US Election

Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum to write to US president-elect to tell him tariff would put common businesses at risk

Uncertainty could have implications for the future of American democracy beyond whatever constraints Trump will — or will not — feel over the course of his second term

Jack Smith bows to the reality that case will not proceed to trial before Trump returns to the presidency next year

With a week to go before Irish general election, you can see that cynicism has crept into our politics

New York judge was due to sentence the president-elect next week in the only criminal case against him to go to trial

Former and incoming US president had been scheduled to be sentenced on November 26th for payment to porn star

Billionaires Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick have been put forward by president-elect Donald Trump

Oz was an informal health adviser to Trump during Covid-19, when he promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that was not approved to treat the coronavirus

Irish property websites report big uptick in traffic from US in wake of Trump victory

Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m

Melania won’t be spending much time in the White House, but someone else seems eager to fill the role of the president-elect’s helpmeet

Musk has been a near constant presence around the president-elect, including sitting in Trump on a call with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Russians find it easier to understand president-elect than other US politicians. ‘Trump is a palace guy. And Russians like palaces’

The intentions of the new administration are clear. If the promised heavy tariffs on goods entering the US from the EU are imposed, this is a big hit to our economic model

Donald Trump has nominated the Maga folk hero as his attorney general, but Gaetz’s stunning rise may be undone by claims that he paid for sex with a minor

Kyiv's forces tired, patched-up and outnumbered as Russia grinds forward in the east

Public alarm mounts among Democrats and in health circles about Robert F Kennedy Jr

‘Not as bad as the Republicans’ failed as a strategy. Next time, Democrats should run someone from the party’s insurgent progressive wing

Beijing has been on a charm offensive directed towards the rest of the world, including the European Union

Appointment would put Kennedy, who sowed doubts about Covid-19 vaccines, in charge of a department with a $1.8 trillion budget

The US president-elect has made several nominations for his administration

Calls grow for release of congressional ethics report on Trump’s nominee for attorney general

Iraq and Afghanistan veteran gained notoriety by blaming ‘wokeness’ for US military failures. Now he is set to be in charge

Parade of loyalists is Trump’s first show of force to US Senate Republicans, who will be under immense pressure to confirm his nominees – or sidestep that process altogether

Bidenomics policies must be curbed, the party has to be anti-woke, and it must accept that voters don’t care about democracy

Elon Musk should know that human social structures are more fluid than even the most complex of animal hierarchies

Controversial Florida congressman has supported some of Trump’s most controversial policies

Trump’s party set to control both house of Congress, according CNN and NBC

It has become an article of faith among many Republicans that the era of the US acting as the world’s policeman is over

Republicans elect John Thune to lead Senate while Trump gives government efficiency role to Elon Musk and picks Fox News commentator Pete Hegseth as secretary of defence

The evangelical pastor has previously stated that the West Bank is an integral part of Israel

Gail Slater, originally from Dalkey in south Co Dublin, is frontrunner to lead the US Federal Trade Commission under Donald Trump

The US president-elect has promised vengeance against perceived enemies – and his supporters have too

Donald Trump has promised to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, but many are relaxed about his return to power

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to be new US ambassador to Israel, president-elect announces

Postponement follows numerous attempts to delay case after US president-elect was convicted on 34 felonies earlier this year

Investment conference told US election result pose big risk to Ireland’s industrial strategy

In New York, state court judge preparing to rule on whether Trump’s hush-money conviction should be thrown out

Taoiseach says he told US president-elect that the EU and the US need to work together on many issues

Adviser championed policies during president-elect’s first term that included separating migrants from their children