Louise Callaghan

A tiny proportion — living in swing states and yet to make up their minds — the power to sway the result. We visit four key areas to see what they’ll do with it

PM plays down influence from Washington as Biden hopes strikes on Iran mark the end of escalation

From secret voters who helped Trump in Georgia to the importance of abortion rights at the ballot box, here are our writers’ main takeaways

The president-elect has threatened to remove all 20 million people thought to be in America illegally. Tom Homan, the man expected to deliver, says he’ll send in troops

The president-elect’s supporters are savouring his controversial choices for the ‘disruptor era’, including a 27-year-old White House press secretary

They are poor, sick, jobless and trust no-one. But people in one of the most deprived parts of the US are putting their faith in a man who doesn’t believe in vaccines

The Wall Street investor Scott Bessent, an advocate of the America First agenda, caught the president-elect’s attention with a no-frills formula

For the firebrand Trump guru, beating ‘whining’ Democrats was just the beginning — at home and abroad

As desperate relatives crowd hospital corridors seeking their loved ones, some prisoners released from Assad’s notorious jails are so physically and psychologically traumatised they no longer know who they are

The new Islamist regime has pledged equality for all genders and religions, but c