The Fourth of July is a temporary suspension of normality for the US. Nobody mentions Trump or BidenCrowds gather in Washington for fireworks. Patriotism is in the air. This is a time for barbecues, marching bands and and eating contestsSat Jul 06 2024 - 05:00
Television interview marks crucial moment for Biden’s campaign‘We’re going to have his back,’ says Maryland governor after 24 Democratic governors hold meeting with Biden at the White HouseThu Jul 04 2024 - 06:56
Biden fights to assure Democrats he can continue his bid for the White HouseCampaign staff deny reports that the president privately conceded he may not recover from controversy over his performance at debateWed Jul 03 2024 - 20:45
Prosecutors agree to Trump request to postpone ‘hush money’ sentencingLegal team says supreme court ruling on presidential immunity calls conviction into questionTue Jul 02 2024 - 20:30
Scranton Joe, the perpetual scrapper, intends to go nowhereBiden’s rebuke of US supreme court decision bears little resemblance to haunted figure from presidential debateTue Jul 02 2024 - 06:36
US presidential immunity ruling: ‘With fear for our democracy, I dissent’, supreme court judge saysLegal decision makes it almost certain Trump will not face criminal proceedings ahead of the election, and if he wins he can get all federal charges against him droppedTue Jul 02 2024 - 01:00
US supreme court rules Donald Trump entitled to degree of immunity from criminal prosecutionCourt decides ‘former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity from official acts but not from unofficial acts’Mon Jul 01 2024 - 20:25
‘It’s very complicated’: The psychic impact of living in a town famous for executing prisonersTwenty-seven US states still carry the death penalty but Texas accounts for almost a third of all executions since capital punishment resumed there in 1982Mon Jul 01 2024 - 06:00
Biden at Camp David with family as Democrats gauge impact following calamitous debateParty officials seek to protect their candidate amid calls for him to voluntarily relinquish his positionSun Jun 30 2024 - 19:00
Archer City, Texas: a lasting picture of a bleak cinematic masterpieceEven now this Texas town, a dateless star of The Last Picture Show, remains everything and nothingSat Jun 29 2024 - 05:00
Biden performance in debate with Trump sends Democrats into crisis modePresident’s faltering performance in televised debate fuels discussions about replacing him as Democratic nominee for presidential electionFri Jun 28 2024 - 20:00
Biden-Trump debate: Faltering Biden performance will fuel calls to step aside as crisis looms for DemocratsUS presidential election: Uncertain president has one of his worst nights in politics as fast-talking, belligerent Trump stays on messageFri Jun 28 2024 - 06:55
Biden v Trump: Who won the debate? Was it any good? Were there any surprises?Many of Trump’s arguments were later debunked by fact-checkers but by then it was too late for the DemocratsFri Jun 28 2024 - 06:34
Sinn Féin’s US fundraising arm sends $51,000 back to party in Belfast for ‘election expenses’Friends of Sinn Féin says Irish diaspora across US starting to realise united Ireland is realistic objectiveSat Jun 22 2024 - 06:00
Face off: mutual disdain will be on show as Biden and Trump debate on ThursdayWill many people watch and will it make a difference to the outcome of the election?Sat Jun 22 2024 - 06:00
Joseph O’Neill: ‘Trump will go after the big cities ... And it will be 10 times worse than people imagine’After writing his first novel in a decade, the author discusses everything from the evolution of hurling and his ‘idealised relationship’ with footbalI to why he fears ‘having Caligula in the White House’Sat Jun 22 2024 - 05:15
All hell breaks loose in Louisiana over new Ten Commandments law ‘Foolish’ legislation makes teaching more complicated at a time of declining literacy, says educatorSat Jun 22 2024 - 05:00
Heat emergency declared in US with millions urged to stay indoorsJuneteenth holiday arrives with record-breaking temperatures, wildfires in New Mexico and a tropical storm in TexasWed Jun 19 2024 - 21:00
On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service by Dr Anthony Fauci: It sets the enormity of the pandemic against the gravity of previous crisesFauci reports that June 3rd, 2020, was when he ‘first experience the brunt of the president’s rage’. Trump was, of course, in the concluding year of his first termTue Jun 18 2024 - 19:00
Floods in Florida: Sunshine State finds rainy days heavy with biblical ironyFloridian cities have reported their hottest May temperatures on record, a warning just weeks after Ron DeSantis signed a Bill that wilfully reduces the emphasis on counteracting global warmingSat Jun 15 2024 - 05:00
Tricks of the trade put Boston Celtics on cusp of NBA glory againJrue Holiday and Jayson Tatum are the stars in a Celtics team that could reap the reward they’ve been cravingFri Jun 14 2024 - 13:17
US supreme court accused of becoming a law unto itselfRevelations involving judges Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have left them open to charges of corruption and venalityThu Jun 13 2024 - 05:00
Joe Biden faces struggle to regain support of voters angered by Gaza stance This week’s tentative move towards a peace deal addresses an issue that threatens the US president’s re-electionTue Jun 11 2024 - 17:15
Beau Biden: The abiding tragedy at the core of the US presidentJoe Biden is still grieving the loss of his eldest son. Had he survived, the political landscape may have taken a different turnSat Jun 08 2024 - 05:00
Molly and Tom Martens released from prison after killing Limerick man Jason Corbett in 2015US woman and her father were jailed last year for voluntary manslaughter of her husbandThu Jun 06 2024 - 21:10
Molly Martens is free to move on now, leaving behind a trail of nightmarish violenceOnce she completes release-supervision terms over the next 12 months, her period of parole closes. The legal aspect of the killing of Jason Corbett will be overThu Jun 06 2024 - 19:26
Molly and Tom Martens’ release: ‘I admire the Corbetts for their strength,’ says prosecutor who agreed plea dealKeith Duggan talks to North Carolina prosecutor Garry Frank, the man who agreed the plea deal with Molly and Thomas Martens that allows them to be released from prison on ThursdayThu Jun 06 2024 - 06:00
Family of Jason Corbett criticises ‘malevolent, cruel and vicious’ actions of Molly and Tom Martens on eve of prison releaseWife and father-in-law to be released from prison having served sentence for Jason Corbett’s voluntary manslaughterThu Jun 06 2024 - 00:31
Molly and Tom Martens, killers of Limerick man Jason Corbett, set for release from US jailsFather and daughter jailed for voluntary manslaughter of Limerick man set to be released from prison on ThursdayWed Jun 05 2024 - 06:00
Biden expresses love for son Hunter who faces difficult week in courtA previous plea deal, brokered last summer and believed to be settled, imploded in dramatic circumstancesMon Jun 03 2024 - 21:35
Robert De Niro’s raging at Trump outside courthouse was an extraordinary moment in American public lifeCourthouse cameo reminder of the hallucinatory strangeness of American public lifeSat Jun 01 2024 - 05:00
Trump to spend months telling us he is a defender of democracy and a champion against Biden corruptionUS president says ‘the American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed’Fri May 31 2024 - 20:20
Keith Duggan: Trump verdict is like ‘pouring gasoline on a fire that’s already burning’Any semblance of respect between Republicans and Democrats has completely disintegratedFri May 31 2024 - 06:27
Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in criminal hush money trialFormer US president convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up payment to adult film star Stormy DanielsThu May 30 2024 - 23:57
Trump verdict a stunning end to a quintessentially New York legal taleNovember’s presidential election - and America itself - has entered uncharted territoryThu May 30 2024 - 23:55
Memorial Day at Arlington: A mood of hushed reunion and observanceA backwards glance at the hundreds and thousands of lives lost in military service to conflicts dating back to the civil warMon May 27 2024 - 21:19
Robert F Kennedy jnr’s election campaign: ‘I think he is going to be president Kennedy’ Despite brushes with conspiracy theories, along with Democratic Party and familial estrangement, JFK’s nephew’s White House run continues to gain tractionSun May 26 2024 - 17:17
Last laugh for Trump as Nikki Haley changes her primary coloursAnnouncement of intention to vote for Trump will stand as a betrayal of those who voted for her in Republican contestSun May 26 2024 - 05:00
George Stephanopoulos: ‘You can only have constructive debates if people are determined to engage in good faith’Clinton-era White House adviser talks about his history of the White House Situation Room and his fear that Americans of opposing political camps have stopped listening to each otherSat May 18 2024 - 06:00
Colm Tóibín on writing a sequel to Brooklyn: ‘I got a lot of inspiration from Domhnall Gleeson’s performance’The writer on finding the confidence to trace the journey of his character Eilis in follow-up novel Long IslandSat May 18 2024 - 06:00
Barbara Kingsolver: ‘The first time I set foot in Ireland I felt so at home. Something about the language, the culture’The author and her daughter Lily Kingsolver have written an illustrated children’s book togetherSat May 11 2024 - 06:00
Biden’s Racine certainty fails to win broad acclaimAmericans care more about a decline in personal circumstances than a good story about job creationSat May 11 2024 - 05:00
Donald Trump trial: Stormy Daniels testimony pure gold for talkshow comedy turnsOne of the many peculiarities of former US president’s hush money trial is that it lurches from lurid tabloid headlines to fine details of invoices and accounting practicesFri May 10 2024 - 18:42
Marjorie Taylor Greene sees red on Washington path of wrathThe most vocal and extreme of the hardline Trump Republicans has caused another stir by vowing to force a vote to oust House Speaker Mike JohnsonSat May 04 2024 - 05:00
Trump’s week in court: Gasps and a pick-up in pace as Hope Hicks is calledFormer president’s adviser appears at the end of a week in which the prosecution attempts to construct a stage-set for its main contentionSat May 04 2024 - 05:00
A pro-Palestinian protest that began at Columbia University has taken hold in hundreds of US campusesAt the heart of the standoff is the tension between the right to peaceful protest and the disputed contention the college protests have an anti-Semitic intentTue Apr 30 2024 - 17:23
Not-so-shaggy dog tale may kill off Kristi Noem’s vice presidential hopesOn Friday, The Guardian ran extracts of memoir No Going Back which detailed her jaw-dropping attempts to control Cricket, a 14-month-old hunting dogMon Apr 29 2024 - 21:33
Former US prosecutor on the justice system: ‘When I see kids come into court in chains, I can’t help thinking of slavery’Debbie Hines’s Get Off My Neck lays bare the startling inequalities faced by black Americans in the US justice systemSat Apr 27 2024 - 06:00
Quashing of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction draws prompt parallels with Donald Trump trialJudge’s decision in Weinstein trial had abandoned Molineux ruling limiting testimony to complainants involved in case, while Trump’s trial judge has permitted jury to hear evidence of uncharged activitySat Apr 27 2024 - 05:00
US student protests: ‘You see a lot of hate on campus’In the sunshine, the pro-Palestine encampment in Columbia University looks like the luxury section of a music festival. But a read of the signs shows the intent is deadly seriousFri Apr 26 2024 - 10:46
