Middle East, Adm. Brad Cooper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine all met at the White House with Trump

The Department of Homeland Security asked an Icelandic hosting company to take down data obtained through hack

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked ⁠an Icelandic hosting company on Thursday to take down or limit access to data related to thousands ⁠of agency personnel, saying ⁠the content ​put them at risk, according to the request posted online by hosting company FlokiNET.

The database “places more than ⁠40,000 identifiable individuals at risk of harassment, stalking and physical harm”, the request said.

Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign allegedly collaborated with party operatives to confuse voters in midterms

The US justice department on Thursday is reported to have issued subpoenas in response to a report that the Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign collaborated with party operatives to get a challenger with the same name as the Republican senator Dan Sullivan on the midterm ballot.

ABC News and the Associated Press reported the subpoenas, citing sources familiar with the matter. The federal investigation comes a day after the New York Times found that the effort to recruit a second candidate named Dan Sullivan in the Senate race set to be decided on Tuesday was led by Peltola’s campaign, which had for months denied involvement.

US vice-president writes to top Iranian security official in sign Washington has not abandoned diplomacy

Hopes of averting a major new conflagration between Iran and the US soon after Tuesday’s midterm elections could rest on Iran’s response to a personal letter from the US vice-president, JD Vance, offering to restart diplomacy.

The letter, written after predominantly Qatari mediation, was sent to the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council, Mohsen Rezaei on Sunday. It requires Tehran to agree to make commitments on its nuclear programme at the start of a process that would lead to the opening of the strait of Hormuz within seven days in return for US sanctions relief.

Voters across Idaho will face an advisory question on the ballot, asking them to choose between six firearms, including a semi-automatic pistol and a rifle dubbed the ‘gun that won the west’

Barack Obama got into a tit-for-tat campaign-trail battle where Trump managed to nuke his own administration’s response. Reports say the president is living in a precarious fantasy world. Holly Baxter writes about a chaotic time in MAGA, where it’s unclear whether anyone is talking to ordinary Americans

Government workforce has shrunk to smallest number of employees since 2013, with Black workers disproportionately impacted by job cuts, according to a new analysis

At least nine of Trump’s 15 cabinet secretaries have been accused of violating the Hatch Act over the past few months, according to a report

Musician wrote a ‘love letter’ to Canada with a new album – and some pointed commentary about the US president

Lake Ontario, the vast body of water that straddles the US-Canada border, has gone by many names over the centuries: Lac Saint-Louis, Lacus Ontarius, Skaniadorio, Cataraqui Lake. But one thing it will never be called, says the Canadian rock star Bryan Adams, is Lake America.

In his new song Lake Ontario, Adams takes aim at the US president, Donald Trump, accusing him of “breaking the peace” between the people who live on the lake’s shores.

The ‘lake of shining waters’ is what the Iroquois called her

It’s a First Nations name – not an executive order.

But things weren’t going his way in Iran

So like a baby tossing the toys from the pram

You can push us to the brink

But where the open road divides

Top administration officials now say that the proposed monument is a ‘generational national defense opportunity’

Nicholas Enrich tried to warn that shutting down America’s primary aid agency would lead to preventable deaths – he tells Liz Cookman that the destruction of USAID has seen the US ‘walk away from our role as a leader in global health’

Military investigators are in touch with their French counterparts about a cyberattack that crippled supermarkets there

She’s not the first Trump Cabinet official to face scrutiny over spending on office revamps

Trump and Vance are in the midst of a MAGA midterms blitz to boost voter turnout as the Republicans look set for a difficult Election Day

‘They mobilized a whole-of-government response to that joke! Not to inflation, but to that joke,’ Obama remarked about the Trump administration’s response to his joke

Democrat Annie Andrews neck-and-neck with Republican incumbent, Darline Graham, sister to Lindsey Graham

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A US Senate race in one of the most Republican states in the country is now a dead heat, according to a new poll showing Annie Andrews, a Democrat, tied with Darline Graham, the Republican incumbent senator.

South Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1998, and Donald Trump won it by nearly 18 points in 2024, but a New York Times/Siena poll this week has the two candidates neck and neck, at 48% each.

Ramaswamy said during a campaign appearance in Vandalia, Ohio, on Thursday that the ad’s planned run was over

Ramaswamy said during a campaign appearance in Vandalia, Ohio, on Thursday that the ad’s planned run was over

‘It is going to take people of high moral character to hold the line between doing what they’re told and doing what is right and lawful,’ one former official said

Trump’s devoted special assistant has reportedly abandoned the desk where she usually sits outside of the Oval Office