These five factors are how Zohran Mamdani took New York by storm
He managed to motivate tens of thousands of canvassers to knock on more than a million doors
He managed to motivate tens of thousands of canvassers to knock on more than a million doors
The United States’ official puritanism sits uneasily with a wider nation that can be more creatively profane than any other in the Anglosphere
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The former opponent of forever wars in the Middle East is debating dropping bombs there without military provocation against the US
Vance Luther Boelter (57) identified as suspect who allegedly killed Democrat and her husband
Authorities are searching for an assailant who officials say was impersonating a police officer and shot at officers
California senator handcuffed after attempting to ask Kristi Noem a question
I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property
White House said earlier that a call had been scheduled between the feuding US president and Tesla chief
The former US soldier denies any role in the killing and dismemberment of the Co Kerry farmer
The ill health of US presidents has been kept from journalists on a number of occasions
News of Biden‘s cancer diagnosis brings temporary civility amid fallout from new book on Democrats’ inaction over his cognitive decline
US president’s proposed pharma price cuts and tax increases for the rich echo policies of progressive Democrats
Individualised experiences are supplanting the traditional mass media approach
These propaganda dissemination sessions are more suited to Pyongyang
As he reaches the 100th day of his second term, President Trump can point to few policy successes
Mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, Abrego Garcia remains in prison while Republicans and Democrats argue over what the case says about where the US is going under Donald Trump
Cody Balmer (38) allegedly slipped over a fence carrying incendiary devices and evaded state troopers for long enough to start fire
Warning signs that this was where American was headed have been there since the days of the Tea Party and Glenn Beck
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State election has become most expensive judicial race in US history as Tesla boss spends unprecedented amount
DUP leader Gavin Robinson says installation of signage is ‘clearly a controversial matter’
Claim by director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made to look absurd during gruelling hearing
The Irish approach to foreign policy should not be to exaggerate our purity or indulge dictators, but neither should we parrot criticisms of our neutrality from miliary aligned states
The Oval Office 2025 has become a fascinating and volatile court, so the Taoiseach might expect one or two curveballs coming his way
President offers up shocks and promises, riddled with exaggerations and factual inaccuracies, during address to Congress
The US is not yet a fascist society, but acting as if it is risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy
Senator is staging a loud and constant resistance as his party struggles to respond to the US president
Edward Luce: They say always pick your battles. Yet Democrats seem to overlook that they are in a full-blown war
Governor of California faces down US president in confrontation that speaks volumes for chasm between ruling and opposition parties
Three Republicans joined every Democrat in voting no as Hegseth is confirmed in a tie-break vote
We don’t know what will emerge from Trump 2.0 but we do know what is dying – American liberalism
The billionaire businessman has managed to connect with millions of ordinary Americans in a way the Democrats cannot
US Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s proposed cabinet members began with the 44-year-old former Fox News television host
It is impossible to understand the former US president without taking seriously his faith, which underpinned his whole life, both public and private
Former president will be home for Christmas after being admitted with fever
Nadine Scully moved to Dublin from Seattle in 2017
Chamber hears a compelling grace note from departing figure of the old Republican Party
Thanksgiving pardon comes in advance of sentencing of president’s son for illegal possession of handgun and tax evasion
Democrats are eating a giant helping of crow since voters delivered a stunning victory for the Republican candidate
Party is at an impasse: no obvious presidential candidate for 2028 and a dread knowledge that it has been outwitted by a more streetwise and cynical Trump-engineered Republican campaign. Again
Irish property websites report big uptick in traffic from US in wake of Trump victory
‘Not as bad as the Republicans’ failed as a strategy. Next time, Democrats should run someone from the party’s insurgent progressive wing
Bidenomics policies must be curbed, the party has to be anti-woke, and it must accept that voters don’t care about democracy
More people voted for Trump, even though many didn’t like him, because they liked Democratic Party less
Governor’s Whitmer, Shapiro, Newsom and Beshear seen to be ‘warming up’ for tilt at reanimating devastated organisation
With a supreme court majority sympathetic both to Republican policies and to a more expansive definition of presidential power, the new administration will have nearly all the tools it needs
US Election: Donald Trump's clean sweep of battleground states makes nonsense of knife-edge prediction
Lesson from the US election is that liberals must realise young men have problems too
It is no longer possible to batten down the hatches and think 'this too will pass'
Democrat says result must be accepted as Republican claims ‘magnificent victory’
Republicans exultant as Democratic Party left facing a crisis of identity following a comprehensive electoral defeat
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