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Texas governor Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the department of public safety to arrest and return any House member who had left the state and...

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...

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...

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...

Senate votes down Iran war powers resolution Senate Democrats were unsuccessful in getting a resolution passed to limit Donald Trump from single-handedly escalating the war...

A federal prosecutor who helped lead the US Department of Justice’s investigation into the January 6 attack on Congress has resigned – and, in a...

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...

Cuban officials have denounced the US seizure of the Skipper oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday, calling it an “act of piracy and maritime...

US Senate passes aid and public broadcasting cuts in victory for Trump Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...

The measure of a political party’s failure lies not in how many agnostics and opponents it fails to convert, but in how many loyalists it...

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...

Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied Republicans a legislative quorum on Monday by leaving the state, preventing, at least for now, plans proposed by...

Summary That’s all for our live coverage for the day. Thanks for following along. Here are some of the big stories from the day. House...

If one thing is more challenging to the rule of law than a genuine emergency, it is the invention of a phoney one. Since returning...

On Tuesday, we learned that the US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson had died at the age of 84. Tributes flooded in from political figures...

Hello and Happy New Year. We have started 2026 with a geopolitical shock as the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and imprisoned him...

Donald Trump rarely has kind words for Democrats, especially those who stand in his way. But on Thursday the president offered something unfamiliar: a compliment....

One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,”...

‘Your countries are going to hell’: recap of Donald Trump’s address to the UN general assembly In an address lasting almost an hour, more than...

Joe Biden has said ‘these are dark days’ in the US, and accused the Trump administration of ‘doing its best to dismantle the constitution’ with...

Trump shares carriage procession with King Charles Here are some pictures from the carriage procession. Members of the Royal Navy Ceremonial Guard line up the...

BBC journalists cannot wear T-shirts in the newsroom supporting the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter, the corporation’s director general Tim Davie has said. Davie said...

White House claims image of Epstein birthday note ‘proves’ Trump did not draw or sign it The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, insists that...

The scene around Washington’s Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seemed to fit Donald Trump’s most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal...

Democratic congresswoman criticizes Trump’s comments about a third term Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s Democratic representative, has criticized comments from Steve Bannon after the former White House...

More than 97% of immigrants detained in the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago had no criminal conviction, according to federal court records. The...

Senate Republicans are racing to meet Donald Trump’s self-imposed 4 July deadline to pass the president’s massive tax-and-spending “one big, beautiful bill”. In a marathon...

Summary of the talks In case you’re just joining us, here’s a rundown on what happened at the high-stakes talks between Donald Trump and Xi...

The day so far The White House announced a new rule restricting the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary...

House Democrats on Monday released an image of a sexually suggestive letter and drawing that appears to bear the signature of Donald Trump, the very...

Keeping politics at arm’s length for the US men’s hockey team’s gold-medal matchup with Canada was always going to be difficult. The game fell on...

Supreme court extends ruling that halts Snap benefits rollout across the US The supreme court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full Snap payments, amid...

“The more Epstein documents get released, the more we see how he had so many powerful friends, and that’s ultimately what helped him,” commented the...

Donald Trump’s announcement calling off trade talks with Canada over its digital tax – and that he would impose retaliatory tariffs – demonstrates, once again,...

Democratic lawmakers left Texas in an attempt to prevent voting on a Republican plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts. By redrawing district lines, Republicans hope...

The Trump administration will deploy the national guard to immigration protests in Los Angeles, border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday, as an immigration crackdown...

Donald Trump has defended his administration’s increasingly violent immigration crackdown, describing the 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents as likely a “wonderful person” whose “tough”...

The US defence secretary has claimed that President Trump ‘did not start’ the war with Iran but is ‘finishing it’, speaking at a Pentagon press...

The United States is “not at war” in Venezuela, the Republican speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on Monday, despite the weekend raid Donald...

Donald 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...

Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, the Wall Street...

Missouri Republicans approved a new congressional map on Friday that adds an additional GOP-friendly seat in Congress, a boost to Donald Trump as he tries...

Kilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday...

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...

The Trump administration will block organizations that receive US foreign aid from subsidizing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and what the administration calls “gender...

Eight migrants lost their last-ditch effort to halt their deportation to South Sudan by the Trump administration on Friday, clearing the way for their imminent...

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...

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...

As Donald Trump deteriorates and his grasp on power fades, he has been lashing out furiously at female journalists and ethnic groups, most recently Somali...

Many communities in Charlotte, North Carolina, were reeling after federal Customs and Border Protection teams descended on the city at the weekend and arrested at...

Which way, western man? That was the title of a racist tract published in 1978 by William Gayley Simpson, a former leftist Christian pastor turned...

Good morning. The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one of them and her husband,...

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

An Ohio affiliate of Planned Parenthood said it will not accept Medicaid insurance because of uncertainty around a judge’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to...

The Senate on Sunday made significant progress towards ending the longest US government shutdown in history, narrowly advancing a compromise bill to reauthorize funding and...

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior aides conducted polygraphs on their own colleagues this spring, in some cases as part of an effort to flush out...

The Texas house of representatives reconvened without the necessary number of lawmakers to conduct business on Friday, the deadline set by top state Republicans before...

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...

Democrats on House oversight committee release new Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a tranche of...

The US has been condemned for breaking international law after it launched airstrikes on the Venezuelan capital and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his...

Retired brigadier general Shawn Harris had been all geared up for a campaign to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene next November, and then the far-right representative...

Afghan man moving to US seized by immigration agents after green card application appointment The Trump administration is continuing its deportations policy, which has been...

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...

Federal grand jury indicts Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Democratic congresswoman from Florida A federal grand jury has indicted Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, on charges...

It has taken barely two weeks for Donald Trump to turn the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk to his political advantage, unleashing an unprecedented peacetime...

Laura Friedman’s love affair with film started young, staying up late to watch old Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney flicks. “It definitely gave me big...

A day after Donald Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the board of governors of the...

Senator Bernie Sanders introduces resolution to stop arms sales to Israel Senator Bernie Sanders just spoke on the Senate floor in support of two resolutions...

Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California – a highly...

Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportation. Since he took office, his administration has reshaped immigration enforcement across the country. The Guardian US,...

Bill and Hillary Clinton announced they would not comply with a subpoena demanding congressional testimony about their relationships to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, while...

The Trump administration on Monday asked the supreme court to allow it to fire the director of the US Copyright Office. The administration’s newest emergency...

The Trump administration is trying to justify strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats by advancing a novel legal theory that the US is now in...

Donald Trump’s attempt to sack the Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, is the familiar authoritarian trick of bending institutions to serve the leader’s immediate ends....

While thousands of protesters marched through downtown Minneapolis on Friday to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave the city, a smaller group...

Trump blames ‘radical left political violence’ for killing of Charlie Kirk, fails to mention killing of Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota In an Oval Office address...

Jessica Plichta was arrested on 3 January after a live interview with a local news station about a Grand Rapids, Michigan, protest against the Trump...

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US’s independence, the treasury department is mulling production of a $1 coin displaying Donald Trump with a clenched...

For Maurene Comey, abruptly fired as a US federal prosecutor without explanation, it may feel like a case of like father, like daughter. Comey was...

Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to...

The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by...

Throughout the two years of the Gaza war, Israeli bombing has been so intense that, in certain weather conditions, its echoes can be heard here...

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen has said she believes Donald Trump still wants to own Greenland, despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it...

The scientist responsible for overseeing the CDC team that collects data on Covid and RSV hospitalizations resigned on Monday. Dr Fiona Havers told colleagues in...

At this difficult moment in American history, it’s imperative that we have the courage to be honest with ourselves. The United States, once the envy...

Donald Trump spoke with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Friday as the US president appears increasingly disheartened over his chances of fulfilling a campaign pledge...

The number of people in immigration detention in the US has hit an all-time high according to data published by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

A Washington DC grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers who were denounced by Donald Trump after they made a video urging troops to...

Donald Trump responded to Hunter Hess on Truth Social on Sunday, calling the Olympian a “real loser” and criticizing comments the US freestyle skier made...

A federal judge has tossed out criminal charges against former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James. District Judge Cameron McGowan...

‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in...

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:...

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Another week, another freak weather phenomenon you’ve probably never heard of. If it’s not the “weather bomb” of extreme wind and snow that Britain is...

Eli, a 16-year-old Los Angeles student, is spending his summer juggling an internship at a natural history museum, a research project, a physics class and...

The US president says he is placing the Washington DC police department under federal control and deploying the national guard. Speaking at a press conference...

Several universities have scrapped partnerships with Chinese institutions in recent months as a direct result of pressure from US legislators. But no university appears to...

At the White House on Wednesday, the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters Donald Trump’s decision to dispatch the military to Los Angeles had been...