Republicans

Fox and friends confront billion-dollar US lawsuits over election fraud claims

Rightwing networks Fox News, OAN and Newsmax could be found liable in cases brought by voting machine company Dominion

Adam Gabbatt in New York

04, Jul, 2022 @7:30 AM

Next up: voting rights, as US supreme court set to tear up more protections

The ideologically driven conservative majority is likely to further weaken key civil rights legislation after a term of radical rulings

Sam Levine

03, Jul, 2022 @9:00 AM

As Trump’s star wanes, another rises: could Ron DeSantis be the new Maga bearer?

With the January 6 hearings chipping away at the former president’s image, the Republican Florida governor is quietly working to turn the tide in his favor

David Smith in Sarasota, Florida

03, Jul, 2022 @6:00 AM

Incendiary Republican ads boasting of ‘hunting’ rivals raise fears of violence

Ads like Greitens’ in which he says ‘get a Rino hunting permit’ could lead people to rationalize acts of violence, experts warn

Eric Berger

02, Jul, 2022 @10:00 AM

Mark Meadows’ associate threatened ex-White House aide before her testimony

It was the second warning Cassidy Hutchinson had received before her deposition, cautioning her against cooperating with the panel

Hugo Lowell in Washington and Martin Pengelly in New York

01, Jul, 2022 @3:32 PM

Utah Republican apologises for saying women can control ‘intake of semen’

Karianne Lisonbee, a state representative, made remark as conservatives celebrated US supreme court abortion ruling

Victoria Bekiempis in New York

01, Jul, 2022 @1:16 PM

‘Truth matters’: Liz Cheney lambasts Trump-backed rival in Wyoming debate

Republican vice-chair of January 6 committee, trailing in primary, challenges Harriet Hageman to say 2020 election was not stolen

Martin Pengelly in New York

01, Jul, 2022 @12:03 PM

Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in to supreme court after ruling deals blow to climate crisis – as it happened

Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes first Black woman in US history to sit on the nation’s highest court

Lauren Gambino

30, Jun, 2022 @8:09 PM

A quarter of Americans open to taking up arms against government, poll says

Survey of 1,000 registered US voters also reveals that most Americans agree government is ‘corrupt and rigged’

Victoria Bekiempis

30, Jun, 2022 @3:48 PM

Liz Cheney calls Trump ‘a domestic threat we have never faced before’

Vice-chair of January 6 committee tells fellow Republicans it is impossible to be loyal to both Trump and the US constitution

David Smith Washington bureau chief

30, Jun, 2022 @3:32 PM

Kinzinger slams fellow Republican Boebert and warns of ‘Christian Taliban’

Adam Kinzinger says ‘no difference between this and the Taliban’ after Lauren Boebert’s call to end separation of church and state