How Oklahoma City turned its fortunes around with an infamous robberyHaving lost out to Indianapolis in the fight for a direly needed $1bn contract in 1991, OKC has a chance at redemption in the NBA finalsSun Jun 08 2025 - 05:00
Trump country: ‘When we travel, if you go to a bigger area, people can be rude and disrespectful’ Southwest Virginia, which Barbara Kingsolver put on the literary map, is poor but also beautiful and friendly, with a rich cultural heritageSat Jun 07 2025 - 06:00
Trump-Musk bromance descends into a jaw-dropping feud that is funny, dismal and nauseating Musk sends barrage of posts criticising the Trump budget Bill during a day his personal wealth fell by an estimated $34 billionFri Jun 06 2025 - 07:37
US senate confirms Edward Walsh as ambassador to Ireland ‘Champion golfer’ and Donald Trump’s pick as envoy to Dublin confirmed by a vote of 57 to 38Thu Jun 05 2025 - 10:23
Edward Luce: ‘If Kamala Harris won ... I think the country would have broken down’Journalist Edward Luce on his biography of ‘cold war prophet’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the fearful state of the US today, and ‘Lilliputian’ post-Brexit UKSun Jun 01 2025 - 06:00
Trump v Harvard: University faces existential battle against opponent that would have once been unimaginableThis week, the Ivy League university finds itself confronting the most serious enmity in its four-century existenceSat May 31 2025 - 05:00
Elon Musk leaves Trump’s club, yet he was never quite part of itDOGE’s special government employee rides his rocket into the sunsetFri May 30 2025 - 11:06
‘Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum’: Trump’s mood sours over international eventsWith world stage looking distinctly complex, Trump turned to domestic matters for comfortTue May 27 2025 - 07:41
Clooney’s timely warning from history about Trump’s authoritarian America Clear parallels between play about 1950s McCarthyism and how US president is waging war on US news media todaySat May 24 2025 - 05:00
Trump tariffs update: Latest from Ireland and the EU after US president’s 50% threatEuropean Union is committed to securing trade deal with US that works for all sides, says SefcovicFri May 23 2025 - 22:04
Ireland seeks ‘legal clarity’ over Shannon stopover for US deportation flights Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris says flight did not need diplomatic clearance as it was a civil aircraftThu May 22 2025 - 13:01
Ramaphosa stays calm with golf diplomacy in face of Trump’s latest Oval Office ambush Blatant piece of theatre was designed to thrill the Maga heartland and fuel the wildest paranoias of what could happen in open-borders USAThu May 22 2025 - 07:13
Donald Trump pressures Republicans to back his ‘big, beautiful’ tax Bill Hardline Republicans demand deeper cuts to Medicaid and other social security programmesWed May 21 2025 - 11:09
Donegal man to be deported from US following driving charge after more than 15 years in BostonMan (40) with American-born children has been living undocumented after overstaying visa waiverTue May 20 2025 - 19:02
Trump suggests Vatican could host ‘immediate’ Russia and Ukraine peace talks following his two-hour call with PutinBut Russian leader more circumspect on state television about his conversation with US presidentMon May 19 2025 - 22:14
Joe Biden’s reputation was ruined in the morning, revived in the afternoon. It won’t lastNews of Biden‘s cancer diagnosis brings temporary civility amid fallout from new book on Democrats’ inaction over his cognitive decline Mon May 19 2025 - 07:25
Donald Trump moves from Middle East opulence to spectre of empty supermarket shelves in USGrowing disquiet over tariffs forcing up prices could lead to hard landing for his acceptance of Qatar’s gift of a $400m jetFri May 16 2025 - 13:52
Teenager charged with Kansas City murder of Irish chef Shaun Brady to stand juvenile trial Defendant, who was 15 when charged, will face trial in SeptemberThu May 15 2025 - 06:26
A ‘very nice gesture’: Trump accepts gift of new Air Force One plane from Qatar The US president said the ‘contribution’ from the Qatari royal family was a ‘very nice gesture’ as Democrats decry acceptance of $400m giftMon May 12 2025 - 19:24
Did Trump suggest reopening Alcatraz after watching the film last Sunday morning?The president’s suggestion to reopen the island prison-turned-museum just serves to move attention away from the issues that matterSat May 10 2025 - 05:00
Trump basks in ‘end of the beginning’ of new US-UK trade arrangementFramework will open UK market up to US meat products, including poultryThu May 08 2025 - 17:55
Cliona Ward, Irish woman held in US detention centre after family visit, releasedIrish woman was detained after returning to San Francisco following a visit to see her ill father in Co CorkThu May 08 2025 - 11:17
Irish woman detained in US after family visit to Ireland due in court Cliona Ward, who has been living legally in the US for decades, will appear in Seattle court on Wednesday morningWed May 07 2025 - 07:54
US-Canada relationship no clearer as Mark Carney stands ground through Trump’s latest Oval Office blitzUS president intransigent on tariffs and still keen on Canada becoming 51st stateTue May 06 2025 - 20:39
Mark Carney’s meeting with Trump will stress-test US-Canada friendship‘We don’t want their cars. We don’t even want their energy,’ Trump says before Tuesday’s meeting with Canada’s new prime ministerMon May 05 2025 - 22:20
Kamala Harris’s speech of condemnation and Trump’s of braggadocio underscore where US is at after first 100 days One speech of condemnation and another full of braggadocio underscore where US is at after president’s first 100 daysSat May 03 2025 - 05:00
Deportation anxiety in Irish America: ‘I would have a clean slate before travelling’Amid the ongoing harrowing experience of Cork-born Cliona Ward, Irish-American leaders are urging extra caution on people planning on leaving the country temporarilyFri May 02 2025 - 11:20
Ireland ‘out of step’ with United States on Israel, US ambassador nominee is toldEdward Walsh, who is Trump’s pick to be envoy to Dublin, pledges to build on relations between America and IrelandThu May 01 2025 - 19:26
Keith Duggan: Trump marks 100 days in power with speech designed to leave fact-checkers with migraineUS president tells country to ignore the doubters and negative pollsWed Apr 30 2025 - 06:54
Donald Trump’s approval rating in the US is way down, and no one knows what he’s going to do next As he reaches the 100th day of his second term, President Trump can point to few policy successesTue Apr 29 2025 - 05:00
Justine Bateman: ‘This election was a tipping point for the woke mob mentality’The film-maker and author, who starred in Family Ties with Michael J Fox in the 1980s, has strong views on plastic surgery, ‘woke’ culture and HollywoodSun Apr 27 2025 - 05:45
‘Harvard people’ squaring up for battle royale with White House over politics, power and privilegeTrump is threatening to withdraw billions in funding from the ivy league college, but can Harvard withstand this attack on its status?Sat Apr 26 2025 - 05:00
Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught up in one of US’s key ideological flashpointsMistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, Abrego Garcia remains in prison while Republicans and Democrats argue over what the case says about where the US is going under Donald TrumpFri Apr 25 2025 - 16:00
Kneecap say they have received ‘hundreds of violent threats’ over Coachella performanceSharon Osbourne and Fox News respond as Kneecap spark controversy at Coachella with anti-Israel messageWed Apr 23 2025 - 18:59
Trump’s Easter message showcases his easy way with denouncing ‘radical left lunatics’ Message on Truth Social network laden with White House preoccupations in looking to fend off criticism of deportation policyMon Apr 21 2025 - 20:03
Thirty years after Oklahoma bombing, Bill Clinton draws parallel with polarisation of US todayFormer president contrasts city’s ‘service, honour and kindness’ with current political unrestSun Apr 20 2025 - 13:00
‘I am sure there are other McVeighs out there’: Voices from Oklahoma City three decades after devastating attackSurvivors reflect on how the biggest domestic terror attack in US history affected them and their city Sun Apr 20 2025 - 06:00
Thunder enlightens Oklahoma as basketball brings wind of changeHoop dreams have transformed a moribund downtown into something more vibrantSat Apr 19 2025 - 05:00
Trump’s power plays starting to unsettle Pennsylvania votersDonald Trump is ‘winging everything. And the whole thing is: us consumers are going to pay. It is coming to us, as Americans’Sun Apr 13 2025 - 18:01
Dazzling tragedy of The Great Gatsby still stalks the American imaginationAmerica Letter: F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel continues to stir up questions about the American dream on its 100th anniversarySat Apr 12 2025 - 05:00
Market manipulation concerns grow following Trump’s tariff u-turn Democrat Alexandra Ocasio Cortez advises members of Congress to declare any stock moves Fri Apr 11 2025 - 14:33
Trump’s U-turn on tariffs fails to reassure markets and trading partnersUS president cuts tariffs on all countries to 10 per cent for 90 days – except for China, which has been hit with 125 per cent tariffs immediatelyWed Apr 09 2025 - 22:11
Accused in shooting of Irish chef Shaun Brady in Kansas should not be tried as adult, father arguesBoy (15) is accused of killing Tipperary restaurateur outside Brady and Fox restaurant in August 2024Wed Apr 09 2025 - 18:45
US tariffs: Harris to push for solution to trade war in crunch meeting with Trump’s commerce secretaryTánaiste in Washington for key meeting with Howard Lutnick, who labelled Irish corporate regime as his ‘favourite’ tax scamWed Apr 09 2025 - 00:01
‘Nobody but me would do this’: Donald Trump cares nothing for the doomsayersIt is impossible to imagine any other American president having the chutzpah to brazen out what represents a deliberate policy capable of foisting a recessionTue Apr 08 2025 - 06:52
‘It makes me sick’: Mass anti-Trump protests in US cities see Americans express their fear and loathingSaturday sees first true attempt at a national protest voice against Trump since the US president’s electionSun Apr 06 2025 - 07:47
Joe Biden may be best to let sleeping dogs lie as new books lifts lid on his final days in officeWith the former president said to be working on a memoir, two new books offer damning details of the fragmentation of faith in him before last November’s US electionSat Apr 05 2025 - 05:00
Trump tariffs: On Wednesday, it was liberation. On Thursday, golf‘Liberation Day’: The fallout from Trump’s scorched earth economic protectionist policyThu Apr 03 2025 - 20:03
Donald Trump is nothing if not a showman but his instincts deserted him on ‘Liberation Day’Trump tariffs: World saw familiar Trumpian concoction of threat, uncertainty, imminent chaos - and a sad little chartThu Apr 03 2025 - 06:34
‘Liberation Day’: Ireland and EU braced as Trump to impose tariff measures todayUS president’s spokeswoman says levies could be implemented immediatelyWed Apr 02 2025 - 09:59
