The decision marks a U-turn for Trump, who said days ago that he was ‘not looking for a deal’ to scrap the tariffs – key US politics stories from Sunday 25 May 2025 Donald Trump will delay his threatened 50% tariffs on all European Union imports into the US, after…
Proposal would move security under judges’ control as justice department has vowed loyalty to Trump Federal judges are discussing a proposal that would shift the armed security personnel responsible for their safety away from the Department of Justice (DoJ) and under their own control, as fears mount that the Trump…
Prominent senators warn Trump to ‘get serious’ about addressing budget deficit or they will block ‘beautiful bill’ Donald Trump has been warned by fiscal hawks within his own party in the US Senate that he must “get serious” about cutting government spending and reducing the national debt or else they…
Leslie O’Neal of Georgia pulled over college student who then spent more than two weeks in federal immigration jail A Georgia police officer has resigned from his job after erroneously pulling over a teenager, causing her to spend more than two weeks in a federal immigration jail, and leaving her…
Institutions in Los Angeles and beyond have seen millions in grants wiped away almost overnight. What happens when they can’t tell their stories? For the past two years, a small arts non-profit has been telling stories about the communities living alongside the Los Angeles river, one voice at a time.…
NGO shelters along US-Mexico border, which have long provided aid, rattled by letter from Fema The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to non-governmental shelters along the US-Mexico border after previously telling those same organizations that providing immigrants with temporary housing and other…
The president’s billionaire backer was ever-present at the start of Trump’s term but is now pulling back from politics – and Republicans want to keep it that way The Oval Office was crowded, with reporters cautioned not to collide with the Resolute Desk. Standing beside them, dressed in black, was…
Unlike autocracies such as Russia or China, the US has strong liberal guardrails to prevent a dictatorship. But Trump has a plan for dismantling them There is some mystery surrounding Donald Trump’s moves to dismantle many cherished principles of American history and its culture of governance: his globalization denialism; his…
It grew out of a Google Doc, and now has millions of US members – what’s the secret of Indivisible’s success? After the biggest day of protest of the second Trump presidency, when millions of people rallied in more than 1,300 cities and towns across the country, Ezra Levin addressed…
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent There is a stereotype that the natural political activists in academia are the humanities professors: literary scholars, social theorists and critics of culture are the ones who speak…
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson issue a stinging verdict on a cover-up that may have cost Democrats the 2024 election Joe Biden mistook his victory in 2020 for a sweeping, FDR-like mandate. Officially, that was before age and decay caught up. Horrifically, for Democrats, in June 2024 a debacle of…
Short shrift for Trump’s ‘50% tariff’ outburst; thousands of Americans want to become British for good – key US politics stories from Saturday 24 May at a glance As he continued his on-again, off-again tariff war with much of the world, Donald Trump went on social media to complain that…
Thomas Barrack also stresses temporary lifting of sanctions for first time since 1979 after meeting with Ahmed al-Sharaa Donald Trump’s old friend Thomas Barrack, now serving as the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, praised Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, after a meeting in Istanbul on Saturday.…
Judge says Guatemalan’s removal to Mexico, despite fears of being harmed there, ‘lacked any semblance of due process’ A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday night to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico, in spite of his fears of being harmed there, and…
US president pans previous administrations for fighting foreign wars and ‘wasting our time, money and souls’ Donald Trump told graduating West Point military academy cadets on Saturday that they were entering the officer corps at a “defining moment in the army’s history”, in a commencement address that included political attacks…
Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested him Authorities wrestled a US-born citizen to the ground, cuffed him and dismissed his so-called Real ID as “fake” during an arrest operation targeting undocumented people on Wednesday under the direction of the Trump administration, according…
Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwards A vacation lodge known as the Wagon Box Inn in the tiny town of Story, Wyoming, has emerged as an unlikely hub of rightwing ambitions to reorient US politics and culture. Events held…
Nearly 2,000 applications for British citizenship submitted since since January, when Donald Trump took office During the 12 months leading up to March, more than 6,000 US citizens have applied to either become British subjects or to live and work in the country indefinitely – the highest number since comparable…
Coming changes at the state department follow pattern of moving resources away from programs that focus on preventing far-right violence US state department employees recently opened up their emails to find a PDF to their new “style guide”, which dictates what language and terminology they can and can’t use. According…
Bill will make permanent huge tax cuts to the wealthy and cost the government $4.6tn over the next 10 years Republicans in Congress are trying to pass a new tax and spending bill that may end up being a “big, beautiful bill” – but mostly for wealthy Americans. With majorities…