Vance focuses on fearmongering as tariffs backlash hits Kansas heartland
Incumbent senator Roger Marshall was booed as he attempted to argue the Trump administration is lowering living costs
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‘US business people buy properties in Ireland because they love everything about it’
Westmeath-born, Palm Beach-based Desmond Keogh, president of the Irish Georgian Society in the US, owns Oakley Park House in Co Meath
JD Vance pitches himself as Trump’s political heir at Republican midterm convention
Vance praised Donald Trump as ‘the toughest SOB in American politics’
The $5,000 question: can Trump really deliver his election cash pledge?
US president’s promise of ‘dividend’ raises legal, political and economic questions, with the plan likely to cost more than $1 trillion
Donald Trump pledges $5,000 for each US citizen if Republicans win midterms
Trump rehashes Maga message at Dallas convention that America is poised for new golden age if voters stick with him and hell if they don’t
Is controversy-plagued Pete Hegseth eyeing up a 2028 presidential bid?
Trump’s secretary of war has terrible approval ratings and a cabinet career defined by indefatigable bombast
Melania Trump to skip US president’s Ireland visit
People before Profit TD Paul Murphy says he has ‘every confidence’ President Catherine Connolly will challenge Trump on Palestine
The US’s financial position is deteriorating rapidly. This is bad news for Ireland
Foreign investment in US bond market has been a boon for Americans, but they are vulnerable to a change in sentiment
A wickedly inventive political ad is airing in Texas as midterm elections loom
Success of many democratic socialist candidates primary vote cycle has been down to avowed refusal to accept donations from super PACs
South Carolina chooses Darline Graham as Republican nominee for US Senate
Sister of Lindsey Graham, with Donald Trump’s support, overcomes concern about her lack of legislative experience
Democrats critical of meeting between Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner
Private New York talks take place as Democrats grow increasingly confident of retaking the House in November
As Trump poll ratings slide divisions threaten to fracture Republican Party
World View: The party has always been a fractious coalition, but more recently a split has emerged between the libertarians and a putative ‘national conservative’ tendency
Jon Ossoff might just be the Democrats’ best answer to the US decade of chaos
There’s much more to the Georgia senator than a controversial barb about one of Donald Trump’s aides
Smithsonian Museum targeted by Trump administration as culture war plays out across US
Saving America’s Story, a 162-page report released last month by the White House, has horrified some historians
Europe has no choice but to wish Marco Rubio well, even if it is through gritted teeth
Americans who support reckless wars are sometimes also the most likely to defend democratic Europe
Bad news for Donald Trump in Florida: The rise of David Jolly
The Sunshine State has not had a Democratic governor this century – that could change despite the US president’s approval of Byron Donalds
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave role at end of month, says Trump
Leavitt joined US president’s 2024 campaign and will become an outside communications adviser
David Crowley defeats Francesca Hong to win Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor
Race was latest test of the durability of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing
A political outsider with radical ideas is shaking up Wisconsin politics
Backed by young voters and socialist activists, Francesca Hong has been the target of Donald Trump’s verbal barbs
Trump loyalist Todd Blanche confirmed as US attorney general
President’s one-time personal attorney becomes head of country’s top law enforcement department
US senator Mitch McConnell (84) leaves rehab centre to continue recovery from fall at home
Republican’s absence narrows path for Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche to be made head of justice department
US Senate panel votes to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of congress over Covid hearing
Fauci invoked fifth amendment dozens of times to parry hostile Republican inquisition over pandemic response
‘Ugliest election race of the year’: Democrats’ civil war erupts in Michigan
Abdul El-Sayed’s rise reflects a party increasingly defined by generational change, economic anger and foreign-policy dissent
The Democrats’ civil war over Israel is getting worse
While the party fractures over Middle East policy, it is ignoring the threat posed by AI and social media
‘You will live in squalor’: Trump revives Red Scare rhetoric ahead of US midterms
A growing ideological divide within the Democratic Party is giving Trump and his allies a potent new line of attack before the midterms
Mitch McConnell’s disappearance prompts a mini-industry of ghoulish conspiracy theories
With the veteran senator absent since June, Republicans face growing pressure to disclose his condition as their Senate majority tightens
Trump’s most loyal supporters – white working-class men – are becoming disillusioned
Not with his displays of spiteful narcissism, but with rising prices for gas and groceries
Trump, Netanyahu and Zelenskiy attend Lindsey Graham’s funeral in Washington
US president tells memorial service the late senator for South Carolina ‘never saw a war that he didn’t like’
Zelenskiy and Trump discuss efforts to revive peace deal with Russia during Oval Office meeting
Death of Republican senator Lindsey Graham leaves Kyiv without one of its biggest advocates in Washington
Could Hunter Biden be the man to bring the family name back to the White House?
Few Americans have been pilloried as mercilessly as Joe Biden’s son over the past decade, but now there’s talk of him running for the White House
Democrats remain split over their longstanding leniency towards Netanyahu
Party continues to grapple with leniency of Joe Biden’s administration towards Binyamin Netanyahu
Trump imposes new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 80 countries including EU members
Move comes after allegations of lax enforcement of forced labour bans as temporary existing global tariff expires
Trump administration official threatens states to comply with election security measures
US president claimed, without evidence, China interfered in 2020 campaign which Trump lost to Joe Biden
A Trump speech attacking ‘our election infrastructure’ sets alarm bells ringing
Fears grow over fair midterms as Trump claims documents reveal ‘vulnerabilities’ in US election system and alleges compromise of election data by China
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