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      Trump news at a glance: anticipation high as clock ticks on release of all Epstein files

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      Latest batch includes photos of famous people in Epstein’s orbit, copies of foreign passports and screenshot of text messages – key US politics stories from 18 December 2025Files on the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, including documents on the investigation into his death in prison in 2019, are expected to be released on Friday after a lengthy political saga.The US Department of Justice must make all files related to its investigation into Epstein public by 19 December to comply with a legal deadline. Continue reading… More

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      ‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it

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      People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countriesGermán Pineda, 32, just wanted to go home.After his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June, Pineda, a Honduran immigrant, spent four miserable days in immigration detention at Federal Plaza in Manhattan, sleeping on a concrete floor without sufficient food or a shower. Next, he was transferred to a detention center in Brooklyn, where staff treated him like a criminal, he says, though he’d lived in the country, working as a delivery driver, for 14 years. He couldn’t even call home. Continue reading… More

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      Inside DoJ’s controversial prosecution of a Texas ‘antifa cell’ charged with terrorism

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      DoJ says a group of protesters at an ICE detention center was part of a terror cell; legal experts say case is an effort to crack down on leftwing groups and deter protestersAfter the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September, Donald Trump and others pledged a no-holds barred crackdown on leftwing activists.“We have radical left lunatics out there and we just have to beat the hell out of them,” Trump said after Kirk’s shooting. Top White House officials, including JD Vance and Stephen Miller, repeatedly publicly vowed that a crackdown was coming. In particular, the government focused on “antifa,”which is short for antifascist, and is not an organization but rather an ideology that broadly describes a variety of left-leaning beliefs. Continue reading… More

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      Ordinary Americans are fighting back against ICE: ‘We’re going to outlast them’

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      As Trump carries out his mass deportation operation, residents are banding together to block raids and distribute groceriesA year into his second term, Donald Trump’s pledge to stage the “largest deportation operation in American history” has already made an indelible mark on the nation.Nearly 300,000 people have been deported, and a record 65,000 people are being held in detention centers. Aggressive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, sometimes with the backing of federalized national guard units, have terrorized immigrant communities from Charlotte to Chicago, New Orleans to New York. Enabled by a supreme court ruling that “effectively legalized racial profiling”, immigration enforcement has separated families, forced targeted individuals to miss work, school and doctors appointments, and caused communities to cancel festivals and gatherings. Continue reading… More

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      US strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific kills four, as Trump accuses Venezuela of taking ‘our oil’

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      The announcement from Pete Hegseth comes a day after Trump issued a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving VenezuelaThe US military carried out a lethal strike on a vessel it said was engaged in drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific, according to defense secretary Pete Hegseth, as Trump further ratcheted up pressure on Venezuela, accusing the country of taking US oil.On Wednesday Hegseth said the “lethal kinetic strike” on a vessel engaged in “narco-trafficking operations” had killed four people. The latest strike in the Pacific brings the death toll to 99 since the US began its campaign of striking alleged drug-trafficking boats in September. Continue reading… More

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      US military says it carried out lethal strike on vessel in Pacific, killing four, as Trump addresses country – as it happened

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      This live blog is now closed. You can find more of our US politics coverage hereUS military carried out lethal strike on vessel in Pacific, killing four, says Pete HegsethThe Donald Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, will soon make his first appearance before Congress since sparking an uproar with comments seen as pressuring ABC to temporarily pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel from the air.ABC indefinitely suspended Kimmel’s show over statements he made following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which prompted Carr to say that he wanted broadcasters to “take action” on Kimmel, and: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Continue reading… More

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      US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67

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      Official response to lawsuit filed by victims’ relatives admits FAA and army failures played role in Washington DC crashThe US government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the army played a role in causing the collision in January between an airliner and a Black Hawk helicopter near the nation’s capital, killing 67 people in the deadliest crash on American soil in more than two decades.The official response to the first lawsuit filed by one of the victims’ families said that the government is liable in the crash partly because the air traffic controller violated procedures about when to rely on pilots to maintain visual separation that night. Plus, the filing said, the army helicopter pilots’ “failure to maintain vigilance so as to see and avoid” the airline jet makes the government liable. Continue reading… More