Category: The Guardian

Roots of the crisis go back to Reagan but Musk’s Doge team accused of making things worse – can it be fixed? Twice in the past two weeks, communications between air traffic controllers and airplanes at Newark Liberty, one of the US’s busiest airports, have failed – leaving controllers unable to communicate with pilots. The […]

The Oscar-nominated actor talks about her new role playing equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and why the Trump administration should be careful Patricia Clarkson, who portrays late equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter in a biopic released this week, has a wish. The Oscar-nominated actor hopes her fellow American women collectively withhold sex from their partners […]

Exasperated by turmoil dogging defense secretary, the White House will block his new choice, sources say – key US politics stories from 9 May 2025 at a glance Exasperated by the turmoil that has dogged Pete Hegseth’s office in recent weeks, the White House will block the US defense secretary’s choice of chief of staff […]

Exclusive: Jay Bratt, who led Mar-a-Lago case, first special prosecutor known to be summoned after Trump vows revenge The former special counsel prosecutor Jay Bratt is scheduled to appear before the Republican-led House judiciary committee next week as it attempts to find instances of politicization in the federal criminal cases brought against Donald Trump, according […]

PhD student Öztürk, arrested in March for political speech, released on Friday after federal judge’s ruling US politics live – latest updates Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech, has been released from the Louisiana detention center where she was being held in what she and her lawyers had […]

Pope Francis spoke for the most vulnerable, from Palestinians in Gaza to immigrants in the US. Let’s hope that Leo will follow in his footsteps America is back, baby. Not only has the Gulf of Mexico been successfully Americanized, the Vatican is now officially US territory. OK, fine, not officially, but, on Thursday, the Chicago-born […]

Top White House adviser Stephen Miller announces US president considering suspending writ of habeas corpus The Trump administration is considering suspending the writ of habeas corpus, the legal right to challenge one’s detention, Stephen Miller, a top White House adviser, said on Friday. “The constitution is clear, and that of course is the supreme law […]

Ras Baraka, who has spoken out against Trump’s immigration policies, was at the center with Democratic members of Congress US politics live – latest updates The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested for trespass at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in New Jersey on Friday as Democratic members of Congress also […]

Exclusive: The intervention to marginalize Ricky Buria is aimed at insulating the Pentagon from any more missteps Exasperated by the turmoil that has dogged Pete Hegseth’s office in recent weeks, the White House will block the US defense secretary’s choice of chief of staff and select a candidate of its own, according to two people […]

Landmark legislation follows local uproar over a Guardian investigation into a major non-profit’s high prices Indiana’s governor, Mike Braun, has signed a landmark bill that would strip charity hospitals of their non-profit status if they continue to charge high prices. The legislation, the first of its kind in the United States, followed uproar across the […]

Any Trump administration efforts to send non-Libyans to the north African country would violate a prior court order Immigrants in Texas who were told they would be deported to Libya sat on a military airfield tarmac for hours on Wednesday, unsure of what would happen next, an attorney for one of the men has said. […]

The president’s steady dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts has affected organizations across the US with more chaos set to continue On the afternoon of 3 May, arts organizations around the US began receiving cryptic emails from a previously unknown government email account. The missives declared that these organizations’ missions were no longer […]

Oscar nominee warns ‘truth itself is under revision’ while receiving award at Smithsonian American history museum Ava DuVernay, an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director, has urged artists and historians to hold the line against a “criminal” US president at a time when “truth itself is under revision”. DuVernay, whose films include Selma, which chronicles Martin Luther […]

Donald Trump has directed officials to grant refugee status to Afrikaners who he claims suffer discrimination The US has granted refugee status to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, who could arrive as soon as Monday in Washington DC, where they will be welcomed by government officials, according to media reports. Donald Trump suspended the US […]

Souter was a New Hampshire Republican who became a darling of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench Retired supreme court Justice David H Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a darling of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench, has died. He was 85. Souter died […]

Groups say plan to resume limited humanitarian assistance under strict Israeli rules ‘risks enabling war crimes’ US politics live – latest updates Aid groups have voiced alarm at US moves to pressure them into accepting an Israeli proposal to resume limited humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory under strictly controlled conditions. The Trump administration has […]

First woman and first African American to hold post dismissed in terse email on Thursday night US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump abruptly fired the librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the Republican US president and his […]

Fifty-six percent of Americans said they disapprove of Trump’s approach to higher education, while about four in 10 express approval in new AP poll Donald Trump said he would be “OK” if Republicans in Congress raised the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans, but warned of political consequences. He wrote on his Truth Social platform: […]

Asked about his tariffs’ impact, the president has repeatedly pointed to dolls – because they’re seen as feminine, childlike and frivolous Donald Trump has found a new target for his trademark mockery and dismissal: little girls. In comments at a 30 April cabinet meeting, the president seemed to dismiss the economic impact of his chaotic […]

SEC filing revelations raise questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Trump and his administration Large institutional investors have massively increased their holdings of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) in recent months according to SEC filings, with many enlarging their positions by hundreds of millions of dollars. The revelations raise further questions […]