Summary We’re wrapping up our live coverage of US politics for the day. Here are the latest developments: The US military said it conducted a...

US Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the second Trump...

Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit early Hugo Lowell Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit early and return to Washington DC on Monday,...

Last week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland...

Federal appeals court rules that most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal A US appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s new tariffs...

A federal judge in Hawaii has ruled that commercial fishing is illegal in the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument, a federally protected area in...

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

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...

Will he or won’t he? That’s the question many are asking regarding whether Donald Trump will join Israel’s attacks on Iran and take out one of...

Donald Trump said on Monday morning that he would rule out running for the vice-presidency in the 2028 US election, an unorthodox approach that some...

The White House has withdrawn Jared Isaacman as its nominee for Nasa administrator, abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Musk from consideration to lead...

Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California, said on Monday he would resign from Congress following multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct that ended...

A White House envoy said on Sunday he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year...

Trump calls Senate bill a ‘very big victory’ in Arlington cemetery remarks The president has congratulated House speaker Mike Johnson and Senate majority leader John...

James Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false...

Hakeem Jeffries invites Epstein survivor, family of Jesse Jackson to Trump’s State of the Union address Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the US House...

One crisp morning in 2018, Sandra Ibarra pulled on a pair of gloves to ward off the winter chill and picked up the first cardboard...

A public feud erupted between Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Thursday, with the president saying he was “very disappointed” by the former adviser’s opposition...

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...

Fired fed governor’s lawyer argues that her removal does ‘irreparable harm’ Cook’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is arguing that her firing does “irreparable harm”. He says...

White House says it won’t ‘tolerate gaslighting’ from media following Trump’s pressure campaign on justice department Karoline Leavitt was resolute today when fielding questions from...

What in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, last week? They surely weren’t investigating a crime. Nor...

More than a dozen National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices along the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico coast are understaffed as the US plunges into an...

1. Tensions continued to rise between Cuomo and Mamdani The debate made clear that the most heated rivalry was between Cuomo and Mamdani. From the...

Late-night hosts discussed – or ignored – Donald Trump’s surprise primetime address and dug further into the explosive new interview the White House chief of...

On a rainy Detroit afternoon at a gas station off Interstate 75, Victor Rodriguez watched the pump tally tick up as he filled up his...

US Attorney to resign after Trump’s remarks calling for his removal over Letitia James investigation – reports US attorney Erik Siebert told employees on Friday...

In the fall of 2013, a silver-haired conservative radio host named Dennis Prager flew to Texas to woo a pair of rightwing billionaires. A few...

Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with...

Good morning. The UN has demanded that Israel’s investigations into unlawful killings in Gaza, including its “double-tap” bombing of Nasser hospital, which killed 20 people...

Johnson dismisses efforts to check Trump’s military power against Iran House speaker Mike Johnson dismissed efforts by lawmakers to advance a measure to check Trump’s...

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...

Hating legal constraints, Donald Trump has repeatedly taken unilateral actions for which he had zero legal authority unless he found some national emergency to declare....

Politicians should “calm down” and stop approaching one another in “attack mode” amid the US’s climate of political violence, former US senator Joe Manchin said...

Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan to counter the Republican-led map-drawing effort in Texas aimed at...

The US president blasted ABC News as ‘fake news’ when a reporter asked the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 murder of...

On the day that his supporters attacked the US Capitol because his 2020 re-election run ended in defeat, Donald Trump called his vice-president at the...

With quips, memes and jabs, Democrats cheered Donald Trump’s firing of attorney general Pam Bondi on Thursday, while the president’s Republican allies praised her relatively...

Supreme court backs Trump on aggressive immigration raids The supreme court has again backed Donald Trump’s hardline approach toward immigration today, allowing federal agents to...

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster...

One of the main media takeaways from the 2024 election was the much-discussed “vibe shift”. That is, a resurgence of cultural conservatism and a backlash...

As Donald Trump continues his drive to cull the federal workforce and consolidate his power, labor unions have emerged as some of his staunchest opponents....

As mass protests erupted over the past week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed Renee Nicole Good, thousands of Americans hoisted signs and...

US immigration officials carried out further “enforcement activity” in California’s agricultural heartland and the Los Angeles area as the conflict between the state and Donald...

The party was on its knees. It failed to beat Donald Trump, a twice impeached convicted felon, and lost both chambers of Congress. Since November,...

Donald Trump has renewed his stinging criticism of UK prime minister Keir Starmer over the lack of immediate UK support for the US-Israeli strikes on...

A staffer for Missouri Republican senator Eric Schmitt was previously fired from Ron DeSantis’s unsuccessful presidential campaign after making a video containing neo-Nazi imagery, and...

The temperature hovered around zero degrees as news crews and mourners stopped by the site where another Minneapolis resident was shot and killed by federal...

The Trump administration has sent more immigration agents to Minnesota, part of escalating attacks and rhetoric against the state and its immigrant populations in what...

Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to deploy federal immigration agents to US airports on Monday if Democrats do not agree to measures aimed at strengthening...

Trump says he’s cancelling all executive orders signed by Joe Biden using an autopen Donald Trump has said that he is cancelling all executive orders...

FBI shares photos of person of interest in Kirk shooting The Salt Lake City FBI field office has shared pictures of a person of interest...

On 30 May last year, Kim Sajet was working in her office in the grandly porticoed National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. The gallery is...

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...

California governor says marines ‘not political pawns’ The governor of California has said US marines are “not political pawns”, as Trump vows to send the...

Nine months and six days before a Tomahawk missile tore through the gaily decorated classrooms of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, ripping...

The FBI raided the home of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic John Bolton early on Friday morning and later also turned up...

The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday he would have “great pause” about granting a pardon or commutation to Ghislaine Maxwell while another...

The Republican senator who heads the homeland security committee has criticized JD Vance for “despicable” comments apparently in support of extrajudicial military killings. “Killing cartel...

White House would back forensic analysis of signature on Epstein letter Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics amid the ongoing...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing backlash once again, this time from a Japanese artist who has condemned the agency for using,...

Miami archbishop condemns Florida detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Florida’s most senior Catholic leader, Archbishop Thomas Wenski, has condemned the new immigration detention center...

Donald Trump has broken his silence on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, complaining that people who “innocently met” the convicted paedophile could have...

US ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, Germany’s chancellor says The United States is ready to be part of security guarantees for...

Trump meeting Russ Vought to discuss cutting ‘Democrat agencies’ and whether cuts will be permanent Donald Trump is up and truthing as the White House...

More than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have accused Melania Trump of “shifting the burden” on to them after she called on Congress...

Lawmakers decry Trump’s pressure campaign on justice department to investigate political opponents As we reported over the weekend, the president has ramped up his demands...

The Trump administration looks ever more like a criminal enterprise – and now it seems to have added war crimes to its repertoire. Though even...

The failure of negotiations to end the US war with Iran has unleashed a barrage of starkly partisan political responses, with leading Republicans making hawkish...

The people of Arizona’s seventh congressional district – a vast territory extending across the state’s south, along the Mexican border – have been denied representation...

In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at...

A pregnant physician who was denied a Covid-19 vaccine is suing the Trump administration alongside a group of leading doctors associations, charging that the administration...

Trumpism’s most revealing and defining moments – not its most important, nor cruelest, nor most dangerous, nor stupidest, but perhaps its most illuminating – came...

US military confirms 700 Marines are being deployed to Los Angeles amid protests The US military’s US Northern Command confirmed on Monday that a Marine...

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook urged the US supreme court on Thursday to reject Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her, telling the justices the Republican...

The future of the deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, is unclear after he stormed out of a meeting with Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and...

Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s political leadership have agreed to talks, a day after the US and Israel began to target the country’s...

There are few better metaphors for the receding status of American women than one offered up by the Trump administration at a medical waste disposal...

Initial takeaways of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview transcripts The transcripts are more than 300 pages, but here it goes … Blanche said, on record, that their...

Hillary Clinton delivered a withering rebuke to a congressional committee investigating her supposed links to Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, accusing its Republican members of embarking...

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...

After Donald Trump’s justice department failed on Friday to release all documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, multiple Congress...

Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday instructing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as the partial shutdown...

Donald Trump has hinted that US-Iranian peace talks could resume in Islamabad over the next two days, and complimented the work of Pakistan’s army chief...

In the early hours of 13 June, more than 200 Israeli fighter jets began pummeling Iran with bombs, lighting up the Tehran skyline and initiating...

Trump says Hamas is ready for peace, says ‘Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza’ Donald Trump just welcomed the response from Hamas to...

When Islamic State needed to move and disguise its money, it turned, US prosecutors said in 2023, to the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange: Binance. So...

‘I don’t like you either. And I probably never will,” the US president, Donald Trump, tells Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd at the White House cabinet...

I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. I hope Neilsen (or whoever...

An appeals court has temporarily returned control of California’s national guard to Donald Trump, just hours after a federal judge ruled the president’s use of...

Illinois voters on Tuesday will decide between a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying to be the state’s next senator as the midwestern state also...

Donald Trump’s global tariffs faced significant skepticism in a federal appeals court on Thursday, as judges investigated whether the president had overstretched his powers just...

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,...

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...

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, settled a lawsuit filed against it by Donald Trump for $16m last week. It came after Disney...

A Utah prosecutor involved in the case against Tyler Robinson, the alleged killer of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, denied allegations of a conflict of...

Two protesters have been blinded by so-called “less-lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to...

A law has come into effect in Texas that will allow individuals in the state to sue abortion pill providers in other states. Proponents say...

The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the...