Donald Trump

White House dismisses warning from TikTok as stunt as users scramble to alternative platforms

‘Operation Safeguard’, the opening step in president-elect’s goal to oversee largest deportation operation in US history, set to begin on Tuesday

Planet Business: Meta’s non-regrettable attrition, Starbucks’ new code of customer conduct and performers signed-up for Donald Trump’s inauguration

Heads of state and governments are not traditionally invited to the US presidential inauguration day, but Trump has notably invited several foreign leaders

Among the French economist’s arguments is that ‘no credible solution to the challenge of global warming is imaginable without a drastic reduction in inequality’

Progressive principles held an iron grip on big-budget US entertainment in Donald Trump’s first term as US president. Did that serve those principles well?

Over a 50-year career, he has stood for decency, pragmatism and a belief in the capacity of politics to deliver meaningful progress

After the US supreme court upheld a ban on the video app unless it sheds its Chinese owners, a final decision on action rests with politicians

Dangerously cold temperatures forecast to hit the nation’s capital on Monday would make traditional outdoor ceremony unsafe

Decision means video app could now ‘go dark’ for 170m US users

The billionaire businessman has managed to connect with millions of ordinary Americans in a way the Democrats cannot

Washington-based fund expects inflation to fall to 4.2% this year and 3.5% next year but euro zone growth will lag

China has vowed further monetary easing and stronger public spending this year, as the economy braces for US presidency

The outgoing US president will also be remembered for disastrous foreign policy choices, including his refusal to curb the excesses of Israel

How can our new government claim to be an international referee of political integrity when it has shamelessly thrown away its moral compass?

There is plenty of doom mongering about what a Trump presidency would mean for Ireland. This is what is really at stake.

Departing US president uses farewell address to highlight ‘dangerous concentration of power among a few ultra-wealthy people’

Mark Lemley will stay on Facebook, he says. But there are other things he can do to salve his conscience

While other long-term denizens of Trumpworld prepare to wield power anew, the incoming president’s former lawyer is struggling to keep the court from seizing his assets

US and Israeli administrations face tough political calculations — and vast undertaking of rebuilding Palestinian enclave

Latest trade figures point to strong rebound in pharma exports last year following slump in 2023

Regulator alleges businessman’s failure to follow disclosure rules delivered $150m benefit on share purchases

Nothing says ‘America first’ quite like Boeing aeroplanes, and Ryanair is one of the US aircraft maker’s best customers

US Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s proposed cabinet members began with the 44-year-old former Fox News television host

Nato launches Baltic patrol mission after suspected Russian sabotage of undersea cables

Biden and Trump express optimism a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas can be agreed within days

Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation

Jack Smith says president-elect engaged in criminal effort to hold on to power

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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has entered the MMA-MAGA arena. A high-profile bout is the next logical step

‘Distinct possibility’ of getting deal done before US president Joe Biden leaves office

Meta, Pfizer and Google among companies aiming to keep in Donald Trump’s good books

Ireland’s economy didn’t collapse when the banks shut for long periods in the 1960s and 1970s; instead, local shopkeepers and publicans acted as ‘a second level of banking’. But don’t romanticise it too much

Meta investors don’t seem to be fretting – for now, anyway

Gavin Newsom dismisses Donald Trump as ‘delusional’ following criticisms about handling of disaster

At least 16 dead and entire neighbourhoods erased as three wildfires continue to burn

Former Trump advisor pledges to ‘take this guy down’ and kick him out of the Maga movement

Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, met Netanyahu on Saturday

Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as Trump, the felonious, ascended again to the Oval Office

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