With televised hearings starting today, Democrats want to build a strong case that Trump abused his presidential powers. Republicans won’t be cowed easily, writes Susan Cornwell

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A secret whistleblower complaint at the centre of an impeachment inquiry alleges that President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to “solicit interference from a foreign country” in next year’s US election.

The Democrat debates will see 10 prospective presidential candidates argue why they should receive the nomination to take on Donald Trump. Bette Browne looks at the runners.

Your editorial (Irish Examiner, August 7) dealing with the attendance of young Fine Gael members at a conservative youth conference is dangerously intolerant of opposing views, and dangerously incendiary by attempting to link the inherent evil of white supremacy and racism to mainstream conservatism.

Who said the following: “The vast majority of asylum seekers are free-loaders, blackguards, and hoodlums. They are hunted out of their own placeby their own people. I’d take a genuine asylum seeker and put him under my own roof. But where is he?

Timothy L O’Brien says describing Donald Trump’s racist baiting of four new Democratic congresswomen of different ethnic backgrounds as ‘strategic’ gives him too much credit.

Decades ago, traditional governments in the West were the mainstream. Today, they are alone in the woods, wondering where everyone went, say Ismaël Emelien and David Amiel

So that’s Tuesday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

In American politics, the Republican Party's commitment to the fossil-fuel industry means that it will continue to deny climate science and favour policies that exacerbate global warming.

Democrats will "never" see US president Donald Trump's tax returns, said White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as a new front opened in the confrontation between the administration and Congress.

"To try to demonise your political opponent by using his Irishness is absolutely absurd and it's racist."

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America’s friends and allies couldn’t do it. Nor could America’s potential enemies. Neither could his wife, children or White House staff. It took the American people to reign in Donald Trump.

A win for Irish Texan Beto O’Rourke in the US midterm elections could reorder politics in America and precipitate Trump’s downfall.

From Washington to Pyongyang, Paul Manafort may change how the US and its tweeting president are viewed, writes David Eckles Wade.

With Paul Ryan retiring as House speaker, the race is on to assuage Trump and secure his support. One key powerbroker is targeting the Mueller probe, writes Bette Browne.

In advance of his appearance at West Cork literary festival, novelist Joseph O’Neill tells Ellie O’Byrne about his new book of short stories, and the democratic emergency in the US.

It’s said Trump wants to be his own chief of staff... that can only happen if he gets rid of John Kelly, writes Fergus Finlay. 

Latest: One person has died and another was seriously injured after a chartered train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat struck a refuse truck in Virginia, the White House has confirmed.

Donald Trump supporters across the US have lashed out against his proposal to create a path to citizenship for nearly two million "Dreamer" immigrants.

In many countries societies are divided on globalisation and immigration. Only by listening to the grievances of those left behind can we find a way forward, says Tony Blair.

A stable and secure EU could become the most important pillar of the UK’s post-Brexit security strategy, writes Jacek Rostowski

Powerful interests that stand with Trump believe in one thing - the ability to bend the free market to their purposes, writes Fergus Finlay

His nomination as the next head of the US Federal Reserve means Jerome Powell is set to become one the world’s most powerful and influential individuals, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A pair of senators from US president Donald Trump's own Republican Party have blistered him with criticism in a dramatic day of denunciation that laid bare a party at war with itself.

He has been critical of the path that the Republican Party has taken under President Trump.

The president cannot be tamed, so it is time to put the national interest ahead of party politics, says Nina L Khrushcheva.  

Legislative roadblocks to President Trump’s tax reform plans could bring US economic expansion

If the US president scuppers the nuclear deal, Iran, a proud, resource-rich nation, which also has a large uranium stockpile, will not capitulate, says Seyed Hossein Mousavian.

We owe it to all of those who suffered under past authoritarian regimes to stand up now, writes Guy Verhofstadt

WHO knew Sinn Féin and Fine Gael had so much in common?

Barack Obama has hit out at Donald Trump's decision to end protections for illegal immigrants brought into the US as children.

Egypt's president and foreign minister have met with White House adviser Jared Kushner, just hours after the Trump administration cut or delayed hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Cairo over human rights concerns.

A combative President Donald Trump has again insisted "there is blame on both sides" for the deadly weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Latest: The man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been denied bail after the public defender's office said it could not represent him and the judge was forced to find a local attorney to fill in.

Impasse is an undervalued resource. This is a great time for not getting things done. In our always-on world, inactivity isn’t a value that’s believed in. We know of no usefulness except the doing of things.

With the sacking of Anthony Scaramucci, General John Kelly showed he meant business, but whether he can control Donald Trump remains to be seem, writes Bette Browne

Donald Trump has told his fellow Republicans they must not go off on their summer holidays without sending him an Obamacare repeal bill to sign.

Former US presidential candidate Senator John McCain has promised to beat the brain cancer he has been diagnosed with after having a blood clot removed.

Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after having a blood clot removed.

The latest Republican effort to repeal "Obamacare" was fatally wounded in the Senate when two more party senators announced their opposition to legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump.

Robert Harvey examines the relatively new phenomenon in politics that has seen the rise of the supra-politician promising to save the day, despite their lack of political experience