What former acting US attorney general, Sally Yates, told Congress about the Kremlin’s possible infiltration of the Oval Office is shockingly reminiscent of the Hoover era, says Tim Weiner

Ryle Dwyer looks back 30 years to Garret Fitzgerald’s St Patrick’s Day State visit to the White House, and its impact on the Northern peace process

Daniel Teegan (Irish Examiner, Letters 25/6/15) distorts the reality of Israel, saying it is a continuation of Western colonialism in the Middle East.

I wish to bring some historical perspective to the hype of the D Day invasion:

Photographs of Hollywood stars found in a dusty old filing cabinet are to be exhibited for the first time.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that the latter approaches every issue with an open mind, a politician with an open mouth.

The mayor of Limerick, Cllr Gerry McLoughlin, was among the many public figures who attended the funeral yesterday of Limerick journalist Arthur Quinlan.

"I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child’s character."

“ROLL TIDE,” one of my fellow hill walkers Shane said out of nowhere as we came down off the Temescal Trail, north of Santa Monica.

TODAY is a big day in Washington DC, with a momentous collision of giants set to unfold on a golf course in the American capital. Except we’re not talking about Congressional Country Club and the 111th US Open.

BARACK OBAMA’S foes will rejoice if his Democrats get thumped in mid-term congressional elections, but even if his presidency needs a rethink, it may be premature to prepare his political obituary for 2012.

FORMER US President Harry Truman once explained: “My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honourable than current politicians.”

US AFGHAN commander Stanley McChrystal was sacked by Barack Obama last night for publicly criticising the President.

US Afghan commander Stanley McChrystal was sacked by Barack Obama tonight for publicly criticising the president.

The US’s Afghanistan war commander General Stanley McChrystal has been called to the White House after President Barack Obama rebuked him for “poor judgement” and considered whether to fire him.

AS a cadre of Leinster House foot soldiers is unnerved by withering opinion polls and an election looming on an not-so-distant horizon, Brian Cowen and Enda Kenny’s leaderships are under fire.

THE present state of disillusionment with politics is the worst I have witnessed. In this week’s public opinion poll, the Government satisfaction rating was a mere 12%, which is the lowest I can remember in any democracy.

BARACK OBAMA’S first test as president came as he was being sworn in. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, got the presidential oath wrong.

PUBLIC opinion polls in the United States seem to suggest it is all over bar the shouting. If Barack Obama does not win on Tuesday, it will be the biggest surprise since Harry Truman retained the Presidency exactly 60 years tomorrow.

ONE week into the US general election race, the polls show a dead heat. But many US presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any.

IF THERE was ever any doubt as to the municipal heart of this week’s US Open venue, it can be dispelled by Henrik Stenson’s experience there just before Christmas.

President George W Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history, according to a new poll.

Voters in Pennsylvania will finally choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in today’s critical contest in the race to the White House.

Barack Obama stood alongside a trio of former president John F Kennedy’s family members as he was hailed as the man who could change America, reinvigorate the American Dream and “turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion” today.

THOUGH he had never met him, Richard Nixon hated Alger Hiss. Nixon was a young Congressman who had struggled against poverty all his life.

President George W Bush for the second time was chosen as Time magazine’s Person of the Year, after winning re-election and “reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style” – a reference to his cowboy image.

President George W Bush and Senator John Kerry accused each other of lacking the hard-nosed resolve of Cold War presidents – from Democrat Harry Truman to Republican Ronald Reagan – reaching across party lines a week before Election Day to try to break their campaign deadlock.

DEMOCRATIC candidate John Kerry accused president Bush yesterday of hiding bad decisions and said it raised the prospect of more bad news Bush was trying to hide.

“ON the eve of his recent sojourn in Europe, President Bush had an unpleasant run-in with a species of creature he had not previously encountered often — a journalist.”

LAST year people were taking it for granted that George W Bush would be re-elected this November, but the lessons of history would suggest that it may not be so easy. Indeed public opinion polls indicate that he has an uphill battle.

MORDECHAI VANUNU was released on Wednesday after serving almost 18 years in jail for telling the truth about Israel's surreptitious efforts to develop nuclear weapons in 1986.

WHEN Adolf Hitler shot himself in Berlin on April 30, 1945, the United States was at the height of its power.