Handing the immigration hot potato to a chaotic, factionalised majority party on Capitol Hill

Republican congressman Steve Scalise is "in some trouble" after being shot at a baseball field but "he's going to be okay, we hope", Donald Trump said.

The Republican-led US House of Representatives has backed legislation to undo much of former president Barack Obama's landmark banking law created after the 2008 economic crisis.

Witnesses said he grabbed Ben Jacobs and slammed him to the ground after being asked about the Republican health care bill.

A candidate in a US congressional election has been charged with misdemeanor assault for grabbing a reporter by the neck and throwing him to the ground.

The US House of Representatives has voted to block online privacy regulations issued during the final months of the Obama administration, a first step towards allowing internet providers to sell the browsing habits of their customers.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump likened his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States to World War II policies implemented by US president Franklin Roosevelt against people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

A senior Takata executive yesterday defended the Japanese company’s rejection of a nationwide US recall of its potentially deadly airbags, insisting that testing data did not back such an action.

After years of resistance, Obama is taking a risk by committing US forces in Iraq says Julie Pace

The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community centre and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt.

A slim majority of Puerto Ricans sought to change their ties with the United States and become the 51st US state in a non-binding referendum that would require final approval from Congress.

The would-be American Senator who claimed women's bodies were able to prevent pregnancies if they were raped went into hiding today amid a storm of protest over his remarks.

US investors are rooting for Mitt Romney and those overseas are for Barack Obama. Newt Gingrich is generating little enthusiasm anywhere.

The dollar has dropped against the yen in Asia after the US House delayed a vote on a plan to avert a potentially catastrophic US debt default, raising downgrade fears.

A JUDGE has ordered former US House majority leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.

President Barack Obama today insisted the United States was serious about combating global warming, telling world peers “we are determined to act”.

BANK shares plunged yesterday as the market readied itself for another week of financial reports.

THE ISEQ index finished 93.32 points weaker yesterday at 2,251.15 as investors remained very cautious of the banking sector after the government’s €7bn bank recapitalisation was overshadowed by Anglo Irish Bank/Irish Life and Permanent’s deposit transfer scandal and Bank of Ireland’s statement on its bad loans.

Senate leaders will vote tonight in a surprise move to resurrect US president George Bush’s $700bn (€482bn) Wall Street rescue plan.

TURKEY swiftly condemned a US House panel’s approval of a bill describing the World War I era mass killings of Armenians as genocide, accusing lawmakers of distorting history.

Bowing to President George Bush, the Democratic-controlled Congress grudgingly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that sparked his earlier veto.

A sharply divided US House of Representatives passed legislation ordering President George Bush to begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq by October 1.

The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives passed a bill bolstering embryonic stem cell research that advocates say shows promise for numerous medical cures.

The US House of Representatives passed a $94.5bn (€75bn) Bill today to pay for continuing US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane relief, bird flu preparations and border security at home.

THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a $491 billion (€392bn) defence bill that contains new funds for the war in Iraq, but it rejected an attempt to force on the Bush administration a timetable for withdrawing troops from the country.

A US House committee has voted to prohibit women in the military from serving in direct ground combat roles as part of a bill setting Defence Department policy and spending plans for the coming budget year.

US doctors last night removed Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube despite an extraordinary, last-minute push by Republicans on Capitol Hill to keep the brain-damaged woman alive.

SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, an advocate for minority rights who became the first black woman elected to Congress and later the first black person to seek a major party’s nomination for the US presidency, has died aged 80.

The weapons inspector given the task of finding Saddam Hussein’s much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction tonight declared that he had found none.

THE US is deploying more than 1,000 warplanes, hundreds of tanks and thousands of bombs to fight the war in Iraq.

THE White House last night quickly shot down an Iraqi offer to let members of Congress tour suspected biological, chemical and nuclear weapons sites.