America

It’s high noon for American democracy. Can the Supreme Court hold the line against MAGA’s madness?

A tangled drama involving Elon Musk, former Trump staffer Katie Miller and her husband Stephen is provoking Washington whispers

The president took to his own Truth Social platform to share his latest unhinged theory

His attempt to grab control of the internet is perhaps the biggest threat of all

Our continent runs on US tech. With Trump in the White House, that no longer feels safe – and plans are taking shape for a way out

Trump plays so often and is so obsessed with the game that his administration is now a golf course company with a government attached

Truly groundbreaking scientific discoveries may be on the decline – but it’s not because we’ve run out of big ideas

She had nowhere to hide but, as both documentary and book are at pains to point out, just because she wanted to be alone it did not necessarily mean she shunned personal contact

A Conservative peer has written to government ministers urging them to get behind a call for the US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize

The Russian president got exactly what he wanted out of the latest round of talks in Istanbul

The Japanese invasion of China, the D-day landings, the founding of Israel – no war was too small for Capa, no battlefield too bloody

Having saved the world numerous times on the big screen, could the star be tempted to sort out the world’s problems via political office?

The US has long led the science world but now, researchers are moving abroad to continue their work

It’s possible to feel the deepest sympathy for Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and still be appalled by the cover-up of his cognitive decline

Mocked for speaking English with a Clouseau-esque accent, Lufbery’s time in American fatigues saw him become a wartime legend

Why does MAGA hate Europe? Maybe they’ve just watched too many movies...

Scientists at the University of California claim to have created a new colour, called ‘olo’, which is outside the human visual spectrum

A Chicago restaurant has begun selling ‘The Leo’, a limited-edition sandwich dipped in gravy and topped with peppers, in honour of the new pope

First, he took over the social media platform – then the social media platform took over him

Keir Starmer has done the best he could at a relatively low cost, knowing Britain lacks the backing to fully stand up to Trump

A respected linguistic society has hit back at Donald Trump’s attempt to make the US a monolingual country

The creation of a genetically modified Ice Age wolf has sparked a scientific backlash over the politicisation of ‘de-extinction’

Loomer, rumoured to be Donald Trump’s girlfriend, is a hardcore right wing extremist. It’s a shame she’s also one of the most influential people in America

Russia and China’s superiority in the ‘High North’ could allow them to sever a key supply route between America and Europe

Donald Trump swore he would face down the world – then blinked first. His aura is damaged forever

Is it too much to hope that, eventually, Trump’s constant lying and backtracking will be enough to bring down his administration?

However his works might have been assembled and whatever dissembling he did when talking about his life, Jerzy Kosiński was a master storyteller

Is the increasing influence of American linguistic usages in Britain making us stiff-upper-lip types more ‘touchy-feely’?