17 hours ago By Anthony Zurcher, @awzurcher, North America correspondent BBC Donald Trump took the stage on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention like a conquering hero. He had cheated death. His…
US President Joe Biden is looking forward to “getting back on the campaign trail next week”, fortifying his commitment to stick in the race as more Democrats on Friday called…
5 hours ago By Regan Morris, BBC News, reporting from Anaheim, California Reuters Cynthia “Cyn” Carranza meticulously scavenged for a shady parking spot in the car she called home. The overnight custodian…
A judge in New York has set a tentative retrial date for Harvey Weinstein for 12 November after the disgraced film mogul’s rape conviction was overturned in April. New York…
US journalist Evan Gershkovich has been found guilty of espionage by a Russian court and sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony, after a secretive trial decried as…
1 day ago By Sarah Smith, North America editor, at the Republican convention in Milwaukee Donald Trump’s elusive wife Melania has appeared in public for the first time since the former president…
Everyone wants Joe Biden gone. Even the people who don’t want him gone really want him gone. “Everyone’s waiting for Joe,” said one top Democrat. “And he’s sitting at home,…
Four years ago the Republican convention was a bizarre spectacle, a cross between a Napoleonic fantasy and a Leni Riefenstahl movie. The dominant image was of an imperial dynasty laying…
The six days that carried Donald Trump from the stage in Butler, Pa., to the rostrum at the Republican National Convention seemed at times like the buildup to a moment…
Can Trumpism outlast Donald Trump? The selection of Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate suggests that the answer is yes. Even the most successful political parties are…