US GAO documents array of costly problems as ICE pursues controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) and other federal agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity

Deference was deafening as US president rolled out red carpet for world’s biggest jailer of journalists – perhaps he was seeking tips One is an authoritarian who represses the media with a strong allergy to democratic elections. The other is head of the Chinese Communist party. Donald Trump welc

CNN senior reporter Betsy Klein gained access to the White House on 24 September, hours after a federal judge ruled against Donald Trump's media ban. The ban had barred reporters from CNN, MS Now and Politico from accessing the White House Continue reading...

“I don't think justice can be served until ICE is off our streets,” said Stella Carlson, witness to Alex Pretti's murder.

Dr Heidi Overton faces confirmation hearing weeks after standing behind Trump as he suggested shot could be ‘quite lethal’ Dr Heidi Overton, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has told senators the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is “safe and e

Reporters for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico said they were still being denied White House access after the ruling.

Chinese president’s proposals for lessening tensions come amid period of intense competition between the two countries over AI and trade Trump-Xi summit – latest updates Xi Jingping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the “Thucydides trap” that could put the US and

Xi arrived at the White House on Thursday morning ahead of major talks, which are expected to cover trade, AI, Taiwan and more In the first row in front of the leaders sit US vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her daughter Arabella, US secretary of s

US attorney general Todd Blanche says justice department will ask high court for help after lower court rejected policy The Trump administration will ask the US supreme court to allow it to deport immigrants to countries other than their own, the latest effort to seek approval for a controversial po

Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters The fossil fuel industry secured an estimated $190bn in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade after responding to Donald Trump’s pre-election call for major campaign donations, lea

A federal judge had ruled Trump administration must immediately return the outlets’ press passes and said ban likely unconstitutional Sign up for US Breaking News emails Yesterday evening, after briefly taking the case under consideration, a federal judge ordered the White House to temporarily res

Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal raise concerns in new letter about officials’ handling of Gautam Adani case The Trump administration is facing growing questions over its decision to abandon a fraud and bribery case against the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani after he promised to invest $10