The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin would no doubt have understood and even appreciated the latest attack by the Trump administration on climate researchers and their...

Obama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...

Three US citizens sue Trump via ACLU over encounters with ICE agents The American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit over the Trump administration’s immigration operation in...

After deploying the national guard to the streets of Washington DC, Donald Trump’s federal crackdown is moving into a new phase. Three more states –...

‘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...

The FBI has taken full control of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)...

A federal judge has ruled that Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook can stay in her post while suing Donald Trump over his unprecedented bid...

About 700 US marines were en route to Los Angeles on Tuesday after Donald Trump mobilized them the day before in response to protests over...

Trump files lawsuit against BBC over edit of January 6 speech President Donald Trump officially filed a $10bn lawsuit against the BBC on Monday after...

The president has now wrapped up his press conference, so here’s a recap of some the key points Trump is placing Washington DC police under...

From Los Angeles to London, Istanbul to Warsaw, cities are making rightwing populists angry. Their liberal elites, immigrants, net zero policies, leftwing activists, globalised businesses,...

Two videos have surfaced shedding light on what is happening behind closed doors at a New York federal building where people are being confined after...

Late-night hosts covered alarming new comments by Donald Trump as well as his outburst at a heckler in Michigan. Jimmy Kimmel On Jimmy Kimmel Live!...

California lawmakers on Friday approved a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities, including a landmark healthcare expansion for low-income adult immigrants without...

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...

A long-awaited Department of Defense report found that US defense secretary Pete Hegseth violated departmental policies and put troops in danger when he shared secret...

Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging top aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline”. The investigation will build on...

A battle is brewing in California over a plan to tax billionaires – with tech titans divided over whether they should pay up, or flee...

Trump calls again on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates Donald Trump has – once again – called on Jerome Powell, the...

Trump threatens sending military to Democratic cities, singling out Chicago In between repeating baseless claims that DC crime data is “phoney”, and touting the work...

California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation that will ask the state’s voters to decide in November if they approve of redrawn congressional districts that tilt...

Federal judge orders Florida to close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ within 60 days A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new...

In a broadly-worded executive order issued Monday evening, Donald Trump declared “antifa”– the decentralized antifascist movement – as a “domestic terrorist organization”. With his order,...

We need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of...

Donald Trump observed blithely last week that if his cherished tariff regime is struck down by the US supreme court, he may need to “unwind”...

The Minnesota governor said the fatal shooting of a woman in her car was ‘totally predictable’ and ‘totally avoidable’. He noted that local law enforcement...

Ghislaine Maxwell urges supreme court to overturn her conviction Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has urged the supreme...

Last week, the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the chair of the Federal Reserve – and longtime foe of Donald Trump –...

The Clinton-Epstein connection I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in a makeshift situation room in Mar-a-Lago, there’s a whiteboard with “very high IQ strategies...

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...

Donald Trump has denied the indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a campaign of retribution against his political opponents. The US...

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly plans to run as an independent candidate in the New York City’s mayoral race, days after finding himself...

Thousands of Afghans who fled to the US as the Taliban grabbed power again in Afghanistan are in mortal dread of being deported back to...

The problem with a successful playbook is that you eventually keep doing the same thing mechanically. Fresh from intimidating ABC and CBS with meritless lawsuits,...

Reality television personality Spencer Pratt is running to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. Pratt announced his campaign on Wednesday at a rally to...

For months, Ohio police officer Connor Grubb and his department attempted to hide his identity following an incident in which he shot and killed Ta’Kiya...

Kelcy Warren was among the top donors for Donald Trump’s 2024 White House bid, personally pouring at least $5m into the campaign and co-hosting a...

“Washington DC is considered a safe zone,” Donald Trump declared on Tuesday, veering off topic at the national Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White...

A new study of defense department spending previewed exclusively to the Guardian shows that most of the Pentagon’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 has...

‘We will not be bullied’: House Democrats confirm FBI requests for interviews over video to troops Four Democratic members of the US House, who appeared...

Paul Dans, one of the main forces behind the conservative blueprint Project 2025, will run against Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina Republican primary next...

People across all 50 US states on Thursday are joining marches and rallies at more than 1,500 sites to protest against the Trump administration and...

Now in his fourth decade of spreading the word across most of the world’s continents about “Housing First”, an approach to helping homeless people 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...

Trump ran on a promise to lower costs on day one, but a year into his presidency, the real beneficiaries are his billionaire donors. Instead...

A reclusive billionaire, anti-tax crusader and major financial backer of Donald Trump has been named as the anonymous private donor who gave $130m to the...

CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, defended her decision to pull a 60 Minutes episode on allegations investigating a notorious prison in El Salvador, arguing that...

The United States has sent $7.5m to the government of Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most repressive and corrupt regimes, to accept noncitizen deportees...

Trust-fund-Trump wants women to “tough it out” Donald Trump is a man with no medical training. However, that’s never stopped the very stable genius from...

National guard troops arrive in LA National guard troops have arrived in Los Angeles, according to footage broadcast by news network ABC7. The video showed...

A federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities....

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...

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...

Democrats will retake the US House’s majority in the 2026 midterm elections, the chamber’s former speaker Nancy Pelosi has confidently predicted – and she hopes...

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

Good morning. There are two Donald Trumps: the candidate, and the president. Donald Trump the candidate spent much of his campaign presenting himself as a...

Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries,” a day after two national guard members were shot in Washington...

Donald Trump’s hyperbolic portrayal of crime in major American cities, and his deployment of the national guard in Washington DC ostensibly in an effort to...

Trump orders nuclear submarines moved near Russia after ‘foolish and inflammatory statements’ from Medvedev Donald Trump has said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to...

The giant and catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, didn’t reach Apalachicola Bay in 2010, but the threat of...

In towns where Washington DC is an abstraction, the post office is the front desk of American democracy – sometimes the only public space at...

European stock markets fell on Monday and gold and silver prices hit record highs after Donald Trump threatened to impose additional tariffs on eight European...

A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for...

Hegseth seems to distance himself from admiral who ordered strike to kill survivors of suspected drug boat Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, seemed to...

Nearly a year into parenting, I’ve relied on advice and tricks to keep my baby alive and entertained. For the most part, he’s been agile...

Federal judge tells White House to provide more details about deportation flights by noon as a showdown over presidential power brews in court Hello and...

Donald Trump welcomed 2026 with a glitzy bash at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach where he auctioned off a freshly painted portrait of Jesus...

A British anti-disinformation campaigner close to Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration after being told he could...

In 2017, watching a two-hour Bastille Day procession, Donald Trump told the French president that we’d have one too, only better. That time, the grown-ups...

Democracy requires that we do more than look out for our own interests and defend our own rights. Ever since the birth of this nation,...

Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a federal watchdog agency, Paul Ingrassia, withdrew on Tuesday following a report that Ingrassia described himself as having a “Nazi...

There is politics before the internet, and politics after the internet. Liberals are floundering, the right are flourishing, and what of the left? Well, it’s...

A woman in Minneapolis has died as her neighbors fought Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation. On Wednesday morning, a group of local civilian protesters gathered...

From 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...

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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...

1. The summit produced slim pickings … in other words, no deal As Donald Trump conceded during his brief press conference with Vladimir Putin, “understanding”...

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...

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

DoJ racing to redact documents ahead of deadline to release Epstein files – report Congress has mandated that the Trump administration release a trove of...

Utah officials show new video of suspect fleeing roof after shooting At a news conference, Beau Mason, the head of Utah’s department of public safety,...

For the first time since 2018, the sale of cannabis seeds in the US will be restricted due to a last-minute provision in the spending...

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

After days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on...

The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced on Sunday that he is abandoning his faltering bid to win re-election, just over a month...

Democrats’ soul-searching began even before it was clear Donald Trump would return to the White House. But their devastating losses in the 2024 election threw...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr came under pointed bipartisan questioning at a three-hour Senate finance committee hearing on Thursday. As well as his...

The UK prime minister Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of “diminishing” the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers, as the US president faced a fierce...

Chuck Schumer couldn’t hold his senators together at a time when their unity and toughness were essential. And at a time when they were winning:...

‘It’s the opening of an opportunity,’ say Senate Democrats who broke ranks to end government shutdown The eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks...

An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a...

Global Times hails US president’s order to strip back government funding to news organisations he deems ‘radical’ Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the...

The United States has imposed sanctions against three Palestinian human rights groups that asked the international criminal court to investigate Israel over allegations of genocide...

Donald Trump convened congressional leaders and cabinet secretaries at the White House on Thursday to make the case for passage of his marquee tax-and-spending bill,...

Donald Trump ratcheted up the uncertainty over how far he would be willing to go to acquire Greenland as he warned the Nato alliance on...

Dear Acting President Shipman, I am writing you an open letter since you have seen fit to communicate the recent decisions of the board of...

The US military carried out a lethal strike on a vessel it said was engaged in drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific, according to defense...

Overnight on Friday, the US carried out airstrikes across Venezuela, with explosions rocking the capital, Caracas, before dawn. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump announced that US...

When Ronald Reagan became the first US president to address China’s Great Hall of the People in 1984, he did not waste an opportunity to...