TikTok: Social media platform faces potential US ban if parent company does not sell it
Bill passed by Senate gives China-based ByteDance up to one year to divest Tiktok before facing deletion from US app stores
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US Senate passes $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
Legislation approved by 79 to 18 votes includes $60.8bn to replenish Ukraine’s war chest as it battles Russia
Pressure mounts on Kevin McCarthy amid scramble to avert US government shutdown
Martin Wall: Joe Biden has warned of threats to food safety, cancer research and children’s programmes if Congress is not able to pass the country’s budget by next week
Threat of a US debt default eased but has not disappeared entirely
Politicians on right and left will be unhappy with some of the terms in Biden and McCarthy’s proposed accord
US midterms: Democrats retain control of Senate after crucial Nevada victory
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has beaten Republican challenger Adam Laxalt
US senators announce gun violence Bill with bipartisan support
Modest gun-control legislation does not ban assault-type weapons or raise minimum age for buying them
I don’t want to be the guy who went abroad and realised everything is wrong with Ireland
Rónán Riordan on his journey from Kerry to Berlin and his toxic relationship with Dublin
Abortion rights: Protests across US over prospect Roe v Wade to be struck down
Thousands gather at Washington Monument for fiery speeches before marching to Supreme Court
Powell confirmed by Senate for second term as Fed chair
Incumbent had been renominated by Biden late last year
Roe v Wade: Republicans block US Bill to protect abortion access
Democrats fall short of 60 votes needed to explicitly bar a wide array of restrictions
Ferdinand Marcos Jr on track to win Philippine presidential election
Victory for Marcos would mark political rehabilitation of family that ran notorious dictatorship
Biden urges Americans to elect more pro-choice politicians to Congress
President says Roe v Wade ruling should be upheld as right to choose abortion is ‘fundamental’
Coveney heads for US to meet Biden administration officials
Minister to discuss NI protocol after British signals of law to shelve parts of mechanism
Somewhere, Reagan weeps: Republicans are overreaching in the culture war
US Politics: To be un-woke is no doubt an electoral winner. To be anti-woke is riskier
Somali MPs come under attack at swearing-in ceremony
Al-Qaeda-aligned militants al-Shabaab fire shells at event in crises-stricken country
Democrats hope health will stand to them in tough midterms
America Letter: Healthcare is divisive in the US, but Obamacare has grown in popularity
Law-makers in Oklahoma approve near-total ban on abortion
Measure would make performing abortions outside medical emergencies criminal
Appointment of first black woman to US supreme court moves step closer
Final vote on confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson expected later this week
As Biden’s poll numbers fall, Republicans set to sharpen attacks ahead of elections
President facing criticism over inflation, son’s business dealings and immigration
White House scrambles to backtrack on Biden’s comments on Putin
Antony Blinken says US does ‘not have a strategy of regime change in Russia’
Maureen Dowd: Real Justice – Justice Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been cast into the same medieval torture chamber as Anita Hill
Trump drops endorsement of Mo Brooks’s Senate campaign
Ex-president of US says Alabama candidate went ‘woke’ in comments about false claims
Pat Leahy: Reflections on the Taoiseach’s Covid-hit week in Washington
No Oval Office meeting, but Martin used trip to clearly position Ireland with the West
Pandemic funding in US under threat as Covid picture darkens
America Letter: As cases threaten to rise, release of funds falls prey to partisan politics
US senators relaunch move to secure thousands of visas for Irish people
Democrat and Republican politicians put forward Bill to revive E3 visa scheme
Taoiseach to discuss two-way Irish-US migration exchange with Biden
Martin will also thank the president for his ‘steadfast’ support for Belfast Agreement
Endgame in Ukraine: How could the war play out?
Russia’s campaign beset by strategic errors, logistical shortcomings and intelligence blunders
Humanitarian crisis in Ukraine escalating as peace talks fail to progress
US vice-president Kamala Harris backs calls for war crimes investigation over invasion
Ketanji Brown Jackson is nominated to become first black woman on US supreme court
Biden fulfills campaign promise in ‘historic’ nomination to country’s highest court
Dealing with the legacy of history at the Capitol in Texas
America Letter: Monuments to confederate forces in the Civil War another symbol of division in America
Finns don’t wish ‘Finlandisation’ on Ukraine – or anyone else
Model being invoked as possible solution to Ukraine crisis is discredited in country that gave it its name
Miriam Lord: Norris honours two 100-year-olds in Seanad comeback
Longest-serving Senator makes warmly received speech celebrating Ulysses centenary
Georgia offers bitter illustration of America’s voting rights divide
New laws to limit voting access at the heart of threat to US democracy, campaigners say
Maureen Dowd: Reflections on a good cop shot down
Jason Rivera epitomised what we want – a valiant officer full of compassion and joy
Italian government’s unity threatened by split over vote for next president
League leader Salvini’s backing of Casellati in defiance of his coalition partners could herald the end of Draghi’s government
Brown Jackson emerges as frontrunner for vacant US supreme court seat
If appointed, she would be first black woman to sit on country’s most powerful bench
Mitch McConnell’s viral Black voter comments cause widespread furore
Senate minority leader’s comments came after blocked voting rights bill by Republicans
Biden’s domestic agenda stalls as pressure mounts one year into office
Major infrastructure plan has passed but voting rights and social reforms are in limbo
Maureen Dowd: Joe Biden better Build Better or he won’t be Back
US president was elected to be Not Trump ... he has overpromised and underdelivered
Fed chief warns high inflation threatens jobs recovery
Jay Powell tells senators that era of pandemic stimulus is over
US public’s desire for revolution is a figment of Democrats’ imagination
US Politics: Most people want a return to pre-pandemic normality, not drastic change
Biden likely to signal willingness to change Senate rules to facilitate voting rights reforms
Amendment to filibuster may be on cards in move to overcome restrictions on voting
Crucial week for Biden as voting reform moves intensify
Michelle Obama spearheads campaign to register a million new voters in the US
Kazakhstan Q&A: How has country gone from stability to turmoil?
Dozens dead and thousands detained in worst violence in country since independence
Inside the assault on the Capitol: ‘These people were crazed and out of their minds’
Capitol riots have become yet another talking point in America's never-ending culture war
Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid dies at 82
‘A crucial, pivotal figure in the development of his beloved home state’
Minimum corporation tax rate will not abolish competition, EU says
New measures include 15% corporation tax floor and crackdown on shell companies
The Irish Times view on Joe Biden’s domestic troubles: The threat of defeat
US president has little choice but to persist with the Build Back Better Bill
Biden faces hard choices to save key domestic goals
Rejection of Build Back Better plan by Manchin poses dilemma for Democrats
The Irish Times view on Donald Trump’s role in the US Capitol attack
Failure to prosecute him will in the long run encourage others, or a returning Trump, to engage in similar conduct
Biden’s domestic plan suffers huge blow as Manchin says he will reject spending Bill
White House says it will seek to move ahead on €1.75tn Bill next year regardless
The US system is no match for Donald Trump
Other democracies have shown themselves far more capable of punishing abuses of power
Survivors of Larry Nassar reach €345m settlement with USA Gymnastics
Simone Biles among sexual abuse survivors who testified against disgraced USA doctor
Georgia facing ‘ugly and nasty’ election as Trump intervenes
America Letter: Republicans battle over who should oppose Democrat Stacey Abrams
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