The US Capitol in Washington DC was placed on lockdown on Friday, with staff told to “seek cover” amid reports of an “external security threat”. News organisations reported emergency vehicles at the scene with one person at least seen on a stretcher. One
A Republican lawyer who advised Donald Trump on his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results is now playing a central role coordinating the Republican effort to tighten voting laws around the country. The moves comes as Trump himself signaled his support for new
Just days after signing the $1.9tn coronavirus relief package into law, Joe Biden was on the road selling the benefits of the bill to the American people – and also to his own party’s political prospects. The president kicked off his “Help is Here”
Joe Biden is allegedly mulling the first federal tax hike since 1993 to reboot the American economy and pay-off the costs of future programmes at the same time. The US president is due to propose spending more than the $1.9 trillion (£1.36 trillion
As Texas struggled on Thursday with a disastrous lack of power, food and water following the deadly storm that brought Arctic temperatures to the southern US, the state’s Republican leadership stood battered by a growing outcry over mismanagement of the power grid and
Five Senate Republicans voted with the Democrats on Saturday, that the Senate should call witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. The surprise vote, which was likely to stall a trial which had been expected to end in acquittal on Saturday, came
A Republican congressman has called on Senate colleagues to convict Donald Trump, or see more violent acts carried out by the one-term president’s supporters. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican in the House of Representatives, warned in an op-ed on Monday that the second
The United States has administered an average of 1.3 million Covid-19 vaccine doses per day in the last week, as cases and hospitalisations continue to decline across the country. “We are on track to meet the president’s goal of 100 million shots in 100
A retrospective of the work of Patrick Kelly, the black fashion designer who confronted racist stereotypes, will be staged in the autumn. Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love will open at San Francisco’s de Young Museum on 23 October, celebrating his short but hugely influential
The soldiers, from Fort Bliss in Texas, were on a 10-day field exercise. In a statement the US military confirmed the soldiers were suffering from “ethylene glycol”, usually called antifreeze, poisoning. It said: “Initial reports indicate soldiers consumed this substance, thinking they
