Iowa Abandoned by mainstream Republicans for his racist rhetoric, the Iowa congressman finds himself in a nightmare situation Representative Steve King, of Iowa, speaks during a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in August 2019. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP This might actually be the year the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King loses re-election. King, the conservative […] More
Play Video 1:03 US president Donald Trump has visited the 200-year-old church near the White House that was set on fire as demonstrators clashed with police over the weekend. Beginning with James Madison, every person who has held the office of president has attended a service at St John’s Church. Law enforcement cleared protesters out […] More
Opinion Donald Trump Will Trump dispute the 2020 election results? His tweets this week suggest so Lawrence Douglas Trump’s attack on mail-in ballots raise the possibility that, if he loses in November, he would reject the validity of the vote ‘The president is defaming not an individual but the integrity of our electoral process.’ Photograph: […] More
Play Video 2:20 Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, has addressed the US as the country’s coronavirus death toll passes 100,000. The US has recorded more deaths from the disease than any other country, and almost three times as many as the second-ranking country, Britain, which has recorded more than 37,000 Covid-19 deaths. The grim […] More
The fight to vote US elections 2020 Revealed: conservative group fighting to restrict voting tied to powerful dark money network Honest Elections Project, part of network that pushed supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh, is now focusing on voting restrictions Read our full coverage of US voting rights Backed by a dark money group funded by […] More
R ichard Nixon had tapes. Hillary Clinton had emails. Joe Biden has an archive spanning 36 years in the US Senate. It’s a record of his thinking, on everything from criminal justice to the Iraq war, and it could offer rich pickings for reporters and Republican opposition researchers. The Biden senatorial papers comprise 1,875 boxes […] More
Donald Trump President rails against decision after his tweets on mail-in voting are marked with message: ‘Get the facts’ Some of Donald Trump’s tweets now feature a link highlighting false claims. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Twitter for the first time took action against a series of tweets by Donald Trump, labeling them with a warning sign […] More
Donald Trump has threatened to move the Republican party’s national convention from Charlotte, North Carolina, if the state is not able to commit to “full attendance” at the gathering despite Covid-19 restrictions. In a series of tweets on Monday morning. Trump said the state’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, was “still in Shutdown mood & unable […] More
