America

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...

The artist who recreates photographs as monumental charcoal pictures is at his best among the world’s trouble spots

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

I tried to buy cheap healthy food in the US – but it’s impossible

The split between the president and the paedophile seems to be more complex and more transactional than it first appeared

After decades of benefiting from investment, Dublin now finds itself stranded - with plenty of problems and few friends - in a dangerous new world

Jess Glynne has publicly expressed her distaste at the video while Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have clarified that they do not endorse the use of their brand for government policy

The technology firms of Silicon Valley want people to make way for AI by giving up control. That couldn’t be further from the European view

An unashamed member of the educated liberal elite, he parlayed his wit and access into a career of TV interviews and debates

Artificial intelligence makes more and more of our decisions. But two examples show it remains untrustworthy – and sometimes downright bizarre

As Ozzy Osbourne bows out, rock’s other shock legend returns to his roots – and reminds us who did it first

The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better - and walked away from a fight not worth having

The singer left the most famous soul label in music history almost as quickly as she’d arrived

The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

Trump’s policies have reduced the desperate stream of people trying to reach the US through Central America to a trickle

The CBS presenter's departure comes days after he mocked a payout to Trump over a baseless libel claim

Astronomer’s CEO and his head of HR have been shamed by the world. Does the punishment fit the crime?

Trump’s supporters were promised revelations about a horrifying conspiracy. Instead, they’re getting denials and abuse from the president they helped elect

The president wants to fire the head of the US central bank. If he does manage to sack Jay Powell, the result could be disastrous

She witnessed extreme horror. The photographs she took and the words she wrote both made and broke her

He promised to end America’s wars abroad. Instead, he is starting one at home

Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage

They created fleshy bulbous mounds, glistening protuberances, dark orifices – beauty was never their aim

The president was quizzed by his own daughter-in-law for a Fox News interview which avoided hard questions

The techbro entrepreneur was worried that Grok, his AI system, was turning into a lefty, so he fiddled about to make it more right wing. The results were terrifying

The German-American went from a sniper to an academic with a reputation for sexual frankness

The chaos he inflicts on the world is perplexing, but his behaviour has clear patterns

A series of sycophantic interviews should serve the Treasury secretary well in his ambition to be chair of the Federal Reserve

The former chancellor was under consideration by Keir Starmer's team to be the UK ambassador to America, The New World can reveal

He might stop obsessing about building walls – and it might just improve his political philosophy