The Irish Times

US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds

Zemari Ahmadi, who died with nine members of his family, including seven children, had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation suggests

Sun Sept 12 2021 - 23:34

Biden to order millions of workers to get vaccinated against Covid

Federal employees who do not comply with directives could be sacked, says White House

Fri Sept 10 2021 - 00:21

Microsoft’s ripped-up Jedi contract, Sydney in lockdown and the Sun Valley elite

Planet Business: New chair of embattled Teneo looks to put an end to ‘bad occurrences’

Sat Jul 10 2021 - 05:20

US: Pentagon to cancel Trump border-wall projects

Billions of dollars diverted from military by Trump administration expected to be returned

Fri Apr 30 2021 - 22:09

Ganley dismisses Trump attack on his company as ‘politics’

Ex-president fires broadside at Karl Rove, lobbyist for Irish businessman’s firm Rivada

Fri Mar 05 2021 - 21:38

White House and Republican governors clash over easing of restrictions

Americans warned not to lower guard as vaccinations rolled out across states

Thu Mar 04 2021 - 21:27

Capitol Hill security officials defend actions during January 6th riots

Officials blamed intelligence failures for lack of preparedness for co-ordinated assault

Tue Feb 23 2021 - 19:44

America’s new decision makers: Who’s who in the Biden cabinet

Experience the common denominator among new officials set to drive US policy

Fri Jan 29 2021 - 20:00

Trump vetoes $740bn defence bill despite strong backing in Congress

US president blocks bill calling it a ‘gift’ to China, Russia and that it does not respect veterans

Wed Dec 23 2020 - 21:04

Biden defends choice of Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon

President-elect addresses concerns department would not be led by a civilian

Wed Dec 09 2020 - 21:03

Trump treatment includes experimental drug from firm with a Limerick factory

President was granted access to REGN-COV2 following a compassionate-use request

Sun Oct 04 2020 - 10:35

Trump says economy ready to go ‘like a rocketship’ as deaths climb

President makes claim as small businesses have difficulties accessing emergency funds

Tue Apr 07 2020 - 21:59

Vladimir Putin ‘still uses obsolete Windows XP’ despite hacking risk

Microsoft stopped releasing security updates for XP in 2014, making it vulnerable to viruses

Wed Dec 18 2019 - 15:43

Amazon sues Pentagon over $10bn Jedi contract

Complaint alleges ‘escalating and overt pressure’ from Trump denied firm contract

Mon Dec 09 2019 - 19:43

‘In the US, no one cares that I’m only 27 or what school I attended’

Wild Geese: Shane McCarthy is chief marketing officer for military social media platform Sandboxx

Fri Dec 06 2019 - 05:36

US defence secretary departs role ahead of FBI investigation

Patrick Shanahan was deemed counterweight to John Bolton’s hawkishness

Tue Jun 18 2019 - 20:33

Pentagon chief says $1bn of funding shifted to border wall

Donald Trump declared national emergency to bypass Congress with barrier plan

Tue Mar 26 2019 - 06:56

More bad press for killer robots

‘The core issue is whether a robot should be able to select and acquire its own targets’

Thu Mar 14 2019 - 08:07

Republican senator says she was raped while serving in US air force

Martha McSally tells Senate hearing she did not report rape because she was ‘ashamed and confused’

Thu Mar 07 2019 - 06:37

Trump’s national emergency declaration triggers legal action

Texas landowners file legal challenge as president cites immigration as threat

Sat Feb 16 2019 - 08:57

Talks to avoid further US government shutdown stall

Democrats and Republicans divided over immigration policy and border wall

Sun Feb 10 2019 - 20:38

Trump set to focus on immigration in State of the Union speech

Fears US president could declare national emergency to secure funding for border wall

Mon Feb 04 2019 - 21:27

Trump again threatens to declare emergency over wall funds

US president says meetings with Democrats on border issue are ‘waste of time’

Fri Feb 01 2019 - 20:10

Boost for Trump as court bans transgender people from military

Democrats criticise ruling as shutdown over $5.7bn border wall budget continues

Tue Jan 22 2019 - 20:32

A favourite restaurant in Syria led Islamic State to Americans

Four Americans among at least 15 killed in attack in Manbij, a town seen as a US-backed island of stability

Mon Jan 21 2019 - 09:42

Trump cancels US delegation to Davos and Pelosi Afghan trip, citing shutdown

President withdraws permission for House speaker to use military aircraft for trip

Fri Jan 18 2019 - 00:07

Trump continues to play blame game over shutdown

Senator Lindsey Graham urges Republicans to back president if emergency powers invoked

Sun Jan 13 2019 - 21:09

Hundreds of thousands of US workers left without pay

No deal in sight as government shutdown set to become longest in history

Fri Jan 11 2019 - 20:53

Trump visits US-Mexico frontier as impasse over border wall continues

Stances hardening on both sides as stand-off over border wall nears end of third week

Thu Jan 10 2019 - 21:15

The Irish engineer who broke new ground in study of earthquakes

In 1846 Robert Mallet delivered a paper on a machine to register seismic motion

Thu Sept 13 2018 - 06:00

US military signs up for war on ovarian cancer

John Holden: For all liberal fears of the US military industrial complex, the massive funding it receives also supports research into issues such as the ovarian cancer

Thu Sept 06 2018 - 11:17