Trump presidency

US growth worries saw skittish investors scramble for safe havens

Keir Starmer, Giorgia Meloni and Emmanuel Macron are trying to keep the mercurial US president onside over Europe’s security

US State Department refuses to say if issue raised during call between Simon Harris and Marco Rubio earlier this week

Irish index of shares ends week in negative territory alongside European peers

Trump’s remarks could raise alarm in Europe and Asia where there is already concern over US support

Estimated 240,000 Ukrainians in US will be affected by move, which is expected as soon as April

Trump has promised that tariffs on EU imports are on the way due to ‘trade imbalances’

Comments come as US president Donald Trump imposes extra 10% tariff on Chinese goods

In the News podcast: Mexico and Canada learned this week that Trump is not bluffing when it comes to import taxes

President offers up shocks and promises, riddled with exaggerations and factual inaccuracies, during address to Congress

Tariffs could lead to economic downturn, businesses warn

Trump and Vance’s bullying of Zelenskiy in the Oval Office was a sickening spectacle that looked like a setup

While there is a whiff of theatre about the US president’s moves on Canada, the same can’t be said of Ukraine

Keir Starmer secures concessions on trade and Chagos Islands but little on Ukraine amid growing bromance with Trump

In the third of her monthly columns, the commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says Trump’s mineral wealth demands are ‘outrageous blackmail’

Donald Trump says tariffs on America’s biggest trading partners to go into effect on March 4

US president warns levies will target auto sector and be applied ‘generally’

Officials on both sides have agreed to draft, say sources

Billionaire Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency has led an effort to gut the US Agency

US president stood for election on a pro-growth platform but with ostensibly anti-growth policies

Trump’s opponents cower before him, and many of the country’s institutions look unfit for opposition

Overnight comments are most detailed yet in specifying other sectors to be hit and would mark a dramatic widening of trade war

The Government cannot control what Trump will do, but it has a large agenda at home and what is happening must be a wake-up call to get on with it

The Kennedy saga has become so embedded in the American subconscious that it can never end

Munich Security Conference had expected to hear Trump’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine

The US-based Egyptian-Canadian’s new book reads as a break-up letter with a West that has seen a derailment of normalcy

The US president promises to shake up the international trade system, with potentially big implications for Ireland

Kennedy, a vaccine critic, confirmed by 52-48 vote, overcoming resistance from medical establishment

Musk, accompanied by son X, seeks to present the work of Doge as good common sense as Trump stays largely silent

Digicel said in November that it had made a voluntary disclosure to the US department of justice of information ‘relating to possible violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’

Taoiseach Micheál Martin says he has ‘full confidence’ in EU response to Trump tariffs

In the News podcast: President said US should seize control of Gaza and displace entire Palestinian population

US president sparks fears of trade war with sweeping tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China

The Canadian response – the imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on the $30 billion on imports originating in the US, is effective immediately

‘This isn’t the world we live in, or one that we should want to live in,’ says Wall Street Journal

Now that we know that Trump’s tariff threats are not just bluster, it is clear that risks lie ahead of the Irish economy

Fed chair Jerome Powell’s measured comments on crypto regulation also lift digital asset

Melania Trump first lady photograph

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US president heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday in first trip of second term