‘You’re a failed lawyer’: Key takeaways from Pam Bondi’s combative Senate hearing
Bondi cast her responses as a defence of the Trump administration
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Fierce blame game as Maria Steen’s backers point fingers in wake of failed presidential campaign
A barrage of social media pleas, letters and emails made up the last, frantic hours of campaign
‘None of us got out unscathed’: Senator speaks of experience ‘living in very violent home’
Nicole Ryan shared her childhood experience during a debate on the Domestic Voilence Bill
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
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
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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