The Government looks set to unveil an unprecedented income-support scheme in the coming days in which it will pay 75% or 80% of the wages of the thousands of workers who have lost and will lose their jobs amid the Covid-19 crisis.

The US Justice Department plans to propose changes to a legal shield enjoyed by companies such as Google and Facebook amid criticism that the tech platforms carry material that promotes illicit conduct and suppresses conservative opinions.

10,500 E3 visas are currently offered to Australian citizens, but only half of them are taken up.

The US President has long denigrated the non-partisan work of his intelligence analysts, but he has finally ratcheted that up to the firing of top officials, says Kent Harrington

Two white men in their late-70s will now battle it out to become the standard-bearer for an increasingly diverse Democratic party in the US. Julie Pace reports from Washington

The election in the US this year comes at a time of crisis for democracy. Elizabeth Drew looks at some of the Democratic candidates.

Only a game? Not strictly true.

He flopped in Iowa, but the former US vice-president insists he will prevail and capture the Democratic nomination and oust Donald Trump from the White House, writes Mark Leibovich.

Across the Atlantic, we have witnessed some very odd behaviour by two senior politicians, in the form of petulance in the US House of Congress.

The race to select a Democratic candidate to depose incumbent president Donald Trump begins in Iowa on Monday. Bette Browne casts an eye over the runners and riders.

With a holistic approach that engages governments, corporations, and civil society, the practice of using child workers can be ended, writes Kailash Satyarthi

Earlier this week President Vladimir Putin announced plans to amend Russia's constitution so he will, when he is obliged to stand down as president in 2024, retain power. Moscow's parliament was informed though not consulted on measures that mean Putin's two decades of autocracy will not end when he resigns.

A few months after the 37th president of the United States resigned when faced with the near certainty of impeachment, his one-time senior adviser Henry Kissinger gave his verdict on the former leader of the free world.

This means if Trump is re-elected they will take home €47,727.27.

Stormont, despite positive post-election noises, remains mothballed. Tribalism is re-energised.

A joke from the old USSR reported an exchange during a Politburo discussion about a ten-year plan that almost all those present thought was progressing satisfactorily. “Yes,” grunts a dissenter steeped in Marxist theology, “it’s very, very successful in practice, but the theory is all wrong.”

The case against Trump is very different to that against Nixon and Clinton as US foreign policy is at its very core and it comes at a time of rising global instability, says Carl Bildt

Pledges issued by China’s leaders may mark the beginning of the end of Hong Kong as we know it, but the plan is also likely to hurt the mainland, writes Minxin Pei

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

I’ve followed and studied politics all my life.

If the US president is impeached, as seems likely, his name will be blackened in history, and the scandal may be as big as Watergate, in 1974, says Elizabeth Drew.

America’s Democrats have made a serious mistake by launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, writes Eric Posner

Revelations about Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine’s president are shaping up to be the most serious threat to his presidency so far, surpassing even the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference that dogged the first two years of his administration.

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.

US President Donald Trump has said he plans to name hostage negotiator Robert O’Brien as his new national security adviser.

A senior US politician has warned that lawmakers could block a future US-UK trade deal if the Good Friday Agreement is undermined.

After every mass shooting in the United States, Americans and others around the world are confronted with the question of what lies behind this distinctly American horror, says Elizabeth Drew.

Mr Coveney said unless the British Government changes its approach on Brexit, then we are facing managing a no-deal Brexit, which he said will put great pressure on everybody.

The racist abuse that local councillor Hazel Chu has received has emboldened her to run for the Senate, as well as for President of Ireland.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by.

The US president’s July saw him celebrate Independence Day with a military parade, and attack a group of black congresswomen and a congressman, writes Elizabeth Drew.

The 25 candidates for the party’s presidential nomination have been scoring points off one another, but beating Donald Trump will be a tougher task, says Elizabeth Drew,

France won’t back off from its planned tax on companies like Facebook and Google, even after the US suggested it may use trade tools against the levy.

Waterford Fine Gael TD John Deasy has hit out at party rivals Paudie Coffey and Maurice Cummins saying he won't listen to people “who couldn't get elected to the Dáil”.

An organisation working to protect vulnerable adults is calling for “urgent delivery” of safeguarding legislation.

As the US Congress returns from a 10-day break, the question of whether the House of Representatives (controlled by the Democrats) should formally commence the process of impeaching US president Donald Trump for misdeeds committed during his tenure — and perhaps before — has split the party.

Donald Trump’s own landing on the Normandy beaches to commemorate D-Day will be launched from the links in Doonbeg, Co Clare.

Limerick will get a directly elected mayor after the people in the city and county approved of the proposal in last week's plebiscite.

One in eight people who witnessed the abuse of a vulnerable adult in the past year did nothing, it has emerged.

Things have gotten ugly in Washington since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election — and they’re about to get uglier.

The appointment of Edward Crawford as the next US Ambassador to Ireland took a step closer yesterday after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve his nomination.

The E3 is a two-year renewable visa and is currently only available to Australian nationals.

Mr Quinn served as a Senator from 1993 to 2016.