THE proposal by the Trump administration to abolish the position of US special envoy to Northern Ireland must be countered by both the Irish and British governments.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has formally withdrawn from consideration for a post in President-elect Donald Trump's administration.

The United States says its new round of sanctions against North Korea is just the opening salvo in its response to an unprecedented cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Barack Obama is preparing for the possibility of unilateral American military action against Syria within days, hours after Britain opted out in a stunning Commons vote.

US President Barack Obama will propose a bargain for middle-class jobs that would cut the US corporate tax rate and use billions of dollars in revenues generated by a business tax overhaul to fund projects aimed at creating jobs.

President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans yesterday looked ahead to the next round of even bigger budget fights after reaching a hard-fought fiscal cliff deal that narrowly averted potentially devastating tax hikes and spending cuts.

The shape of a deal to avert the US "fiscal cliff" is emerging with just hours to go before a midnight deadline, Washington sources have said.

Democrats and Republicans say signs of progress are emerging in urgent negotiations to avert the looming US fiscal cliff ahead of a midnight deadline.

Barack Obama and House of Representatives speaker John Boehner met at the White House amid talks to avert America’s impending “fiscal cliff” as a growing number of Republicans in Congress appeared to be veering towards accepting the president’s demand that the wealthy must pay more tax.

The leader of the US House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner, urged President Barack Obama to explain the legal grounds for the continued US military involvement in Libya and set a Friday deadline for the commander in chief’s response.

Barack Obama has assured Russian president Dimitry Medvedev that a US Senate vote on the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) should happen this week.

US president Barack Obama clashed angrily with Republican senators at a Washington lunch where they accused him of duplicity, audacity and unbending partisanship.

A $14bn (€10.6bn) rescue package for the US car industry was in danger today from Republicans who threaten a Senate revolt.

The 110th US Congress convened today with Democrats in control of both the House of Representatives and Senate for the first time in a dozen years.

Republicans today struggled to prevent a Democratic takeover of the US Senate after losing Republican-held seats in Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.