The US state department announced on Saturday that it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza in desperate need of medical care after an...

Most discussions about the Democratic party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats, such as the Florida state representative Angie...

The US military operation in Venezuela undermines a fundamental principle of international law, agreed after the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust: states...

Investigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC...

Threats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty, but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful vengeance in recent days...

It’s not straightforward, trying to assess a book written by someone whose stature and reputation loom large over the text. I have not read any...

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

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...

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...

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s...

Federal health officials are seeking to launch a “bold, edgy” public service campaign to warn Americans of the dangers of ultra-processed foods in social media,...

No matter how much Donald Trump outrages his opponents, nothing ever seems to stick. But what about his own base? With controversies surrounding the Epstein...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature And that concludes our live coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s historic inauguration....

In the race to replace the late US senator Lindsey Graham, 10 candidates have been barnstorming South Carolina diners, church halls and recreation centers, compressing...

Republicans reportedly fear datacenter backlash could cost them Ohio Senate seat Amid signs that the Ohio Republican senator Jon Husted’s support for the AI datacenters...

After a rollout trumpeted by US officials, the US- and Israeli-backed effort that claimed it would return large-scale food deliveries to Gaza was born an...

Donald Trump gave rightwing media provocateurs Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones a shoutout this week, calling them “Low...

The cryptocurrency industry spent big and lost often in this week’s Illinois primaries. As the industry prepares to make massive donations in the 2026 midterm...

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...

Federal prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against a woman accused of participating in a controversial January protest at a Minnesota church after the woman apparently...

Trump leaves White House to attend Lindsey Graham’s funeral Donald Trump’s motorcade has left the White House and is en route to the funeral service...

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has held talks in Israel with Benjamin Netanyahu aimed at limiting the diplomatic damage to both countries by...

The US House representative Tony Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, admitted to having an affair with an aide who died by suicide last year. Gonzales...

Thousands of protesters hit the streets in cities across the United States on Friday to protests to demand the withdrawal of federal immigration agents from...

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...

A federal judge on Monday blocked a California law from going into effect that would ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces, but they...

Trump defends Pam Bondi as his base calls for attorney general’s dismissal Donald Trump has defended attorney general Pam Bondi amid calls from Maga world...

Jim Jordan is among the most famous names in this stretch of Ohio. The congressman and chair of the powerful House judiciary committee is considered...

Your editorial (16 December) rightly calls for collective resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on the BBC. But it is important to name what we are...

The US Department of Justice dropped charges on Saturday against Michael Kirk Moore, the Utah doctor accused of destroying more than $28,000 worth of government-provided...

As the first congenitally blind member of Congress and a former president of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) board, I know that the ability...

David Hearn, a former Olympic canoe racer, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to damaging Washington’s reflecting pool after a $14.7m renovation project. Hearn, a three-time...

Donald Trump loves a construction project. He’s building a ballroom, revamping a reflecting pool, and overseeing the construction of a skyline-altering arch in Washington DC....

President Donald Trump had this May hailed a “total reset” of US-China relations, but trade relations between the world’s two-largest economies have faltered since, highlighting...

Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles to allow US diplomats to review their online activity before receiving educational and exchange...

A new policy memo issued last week by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), requiring many foreigners in the US to leave the country and...

Donald Trump hosted an Oval Office press conference with Elon Musk on Friday to mark the end of the tech billionaire’s tenure as a special...

Donald Trump on Saturday announced reforms intended to speed up access to medical research and treatment based on psychedelic drugs. The president signed an executive...

The Republican senator Bill Cassidy lost his primary on Saturday, as voters in Louisiana opted instead to advance two challengers to a runoff election after...

On 4 July – as Americans celebrated their country’s independence – Donald Trump signed into law his sweeping tax and spending bill. Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful...

If, like me, you’re a faithful reader of the New York Post, the election of Zohran Mamdani as the new mayor of Gotham was the...

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...

IDF orders people to flee homes in Beirut as it warns of further strikes The Israeli military has again ordered people to flee their homes...

Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, homeland security officials have consistently argued that deportation officers are facing unprecedented threats. To better understand the dangers...

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...

Bhante Saranapala gazed down at more than a hundred Buddhist monks wearing burnt-orange, saffron and maroon robes, most sporting woolly hats, a few clutching flowers....

Organizers 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...

One reason to celebrate America’s national big birthday – our 250th on the Fourth of July – is to honor the unusual longevity of our...

Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen. The autopen...

The Department of Defense will soon officially become the Department of War, if Republicans get their way. Key committees in the House and Senate have...

DHS shutdown extends to almost six weeks with no end in sight and delays at airports Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog....

At morning services at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday, congregants greeted one another with hugs and expressed gratitude for a rare piece...

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...

The board of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is said to have voted once again to move forward with...

Donald Trump’s relationship with Washington’s Nato allies is nobody’s idea of a happy marriage. But the US president’s volatile performance at the western military alliance’s...

‘I think what Trumpism is about, is an understanding that the system in America is not working for working-class people,” says Bernie Sanders, sat in...

Trump asks for ‘prayers’ for Charlie Kirk after shooting at Utah university Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social about the shooting at Utah Valley...

When Laura Wittmann decided this week to submit her resignation from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to...

The Trump administration is seeking to block veterans from receiving abortions at hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs in cases of rape or...

Throughout Bad Bunny’s mesmerizing performance during the Super Bowl, the word “America” kept expanding, like an accordion, stretching out to embrace people of all nationalities....

Once upon a time there was a boy called Baron Trump, who was growing weary of his privileged life at Trump Castle. Then, one fateful...

Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives. “Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut Jim...

The Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement celebrated this month after the US dairy industry voluntarily pledged to remove all artificial dyes from ice-cream by...

Senior Trump official says president hasn’t decided when to nominate replacement for Lisa Cook Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council,...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday seemed ready to keep Donald Trump in control of California national guard troops after they were deployed following protests...

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...

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday designating fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” – classifying the synthetic opioid not only a lethal...

Donald Trump has said it will be clear within “probably 10 days” whether he can reach a nuclear deal with Iran, as the US military...

A 31-year-old man has been charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, after a thwarted attack at Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner. Immediately after this,...

Three memos that describe four interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump sexually abused...

The White House has announced that it will release $5.5bn in frozen education funds back to US states. That announcement came on Friday after Donald...

The US supreme court has upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in the country with citizenship, ruling against a central piece of...

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress late on Friday, saying she refused to be a “battered wife” following her public fallout with Donald Trump,...

Donald Trump pulled back from the brink on Greenland but not before causing untold damage to the Nato alliance. The US president’s sabre-rattling may also...

Photograph: Eddie Gerald/Alamy 1 Israel blocked from using Microsoft software for mass surveillance of Palestinians after Guardian investigation After we exclusively revealed that Israel’s elite...

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...

When Donald Trump reassured the world that he would not, after all, use force to acquire Greenland – after days of threatening as much –...

With Americans focused on Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, far too few Americans are focusing on another disastrous Trump idea: increasing the Pentagon’s...

Federal workers are scrambling to figure out if they still have a job after the Trump administration launched a fresh wave of layoffs amid a...

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...

William H Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his...

Donald Trump’s administration opposed efforts to expand the use of body cameras by immigration officers and sharply cut oversight staffing as it surged officers into...

Just over a week ago, Iranian and American officials were set to meet for a fresh round of negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program. Now the...

Last Friday, after weeks of speculation, Ukraine’s worst fears were confirmed: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were going to meet to discuss the future of...

The US’s top public health agency was plunged into chaos on Wednesday after the Trump administration moved to oust its leader Susan Monarez, sworn in...

The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part...

This month, we learned that, in the course of bombing a boat of suspected drug smugglers, the US military intentionally killed two survivors clinging to...

House Democrats file six articles of impeachment against defense secretary Pete Hegseth Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, and colleagues including John Larson of...

Trump will not recommend special prosecutor in Epstein case Trump’s allies have been pushing the president to name a special counsel in the Epstein case,...

Donald Trump has defended the state and federal response to deadly flooding in Texas, while administration officials continue to dodge questions about his plans to...

Donald Trump has filed another lawsuit against a media company. This time though, he’s up against the billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Jonathan Freedland speaks...

Ethics officials at Fannie Mae were removed from their jobs as they investigated whether a top Trump ally improperly accessed mortgage documents of Letitia James,...

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...

The Department of Justice on Friday released a long-awaited and huge tranche of documents detailing its investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a...

Doctors, lawmakers condemn Trump order calling for sweeping changes to childhood vaccines Medical experts and lawmakers are blasting Donald Trump’s executive order calling for sweeping...

Newsom calls for a special election to introduce new US House maps Lauren Gambino “Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Gavin Newsom...

Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about...

Last Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American mother. Already, the federal investigation into the killing...