German (DE) 
English (US) 
Spanish (ES) 
French (FR) 
Hindi (IN) 
Italian (IT) 
Russian (RU) 
TheGuardian-Politics
US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case
Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issueSign up for the Breaking News US ema...
View Full Coverage
Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters
Janet Mills says moratorium would’ve been ‘appropriate’ if it didn’t interfere with ongoing datacenter project in MaineThe Democratic governor of Main...
View Full Coverage
Republican congressman absent over ‘personal health matter’, Johnson says
Tom Kean, who has not voted since 5 March and whose seat is top Democratic target, due back ‘very soon’, speaker saysA vulnerable Republican congressm...
View Full Coverage
Family under longest immigration detention of Trump’s term released
US judge orders release of a woman and her five children who were family of the 2025 Colorado fire attack suspectA woman and her five children, whose ...
View Full Coverage
Court blocks Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access
Appellate panel finds president can’t circumvent laws that allow people to apply for asylum at the US-Mexico borderSign up for the Breaking News US em...
View Full Coverage
US justice department to allow firing squads as federal death penalty method
Trump’s DoJ says it is taking steps to ‘strengthen the federal death penalty’ in opposition to Biden-era policiesThe US justice department announced o...
View Full Coverage
‘No clear strategy’: how Trump went from shock and awe to wait and see in Iran
Lack of a sustained plan to end the war has convinced US allies that the White House is running out of ideasNearly eight weeks after Donald Trump laun...
View Full Coverage
Shapeshifting fascism and the broken promises of social democracy | Letters
Readers respond to Daniel Trilling’s article asking if fascism is making a comebackAs an analysis of rightwing populism, Daniel Trilling’s argument wo...
View Full Coverage
US justice department drops criminal investigation against Jerome Powell
Move will remove obstacle for confirmation of Kevin Warsh, Trump’s pick to replace Powell as Federal Reserve chairSign up for the Breaking News US ema...
View Full Coverage
Police across the US worry officers are being misidentified as ICE, records show
Exclusive: Emails and internal memos reveal concerns immigration enforcement is interfering with police workLaw enforcement and local government offic...
View Full Coverage
UK position on Falklands will not change, No 10 says after leaked Pentagon memo
Internal email proposes US should reassess support for UK claim to islands because of lack of support for Iran warUK politics live – latest updatesThe...
View Full Coverage
‘Superhighways for child sexual abuse’: California lawmakers seek tougher rules for big tech
Online exploitation ‘inflicting profound trauma on a staggering number of children’, Democrats sayFrustrated with what they describe as a lack of acco...
View Full Coverage
Trump psychedelics order largely symbolic, analysts say
Executive order to speed access to psychedelic treatments likely to have limited legal impact despite high-profile pushThe Trump administration issued...
View Full Coverage
DoJ watchdog will investigate release of Epstein files – US politics live
An internal watchdog will review the agency’s handling of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, including whether relevant documents were properly redac...
View Full Coverage
Trump cannot bear the judgments of Pope Leo | Sidney Blumenthal
The political gap between US evangelicals and Catholics is widening. And Trump won’t tolerate authority outside his own“Who will rid me of this meddle...
View Full Coverage
Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax
President accuses Britain of trying to ‘make an easy buck’ from American tech firms, weeks after warning UK–US trade deal can be changedBusiness live ...
View Full Coverage
The Trump purge: is the FBI’s Kash Patel next? – podcast
Three cabinet secretaries have left – or been pushed out – of the US administration since the start of March. Recent reporting suggests more could soo...
View Full Coverage
How a simple consumer data breach spiralled into a national security crisis in US-South Korea relations
Washington’s focus on online retailer Coupang has led to accusations that the Trump administration is tying issues of national security to domestic co...
View Full Coverage
Trump news at a glance: a tale of two blockades as US and Iran spin their control over strait of Hormuz
US report warns it could take six months to clear strait of mines as Trump declares ‘total control’ over key waterway – key US politics stories from T...
View Full Coverage
The federal agents deployed in Trump’s immigration crackdown – visualized
These are the agencies detaining people across the US – mostly, but not all, under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland SecurityWhen the Trump a...
View Full Coverage
Trump administration pushes DoJ to pursue denaturalization cases – report
Justice department has already identified 384 foreign-born people whose US citizenship it wants to revokeThe Trump administration is reportedly pushin...
View Full Coverage
DoJ inspector general to audit department’s compliance with Epstein Files Transparency Act
Mandated release of files was marred by missed deadlines, leaked victims’ information and excessive redactionsUS politics live – latest updatesThe US ...
View Full Coverage
D4vd possessed child sexual abuse images, LA murder prosecutors say
Police allegedly found images on iCloud account of singer accused of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas HernandezA Los Angeles prosecutor said that the...
View Full Coverage
The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial
Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internetAnthropic annou...
View Full Coverage
Keir Starmer was wrong to sack Olly Robbins | Brief letters
Civil service strain | Westminster bubble | Better than Nigel Farage | Andy Burnham’s chancePerhaps the most damaging consequence of the Mandelson aff...
View Full Coverage
Hung Cao, the former refugee who is Trump’s new acting navy secretary
Vietnam-born Cao stood twice for federal office in Virginia and has called for upgrading of fleet to face new threatsSign up for the Breaking News US ...
View Full Coverage
Lockheed Martin CEO sees Trump’s Pentagon as ‘golden opportunity’ for growth
Jim Taiclet spoke in earnings call as company expands contracts with the US government amid the Iran warLockheed Martin’s CEO has called the Trump adm...
View Full Coverage
NYT alleges FBI investigated reporter over story on Kash Patel’s girlfriend
Inquiry began in March after report on security arrangements involving FBI director’s girlfriend, NYT saysSign up for the Breaking News US email to ge...
View Full Coverage
Senate Republicans advance $140bn plan to fund Trump immigration crackdown amid DHS shutdown
Bill clears 50–48 vote to boost ICE and CBP funding as Democrats oppose and shutdown continuesUS politics live – latest updatesSign up for the Breakin...
View Full Coverage
Trump to host bash for crypto investors tied to his coin sales
Top buyers promised access at Mar-a-Lago event as Democrats and watchdogs warn of pay-to-play risksDonald Trump is slated to star at a cryptocurrency ...
View Full Coverage
‘Can I have some, please?’: has Trump opened the door to a psychedelic future?
Order to speed hallucinogen research hailed as ‘threshold moment’ but concerns remain over access and protectionsThe scene seemed so far-fetched you c...
View Full Coverage
Trump administration moves to reclassify marijuana to schedule III drug
Marijuana had same classification as heroin, LSD and others before Trump signed an order to move it to schedule IIISign up for the Breaking News US em...
View Full Coverage
Trump’s pardons are harming violent crime survivors | Johnny Olszewski
Pardons have reportedly eliminated $113m that would have supported a victims’ fund. I’m advancing legislation to create accountabilityDonald Trump’s a...
View Full Coverage
Republican lawmakers attempt to shield big oil from climate lawsuits in ‘alarming’ bills
Climate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate Republican lawmakers are attempting to shi...
View Full Coverage
Migrants struggle back across Latin America after Trump shuts asylum door: ‘It’s hard to know what to do’
300,000 left in limbo retrace perilous journeys south, searching for stability after US policy shiftTwo small scars on either side of his left thigh r...
View Full Coverage
Senate Republicans bypass Democrats to advance $70bn ICE and border patrol plan in ‘vote-a-rama’– US politics live
Republicans deploy measure known as budget reconciliation to push through plan without backing from Democrats during lengthy late-night voteSign up fo...
View Full Coverage
RFK Jr agenda suffers another loss as trans advocates hail ‘huge step forward’
Judge’s repeal of Trump ban on gender-affirming care for children ‘a meaningful win for patients’, experts sayA federal judge overturned the Trump adm...
View Full Coverage
Democrats say cuts to social security have caused ‘customer service chaos’ for American seniors
Report from Elizabeth Warren calls Trump administration cuts to Social Security Administration ‘catastrophic’Sign up for the Breaking News US email to...
View Full Coverage
Why are White House journalists partying with Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
The White House correspondents’ dinner has always been a questionable affair. It’s even more worrying under an anti-press administrationEven in the pr...
View Full Coverage
With his Bible readings, Trump is doubling down on his God complex. Somehow, evangelical Christians are buying it | Emma Brockes
The US president is making a desperate plea to the one group that seemingly hasn’t deserted him – yetHe has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy iso...
View Full Coverage
Thursday briefing: Why the US president is losing support from crucial allies
In today’s newsletter: As political tensions rise abroad and economic pressures mount at home, Donald Trump faces a shifting landscape that is testi...
View Full Coverage
Leading California governor candidates spar in first debate as topsy-turvy race heats up
Six candidates clashed over homelessness and cost of living crisis in first debate since Eric Swalwell’s exit – with a clear frontrunner still yet to ...
View Full Coverage
Trump news at a glance: Pentagon replaces secretary of the navy amid US blockade in strait of Hormuz
John Phelan is ‘departing the administration, effective immediately’ says Pentagon as undersecretary Hung Cao takes over – key US politics stories fro...
View Full Coverage
Virginia court puts pause on voter-passed congressional maps boosting Democrats
Move comes one day after voters approved the maps, leading state attorney general to vow office will appealSign up for the Breaking News US email to g...
View Full Coverage
Ron DeSantis signs law blocking local Florida governments from funding DEI
Florida governor says white men have been discriminated against in new effort to challenge inclusion programsFlorida governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesda...
View Full Coverage
Prediction site Kalshi fines three US candidates who bet on own elections
Disclosures come after firm tightened rules on insider trading, including candidates betting on own campaignsBefore he announced his Senate candidacy,...
View Full Coverage
What Trump’s Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity
On Tuesday, the president read from the Bible in a taped message. Religious scholars were not impressedThis was originally published in This Week in T...
View Full Coverage
Virginia’s victory good for Democrats but also shows Trump’s redistricting battle could be all for nothing
Democrats within reach of House majority after voters rebel against Republican gerrymanderingSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter ...
View Full Coverage
Georgia congressman David Scott dies aged 80
Scott, who represented Atlanta suburbs since 2003, had qualified to run for a 12th term before his deathDavid Scott, a Georgia congressman and moderat...
View Full Coverage
White House close to deal of up to $500m to rescue ailing Spirit Airlines
Rising costs have continued to plague the company, now facing soaring fuel costs due to the war with IranSign up for the Breaking News US email to get...
View Full Coverage
Anthony Fauci makes acting debut in Oedipus the King play reading in DC
Fauci was joined by actor Jesse Eisenberg and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer in reading for DC Climate WeekWhen Anthony Fauci put on a pair of sung...
View Full Coverage
Democrats demand FBI director, Kash Patel, take alcohol abuse test
Amid growing congressional scrutiny of his conduct, Patel has claimed he has ‘never been intoxicated on the job’US politics live – latest updatesHouse...
View Full Coverage
