Katie Zacharia tells Guardian her first, widely panned, press briefing followed whirlwind sprint to appoint her to key role

Katie Zacharia describes herself as a lawyer but no public record shows she has been licensed in the US states where she resided

Insurers are withdrawing coverage for climate-driven risks and increasingly passing on losses to governments and homeowners, according to a report published by UK-based nonprofit Inside Track.

An assault-rifle manufacturer helped Collins land a job after a failed gubernatorial campaign. She later backed legislation shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.

Trump’s reform law that seeks to make coverage harder to get, and to keep, includes working 80 hours a month

In a recent visit to Greece, the secretary of state suggested that Europe must rediscover the values of conquest and expansion

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The first major Atlantic hurricane of 2026 threatens the Gulf Coast with a storm surge of up to 9 feet, damaging winds, flooding, and tornadoes, with impacts spreading across the Southeast on Saturday...

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

As early voting approaches, Third Act and other voting rights groups are taking action across the country to ensure that no American has to walk past armed federal agents to cast a ballot, or is other...

The NEO gas plant would drive more fracking of Ohio state parks, create enormous amounts of greenhouse gas pollution and particulate matter, and negatively impact fracking areas of Appalachian Ohio.

Experts say president is vulnerable amid discontent over rising prices

President Donald Trump received cheers and applause at a rally on Monday night when he spoke of California's two largest cities being taken out.

Sea levels along the West Coast will begin to rise by up to a foot this month as a series of pulses of warm water called Kelvin waves hit the shoreline and move north, sparking concerns about beach er...

Temperatures expected to hover around 100F in downtown LA and even hotter inland, raising concerns about wildfires

President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.

Senate Leadership Fund is redirecting ad spending from Michael Whatley’s campaign to support other candidates

Trump has figured out that he can force USPS into an all-purpose surveillance state by installing cameras.

Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska

Amid latest extraordinary attack on diversity, US defense secretary also suggests military is retaining service personnel at ‘record’ rates

Republicans 'brace for losing everything' as wipeout comes for heart of Trump country

These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign

President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office

David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

Millions of people face deadly climate-related disasters as international aid programs are slashed. Floods in Nepal on Aug. 26 killed over 1,400 people and left thousands missing.

A marvel of engineering and a model of sustainability, Bart has been financially distressed since the Covid pandemic