This week, Donald Trump gave an interview to Time magazine confirming the fears many have about what he would do were he to win back the White House in November. He found time to lay out his visi...
US president says ‘immigrants are what makes us strong’ and criticizes countries, plus China and Russia, over migration policy Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countrie...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/biden-japan-india-xenophobic-immigration
This live blog is now closed. For more on US politics, read our stories HERE . JOE BIDEN spoke for just three minutes before wrapping up. Just after he finished, a reporter asked if the prote...
US president says he will not reconsider approach to Israel’s war in Gaza as university protests continue nationwide Joe Biden on Thursday defended the right to protest but insisted that “o...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/joe-biden-protests-speech
‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing a goat Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota whose chance of...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/kristi-noem-response-dog-killing
Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester This timely return of Lynn Nottage’s 2015 play that anticipated Trump’s presidency has powerful performances despite never finding the right rhythm Althou...
Some say the public bragging of the formerly obscure governor of South Dakota ends her chances. But with Trump, who can say? There is a familiar moment in Republican electoral politics when an ...
The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of ‘woke’ terrorism. It’s a pretext for repression Across the world people have been shocked by social media f...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-campus-peace-protests-overreaction-gaza
Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted a US Senate armed forces committee where the defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, was giving testimony. As Austin spoke, one protester got up carrying a 'let Gaza l...
Dan Osborn is challenging incumbent Deb Fischer in a ‘long shot’ bid to prove the state still has an ‘independent spirit’ Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada – these ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/29/dan-osborn-nebraska-senate-elections
Speaker’s crude interventions on campus have forced many to question if his motives on Ukraine were quite so heroic Democrat Nancy Pelosi cited his “integrity” and described him as “cou...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/mike-johnson-aid-israel-university-protests
With abortion on the line, a Black conservative provocateur is pitted against the state’s center-left Jewish attorney general In front of a conservative talkshow host two weeks ago, Mark Robi...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/north-carolina-mark-robinson-josh-stein-governor
Peter Bernegger has brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices over alleged fraud – now he faces criminal charges Peter Bernegger has spent the last three and a half yea...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/peter-bernegger-wisconsin-election-denier
The hush-money criminal trial receives less prominence in conservative media, and when Trump-friendly networks do turn to the trial, they give viewers an alternative narrative In one America, h...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/trump-hush-money-trial-maga-base
If the former president regains the White House in November, America faces a more dystopian future than that being shown in cinemas Director, cast and critics all agree: Civil War, the movie de...
The California university cancelled Asna Tabassum’s speech because of ‘security concerns’. The real reason is cowardice When Asna Tabassum, a hijab-wearing Muslim, was announced as the va...
US supreme court justices on Thursday questioned a lawyer for Donald Trump about the former president's claim of immunity from prosecution over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 ele...
Police made arrests after clashing with demonstrators participating in student-led protests against Israel's war in Gaza. The arrests came amid a wave of demonstrations at campuses across the US,...
The US Senate has voted resoundingly by 79 to 18 to approve $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as a bipartisan super-majority united to send the long-stalled package to Joe Biden’s de...
Donald Trump was seen arriving in court on Monday in his criminal trial involving the adult film actor Stormy Daniels and the former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Trump, the first former US pres...
The Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, called for an Arizona supreme court ruling to be repealed that permits enforcement of an 1864 law banning almost all abortions. Speaking at a press ...
The UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, has suggested the Aukus pact and Nato alliance must get into the best possible shape to increase their chances of surviving Donald Trump’s potential ret...
In the vital swing state of Michigan, growing fractures among the Democratic base could spell trouble for Joe Biden in the November election. As party loyalists canvas in the run up to a primary ...
The Democratic Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has said Benjamin Netanyahu has emerged as a 'major obstacle to peace' in Gaza, in a further sign of growing tensions between the US and its ...
Special counsel Robert Hur said his report on declassified documents held by President Biden didn't exonerate him, insisting 'that is not a part of my task as a prosecutor'. Hur also didn't rule ...