US politics

Psaki: Biden will not invoke executive privilege to block access to Capitol riot records – live

Psaki’s comments come one day after House select committee investigating insurrection issued subpoenas to four former Trump aides

Joan E Greve

24, Sep, 2021 @8:14 PM

‘Treated like animals’: Julián Castro condemns Biden over humanitarian crisis at US border

Democrat says denying rights of Haitian people to claim asylum contradicts Biden’s promises to reverse ‘Trump’s cruelty’

Ed Pilkington in New York

24, Sep, 2021 @6:00 PM

House Democrats vote to establish federal right to abortion

Women’s Health and Protection Act is part of strategy to push back against rush of state laws but unlikely to advance in Senate

Lauren Gambino in Washington

24, Sep, 2021 @4:31 PM

It’s been easy to forget about Trump, but rightwing America has yet to shake him off | Emma Brockes

The former president’s conspiracy theories have found a sympathetic audience on the internet, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes

24, Sep, 2021 @2:21 PM

Arizona Republican ‘audit’ finds even bigger lead for Biden in 2020 election

Hand count of the 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa county found that Biden actually won 360 more votes over Trump than was reported

Sam Levine and Oliver Milman

24, Sep, 2021 @1:40 PM

Football great Herschel Walker’s anger is a perfect fit for modern US politics

The former running back’s US senate run seems like a flight of fancy but more frivolous candidates have achieved high office

Andrew Lawrence

24, Sep, 2021 @9:00 AM

New York City delivery workers win rights to better tips, bathrooms and more

A package of bills targeting app-based companies such as Grubhub and Doordash will also set minimum pay

Kari Paul

24, Sep, 2021 @1:14 AM

CDC experts advise third dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine for over-65s and high risk Americans - as it happened

An FDA panel yesterday also approved the booster shots for the same two groups

Maanvi Singh (now) and Joan E Greve (earlier)

24, Sep, 2021 @12:02 AM

House committee on Capitol attack subpoenas Trump’s ex-chief of staff and other top aides

Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon and Dan Scavino among advisers called to testify over president’s connection to 6 January events

Hugo Lowell in Washington DC

23, Sep, 2021 @11:48 PM

Men on horses chasing Black asylum-seekers? Sadly, America has a precedent | Moustafa Bayoumi

The Biden administration has condemned abuses at the border – while maintaining the policies underlying these abuses. That’s beyond cynical

Moustafa Bayoumi

23, Sep, 2021 @10:22 AM

Boris Johnson will return from US energised despite achieving little

Analysis: tangible gains were hard to come by but PM will have enjoyed the up close and personal politics

Heather Stewart Political editor

23, Sep, 2021 @7:27 AM

GOP plan to block House measure could trigger an unprecedented $28tn default

Opposition from Mitch McConnell means the spending package is dead and the US faces a shutdown and default