‘The government is lying to us’: Fear and resistance grip Minneapolis as families go into hidingA week after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, protesters fill the streets while immigrant communities stay homeSun Feb 01 2026 - 09:26
On the ground in Minneapolis: ‘Ice agents are like this invisible goon squad’ Two civilians have been shot dead but ordinary Americans - many from the very demographic that Trumpian’s ideology purports to uplift - continue to oppose the forces sent into their city by the presidentFri Jan 30 2026 - 07:21
Trump climbdown on Alex Pretti killing catches Homeland Security chief and Maga off guardPresident’s sudden switch of tone after latest killing by immigration agents in Minneapolis has exposed Republican Party cracks Wed Jan 28 2026 - 07:22
Trump sends ‘border tsar’ Tom Homan to Minnesota following Ice shooting State governor Tim Walz speaks to Donald Trump as US president says White House will ‘review everything’Mon Jan 26 2026 - 20:41
Minneapolis shooting: Trump says he is on a ‘similar wavelength’ with Minnesota governorRepublican senators join calls for fuller investigation Mon Jan 26 2026 - 15:09
Minneapolis shooting deepens US immigration crisis as federal accounts are challengedVideo evidence, political rhetoric and competing narratives collide after the death of Alex PrettiSun Jan 25 2026 - 09:45
Historic ice storm set to grip the US in more ways than one Gargantuan weather event seems like a providential opening to the country’s 250th year and a bleak political atmosphere that feels inescapable Sat Jan 24 2026 - 05:53
Rupture or kerfuffle? Trump’s display in the mad theatre of Davos has European heads in a spinIt may be premature to think the US-European bond has been severed by a president with a short attention span and plummeting domestic supportFri Jan 23 2026 - 06:38
Trump and Greenland: Nobody knows how far he will go with thisPresident uses rambling press briefing to vent his frustration at lack of public praise and approval for his year of accomplishmentWed Jan 21 2026 - 08:02
Keith Duggan: This might be Donald Trump’s last year as the only relevant player on stageThe US president is now 12 months into his second term, but this may be his last year as the only relevant player on stageTue Jan 20 2026 - 07:36
‘It’s all very fragile’: Trump’s second year opens with chaos at home and abroad Epstein’s shadow, street violence and foreign gambits haunt Trump’s AmericaFri Jan 16 2026 - 07:15
Jerome Powell stands his ground amid Trump’s attack on Federal Reserve Republican lawmakers break ranks with Trump, affirming Fed chair’s leadership and independence Tue Jan 13 2026 - 16:45
A €120 dinner for two in Beijing, Berlin, Damascus and Odesa? Our correspondents couldn’t spend their moneyFrom shrimp skin in Beijing to chicken livers in Syria and cherry schnapps in Berlin, the quality and value available in other countries are strikingSat Jan 03 2026 - 05:00
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan: ‘It’s an absolute dream to travel in the US’January will mark the 10th anniversary of the Kerry reporter’s decision to move from Dublin to New York, and five years since his reporting on the Capitol Hill riotsSun Dec 28 2025 - 06:00
What’s the best meal Keith Duggan can get for €120 in Washington?Our Washington correspondent likes to keep things real with a meal at his favourite bookstoreSun Dec 28 2025 - 05:00
‘He’s supposed to be president’: Minneapolis reacts to Trump comments After a tough few years, Minneapolis was in the news again when Donald Trump launched a savage verbal attack on the Somali communitySat Dec 20 2025 - 06:00
Irish grandmother Donna Hughes-Brown to be released from US custody Green card holder arrested and detained by immigration agents for cheque offence over a decade agoThu Dec 18 2025 - 20:05
Trump’s primetime address rings with frustration as he insists the golden age has already arrivedIt may have occurred to him as he spoke, as well as to millions watching, that the US president has another three years left in officeThu Dec 18 2025 - 07:04
If it’s closing time for Jimmy’s Corner, then it’s last orders for New YorkIf the property titans who run the city have no room for this famous beat-up bar, then what is left?Sun Dec 14 2025 - 06:00
‘I’m the one he fears’: Texas Democrat’s audacious political move against TrumpWith a viral campaign launch and a promise to take the fight to the US president, the Texas congresswoman enters a high-stakes race that could reshape the balance of power in WashingtonFri Dec 12 2025 - 07:57
Case of Irish grandmother (58) detained by ICE to be reviewed by Trump’s homeland security chiefUS Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem agrees to examine case of Donna Hughes-Brown who was detained in JulyThu Dec 11 2025 - 18:47
Trump hits the road again with a rally caught between past battles and future anxietiesUS president relives old battles and old glories on low-wattage return to the road in PennsylvaniaWed Dec 10 2025 - 07:13
Netflix’s purchase of Warner Bros is a dismal moment that could have far-reaching consequencesThe story of the American 20th century is easily traceable through the films of Hollywood studios, and Warners was the leading lightSat Dec 06 2025 - 04:55
Trump, Infantino and the YMCA: World Cup draw at once unwatchable and mesmerisingWorld Cup draw was for tournament to be jointly hosted by the United States, Canada and MexicoFri Dec 05 2025 - 21:47
In an extraordinary monologue, Trump seems to rule himself out of run for third termAfter months of teasing the idea of a third term run, ageing US president seems to rule himself outFri Dec 05 2025 - 07:08
Focus turns to ‘fog of war’ Pete Hegseth over US missile strike on Venezuelan boatDefence secretary robustly defends attack on alleged gunboat, as Democrats lambast ‘unserious and unqualified individual’Wed Dec 03 2025 - 07:20
Trump now facing same scrutiny of ageism that proved catastrophic for BidenUS president’s health comes under spotlight, as president hails ‘eternity’ of three years leftTue Dec 02 2025 - 07:30
Jazz in the air, trouble on the horizon: New Orleans braces for an unwelcome arrivalIce agents are set to move into the city in a concerted sweep of immigration enforcement, with the aim of removing some 5,000 undocumented peopleSun Nov 30 2025 - 07:00
Washington shootings: Trump says one of the National Guard members has diedGunman who critically injured two guardsmen in Washington, DC, is identified as being from AfghanistanThu Nov 27 2025 - 19:00
Trump uses White House ceremony to pardon a turkey and call a governor ‘a big fat slob’ US president uses annual White House ceremony to pardon a turkey and call the Illinois governor ‘a big fat slob’Wed Nov 26 2025 - 07:15
Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump enjoy New Yorker bromance at White HouseNew York mayor-elect’s love-in with president is followed by news that Trump critic Marjorie Taylor Greene is to resign from CongressSat Nov 22 2025 - 08:01
If Musk is right that work will soon be optional, Trump’s sales pitch to voters is doomedThe US president’s political renaissance was partly based on his ability to sell to Americans the vision of a returning blue-collar prosperitySat Nov 22 2025 - 06:00
Amid ominous polls, Republicans start to express dissent towards Trump for the first timeA comment about the military has sharpened anxiety about what the future holds for the USFri Nov 21 2025 - 06:34
‘She’s been degraded’: A man’s battle in Washington to free his Irish wife from Ice detentionJim Brown tells representatives about the plight of his wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, who has been detained since July after returning from Ireland Thu Nov 20 2025 - 09:21
Donald Trump the storyteller no longer has full control of the narrativeAnother extraordinary scene in the Oval Office saw the US president take exception to a question directed at Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin SalmanWed Nov 19 2025 - 06:48
Donald Trump feuds with once ally Marjorie Taylor Greene ahead of Epstein voteTaylor Greene has defected from Trump on everything from US foreign policy to inflation to the ongoing Epstein files sagaSun Nov 16 2025 - 13:13
Donald Trump may yet make his mark on the NFL after decades out in the coldAmerican football is another strand of elite American society that has refused to permit Trump into its inner circleSat Nov 15 2025 - 05:00
Epstein files: Trump taunted from beyond the graveRepublicans who have contorted themselves into whatever shape requested by the president are beginning to think about the post-Trump eraFri Nov 14 2025 - 13:59
Democratic fumble hands shutdown victory to Trump despite a wave of boos from NFL fans Despite being seemingly caught off-guard by a wave of boos, the US president went almost straight back to declaring his winsTue Nov 11 2025 - 19:38
Democratic cave-in to avert US shutdown may lead to a changing of guard within the partyDemocratic cave-in may lead to a substantial change of the old-guard leadershipMon Nov 10 2025 - 19:26
The Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy 50 years on: ‘The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead’The Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck – and inspiration for Gordon Lightfoot’s chilling ballad – still resonates: a tale of courage, loss and the haunting pull of the inland seasSun Nov 09 2025 - 06:00
Say Nothing breakout star Lola Petticrew: ‘New York is beautiful. But it’s not quite Belfast’The plainspoken west Belfast actor on their love of Ballymurphy, ongoing intergenerational trauma in the North, and why they refuse to just ‘shut up, smile, wave and wear pretty clothes’Sat Nov 08 2025 - 06:00
Zohran Mamdani win leaves New York’s financial elite facing life under a ‘Marxist’ mayorMamdani tapped into people’s desperation for change but now has to convince the business class he is more than a charismatic noviceFri Nov 07 2025 - 06:43
After fairytale in New York, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani starts a new chapterCity’s rising star and mayore-elect may reflect a shifting mood among the electorateWed Nov 05 2025 - 20:45
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani issues challenge to Donald Trump after stunning winDemocratic Socialist (34) achieves ‘one of the great US political upsets’, as Democrats post governor wins in New Jersey and VirginiaWed Nov 05 2025 - 06:40
Dick Cheney was the most influential and consequential US vice-president in living memoryThe architect-in-chief of America’s ‘war on terror’ was later vilified for relentlessly hawkish foreign policyTue Nov 04 2025 - 18:15
Obama’s star turn before crucial votes laid bare Democrats’ talent shortageAs millions head to the polls, former US president’s oratory skills reminded his party of a brighter pastTue Nov 04 2025 - 06:00
More than 50 years on, The Exorcist still possesses the United StatesUS Letter: Scenes were filmed in Washington DC, where the 1973 movie is celebrated to this daySat Nov 01 2025 - 05:00
Who is Zohran Mamdani?The one-time aspiring rapper has crafted an ingenious campaign for a manifesto based on universal fairnessFri Oct 31 2025 - 14:00
‘She is slowly breaking down’: Irish grandmother detained in US has deportation hearing delayed until DecemberDonna Hughes-Brown (58) has been detained since July in conditions her husband describes as ‘absolutely horrible’Thu Oct 30 2025 - 07:01
