JD Vance

‘High degree of certainty’ gunman has been arrested, Trump says, after two-day manhunt

Irish social media is engulfed with paranoia. But at the capital’s heart is an extraordinary energy from which new ideas and fresh cultures emerge

Kyiv’s deputy foreign minister, Sergiy Kyslytsya, on Moscow’s deceit, progress on peace and why Ireland and Ukraine have a similar history

JD Vance is at the heart of this world view, which prises imperial strength, tradition, faith and hierarchical order over the liberal internationalist regime across the Atlantic

August has given me time to think about how politicians holiday. Most of them do it badly

Months of effort by Kyiv and Europe have not prompted tougher US action against Putin

The digital economy has become a key arena of US-EU competition

CIA, however, says intelligence indicates Iran’s nuclear programme severely damaged

Analysis: Midnight Hammer mission has raised a blizzard of new questions

Critics say the vote ceded Danish sovereignty to the US

Curtis Yarvin has, for about a decade and a half now, been a highly influential figure on Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic right

Woke leftism demands conformity to an ever-evolving set of progressive values. The new ‘woke right’ does exactly the same

US president lays wreath and pays tribute to fallen soldiers in address which also featured anti-immigration rhetoric

Events are undermining America’s influence in the world, warn foreign policy experts

Largest drone attack on Ukraine since start of war destroys homes and kills at least one person

Leo may be a more reticent and measured leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics

In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the Cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV

Rivals and competition experts fear the White House will not pursue its predecessor’s antitrust case against the events giant

In Europe, after centuries of dominance, Christianity appears to be in retreat

US secretary of state cancels visit to London, where peace discussions were to be held

Meeting with US vice-president comes after pontiff recently criticised Trump administration’s immigration policies

Pontiff did not preside over the Vatican’s Mass for Easter but appeared after for blessing and message

‘Approach of the current US administration is very different from what we are used to,’ cardinal tells newspaper

Donald Trump says he expects to sign a full minerals deal with Ukraine next week

JD Vance’s arrival at the Washington venue sparked a viral drama. In Dublin, the National Concert Hall has suffered from decades of political indifference

Attacks on elite US universities are at centre of White House’s culture war

Col Susannah Meyers accused of ‘subverting’ Donald Trump’s agenda

How the US president rolled back his tariff plan

If he plans to transform the US economy permanently with his tariffs plan then the world is entering a new era

Sackings come as top adviser Mike Waltz comes under pressure for discussing military strikes in Signal chat

‘Liberation Day’: The fallout from Trump’s scorched earth economic protectionist policy

If Ireland wants its EU partners to have the country’s back on issues related to our national interests, this requires reciprocal empathy

European capitals have arguably been better friends of Ireland for a much longer time

Economists argue that investments in scientific research are among the most efficient uses of taxpayer dollars, returning about $5 for every dollar invested

A dividing line between work and social life has been breached

A security breach of this scale usually requires the intervention of historians or a courageous whistleblower. Enter bungling Pete Hegseth, the least experienced Secretary of Defence in American history

‘Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland’

Delegation to visit US military base in scaled-back itinerary

White House argues latest texts released by the Atlantic prove nothing classified was shared in Signal group chat

Denmark and Greenland welcome move to confine Vances’ visit to US base and drop attendance at dog-sled race