Senior Iranian officials say Washington has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has met his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for the first time in New York amid warnings from senior Iranian security officials that the US

State supreme court rules Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and says he ‘must refrain from further handling’ of ballots A Republican California sheriff must return more than a half-million ballots he seized for an investigation into unfounded voting improprieties in a special election last year,

US GAO documents array of costly problems as ICE pursues controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) and other federal agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity

Deference was deafening as US president rolled out red carpet for world’s biggest jailer of journalists – perhaps he was seeking tips One is an authoritarian who represses the media with a strong allergy to democratic elections. The other is head of the Chinese Communist party. Donald Trump welc

CNN senior reporter Betsy Klein gained access to the White House on 24 September, hours after a federal judge ruled against Donald Trump's media ban. The ban had barred reporters from CNN, MS Now and Politico from accessing the White House Continue reading...

Protest outside UN headquarters drew hundreds of people as Israeli prime minister prepared to speak As the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , prepared to deliver his speech at the UN headquarters in New York City on Thursday, hundreds of people blocked traffic on the streets outside, with

Man left bloodied and hurt after immigration enforcement agents tried to arrest him in Evanston, a Chicago suburb An eyewitness has described how two federal immigration agents allegedly beat and badly injured a US citizen in a botched arrest attempt in Illinois , and left the man dazed and bleeding

Increase comes after Fed decision to raise interest rates, as Americans struggle with high prices and stagnant wages US mortgage rates surpassed 7% for the first time since January 2025, according to federal lender Freddie Mac, aggravating a housing market that has endured years of high interest rat

Dr Heidi Overton faces confirmation hearing weeks after standing behind Trump as he suggested shot could be ‘quite lethal’ Dr Heidi Overton, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has told senators the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is “safe and e

The incident is the latest in a series of recent cases involving people entering or departing the US city’s sewer network Three unidentified people were seen emerging from a manhole in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood early Wednesday before fleeing the area, police said, in an incide

Democrats must show links of climate shocks to ‘kitchen table’ issues, California governor says It’s a mistake for Democratic politicians not to talk about climate change , and the reason they don’t is “because they don’t know how to talk about it”, the California governor, Gavin Newso

Chinese president’s proposals for lessening tensions come amid period of intense competition between the two countries over AI and trade Trump-Xi summit – latest updates Xi Jingping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the “Thucydides trap” that could put the US and