Pete Hegseth spent nearly six hours in front of the House Armed Services Committee defending the $25 billion Iran war, and the cracks showed every time lawmakers quoted him back to himself.
A Ukraine charity volunteer says Welsh Labour MP Steve Witherden lifted his plan to donate 40 unused NHS ventilators, then redirected them to Cuba. A standards complaint has been filed.
Allies say Donald Trump has privately called himself 'the most powerful person to ever live', comparing himself to Alexander the Great, Caesar and Napoleon. Here's what the reporting actually says, and why it matters for the UK.
JD Vance dismissed a report saying he was worried about America's depleting missile stockpile, then admitted on Fox News he was. The numbers behind the Iran war suggest he has every reason to be.
Pete Hegseth's bruising six-hour House Armed Services hearing on the Iran war was only the opening act. Thursday's Senate appearance, stacked with hostile Republicans and a personally aggrieved Mark Kelly, looks far more dangerous.
The US Justice Department has unveiled 34 rulemaking notices rolling back federal gun regulations, just as the Senate confirmed career agent Robert Cekada as the new ATF director.
James Comey has been indicted over a 2025 Instagram post of seashells arranged as '86 47', but legal experts say the First Amendment makes this a tough case for prosecutors to win.
Pete Hegseth was grilled by a House committee over how Iran's nuclear programme can be both an imminent threat and already 'obliterated' by Operation Midnight Hammer. Spoiler: it can't.
Donald Trump keeps losing his lawsuits against US media outlets, but courtroom defeats have done little to slow a wider campaign of pressure, settlements, and regulatory leverage aimed at the American press.
Labour is facing its toughest electoral challenge in London in 50 years as the Greens and Reform UK chip away at their traditional voter base.