
The Guardian - 11 hours 1 min ago
Republicans almost certain to push through appointment following the ousting of Noem amid public backlash to her aggressive immigration approach Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. A Senate committee later today is expected to give a quick confirmation to Markwayne Mullin, a first-term Republican senator from Oklahoma, to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A top counter-terrorism official in the...

The Guardian - 11 hours 8 min ago
Tasteless political merch is nothing new to Donald Trump, but it's a particularly bad look if you're married to Bill Clinton We live in a golden age of tasteless political merchandise. This is largely thanks to Donald Trump: over the years the president's official store has flogged everything from hoodies with Joe Biden falling downstairs on them to a T-shirt with a version of the mugshot from his 2023 booking on felony charges (Trump denied wrongdoing). Trump isn't the only one...

The Guardian - 11 hours 8 min ago
Pardoned by Trump after violating US banking law, Ben Delo provides funding, networking, and podcasting space for a range of groups, including those with hardline views on migration and abortion A British billionaire convicted in the US for failing to implement adequate money-laundering controls on his cryptocurrency business is funding a political base in the heart of Westminster used by "anti-woke" and rightwing activists. Ben Delo, 42, who was pardoned by Donald Trump last year, has given...

Huffington Post - 11 hours 15 min ago
"I know for a fact that he was aware," the former security official told Anderson Cooper on CNN.

CNBC - 11 hours 39 min ago
President Donald Trump has been pushing Congress to approve the SAVE America Act to require ID at the polls and proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.

Advocate - 11 hours 45 min ago
Senate Republicans have unveiled a comprehensive amendment package to the SAVE America Act that combines new federal voting restrictions with policies targeting transgender people. It comes after President Donald Trump has insisted that the provisions be added and the bill passed.

Huffington Post - 12 hours 1 min ago
The Trump scion "caught a stray" from his dad during an address, said the "Late Show" host.

ABC News - 12 hours 6 min ago
There's a growing body of data showing that the tariffs President Donald Trump said would help American factories are, in fact, squashing many of them...

Fox News - 12 hours 8 min ago
Democratic strategist James Carville claims in new video that President Donald Trump will quit office next year as his initiatives fail and Democrats control House and Senate.

The Guardian - 12 hours 8 min ago
Trump pick for homeland security secretary followed firing of Kristi Noem amid blowback for anti-immigration tactics A Senate committee on Wednesday will consider Markwayne Mullin's nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which Democrats have forced into a partial shutdown until their demands for guardrails on immigration enforcement are met. Donald Trump nominated Mullin, a first-term Republican senator from Oklahoma, as DHS secretary earlier this month, after the president...

The Guardian - 12 hours 8 min ago
The US president is using the language and the strategy of authoritarians once again There's nothing completely new in Donald Trump's latest attacks on reporters. But they're more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he wants: a docile press that provides propaganda not factual journalism for everything he does, including for his misguided war in Iran. Continue reading...

Slate - 12 hours 24 min ago
Everyone has Donald Trump's digits. And he keeps picking up.

The Independent - 12 hours 28 min ago
Delcy Rodr guez, Venezuela's acting president, said that the victory symbolised the "passion, talent, and unity that define us as Venezuelans"...

The Independent - 12 hours 39 min ago
The mother of a four-year-old Iranian girl in a coma has sent a message to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu after a US-Israeli air campaign destroyed their home.

Huffington Post - 13 hours 3 min ago
The late night host took the president to task for mocking the California governor's dyslexia.

Fox News - 13 hours 8 min ago
President Donald Trump predicts commercial traffic will resume through the Strait of Hormuz within weeks as Operation Epic Fury targets Iranian forces.

New York Magazine - 13 hours 9 min ago
Almost nothing he's said or done suggests he knows what he's doing, and this is still just the beginning.

The Guardian - 13 hours 16 min ago
Greater Manchester mayor says the party would always do well to listen to what Angela has got to say' Good morning. Keir Starmer has been handling the Iran war reasonably well, according to the consensus view at Westminster, and certainly better than Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch, who have been in contortions over whether they do or do not support Donald Trump. But this has not altered the fundamental, big-picture assessment of British politics, which is that he is deeply unpopular with voters...

Huffington Post - 14 hours 22 min ago
"My goodness gracious."...

The Independent - 14 hours 23 min ago
The US president lashed out at his foolish' allies multiple times before insisting that the US was the most powerful country in the world and did not need any help...

The Guardian - 15 hours 8 min ago
Last year it was China's answer to tariffs, now it's Iran's retaliation to airstrikes America First' keeps foundering on global economics Donald Trump is teaching the world a lesson, but not the one he thinks. The attack on Iran was meant to be a dazzling display of military supremacy. It has instead illuminated chinks in the US's armour. The US president's formidable arsenal cannot summon up an insurrection from Iran's tyrannised and leaderless opposition. It cannot...

The Independent - 15 hours 20 min ago
Donald Trump accidentally called Gavin Newsom "the president of the United States" whilst he was insulting his intelligence.

Huffington Post - 15 hours 39 min ago
The veteran Democratic strategist also slammed Trump as an "idiot," a "moron" and a "sack of s**t president."...

The Independent - 16 hours 49 min ago
Iran and Russia have both alleged a projectile struck the grounds of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Islamic Republic, raising the specter of a radiological incident as Tehran's war with Israel and the United States rages...