trump’s reference to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a “piggy” on Thursday, claiming without evidence that...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s nominee for US Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, faced a tumultuous hearing in Washington on Tuesday, fielding scrutiny over his wealth and his...
Read MoreFor tens of millions of people, Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a grotesque nightmare. The proposed legislative cuts, including historic attacks on Medicaid and...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was recently recorded warning CBS News to broadcast a new interview with the president in full and...
Read MoreDemocrats use rare law to push for Epstein files release On Capitol Hill today, Senate Democrats – led by minority leader Chuck Schumer – will...
Read MoreAs US regulators restrict Covid mRNA vaccines and as independent vaccine advisers re-examine the shots, scientists fear that an unlikely target could be next: cancer...
Read MoreNY AG Letitia James on her indictment: a ‘desperate weaponization of our justice system’ New York state attorney general Letitia James sent out this statement...
Read MoreDonald Trump is expected to sign his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, setting...
Read MoreDozens of House Democrats have signed a letter to Donald Trump and secretary of state Marco Rubio, urging the administration to recognize Palestinian statehood. The...
Read MoreAn 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to...
Read MoreOrganizers challenging Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map say they turned in enough signatures on Tuesday to block the map from going into effect and to force...
Read MoreForget the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight being held on the White House lawn, if you want to tune in to a far more amusing...
Read MoreWhite House continues to say new release of Epstein emails is a distraction and ‘hoax’ White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has said that the...
Read MoreSix months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office –...
Read MoreFor decades, the US and its allies have painted Iran as the world’s biggest sponsor of state terrorism – invoking its Islamic rulers’ supposed revolutionary...
Read MoreTrump backs Pete Hegseth amid renewed tensions with Iran Asked by a reporter if he is frustrated with Pete Hegseth’s advice on Iran early on...
Read MoreA federal appeals court on Friday rejected a bid by Donald Trump’s administration to halt a judge’s order preventing it from imposing a $100,000 fee...
Read MoreA group of white male lawmakers were playing cards in a back room while their female colleagues gave speeches on the Minnesota house floor. They...
Read MoreA group of Democrats accused by Donald Trump of “seditious behavior” have said that the US president is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
Read MoreTrump imposes 50% tariff on Brazil, citing ‘Witch Hunt’ against Bolsonaro Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil in a letter posted...
Read MoreMystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell’s health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week. McConnell, 84, has not been seen...
Read MoreProtests continued on Tuesday outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey where US senator Andy Kim said he was pepper-sprayed by federal agents the...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is doubling to $50m a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s...
Read MoreRolex 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...
Read More“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...
Read MoreHegseth orders US Navy secretary to investigate Arizona senator Mark Kelly for ‘potentially unlawful comments’ in video Donald Trump’s defense secretary, the former Fox News...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s first travel ban in 2017 had an immediate, explosive impact – spawning chaos at airports nationwide. This time around, the panic and chaos...
Read MoreKey US allies in Europe and beyond have ruled out sending warships to the strait of Hormuz, despite threats from Donald Trump that Nato faces...
Read MoreA decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m (£7.3m) of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe...
Read MoreTodd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said at a press conference that to protect victims the department ‘redacted every woman depicted in any image or...
Read MoreDonald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as “godless communists”...
Read MoreI was on a walk around my local area in London when I was stopped in my tracks by a young man sauntering past me,...
Read MoreLindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died on Saturday night, unexpectedly at the age of 71, was a politician who more than many illustrated...
Read MoreIt was confirmed on Friday that the East Wing of the White House has now been completely destroyed, days after construction started on the planned...
Read MoreGraham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, is suspending his campaign following sexual assault allegations. Platner announced his decision in an 11-minute...
Read MoreLindsey Graham, a longtime US senator and key ally of Donald Trump, has died from a sudden illness, his office said on Sunday. He had...
Read MoreThe US military announced the killing of another two men in “a lethal kinetic strike”on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in...
Read MoreDonald Trump called Elon Musk’s decision to start and bankroll a new US political party “ridiculous” on Sunday. “Third parties have never worked, so he...
Read MoreHegseth 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...
Read MoreThe number of people eating at restaurants in Washington DC has plummeted since Donald Trump deployed federal troops to the city, according to data, as...
Read MoreDonald Trump has lost his Iran war. He is the Iranian hostage. Unlike the US embassy personnel captured as hostages for 444 days, Trump threw...
Read MoreA Detroit police department decision to reverse course on firing two officers who allegedly violated local law by coordinating an arrest with federal immigration agents...
Read MoreThe US Department of Justice is dropping its fraud charges against the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, the richest man in Asia, after he hired a...
Read MoreA Florida man who was convicted then pardoned by Donald Trump after he grabbed then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and posed for photographs with...
Read MoreThe majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports. Friday’s total of 466 layoffs across...
Read MoreDonald Trump declared he “should be listened to” by the Federal Reserve, as he weighs candidates to lead the central bank amid an extraordinary campaign...
Read MoreEven as he threatened to escalate an unlawful war sold in part as preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump opened the door...
Read MoreGet Me to the Church on Time, sang Alfred Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. But for Donald Trump, attending a wedding is not...
Read MoreWhen a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would...
Read MoreGeorge Monbiot is right that having a written constitution would be better than not having one if the far right takes power (We must act...
Read MoreDonald Trump has denied falling asleep while attending public meetings and robustly defended his health after the first year of his second term in office...
Read MoreDonald Trump said Wednesday Iran had agreed to release an American citizen who was “wrongfully detained” since December 2024. “She is now safely outside of...
Read MoreDonald 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...
Read MoreA rising number of US airports are asking for donations to support employees affected by the partial government shutdown with airport security officials missing their...
Read MoreTwo videos have surfaced shedding light on what is happening behind closed doors at a New York federal building where people are being confined after...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s drives to pursue his radical policies on immigration, tariffs and energy may seem at first to have little in common beyond a shared...
Read MoreA compromise between Todd Blanche and two Republican senators that potentially cleared the way for Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general is weak, Democrats and several...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,...
Read MoreSucking up to Donald Trump never works for long. Narendra Modi is the latest world leader to learn this lesson the hard way. Wooing his...
Read MoreTrump promotes voter ID act, dismisses concerns about gas prices and falling stock market As his war on Iran sends the stock market plunging and...
Read MoreDuring his presidential campaign, Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of “no more wars” but global events have radically changed his views. In what could...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreMoments after Donald Trump rang the ceremonial opening bell on Monday, starting the trading day from the Oval Office, 232 miles north on Wall Street,...
Read MoreLeaders of the “coalition of the willing” group of nations will hold a video call about the Ukraine war on Thursday as Donald Trump voiced...
Read MoreOn Central Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina, Manolo’s Bakery has become a focal point for resistance to the upscaled immigration raids since border patrol officers...
Read MorePentagon withdraws all 700 marines from Los Angeles The Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, confirmed to the Guardian on Monday that the entire deployment of...
Read MoreMike Johnson, speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make public documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald...
Read MoreIs there something “radically left” about being anti-Nazi? That was the question a judge put to the lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, which has...
Read MoreIn 2024, John Carpenter had a dream that sounds like one of his movies: it involved a portal to the underworld beneath a disused church,...
Read MoreHouse Democrats on Monday released an image of a sexually suggestive letter and drawing that appears to bear the signature of Donald Trump, the very...
Read MoreA bid to restore funding to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border patrol has been derailed by rows over a $1bn proposal for...
Read MoreThe Republican-controlled Texas house on Wednesday approved a redrawn congressional map requested by Donald Trump and fiercely opposed by Democrats, who led a weeks-long protest...
Read MoreChris Tackett started tracking extremism in Texas politics about a decade ago, whenever his schedule as a Little League coach and school board member would...
Read MoreThe Trump administration is considering ways to invoke emergency powers, including utilising the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would allow president Donald Trump to deploy...
Read MoreAs Donald Trump reels from political fallout related to his justice department’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, the US president has directed his loyal...
Read MoreDeath toll in strike on Iranian bridge rises to 8 with almost 100 injured, Iran state media reports The death toll from Thursday’s attack on...
Read MoreThe Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve, a significant escalation in Donald Trump’s extraordinary attack on...
Read MoreDonald Trump is slated to star at a cryptocurrency bash on 25 April at his Mar-a-Lago club for scores of purchasers of his crypto memecoin...
Read MoreTrump plans to sign executive order restoring ‘Department of War’ name to Pentagon Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the...
Read MoreColorado’s governor Jared Polis commutes sentence of Tina Peters, 2020 election denier Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, announced on Friday that he has decided to...
Read MoreDonald Trump is under pressure to spell out his vision for Iran amid the ongoing attacks on the country and reports of the first American...
Read MoreSenior Ukrainian and Russian officials are to meet this week in Switzerland for a second round of talks brokered by the Trump administration, days before...
Read MoreAfter 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...
Read MoreThe United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said...
Read MoreHacked materials from the powerful rightwing thinktank the Heritage Foundation show that applicants to a Project 2025-branded effort to create a talent pool for the...
Read MoreTamila Vashchuk and her husband, Mykola, are minor celebrities in this corner of Ohio. The Ukrainian couple have appeared on the cover of local magazines...
Read MoreUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will require its officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera, said Tom Homan, the Trump...
Read MoreA judge’s order to stop construction work on the White House ballroom poses security risks, the Trump administration argued in an emergency motion that seeks...
Read MoreTrump says he has directed attorney general to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony Minutes after announcing that he intends to sue the Wall...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has once again put Dreamers on a rollercoaster ride. The federal government is sending mixed signals about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
Read MoreTrump says business leaders telling him mass deportations are taking good workers away Donald Trump has said that he has heard from business leaders that...
Read MoreIn early August, dozens of Democratic lawmakers fled Texas for Illinois, denying Republicans the quorum needed to pass new congressional maps projected to give the...
Read MoreBarely a month appears to go by without Donald Trump making a fresh attempt to destroy the international rules-based order. The US has pulled funding...
Read MoreTrump says ‘I have no interest in’ Kennedy Center after judge orders his name removed from memorial Six and a half hours after Donald Trump...
Read MoreThe Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner on Friday predicted that Maine’s voters would support him four days later in his party primary despite a...
Read MoreThe US has launched new strikes against targets in Iran for the second consecutive day, following through on Donald Trump’s promise to “hit them hard...
Read MoreA Trump administration official on Sunday grappled with mounting criticism over the length of the US war with Iran after months of promised diplomatic breakthroughs,...
Read MoreThe number of people eating at restaurants in Washington DC has plummeted since Donald Trump deployed federal troops to the city, according to data, as...
Read MoreNot long after governor Janet Mills had effectively dropped out of the primary race, a storm grew around Platner’s campaign. Rightwing operatives and liberal media...
Read MoreThe Texas legislature preliminarily approved a redrawn congressional map on Friday that gives Republicans a chance to pick up as many as five congressional seats,...
Read MoreIn the last US Senate hearing before Kristi Noem’s ouster, some of the fiercest criticism the homeland security secretary received came not from outraged Democrats,...
Read MoreEight men were indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges Thursday for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and sniper attack on the UFC...
Read MoreIt’s a warm autumn evening and Jason Stanley is walking through downtown Toronto, his home of a fortnight, discussing his view that America is sliding...
Read MoreOn Tuesday morning, just a few stalls were open among the dozens that normally sell food, rugs, clothing and jewelry at Karmel mall, a Somali...
Read MoreDonald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen – an...
Read MoreThe Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, announced a lawsuit on Monday against the federal government, seeking to end the surge of ICE agents in the...
Read MoreRepublicans pile pressure on Thune to alter rules for Trump’s voter ID bill Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Republican Senate majority...
Read MoreA recap of overnight events in DC As the federal takeover of the DC police and deployment of national guard troops entered its fourth night,...
Read MoreWhen Katie Miller, the wife of Donald Trump’s powerful adviser Stephen Miller, interviewed Pete Hegseth on her podcast last week, she didn’t ask him about...
Read MoreAfter months of public outcry and pressure from within the Maga coalition, Donald Trump’s justice department released what it called The Epstein Files, with the...
Read MoreNear corn dog and cookie vendors, Ray Seeman was washing his hands on a sweltering day. He had come to the rally in a Maga...
Read MoreIt is both sad and ironic that, 250 years after the revolt against George III, the British monarchy is teaching its former colony lessons about...
Read MorePeople often criticise the Democrats for being overly cautious and never getting anything done. But this week they’ve surprised us all by unveiling concepts of...
Read MoreThe Republican-led US Senate has passed a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in...
Read MoreObama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...
Read MoreThey marched in their millions. Some waved the Stars and Stripes. Some clutched signs with slogans such as: “Nothing is more patriotic than protesting.” And...
Read MoreTexas house fails to meet quorum for third day The Texas legislature failed to meet quorum for a third time today, after only 95 of...
Read MoreFifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst-of-the-worst crimes by execution. In...
Read MoreThe Trump administration has promised tens of thousands of federal agents carrying out his immigration crackdown that they will be paid during the government shutdown,...
Read MoreFrom vast protests and all-caps social media posts to acrimonious legislative hearings and pugnacious White House statements, Washington has perhaps never been noisier. But since...
Read MoreThe Florida congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost said he was assaulted by a man who said Donald Trump would deport him at a party during the...
Read MoreRepublican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier...
Read MoreTrump urges Microsoft to fire Lisa Monaco, who coordinated investigation of Trump’s effort to overturn 2020 election After a frustrating morning of watching American golfers...
Read MoreTrump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ will add $2.4tn to national debt, according to nonpartisan analysis The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has released a revised estimate of...
Read MoreA newly unsealed order in the criminal case against Kilmar Ábrego García reveals that high-level justice department officials pushed for his indictment, calling it a...
Read MoreSome historians are wary of discussing their work in light of modern events, comparing subjects to current political players. Not Matthew Pinsker of Dickinson College,...
Read MoreFed working with White House to accommodate Trump’s visit The Federal Reserve is working with the White House to accommodate Donald Trump’s unexpected visit to...
Read MoreDonald Trump has floated the idea of ending the filibuster – a procedural technique in Congress that allows a minority of senators to block legislation...
Read MoreIn 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....
Read MoreDonald Trump kicked off Independence Day by signing into law his sweeping tax and spending bill during a Fourth of July picnic at the White...
Read MoreTrump says he will seek ‘long-term’ control of DC police Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will...
Read MoreMarjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime Republican ally who previously fiercely defended Donald Trump and his Maga movement, said on Saturday she had been contacted by...
Read MoreBehind closed doors at a New York City federal building, people are confined after being seized by officers on their way out of immigration court...
Read MoreAs public outrage grows over the killing of two protesters by Donald Trump’s deportation agents in Minneapolis, the White House is going into damage-control mode....
Read MoreAs cities and states sue big oil for billions in damages over allegations that it covered up the dangers of its products, rightwing organizations are...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Closing summary This brings our live coverage of the second Trump...
Read MoreColumbia University agrees to pay more than $220m as settlement to Trump administration Columbia University announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with...
Read MoreAn immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University PhD student, who was arrested last year as part...
Read MoreEvery Sunday, we’ll be bringing you some of the Guardian’s best stories from the week. Stories we loved, that made us feel happy, or sad,...
Read MoreJD Vance has weighed in on Donald Trump’s feud with Pope Leo, effectively telling the pontiff to stay in his lane after the head of...
Read MoreAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, beat Haley Stevens to win the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. El-Sayed will now face Republican Mike Rogers...
Read MoreTop House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary, in response...
Read MoreTrump announces death of Charlie Kirk Writing on his social network, Donald Trump just announced the death of Charlie Kirk. Trump wrote: The Great, and...
Read MoreThe White House has withdrawn Jared Isaacman as its nominee for Nasa administrator, abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Musk from consideration to lead...
Read MoreSeveral leading news organizations with access to Pentagon briefings have formally said they will not agree to a new defense department policy that requires them...
Read MoreNY AG Letitia James on her indictment: a ‘desperate weaponization of our justice system’ New York state attorney general Letitia James sent out this statement...
Read MoreWho’s the comedian? Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission chairperson, pressured the Disney company to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night talkshow host on ABC,...
Read MoreDonald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian...
Read MoreThe US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when they ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t consider race in...
Read MoreUS forces on Saturday evening struck another vessel illegally carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump said on Sunday to thousands of sailors...
Read MoreColor has long played a role in US politics. In 1867, US suffragists Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton adopted the yellow color of...
Read MoreWhite House would back forensic analysis of signature on Epstein letter Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics amid the ongoing...
Read MoreHouse Democrats share Trump ‘birthday note’ to Jeffrey Epstein Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a scanned copy of a “birthday note” that...
Read MoreDonald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill is hanging in the balance as Republicans struggle to muster sufficient votes in the US House of Representatives. House speaker...
Read MoreThe justice department released a trove of 3.5m files related to the dead financier and pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, with deputy attorney...
Read MoreTrump says Ukraine is able to win back all the land it lost since the beginning of the invasion In a post on Truth Social,...
Read MoreJessica Plichta was arrested on 3 January after a live interview with a local news station about a Grand Rapids, Michigan, protest against the Trump...
Read MoreA new Democrat-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs, as small business owners continue to reel from the...
Read MoreOn 24 January, Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents while he was helping another civilian in Minneapolis who had been knocked to the ground...
Read MoreCDC director Susan Monarez was fired after resisting changes to vaccine policy that were advanced by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and that she...
Read MoreA Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors...
Read MoreProclaiming the US would “run” Venezuela after abducting its president and his wife, president Trump has now qualified his claim. Amid questions, including from top...
Read MoreThe hardest day on the job for the White House press secretary for most of Barack Obama’s second term was right after Donald Trump was...
Read MoreThe Department of Education announced on Wednesday afternoon that it has notified Columbia University’s accreditor of an alleged violation of federal anti-discrimination laws by the...
Read MoreUS federal workers laid off by the Trump administration said they are experiencing mental health effects, including PTSD-like symptoms, from losing their jobs, according to...
Read MoreNear the 13th hole of a golf course in Alexandria, rural Louisiana, the Guardian US’s southern bureau chief, Oliver Laughland, could see ‘a telling image...
Read MoreHave we ever seen a year in recent memory begin with as much deliberate turmoil as 2026 has? Less than two weeks into 2026, we...
Read MoreWhite House says that second strike on vessel was legal and conducted in ‘self-defence’ In response to questions from reporters today, Karoline Leavitt defended the...
Read MoreKey events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Following Kirk shooting, new poll shows drop in positive direction of...
Read MoreThe parent company of Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform – one of the president’s preferred communications channels – lost nearly $406m in the first three...
Read MoreBorder patrol officers have become ubiquitous footsoldiers in Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, and lawyers and human rights advocates worry that the agency is expanding...
Read MoreAdelita Grijalva won the Democratic House primary in Arizona to succeed her father, beating a young social media activist in a closely watched election seen...
Read MoreTrump plans to sign executive order restoring ‘Department of War’ name to Pentagon Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the...
Read MoreFernando Viera Reyes, 50, suing over allegations of inhumane conditions at an ICE facility Fernando Viera Reyes fled to the US from El Salvador during...
Read MoreCandidates for local office in Miami have been prepping mailers, gathering volunteers, raising money and hitting the street for the last year, with voters expecting...
Read MoreGet Me to the Church on Time, sang Alfred Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. But for Donald Trump, attending a wedding is not...
Read MoreNikki Owens, right, and her daughter, Kinlee Owens, rest their heads together on 17 December 2025, in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Danielle Villasana/The Guardian For seven...
Read MoreThe war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabilises the Middle East and the global economy, is not real. This is how it is...
Read MorePowell confirms Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump’s tariffs Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning...
Read MoreThe party of Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, has won Sunday’s midterm elections after a campaign in which Donald Trump announced a $40bn bailout for...
Read MoreMamdani triumphs on strong night for the Democrats It was an encouraging night for the left in America with Democratic wins in three key races...
Read MoreFederal agents have arrested hundreds of immigrants off New York and New Jersey streets in recent months in a stealth enforcement campaign that disproportionately targeted...
Read MoreTrump says Ukraine is able to win back all the land it lost since the beginning of the invasion In a post on Truth Social,...
Read MoreThe California governor, Gavin Newsom, called the potential deployment of US marines in his state “deranged” after the secretary of defense threatened the use of...
Read MoreElection experts cast doubt on Trump and Mullin claim 250,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in four US states Election security experts are not convinced...
Read MoreThe investigation into a US air force bomber’s deadly crash during a test flight at a California base on Monday could take up to six...
Read MoreA federal judge ruled on Thursday that the terminations of hundreds of humanities grants last year by the Trump administration’s so-called “department of government efficiency”...
Read MoreOn 17 April, at a briefing on the Iran war, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth told reporters he had been “sitting in church with my...
Read MoreLittle more than a year ago, Kristi Noem’s political prospects appeared to be in freefall. The then South Dakota governor was criss-crossing the country on...
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The US state department is to shut five foreign consulates and missions across Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, drawing criticism that it is
The US state department is to shut five foreign consulates and missions across Asia, Africa, North America and the Caribbean, drawing criticism that it is