The television personality Dr Phil was embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers as they carried out controversial raids in Los Angeles that led...

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...

In November last year, I was turned into a memecoin. Several, in fact. Someone alerted me that a memecoin called Dork Nerd Geek ($DNG) had...

Early Tuesday morning, as parents went to drop off their young children at a bilingual childcare center in north-west Washington DC, they received a message...

Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building. Carrying...

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Wednesday. Here are the...

UK pharma sector awaits further details from Trump on tariff concessions from US Lisa O’Carroll Lisa O’Carroll is a senior Guardian correspondent covering trade. Deals...

Minneapolis protesters – already outraged by Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer – braced for a new onslaught as the Department...

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...

The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his...

The hardest day on the job for the White House press secretary for most of Barack Obama’s second term was right after Donald Trump was...

Johnson to quell internal House Republican revolt over Senate changes to Trump’s tax bill Lauren Gambino US House Republicans were set to vote on Donald...

What we know so far For those just joining us, here’s a recap of the day’s events as we’ve been bringing you the news of...

Of all the reasons Americans have been losing sleep recently – hunger, canceled flights, Democrats betraying them – the most ominous has to do with...

It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great...

For decades, a line of storefronts in Jeffersonville, Ohio, a town of 1,200 people 40 minutes south-west of Columbus, lay empty. But now locals are...

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world...

Crowds gathered in Minneapolis on Wednesday to protest and hold a vigil for a woman killed during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown. The Minneapolis...

Donald Trump has no qualms weighing in on local elections – especially in his native New York City. And on the eve of the mayoral...

Donald Trump announced on Friday he had commuted the sentence of George Santos, the disgraced former New York representative and serial fabulist who had been...

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...

Trump will send more tariff letters to foreign leaders ‘in the coming days’, White House says Donald Trump will send foreign leaders more letters notifying...

At 6.15am, Jac Kovarik revs up their SUV and snakes through the iced-over streets of south Minneapolis, eyes scanning for federal immigration agents. The neighborhood...

Labor unions, community leaders and faith groups are calling for an economic blackout in Minnesota on Friday to protest the surge of federal immigration agents...

George Monbiot is right that having a written constitution would be better than not having one if the far right takes power (We must act...

A federal judge on Wednesday said he was resuming his long-stalled court proceeding to determine whether Trump administration officials willfully violated a court order by...

Pete Hegseth on Saturday doubled down on his defense of US military strikes on alleged drug cartel boats in the Caribbean, arguing that Donald Trump...

A group of white male lawmakers were playing cards in a back room while their female colleagues gave speeches on the Minnesota house floor. They...

Reporting on a corrupt president made the Washington Post a global sensation with Watergate – and the masthead became a byword for fearless reporting. But...

Stanford University will cut $140m from its budget in the coming academic year, citing “consequences from federal policy changes” including “reductions in federal research support...

The Democratic National Committee’s decision to block the release of its own autopsy report on the 2024 election is stunning but not surprising. Averse to...

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...

Despite growing pressure to lower interest rates to appease the president, the Federal Reserve voted to leave them unchanged. This week Jonathan Freedland speaks to...

A divided US appeals court on Tuesday allowed US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, to resume her role at the agency, as Donald...

At least 11 states and two territories are capitulating to a recent demand from the Trump administration to strip references to gender identity and the...

Amid the trees clustered with jackfruit and the boda boda motorcycles weaving precariously around Kampala’s congested roads earlier this year was a campaign poster for...

Trump posts more tariff letters, with highest rate at 40% Donald Trump has posted more tariff letters addressing a number of countries on his Truth...

As global outrage intensifies over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, a growing number of prominent Jewish American organizations, including some traditional defenders of Israel, are...

Texas Senate passes GOP-drawn map, while House Democrats continue to deny quorum The Texas Sentate has passed a GOP-drawn congressional map, that would give Republicans...

Donald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday. Here are the facts on some...

Mahmoud Khalil – the Palestinian rights activist, Columbia University graduate and legal permanent resident of the US who had been held by federal immigration authorities...

Donald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today...

Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration employees have missed their first paycheck as the federal government shutdown rolls through its fourth week. They remain...

New York, Los Angeles and Chicago airports are among 40 that will see reductions in flights from Friday as a result of the government shutdown,...

Trump deploying military to Chicago on ‘flimsy pretext’, Illinois lawsuit alleges According to Illinois’ lawsuit, Donald Trump is deploying the military to Illinois based on...

Almost a year after the 2024 election there are still some houses with “Harris” signs in their windows dotted around my liberal Philadelphia neighbourhood. The...

A top US medical body has expressed “deep concern” to Robert F Kennedy Jr over news reports that the health secretary plans to overhaul a...

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has reportedly stripped eight of Brazil’s 11 supreme court judges of their US visas as the White House...

Gavin Newsom has stumbled upon the perfect slogan for his likely upcoming presidential campaign: “Strong and Wrong.” In a recent interview, California’s governor said Americans...

When Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long...

Bombing will not make Iran go away. US bombs will not destroy the knowhow needed to build a nuclear weapon or the will do so,...

Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump’s mass federal layoffs The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass...

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...

While Donald Trump’s justice department has downplayed the possibility that other men were involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of teen girls, an email released on...

Overnight on Friday, the US carried out airstrikes across Venezuela, with explosions rocking the capital, Caracas, before dawn. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump announced that US...

Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy militarized immigration agents in US cities may finally be reaching a reckoning as he faces widespread opposition across the US,...

Johnson says House will come back when Senate Democrats ‘turn the lights back on’ Mike Johnson said the only end in sight for the House...

‘We’ve got trillions of manufacturing that’s going to come back,’ says treasury secretary Bessent As Donald Trump’s tariffs on swathes of major US trading partners...

US supreme court announces funding will run out this weekend The US supreme court is expected to run out of federal funding on Saturday, according...

The Democratic politicians on the national scene, charged with leading the opposition, continue to bring a butterknife to the ongoing gunfight that is US politics...

Top Republicans are portraying Donald Trump as a “big-hearted president” who is desperate to reopen the US government, even as he delays food assistance funding...

US citizens are free once more to buy some of the country’s most deadly firearms and gun accessories, after relentless lobbying by the gun industry...

Donald Trump’s so-called “board of peace” has been announced as the US president seeks to manage the reconstruction of Gaza and its transitional administration amid...

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Environmental group hails ‘landmark victory’ after Alligator Alcatraz closure ruling Environmental...

The former US congressman John Burton, a salty-tongued and unabashedly liberal San Francisco Democrat who stood up for the working class and nurtured countless political...

Donald Trump has suggested he already has a replacement in mind for the Federal Reserve governor he is trying to force, even as Lisa Cook...

New poll shows overwhelming majority of Americans opposed to military action in Venezuela A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows that 70% of Americans are opposed...

The response of Nigerians to the airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in Sokoto state, north-western Nigeria are complicated. The rationale behind them has been...

Trump doubles down on baseless claims that mail-ballots are ‘corrupt’ In his press conference with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump has spent a chunk...

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...

As Labor Day rallies took place across the US, the Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson sharply denounced the Trump administration’s threat to deploy federal troops to...

In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump has demanded homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face eviction, and again...

State department plans mass layoffs with cuts to nearly 1,800 staff Andrew Roth The US state department has announced that it plans to move forward...

Kamala Harris says Biden’s choice to run for re-election was ‘reckless’ in new book excerpt In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, 107 days, former...

Newly uncovered photos and video footage published by CNN show more links between the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, including Epstein’s attendance at...

Rules are great. I think most of us over the age of five will agree that having them is preferable to not. Perhaps there are...

Like hundreds of families across Lowndes County, Alabama, the McPhersons do not have access to proper sanitation – just a pipe carrying raw sewage a...

Adelita Grijalva won the Democratic House primary in Arizona to succeed her father, beating a young social media activist in a closely watched election seen...

A visit to downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, hours after Donald Trump falsely declared the city “war ravaged” to justify the deployment of federal troops,...

The US Senate on Sunday moved toward a vote on reopening the federal government, suggesting that an end to the historic shutdown, now in its...

Bernie Sanders, the venerable democratic socialist senator from Vermont, was not in a mood to pull punches. “Trump is undermining our democracy and rapidly moving...

As the clock ticks toward the congressionally mandated deadline of 19 December by which Donald Trump’s justice department must release its files related to Jeffrey...

The US Department of Homeland Security is now requiring lawmakers to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance. The...

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...

Donald Trump’s mass pardoning of those convicted in connection to the January 6 insurrection raised eyebrows last year, but more recently his pardons have appeared...

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...

The US supreme court has allowed Alabama to go ahead with its seventh execution using the contested method of nitrogen gas, a form of suffocation...

The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Sunday that he will continue allowing the controversial practice of his officers wearing masks...

As national guard troops patrolled in Memphis – Tennessee’s second-largest city – for the first time on Friday, Democratic US senators Dick Durbin and Tammy...

The US military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on US personnel, two US...

As authorities at the federal and state levels parse the details of the fatal shooting of far-right activist Charlie Kirk at a university in Utah,...

It was mid-December, and Ro Khanna was watching the calendar. The 19 December deadline for the justice department to comply with a new law the...

One morning last June in an immigration courtroom in New York City, a lawyer named Estefani Rodriguez looked as if she was on the verge...

Elon Musk mocks Trump’s claim Epstein files are a hoax In a series of posts on his social media platform X, Elon Musk mocked Donald...

As Donald Trump deploys more troops to fight protesters in LA, and as plans come together for a military parade in Washington DC on the...

The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just...

‘They fired the first shot, Texas’, Newsom says before signing bill to put redistricting to California’s voters California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation on Thursday...

What do you do when you discover your best friend is abusive to their partner at home? That question, or something similar, should be addressed...

In one suburb of Minneapolis, the superintendent spends each school day driving to her district’s schools to track federal agents. Across the metro, in another...