A Florida man who was convicted then pardoned by Donald Trump after he grabbed then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and posed for photographs with...

The son of an American citizen and military veteran – but who has no citizenship to any country – was deported from the US to...

Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future...

More White House firings could be coming – reports Donald Trump is said to be considering removing other officials in his cabinet after forcing Pam...

Donald Trump’s appointment of Nick Adams, the “alpha male” Australian turned American internet provocateur as a new special presidential envoy on Tuesday, could give fuel...

Oscar-winning actor Angelina Jolie has said ‘I don’t recognise my country’ amid the threats to free speech in the US. ‘Anything anywhere that divides or...

New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announces run against his boss, Kathy Hochul New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announced on Monday that he is...

The exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the government and people’s hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear....

It has united luminaries of the far right, from media personality Tucker Carlson to activist Laura Loomer, from tech billionaire Elon Musk to congresswoman Marjorie...

A University of Michigan student has sued the school, accusing it of violating his constitutional rights when it waged a vast undercover surveillance operation against...

The John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4...

An African elephant weighing roughly 4 tons that was brought to the Texas Republican party’s annual convention to excite attenders ended up drawing widespread attention...

Maine secretary of state’s office confirms it received Platner’s letter, ending his candidacy for US Senate The Maine secretary of state’s office issued a statement...

The first lawsuit relating to the largest immigration detention facility in the US was filed early on Saturday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), accusing...

Hundreds of global CEOs, finance titans, and more than 60 prime ministers and presidents are in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual confab of the world’s...

Senate Republicans on Wednesday formally dropped their attempt to spend $1bn on security improvements for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, as it became clear the...

How would you behave if your democracy was being dismantled? In most western countries, that used to be an academic question. Societies where this process...

When Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill arrived in the Senate in late May, its problems seemed unending. It was Trump’s top legislative priority, and...

A generational divide over the Iran war has emerged between older attendees and their political heirs at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in...

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 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...

Donald Trump has given conflicting answers to whether he will attempt to run for a third term in 2028. At first he said he hadn’t...

The former CNN anchor Don Lemon has warned the US must “keep fighting” for its right to a free press, calling it “the breath in...

In the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good, Congresswoman Robin Kelly has announced the filing of three articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem,...

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...

Donald Trump has vowed that he will not sign any other legislation until Republicans’ massive voting bill, the Save America act, is passed. The bill...

Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to...

Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, signed legislation on Wednesday that aims to shield California elections from federal interference, saying he expected Donald Trump’s administration to try...

They are more than a year away – a lifetime in today’s fast and furious political cycle. But one man is already paying attention, pulling...

Donald Trump has responded to a recent podcast appearance by Robert De Niro, in which he called the president “an idiot”. Speaking on Monday’s episode...

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...

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s policy to detain and deport foreign scholars over their pro-Palestinian views violates the US constitution and...

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...

United, Southwest and Delta airlines began cancelling flights for Friday in compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s directive that will see reductions in flights at...

The far-right influencer and US Senate candidate Jake Lang has been arrested after recording himself damaging an anti-ICE sculpture at Minnesota’s capitol amid the Immigration...

The billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Saturday criticized the latest version of Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and...

Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+...

“Farewell,” the flag-waving Chinese children chanted to Donald Trump as he strolled along the red carpet back to Air Force One at the end of...

Inside St Peter’s Catholic church in San Francisco’s Mission District, families took refuge from a chilly December night to celebrate a mass in honor of...

The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey...

A federal judge on Friday blocked the justice department from serving subpoenas to Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in an inquiry purported to be about...

Four Democratic attorneys general, sitting in their offices from New York to California with state flags and books behind them, announced a new lawsuit on...

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...

South African comedian Trevor Noah told a joke as he hosted the Grammy awards on Sunday. The former Daily Show host said the song of...

Donald Trump wants to change the way Americans vote, promising to introduce measures such as mandatory voter ID and a ban on mail-in voting. But...

Trump announces he will send national guard to Memphis, with Chicago ‘probably next’ Donald Trump announced he will deploy the national guard to Memphis during...

Sunday marked one year since Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, was arrested last year for his political advocacy. Below, he writes...

Trump issues blunt message to Senate majority leader to pass voter ID legislation As John Thune battles conservative blowback for refusing to alter Senate rules...

Donald Trump has accused Iran of trying to stall on making a peace agreement by running down the clock before November’s US midterm elections in...

Trump makes misleading claims about crime in ‘red cities’ When asked if the president would consider sending National Guard troops to ‘red cities’ that are...

US forces on Saturday evening struck another vessel illegally carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump said on Sunday to thousands of sailors...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights, according...

Senate kicks off vote-a-rama on ‘big, beautiful bill’ as GOP scrambles to meet 4 July deadline The Senate resumed its final debate on the “big,...

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An appeals court in Washington DC rejected an emergency appeal seeking to pause the removal of Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy...

Blake Marnell was standing in the front row, about 10 yards from Donald Trump, when the shots rang out. He watched the Secret Service pile...

Barack Obama publicly gave his support to demonstrators in Minneapolis for standing up to the “unprecedented nature” of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation...

Democratic Virginia House speaker says legislature will ‘respect’ Supreme court decision Don Scott, the Democratic speaker of the Virginia House, said that the legislature will...

Fast food workers in California are demanding employers sign a pledge reaffirming workers’ rights amid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at workplaces across the...

US supreme court conservatives appear poised to back Trump in FTC firing case After more than two hours of oral arguments, the court appeared poised...

On Tuesday morning, just a few stalls were open among the dozens that normally sell food, rugs, clothing and jewelry at Karmel mall, a Somali...

Donald Trump has told the Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, that he will unfreeze funds for major infrastructure projects in New York and New Jersey...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15%...

The contrast in experience between the two men disagreeing over war and theology was striking. On the one side was Pope Leo XIV, the first...

Trump staged ‘hostile takeover’ of US 250th anniversary to serve ‘political ideology’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump hijacked the...

In spring 2004, Gen Anthony Zinni uttered about Iraq the dreaded words in US politics: “I spent two years in Vietnam, and I’ve seen this...

At what point will the US’s top military brass decide that enough is enough, that loyalty to the constitution and the rule of law supersedes...

Several staff members have reportedly been fired from the US office of the director of national intelligence (DNI), multiple outlets have reported. These firings come...

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...

Bruise on Trump’s hand won’t go away, and neither will questions about his health A large bruise on the back on Donald Trump’s right hand,...

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, said “everything is on the table” and left it there. But Donald Trump threw discretion to the wind and...

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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,...

With the first primaries of the US midterm elections now under way, the cryptocurrency industry is injecting millions of dollars into congressional races across the...

Donald Trump is expected to sign his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, setting...

Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Alison Singer, president and founder of the Autism Science Foundation, voiced...

Federal authorities are investigating whether George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman from New York, engaged in insider trading by betting on a prediction market...

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...

The outbreak of hantavirus on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius illuminates major gaps in the US public health system – a worrying sign for...

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...

Documents show Jeffrey Epstein texted with House member during 2019 testimony from Michael Cohen – report Documents provided to Congress this week by the estate...

Viktor Orbán (top) and Donald Trump. The US president and those around him have long talked up Orbán’s Hungary Composite: Guardian On a sunny April...

The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that...

The Trump administration is cancelling another $175m in funding for California’s high-speed rail, marking another setback for the state’s much-delayed project. The US transportation department...

A US Senate official on Saturday removed security funding that could be used for Donald Trump’s planned $400m White House ballroom from a massive spending...

Donald Trump, without offering evidence, blamed “vandalism” for “real problems” at Washington’s reflecting pool after an algae bloom in the wake of a $14.2m renovation...

‘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...

The US supreme court starts a new term on Monday, and the nine justices are preparing to take on cases that could prove crucial to...

Protesters heckled federal law enforcement officials as they reportedly stopped dozens of cars at a checkpoint along a busy street in Washington DC on Wednesday...

Six months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office –...

The US Senate passed legislation to fund Donald Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown early on Friday morning, ending a partial government shutdown that has lingered since...

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,...

A decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m (£7.3m) of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe...

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...

There are a few reasons that Donald Trump – now self-anointed acting President of Venezuela, as well as the United States – might be so...

Donald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding...

Former US senator Bob Packwood, a moderate Oregon Republican whose reputation as a champion of abortion and women’s rights was spoiled at the end of...

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