US Election

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

President-elect sometimes lashes out without following up – but not always

A neuropsychologist on how to cope when the world is in turmoil

Trump promises money in your pocket. To supporters in worn-out shoes and old jackets, that mattered. Harris spoke about ‘joy’, but you cannot tell people how to feel

Trump on track to retain control of the House and of Congress

Vaccine sceptic expected to hold sway over health policy and top appointments

More people voted for Trump, even though many didn’t like him, because they liked Democratic Party less

Data suggests we have an outsized exposure to any potential trade war between Brussels and Washington

US election: president-elect wins 312 Electoral College votes to Kamala Harris’s 226

As the new US president targets the European Union, Ireland is likely to find itself in some uncomfortable positions

Governor’s Whitmer, Shapiro, Newsom and Beshear seen to be ‘warming up’ for tilt at reanimating devastated organisation

What next for the president-elect’s social network of choice?

Labour leader concerned toxic nature of presidential contest may be seen during Irish general election campaign

Former Speaker says if president ended his bid sooner, Democratic Party could have held primary

With a supreme court majority sympathetic both to Republican policies and to a more expansive definition of presidential power, the new administration will have nearly all the tools it needs

Planet Business: Royal private estate income, data-hungry air fryers and the companies keen for it to be Christmas already

There are deep contradictions between Trump’s policies which empower the super-rich and the interests of left behind communities he pretends to represent

Kyiv and Moscow have praised incoming US leader who claims he can end their war in one day

Fears grow in US immigrant communities as president-elect says he has ‘no choice’ but to act on campaign pledge

Markets outside the US have lagged for years