US president Donald Trump is "in excellent health", according to a White House doctor who performed a routine medical.

Former US president George W. Bush has denounced bigotry in Trump-era American politics, warning that the rise of "nativism", isolationism and conspiracy theories have clouded the nation's true identity.

It is no secret that the bulk of Ivanka Trump’s merchandise comes from China. But just which Chinese companies manufacture and export her handbags, shoes and clothes is more secret than ever, an Associated Press investigation has found. By Erika Kinetz 

Donald Trump's administration has officially told the United Nations that the US intends to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

The US president is in Poland this week, where his brand of populism is welcome, as it is in Hungary, but we must not allow him to play eastern and western Europe against each other, says Guy Verhofstadt.

As Donald Trump’s offspring feel the glare of world attention, Andrea Mara looks at the fortunes of the other progeny of previous White House occupants

The White House expects the courts to reaffirm President Donald Trump’s executive power and reinstate a ban on refugees and travellers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States, it said on Sunday.

The modern version of "get off my lawn!".

While it remains to be seen how long it will last, Pokémon Go is the craze of the summer and now it’s launched officially in Ireland.

In an update to her weekly column, Victoria White, argues that we can never come to the beginning of the end of atrocities such as Nice if we don't understand that Bastille Day doesn't mean the same thing to many Arabs as it does to the French.

The Soviet leader did not bang his shoe on the desk at the UN, says granddaughter  ,but few nations are immune to diplomatic blunders

Hillary Clinton’s tough talk isn’t just talk. Throughout her career as a senator and US secretary of state, she displayed instincts on foreign policy that are far more aggressive than those of President Barrack Obama or any Democrat, writes Mark Landler.

The Obama administration will likely soon release at least part of a 28-page secret chapter from a congressional inquiry into 9/11 that may shed light on possible Saudi connections to the attackers.

The GOP’s leading candidates for the US presidential nomination are the equally despised authoritarian billionaire Donald Trump and religious zealot Ted Cruz, says Bette Browne

Hillary Clinton is fighting a battle against Bernie Sanders in Nevada. Emily Cadei reports on the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in the deeply divided ‘swing state’

Former US president George H.W. Bush suffered a neck fracture in a fall at his home in Maine, though he was listed in stable condition and his hospital stay was expected to be brief, his spokesman said.

Sharon Ní Bheoláin did it and it made the Nine O’Clock News.

Two incredibly cute burrowing owls have been revealed at Blair Drummond Safari Park. Their names? Ant and Dec.

Barack Obama has been voted the worst US President of the modern era in a poll of 1,446 registered voters.

The Obama administration accidentally revealed the name of the CIA’s top official in Afghanistan in an email to thousands of journalists during the president’s surprise weekend trip to Bagram Air Field.

Once he galvanised vast crowds with the cry: “let’s go change the world!”

What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It

WHEN Barack Obama made history in Nov 2008, Nitzan Horowitz, then covering the campaign for Israel’s Channel 10, had a front-row seat.

A private jet that had former US president George W. Bush on board made an emergency landing last night.

The White House has defended the government’s need to collect telephone records of American citizens, calling such information “a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats”.

IT ALWAYS seemed improbable that Arab sheiks could save journalism.

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.

Former US president George H.W. Bush has been admitted to a hospital intensive care unit “following a series of setbacks including a persistent fever”, but he is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said.

Former US president George H.W. Bush will spend Christmas in a Texas hospital after developing a fever and weakness following a month-long, bronchitis-like cough, his spokesman said.

Gun enthusiasts thronged to shows around the United States over the weekend to buy assault weapons they fear will soon be outlawed after a massacre of school children in Connecticut prompted calls for tighter controls on firearms.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were in an extraordinarily tight battle for the White House today, but some key states were falling to the current president.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney capped an aggressive, deeply negative and vastly expensive campaign today to wait the decision of voters in an election that left Americans the choice of starkly different visions for the country’s future.

The final key economic report four days before the US presidential election held something for both candidates today, showing the monthly unemployment rate ticked up slightly but created far more jobs than expected.

Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney confront each other on foreign policy early tomorrow morning UK time in a third and final presidential debate, a must-win televised face-off heading into the final two weeks of the deadlocked campaign for the White House.

Barack Obama vows to put up a fight in his second debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a promise the president will need to keep if he is to overcome his lacklustre, momentum-stalling performance in the candidates' first debate two weeks ago.

US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney clashed over taxes, deficits and how to revive the US economy last night as they shared the stage for the first time in a high-stakes debate with the power to reshape the race for the White House.

The US Treasury Department said that the national debt has topped US$16 trillion (€12.7 trillion), the result of chronic government deficits that have poured more than US$50,000 (€39,746) worth of red ink onto federal ledgers for every man, woman and child in the United States.

The US Democrat convention will get underway tonight with the aim of selling Barack Obama as the wise and humane alternative to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney.

Republicans have moved into the ritual of formally nominating Mitt Romney as their candidate to unseat president Barack Obama, anxiously watching a storm threatening to hit New Orleans just as the first political speeches begin.

Tropical storm Isaac was on the verge of becoming a full-blown hurricane as it rolled over the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana.

The US Supreme Court today upheld the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, handing him a huge election-year political victory.