America

Anything she releases is devoured by her millions of fans. But what, really, is she selling?

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

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

Aronofsky can miss the mark when he over-conceptualises. But this very entertaining gangland caper is infectious

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

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

A crime writer’s memoir goes from New Jersey to Venice via Iran and LA – and features an apology to her most famous character

A new film captures the awkward, brittle reality of late-life male companionship

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

Anti-vaccine lies mean the disease is now spreading in Britain, the US and around the world. And this is just the start

Ideologues don’t like science because it confronts them with truths they can’t dismiss. Donald Trump seems to think he has a workaround

New York in the 1980s was riven by disharmony, corruption and excess. Jonathan Mahler’s new book explains how the city forged a would-be dictator

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

Considering the battles that raged within her, perhaps the thing about the singer that commands most respect is not her genius, but her persistence

The woman who aided, abetted and abused alongside Jeffrey Epstein should be in prison until 2037 – at least. But as Trump allies flirt with pardons and political revenge, could she go free?

The Telegraph columnist, Tory peer and one-time Brain of Brexit appears to have turned against his former hero

Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch are at loggerheads - but both know how hard it is to disentangle oneself from Epstein and the Maxwells

The ambitious justice secretary is to meet JD Vance at his Oxfordshire summer retreat as Kemi Badenoch "couldn't make it work with schedules"

More than 100 journalists have taken redundancy at the Washington Post as the Amazon founder oversees the departure of its most experienced staff

The New York Times grudgingly backed Andrew Cuomo in a confused and confusing non-endorsement endorsement

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...

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