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Ryan Routh was seen lying in bushes near where US president was golfing in Florida in September 2024

Billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has not publicly responded to letters and messages sent by staffers urging him to curb cuts

Tallent’s debut My Absolute Darling, hailed as a ‘masterpiece’ by Stephen King, catapulted him into fame without warning

US retail giant joins club dominated by tech groups

Move raises fresh worries about Trump administration’s efforts to involve itself in election matters

Nancy Guthrie, who has limited mobility, was last seen by her family on Saturday

US president has sought to restrict people from countries he and other officials cast as undesirable

Broker of Belfast Agreement had name removed from prestigious US-Ireland scholarship

US president says reconstruction has already been financed in full but did not offer any details

Expiration of US-Russia deal raises risk of new nuclear arms race in which Europe could find itself in particularly uncomfortable position

Meetings came after European institutions suspended contacts with Chinese group’s lobbyists in Brussels

From surprising off-year victories to a deep bench of governors, Democrats are regaining momentum by focusing on affordability

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Richard Branson are all mentioned in the newly released tranche of documents

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on Sunday warned if the US attacked, it would ignite a regional war

A week after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, protesters fill the streets while immigrant communities stay home

The image of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a blue winter hat and Spider-Man backpack while in custody, spurred outrage across the US

Shipping the entire Government off to drink green beer and hum along to Zombie in far-flung places on St Patrick’s Day is an expensive form of therapy

Democrats want to ban federal agents from wearing masks and require them to wear body cameras and adhere to a code of conduct

Could she accept the loss of Donetsk in exchange for a peace agreement, I asked Yulia Mykytenko, the bravest person I know. ‘It’s a very complex and painful question,’ she stressed

Concentration of global risk in one country – the US – is a source of enormous jeopardy

US navy destroyer docks at the Israeli port of Eilat

Irish market ends week on positive note, lifted by gains in banking and travel stocks

US slashes voluntary funding to agencies and refuses to make mandatory payments to ‌​regular ‍and peacekeeping budgets

US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick is now Trump’s loudest and brashest defender but he wasn’t always a fan

Short-term ceasefire has not been confirmed by either Kyiv or the Kremlin

Hegseth ‍says US forces prepared to follow Trump’s orders to ensure Tehran does not pursue nuclear weapons capability

Mutual trust is foundation for development of relationship between countries, Chinese president tells British PM

Donald Trump says he wants to ‘de-escalate’ tension after fatal shootings

McCurdy’s debut novel fails to offer much more than its deadpan, Bret-Easton-Ellis-adjacent comedy

Springsteen says the song responds to ‘state terror’ in Minneapolis, with lyrics describing federal agents as ‘King Trump’s private army’

Analysts warn Maliki nomination and US threats could destabilise Iraq amid regional tensions

Border forces have been deployed in the American heartlands – masked, camouflaged and bristling with firearms

That DoD leaflet soon to pop into your postbox is about preparing for extreme weather emergencies. Maybe we need to be be thinking more broadly - invasion, war, climate disaster, nuclear fall-out, AI

Born in Canada of poor Irish emigrants, Fr Coughlin began broadcasting sermons to counter the anti-Catholicism then rife in the US

Nordic nations hope US fixation on Greenland will spur allies to catch up with Russian military build-up

Commander who oversaw chaotic raids in Minnesota is being withdrawn from his frontline role in the midwestern city

Nine will go to the United States including the Taoiseach, who is expected to meet US President Donald Trump

We’ve made ourselves dependent on American capitalism but for America it’s a hugely lucrative dependency

It would be both a source of power and a powerful symbol of the connections Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has talked about forging

Almost 200m people from Texas to New England under cold alerts amid travel disruption and widespread power cuts