Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentagon defense board raises conflict of interest concerns By installing the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to advisory roles in a Pentagon project about the future of warfare, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, bestowed e

A woman convicted of murdering a schoolmate 30 years ago has been taken to hospital after surviving two rounds of lethal injections in Tennessee. Christa Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in the state in 200 years. Pike, 50, has spent three decades on death row after she was convic

Ministers discuss drawing down EU countries’ reserves after Donald Trump threatens to cut off US supplies Britain is in talks with European allies over releasing emergency diesel stockpiles after Donald Trump threatened to cut off US supplies of the fuel. Ministers held calls with counterparts fro

Wife and brother of Minneapolis woman killed in immigration crackdown allege wrongful death The family of Renee Good, the woman killed by immigration agents in January in Minneapolis, filed two federal lawsuits against the agent who shot her and several top officials in the Trump administration on T

In a letter, they demanded that Washington commit to recognizing the certified election results.

President also doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterms and deflects responsibility for Iran war US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump deflected responsibility for misleading Americans about the length of the Iran war, dismissed low poll ratings as “fake numbers

House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for president’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’ The Trump administration is facing growing questions over whether it illegally used taxpayer money to air television ads promoting Donald Trump five weeks before the US midterm

Network was listed as primary TV pool covering Thursday’s presidential activities but then was abruptly removed For a second time in a week, the White House has unilaterally removed CNN from its assignment as the primary television pool representative covering Donald Trump. CNN was excluded on Sat

Administration says increased immigration enforcement led to fewer homicides, but they have been on the decline since Joe Biden’s term Over the last year and a half, the US has seen a historic drop in homicides. Researchers and reporters are still puzzling through the complex set of reasons why -

As the midterms approach, Americans’ digestive health has become a bizarre talking point Donald Trump seems to spend an unusual amount of time thinking about toilets. Back in 2019, he bizarrely claimed : “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once.” He repeated this clai

Democracy Now! 's Amy Goodman is in Berlin, Germany, this week, where the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech is shaped by the German policy of Staatsräson , or “reason of state.” The concept refers to Germany's commitment to the existence of the Israeli state in light of the Holo

Kyiv’s long-range strikes are headache for Trump before crucial midterms, while analysts’ claim war in Iran is responsible for rising prices Europe live – latest updates Ukraine is pressing on with strikes on Russian oil refineries, defying Donald Trump, who blames the attacks for exacerbating