Canada leaders agree to unite against Trump tariff threat amid reports of retaliatory measures

Canada’s federal government and the premiers of the 10 provinces have agreed to work together against a threat by US president-elect Donald Trump to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian imports, with one official saying the country was already examining possible …

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Pete Hegseth to visit Capitol as details from 2017 sexual assault report emerge – live

Trump announces Pam Bondi as his choice to replace Matt Gaetz as attorney general Trump has announced his choice to replace Matt Gaetz as attorney general: the former Florida attorney general and one of Trump’s defence lawyers. In a statement …

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Mike Johnson reportedly opposes releasing results of Matt Gaetz misconduct investigation – live

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson opposes releasing ethics report on Gaetz – report Politico reports that the Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, said he is against the ethics committee releasing its report into drug use and sexual misconduct …

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Calls grow for release of ethics report into Matt Gaetz sexual misconduct claims – US politics live

Picking RFK Jr as health secretary is ‘courting catastrophe’, says rights group Maya Yang Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr as US secretary of health and human services has prompted widespread criticisms towards Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist who …

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US election briefing: Democrats pick through defeat with blame falling on Biden and economy

The Democratic party has begun to pick through Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, with the post-pandemic headwinds, a failure to distance herself from Joe Biden and overestimating abortion access instead of the economy as an …

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