America

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El Salvador has become an absolutist police state. Part prison camp, part Bitcoin Beach, it’s the perfect place for Trump to send all the people he doesn’t want in America

MAGA wants all-out war on the left after the shooting of the right wing commentator, Charlie Kirk. Will Trump oblige?

Flattering a vain bully is never appealing, yet doing so will secure £7billion when the economy needs it most

It is now impossible to keep up with major live events online. And when the truth does start to emerge, don’t always assume you’ll find it in the mainstream press

Charlie Kirk’s killing is part of a long and blood-soaked US tradition that is escalating in a climate of age and fear

His policies have had the effect of reducing both demand and supply, which is pushing the US towards the worst economic scenario of all: stagflation

The former chancellor was initially in the running to be the UK's ambassador to America. Is it about to be second time lucky?

Trump’s reaction to the murder of the conservative activist was to stoke division and threaten his enemies. He has the means to take political revenge – how far will it go?

Charlie Kirk's politics were not my own. But the least he and America deserve, on this blood-stained morning, is a moment of civility

He went on stage at Reform’s conference and spouted delusional nonsense. But for the hard-right party, being anti-vaxx is considered a badge of honour

Farage’s political gameplan has one key weakness that Starmer needs to exploit ruthlessly

At a hearing in DC, the leader of Reform said that he does not ban journalists from his party’s conference - just hours after his party banned The New World

For decades, US survivalists have warned about a future with troops on the street and plain-clothes goons disappearing the White House’s enemies. Now it’s all happening under Trump, they are silent

Seventy years after his fatal crash, a pilgrimage to the place where an actor died and a legend was born

Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is posing a health crisis in the US. But the Trump administration are happy to pretend it isn't happening

Right now, Xi Jinping is letting Trump do all the soft power heavy lifting for him

Questionable foreign deals, crypto gambles and putting the squeeze on media opponents have seen Donald Trump make $3.4 billion from the presidency. And he’s not finished yet

A new book sheds light on the growing gap between the US and the west. It’s time to prepare for the break-up

His desperation to follow in Barack Obama’s footsteps deepens day by day, unsolved war by unsolved war

Nuclear power may be essential for a future lunar base, but Nasa’s latest announcement looks more like a flag-planting contest than a serious mission plan

It’s a trivia quiz ‘fact’ that the game began as an anti-capitalist critique.. but the truth is even stranger than that

All a woman desperate for freedom could remember was how much she loved Mr MAGA. Is anyone surprised?

There’s only one way to stand up to superpowers such as the US and China, and to the authoritarian bullies like Putin

In the age of Trump and Vance, celebrity-led ‘Godcasts’ and prayer apps are pulling in millions, and liberal ‘New Atheism’ can’t match their energy – or offer of meaning

Only more centralisation can save the EU from fragmentation, irrelevance - and China

Thanks to Trump, the convicted sex offender is getting more consideration than her and Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ever did

The president’s eagerness to distort economic facts is a sure-fire way to follow Greece and Argentina into crisis

A belligerent and terrifyingly effective liar, Leavitt isn’t just Trump’s press secretary – she’s the very embodiment of his media strategy. But signs of strain are beginning to show...

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news