Politics of the United States

Facebook parent Meta said Wednesday it will restore former President Donald Trump 's personal account in the coming weeks, ending a two-year suspension it imposed in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The company said in a blog post it is adding "new guardrails" to ensure there are no "repeat offenders" who violate its rules, even if they are political candidates or world leaders.

Classified documents have been found at former US Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home last week, The Hill reported on Tuesday citing officials.

At present, US President Joe Biden is also facing a surge in criticism over classified documents. The classified documents were found at Biden's Delaware home and his old office in Washington DC.

Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence 's Indiana residence last week, his lawyer says, the latest in a string of recoveries of papers meant to be treated with utmost sensitivity from the homes of current and former top U.S. officials.

Republican favorite Kevin McCarthy was named speaker of the US House of Representatives on Jan. 7 as he quelled a fierce rebellion among his party's ranks that had paralyzed the lower chamber of Congress for days.

Lawmakers probing the 2021 attack on the US Capitol subpoenaed former president Donald Trump on Oct. 21 to testify on his involvement in the violence, in a major escalation of their sprawling inquiry.

President Joe Biden charged in a prime-time address that the "extreme ideology" of Donald Trump and his adherents "threatens the very foundation of our republic," as he summoned Americans of all stripes to help counter what he sketched as dark forces within the Republican Party trying to subvert democracy.

Former US President Donald Trump has filed a request for the court to appoint an independent evaluation of the "top secret" documents seized from his Florida estate.

In this way, Trump is trying to avoid legal responsibility for having removed from the White House documents related to the national security of the United States.

Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he testified under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general's long-running civil investigation into his business dealings.

A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party's gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.

The US Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that Americans have a fundamental right to carry a handgun in public, a landmark decision with far-reaching implications for states and cities across the country confronting a surge in gun violence.