USA Biden takes action on 'epidemic' of US gun violence US President Joe Biden has issued an executive order aimed at targeting homemade firearms, known as "ghost guns" 09/04/2021
France Conservative French MPs support ex-President Sarkozy after conviction A number of MPs from Sarkozy's Les Republicains party have expressed their "unwavering support" for the former president on social media. 01/03/2021
The Cube Crackdown urged on alleged misinformation on US television Two Democratic members of the US Congress have urged a dozen cable, satellite, and streaming TV companies to crack down on health and political misinformation. 23/02/2021
USA Democrats plan vote on ousting Marjorie Taylor Greene from panels The US House will vote on whether to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committees over the Republican's embrace of conspiracy theories and violent racist views. 03/02/2021
USA Republicans push to delay Trump's impeachment trial until February House Democrats have already voted to impeach Trump for a second time over charges he incited the assault by his supporters on the US Capitol building which left five people dead. 22/01/2021
USA 'Just move on': US Republicans grapple with post-Trump future With Democrats in control of the White House and Congress, Republicans face profound questions about what the party stands for without Donald Trump in charge. 21/01/2021
USA US House vote to override Donald Trump's defence bill veto If the Senate votes along a similar line to the House, this could mark the first veto override of Donald Trump's presidency. 29/12/2020
USA Bush congratulates Biden as Republicans silent on election outcome Former US President George W Bush said the election outcome was "clear" while Trump refused to concede. 08/11/2020
USA US voter turnout overseas could soar as ballot demands increase Many organisations that help US voters say that they are seeing more engagement and more ballot registrations this election cycle. Historically, turnout among Americans abroad has been low despite there being 2.8 million eligible voters. 20/10/2020
USA US President Trump nominates anti-abortion judge to Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett has described abortion as "always immoral". The Republican-dominated Senate is planning to confirm her and the Democrats are powerless to stop it. 26/09/2020
USA GOP convention: Republicans pitch optimistic future under Trump On the first day of the Republican convention, Donald Trump's allies issued stark warnings about the election - and made an array of misleading claims. 25/08/2020
View Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trump's speech is the tipping point Democrats need ǀ View Why was Pelosi so angry? Maybe it was the fact that Trump is totally getting away with undermining the election. Or maybe it was all the lying. 06/02/2020
USA Donald Trump acquitted in Senate impeachment trial The vote in the US Senate fell largely along partisan lines between Democrats and Republicans. 05/02/2020
USA How will Super Tuesday decide who faces Donald Trump in US election? It's Super Tuesday — the biggest day in the Democratic primary calendar, when 14 states vote to decide who will face off against Donald Trump. 03/02/2020
View Securing John Bolton's impeachment testimony is only half the battle for Democrats ǀ View The Senate majority leader is likely to insist on Clinton-era rules limiting Democrats to a one-day deposition. Here's why no one should let that happen. 30/01/2020
USA Parties see big demographic changes despite overall static split After a tumultuous decade, the percentage of voters who identify as Republican or Democrat has remained stable, but there are big changes inside the numbers. 19/01/2020
View Regardless of who is president in 2020, climate change will be at the bottom of the US agenda ǀ View A second term for President Trump will entrench the “energy dominance” agenda. A new Democratic administration will likely bring a tour de force of federal executive action on climate policy through US domestic, foreign and trade policy. 09/01/2020
View Climate change became a burning issue in the 2010s, but also an opportunity ǀ View Over the same 10 years that the danger of global warming increased, addressing that danger went from being a political liability to being an economic opportunity. 30/12/2019
View There's a simple reason Republican men yell in all the impeachment hearings ǀ View GOP lawmakers have treated the hearings like Fox New segments, delivering loud, rambling monologues in a deliberate attempt to wear down participants and viewers. 12/12/2019
View Even local elections are now about Trump. That's bad for the GOP ǀ View Races for a seat on the Loudoun County, Va., Board of Supervisors don’t usually attract national media coverage. Juli Briskman changed that on Tuesday. The former government contractor won a seat on the nine-member board in Virginia’s fourth-most populous county. By Wednesday she had appeared on CNN 08/11/2019
View Mitt Romney's Trump criticism and House's Syria rebuke show growing cracks in the GOP ǀ View It’s long been an open secret in Washington that many of the career Republicans who fawn over President Donald Trump in public have nothing good to say about him in private. 22/10/2019
USA Crowd chants 'send her back' after Trump accused of racism The crowd at a re-election rally started chanting "send her back" after Trump doubled his attacks on Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar. 18/07/2019
USA Trump's first GOP presidential challenger emerges Bill Weld has become the first Republican to challenge Donald Trump for the party's 2020 presidential nomination. 15/02/2019
world news Watch: Trump announces deal to end US government shutdown US President Trump announced that a deal has been reached on legislation that would temporarily reopen the US government. 25/01/2019
USA US government shutdown set to continue as White House talks fail Donald Trump and congressional party leaders made no progress over resolving a federal shutdown that has left workers unpaid and sites closed. 03/01/2019
USA What path lies ahead for the US after the midterms? Democrats and Republicans are each claiming some success after the US midterm elections, but for both parties, serious challenges lie ahead. 07/11/2018
