Donald Trump’s victory in last November’s US presidential election presented Keir Starmer, Britain’s Labour prime minister, with a choice – and an opportunity. Either cosy...

The Teamsters International president, Sean O’Brien, is putting the “working class in jeopardy” by allying with Donald Trump, according to a prominent labor activist challenging...

In June 2024, a divided US supreme court handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card. Across 43 pages, chief justice John Roberts demolished the long-held belief...

The White House announced layoffs of federal workers on Friday, making good on a threat it had made in response to the US government shutdown,...

This story was originally published by the Trace, a non-profit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. As Philadelphia’s district...

Trump’s military attack on Iran reveals split among Maga diehards Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I’ll...

White House boasts family of suspect in Boulder attack ‘could be deported as early as tonight’ The White House is boasting on its official social...

A second man being held at a US immigration detention facility in Texas has died in two weeks, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said...

A pair of identical Indiana twins whose life on opposite ends of the US’s political divide recently propelled them to internet virality say it has...

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...

The White House maintained on Thursday that Donald Trump, despite his social media posts, did not mean that lawmakers who made a video saying troops...

Today’s recap Talks over ending the record-breaking partial government shutdown remain at an impasse, as congress is on its scheduled two-week recess. TSA employees began...

Trump says he will meet Putin in Alaska next week Donald Trump said he plans to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska next Friday, 15 August....

The man suspected of planting pipe bombs in Washington DC the night before the 6 January 2021 deadly attack on the US Capitol by supporters...

Donald Trump has said he regrets not getting the US national guard to seize voting machines after his 2020 election defeat ended his first presidency,...

Trump nominates economist at the Heritage Foundation as the new BLS commissioner President Donald Trump announced he is nominating EJ Antoni, the chief economist at...

Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations...

Earlier this summer, Republican lawmakers gathered around Donald Trump and applauded as he sat before a desk outside the White House and put his signature...

A few years ago, towards the end of the second Obama administration, a friend and her wife flew back to New York from a holiday...

Texas national guard troops have arrived in the Chicago area, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city. Chicago has already seen a...

No matter how you slice it, Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is an act of naked aggression. It is blatantly illegal and sets a disturbing...

Charlie Kirk inspired a generation of conservative youth. He toured campuses whipping up culture wars, actively courting controversy. But his horrific killing last week, in...

Senior Democrats have claimed they were left in the dark about operation Midnight Hammer, the US’s highly coordinated strike on Saturday on Iran’s nuclear enrichment...

Two children – a nine-year old boy and his six-year old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed...

The government of Eswatini announced on Thursday it received four more “third country” deportees from the United States, as part of the Trump administration’s multimillion-dollar...

Donald Trump is dispatching a so-called “God squad” of top officials to revoke protections for endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, purportedly to protect...

The man charged in connection with the recent shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was a doomsday “prepper” who instructed his family to...

Anthony Weiner says politicians such as him and Donald Trump can survive scandals while qualified candidates like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton lose elections because...

Donald Trump has hinted he could walk away from supporting Ukraine as he doubled down on his administration’s recent criticism of Europe, describing it as...

The US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won...

When he sat down to talk about the US government shutdown with reporters from a closely read political newsletter this week, Chuck Schumer sounded as...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has imposed new guidelines on VA hospitals nationwide that remove language that explicitly prohibited doctors from discriminating against patients based...

Democratic senators introduced a bill Tuesday to ban immigration officers from concealing their identities while engaged in immigration enforcement activities. The “visible act”, introduced by...

In 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...

To win in 2028, Democrats need to win back a lot of working-class voters, including a lot of blue-collar Donald Trump voters. Doing so requires...

The US supreme court agreed on Tuesday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, setting up a major test of one of...

Protecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of new administrative and...

The top drug regulator in the US signaled on Tuesday he may retire weeks after accepting the position, adding to upheaval in the highest ranks...

The death of Renee has ignited anger across the US, with more than a thousand protests held across the country in the wake of the...

Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch will probably be part of a group of investors that will buy TikTok in the US, Donald Trump...

Congress braces for DHS shutdown as funding bill negotiations stall Congress is facing a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if doesn’t pass...

Never before in American history have so few had so much wealth and power. Today, the top one per cent owns more wealth than the...

Over the weekend, Donald Trump fumed on Truth Social about newspapers covering attacks on US tanker aircrafts in Saudi Arabia. Within hours, the Federal Communications...

A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass...

A coalition of more than two dozen states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its decision to suspend food stamps during the government shutdown....

In the lead-up to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the city deployed 30 police officers on horseback to rid downtown of unhoused people and,...

It’s not quite a new year resolution, and it’s certainly not a prediction. Think of it instead as a hope or even a plea for...

Americans worry democracy in danger amid gerrymandering fights, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Most Americans believe that efforts to redraw U.S. House of Representatives districts to maximize...

Historian Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, has cancelled plans to teach this fall in response to...

White 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...

As Donald Trump menaces the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which funds a long list of progressive causes, Binaifer Nowrojee, the OSF president, says the global...

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump of Epstein ‘cover-up’ and calls for public testimony Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

California can use a new congressional map that was approved by voters in November, the supreme court has ruled, handing Democrats a major victory in...

US health officials are reportedly planning to release data on child deaths and serious side effects they would attribute to Covid-19 vaccines, raising alarm among...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off against Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, in the only public debate in that state’s governor’s race on Thursday, days after...

The justice department on Thursday joined a lawsuit brought by California Republicans to block the state’s new congressional map, escalating a legal battle over a...

In 2011, Donald Trump published a book with the self-help guru Robert Kiyosaki titled Midas Touch. It’s a typical self-empowerment manual in which the pair...

The Donald Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict...

Federal agents arrest former CNN anchor Don Lemon Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, his lawyer said...

Trump administration lays off hundreds of Voice of America employees The Trump administration sent layoff notices today to more than 600 employees at Voice of...

One of the few advantages of being as conspicuous as I am is that many people come up to me whom I don’t know, to...

Summary About 17 hours since voting began, the Senate hasn’t yet passed Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that would enact his domestic tax and spending...

JD Vance met with Republican lawmakers in Indiana on Thursday to encourage them to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable to the...

Donald Trump’s justice department was hit with legal threats and scathing outrage after authorities released a limited, heavily redacted trove of Jeffrey Epstein files in...

The Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, announced a lawsuit on Monday against the federal government, seeking to end the surge of ICE agents in the...

Trump 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...

Trump’s 50% tariffs on India come into force as president puts pressure on country over Russian oil supplies Hello and welcome to the US politics...

It would have taken a heart of stone to watch the death of the Trump-Musk bromance without laughing. Democrats passed the popcorn on Thursday night...

Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges...

For Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech....

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) is leaving the agency, a senior Trump administration official said on Monday. David Richardson resigned...

The US supreme court on Tuesday appeared poised to uphold laws banning transgender girls and women from competing in female sports in two conservative states,...

Russia accused western European leaders on Sunday of not wanting peace in Ukraine, as Moscow’s most senior diplomat praised efforts by Donald Trump to end...

The Trump administration will slash routine vaccine recommendations during childhood from 17 to 11 jabs – the biggest change to vaccines yet under the purview...

Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete...

Oregon’s governor says she told Kristi Noem ‘there is no insurrection in Oregon’ There was a bit of an unexplained delay earlier between Kristi Noem’s...

Top Senate Republican says White House will have ‘something to say’ about Ingrassia nomination Addressing reporters after lunch in the Rose Garden, Senate majority leader...

Senate postpones Casey Means confirmation hearing after she goes into labor The Senate has postponed its confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general,...

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...

Chuck Schumer rejects Trump’s ‘Save America Act’ ultimatum amid DHS shutdown Chris Stein An indignant Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer swatted aside Donald Trump’s insistence...

You suspected that Maga had not conquered the Washington national cathedral when Bill Kristol was spotted at a men’s urinal conversing with Chris Wallace. You...

The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and...

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...

Trump: ‘No deal until there’s a deal’ David Smith That was quick. Donald Trump left more questions than answers as he fawned over Vladimir Putin...

The attack on Venezuela and the seizure of its president was a shocking enough start to 2026, but it was only the next day, when...

The US has backed down in its tariff war with China. Thanks to Donald Trump’s egotistical diplomacy, rare earths can again flow one way, soya...

The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries are trying to track down US citizens, one week...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funding and threatening hefty fines against the University of California amid the administration’s attempts...

Opening summary: Trump overseeing a ‘fascist regime’, says Lander Brad Lander, New York City’s comptroller and a mayoral candidate, has lashed out at Donald Trump...

Four days after JD Vance reportedly asked top Trump administration officials to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around...

The Trump administration has pushed through a flurry of actions on the final day of 2025, including drastic reversals on two high key issues. Donald...

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...

Disgraced former US congressman George Santos said on Sunday that his prison sentence had been “disproportionate”, but that he had been served “a very large...

Texas House reconvenes, ready to pass GOP-drawn map The Texas house is starting up for legislative business again. The Republican majority is poised to pass...

A growing number of federal agencies and staff are explicitly blaming Democrats for the current government shutdown. The political messaging by the agencies may be...

It reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy. A succession of opposition politicians, including Alex Padilla, a US senator, are handcuffed...

Democrats call Trump’s DC police takeover ‘a distraction’ from Epstein, tariffs and tax bill Leading Democrats are lambasting Donald Trump’s decision to federalise the DC...

Jeffrey Epstein sympathized with Brett Kavanaugh during the then-supreme court nominee’s contentious 2018 confirmation and even suggested Republicans should have been harder on Christine Blasey...

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