Trump’s image and vanity suffer blow as civil fraud case puts him in a $464m bond bindDonald Trump's lawyers say securing a bond for the full amount in the judgment is a ‘practical impossibility’Wed Mar 20 2024 - 08:50
Taoiseach raises need for bombs to stop in Gaza, as central part of shamrock ceremony speech with US president Leo Varadkar moves Joe Biden to tears when he quotes the president’s late son, Beau BidenSun Mar 17 2024 - 20:57
Washington witnesses nation-building at the National BuildingBrightness and sincere optimism of Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly was a jolting invitation to look towards the futureSat Mar 16 2024 - 05:00
US working towards Ramadan ceasefire in Gaza, Biden tells Taoiseach Disclosure comes during meeting in Oval Office amid increasing signs that US administration support for Israel’s war in Gaza is waningFri Mar 15 2024 - 21:01
How do we Irish get away with the annual jamboree in Washington? It seemed like Varadkar was in the room at the moment that signalled the limitations of White House patience towards IsraelFri Mar 15 2024 - 20:49
Harris and Varadkar toast US-Irish ties with glass of fresh orange juice and a smileTaoiseach begins series of high-profile events in Washington with Kamala Harris breakfastFri Mar 15 2024 - 16:09
Biden agrees with Varadkar on need for ceasefire in Gaza and two-state solutionUS president and Taoiseach meet in the Oval Office of White House to discuss the wars in Gaza and UkraineFri Mar 15 2024 - 15:43
Chuck Schumer’s speech on Israel puts focus on Biden administration’s approach to GazaThe Senate majority leader claimed that Binyamin Netanyahu has ‘lost his way’Thu Mar 14 2024 - 21:18
Taoiseach insists he will not dilute Government’s criticism of Israel during US tripVaradkar pledges to maintain pressure over Gaza when meeting US president and Congressional leadersThu Mar 14 2024 - 15:53
Taoiseach say he does not expect more protests against Ukrainian refugee accommodation centres‘We have not seen a large amount of protests, or difficulties that have arisen’ in terms of demonstrations, says VaradkarThu Mar 14 2024 - 07:12
Biden and Trump clinch presidential nominations on another deeply strange dayA bitter, morally exhausting contest between the two is confirmed after Biden wins the Georgia Democratic primary and Trump takes Republican primaries in three statesWed Mar 13 2024 - 06:50
Robert Hur defends recommendation not to prosecute Joe Biden over classified documentsRepublics decry double standards while Democrats accuse Hur of ‘disparaging’ presidentTue Mar 12 2024 - 19:43
Georgia primaries: Immigration still the crunch issue as Bill labelled the blatant politicisation of a murderLegislation called after murder victim roundly criticised by some Democrats as measure designed to stoke fear and misinformation about threats posed by immigrantsTue Mar 12 2024 - 04:58
Malachy McCourt, Irish-American actor, writer and biographer, dies at 92McCourt, brother of Angela’s Ashes writer Frank, spent childhood in Limerick before acting and bartending in 1960s and 1970s New YorkMon Mar 11 2024 - 21:18
Mr Varadkar goes to Washington: Is the Taoiseach’s St Patrick’s Day trip to the US really worth it?Ireland’s easy access to and close relationship with the most powerful nation on Earth remains a huge diplomatic assetSun Mar 10 2024 - 06:00
Cookie Monsternomics: Biden’s unlikely ally in the war on shrinkflationDespite an ostensibly thriving economy, Americans’ grocery-price anger could spell trouble for the US president’s re-election hopesSat Mar 09 2024 - 05:00
State of the union: ‘Sleepy Joe’ nowhere in evidence as canny, well-versed Biden outlines vision in blistering speechKey points on climate, debt and increased support for Gaza, with rebuke to unnamed presidential election rival Donald TrumpFri Mar 08 2024 - 09:36
First shots fired in what may become the most toxic US presidential campaign since the civil warFormer South Carolina governor offers a guarded congratulations to Trump without offering an endorsementWed Mar 06 2024 - 18:45
Even in defeat, Nikki Haley refuses to bow to Donald Trump’s willEven ardent Haley critics have acknowledged the gumption of the last six weeks, when she continued to campaign while isolated from the Republican party power baseWed Mar 06 2024 - 17:19
US election: Super Tuesday primary sweep confirms Donald Trump’s hold on Republican PartyNikki Haley claims only Vermont as former US president dominates Republican primaries from east to west coastsWed Mar 06 2024 - 16:35
Trump heads into Super Tuesday buoyed by US supreme court rulingMonday’s supreme court ruling ends moves by three states to exclude former president from presidential election ballotTue Mar 05 2024 - 06:00
Donald Trump wrongly removed from Colorado primary ballot, US supreme court rulesCourt overturns state ruling that former president could not run because of engagement in January 6th Capitol riotsMon Mar 04 2024 - 16:44
Sinn Féin’s battle to engage the Irish-American heart, mind and wallet when it comes to Irish reunificationThe lives of the modern, career-focused Irish in the States are a far cry from those of the immigrants who escaped a moribund Ireland in the 80s and 90sSat Mar 02 2024 - 13:27
Trump’s unexpected moment of solidarity with border immigrantsA mixed week ended with a clenched-fist salute of solidarity with the very people he has vilified in speech after speechSat Mar 02 2024 - 06:00
Mary Lou McDonald follows in Lincoln’s footsteps at unity summit for Irish American backersSinn Féin leader spoke in New York of an Ireland for Shankill Road and Falls Road alike, seeking to update her party’s image in the USFri Mar 01 2024 - 21:22
Biden and Trump pay visits to Texas-Mexico border as immigration emerges as defining election issuePresidential rivals focus on topic that has gripped the American imaginationThu Feb 29 2024 - 22:35
Trump unlikely to face pre-election trial for Capitol riot following US supreme court intervention Analysis: Court’s decision to hear former president’s claim that he has immunity from prosecution leaves narrow window for trial before NovemberThu Feb 29 2024 - 14:29
Michigan primary result delivers powerful pro-Palestinian message to BidenState carries rumble of coming thunderstorm as 14 per cent of Democratic voters return uncommitted votesWed Feb 28 2024 - 16:25
Nikki Haley’s latest drubbing by Donald Trump leaves her campaign in a hopeless placeCandidate’s vow to keep fighting after former US president secures South Carolina primary can be construed as southern valour or pointless delusion - or perhaps bothSun Feb 25 2024 - 08:47
South Carolina state of mind: Once an overwhelmingly Democratic state, now resolutely redDonald Trump will make official the advance polling that has him crushing Nikki Haley’s bid in her native stateSat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
Eight years after James Foley’s murder by Isis, his mother sat down with his captor. Why?James Foley’s brutal murder in 2014 was seen around the world. His mother Diane’s book documents the family’s struggleSat Feb 17 2024 - 05:30
Trump is effectively running his presidential campaign on the doorsteps of various courtsAmerica Letter: Thursday saw the main TV networks split their screens to cover both Trump’s ‘hush money’ case in Manhattan and the Georgia hearing concerning his election interferenceSat Feb 17 2024 - 05:00
Robert F Kennedy jnr imposes himself on US presidential raceIndependent candidate could have a defining influence on the electionFri Feb 16 2024 - 21:00
No concerns Ireland’s position on Gaza war could cause diplomatic strain with US, says HarrisMinister says he has had ‘very genuine conversations around the concern at the level of violence’ in Palestine enclave while in USWed Feb 14 2024 - 20:31
Harris seeks to deepen education collaboration during US visitMinister to visit universities in Washington to discuss ways in which educational collaboration between US and Ireland can be deepenedMon Feb 12 2024 - 00:01
White House criticises Trump’s ‘unhinged’ comments on NatoRussia could do ‘whatever the hell they want’ to those who were not meeting their Nato commitments, says TrumpSun Feb 11 2024 - 15:10
Trump mocks absence of Haley’s husband during South Carolina coronationUS presidential race: Trump is buoyed by fanatical greeting at Conway rally as he returns to familiar ‘failing country’ themeSun Feb 11 2024 - 09:00
The unbottling of a law used against the prospect of a second Trump presidencyNine supreme court justices must decide whether the Colorado supreme court erred in excluding Trump from its Republican primary ballotSat Feb 10 2024 - 05:48
Tucker Carlson delivers the softball interview that Putin hoped forRussian president provides the performance of a bully entirely in control of his surroundingsFri Feb 09 2024 - 12:15
In a defiant speech denying he has a ‘poor memory’, Biden falters at the last momentReport into whether Biden mishandled documents said he presented during an interview ‘as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory’Fri Feb 09 2024 - 06:39
US supreme court justices appear sceptical of case for removing Trump from ballot as landmark appeal gets under wayDonald Trump appealed to court on December ruling to disqualify him from Colorado’s primary ballot under constitutional amendmentThu Feb 08 2024 - 20:21
Leixlip fire: Vacant building in Co Kildare damaged in latest suspected anti-immigration arson attackFalse rumours were circulating online that property in Leixlip was earmarked to house asylum seekersWed Feb 07 2024 - 19:26
Ireland determined to end food insecurity due to ‘memory’ of famine, Tánaiste saysMicheál Martin and Samantha Power announce new partnership between Irish Aid and USAID for ZambiaWed Feb 07 2024 - 06:52
John Bruton remembered in Brussels as ‘committed European’Bill Clinton says he was grateful for opportunity to work closely with late Fine Gael politician on NI peace processWed Feb 07 2024 - 06:34
Court denies Trump immunity in 2020 election interference caseFormer US president says he will appeal federal court decisionTue Feb 06 2024 - 21:31
If Biden or Trump has to pull out of the election due to incapacity, what’s plan B?What happens if one of the candidates suffers misadventure between now and the US election?Sun Feb 04 2024 - 06:30
Don’t blame her? Republicans fear Taylor Swift could be trouble as elections nearsThe singer used to be a political blank space but now her opinions - and even her love life - are regarded as matters of national significance in the USSat Feb 03 2024 - 05:00
Mark Zuckerberg’s apology was dramatic, but that alone won’t make children any safer online Five big tech leaders appeared before the US Senate this week, but it remains to be seen whether anything of substance emergesFri Feb 02 2024 - 15:00
Biden considers options following attack on US base in JordanUS will weigh the severity of its response against the threat of further complicating a volatile regionTue Jan 30 2024 - 20:27
Biden urged to respond with military force after three US troops killed in Iran-backed drone attackSecurity chief says US not seeking to engage in conflict with Iran over attack on military base in Jordan, but will ‘absolutely do what is required to protect ourselves’Mon Jan 29 2024 - 21:12
