Hillary Clinton's youngest brother Tony Rodham has died at the age of 65.

It says a lot that at his first rally of America’s 2020 presidential election campaign, Joe Biden promised to rebuild the middle class.

It is difficult to believe that the politicians we imagine, in the widest sweep of the term, to be social democrats are capable of sustaining that system, one that created more equality, more wealth, more tolerance, and a longer-lasting peace than any other political credo in history.

Any suggestion that the election of Donald Trump or that the 52/48 Brexit, vote could not have been achieved without the support of a cohort of ignorant, poorly educated voters would be dismissed as the kind of patronising arrogance that means Hilary Clinton can spend more time with her granddaughter Charlotte than she had anticipated and that David Cameron, at just 51, is free to write his autobiography, to give a “frank” account of his premiership.

Powerful interests that stand with Trump believe in one thing - the ability to bend the free market to their purposes, writes Fergus Finlay

PRESIDENT Donald Trump should have felt he was among friends when he visited Texas to see the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey floods.

‘An Inconvenient Truth’ might have made for depressing viewing, but Al Gore’s sequel sounds a note of optimism in the fight against climate change and those who are trying to scupper recovery, writes Helen Barlow

It’s going to be like the football premiership, with managers on a permanent merry-go-round, writes Fergus Finlay

US Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is to come to Ireland in June, it has been announced.

Drug shares took the strain in the US as President Donald Trump tweet a promise of lower priced medicines for Americans, as European shares were little changed ahead of the ECB’s meeting tomorrow.

Trump could do with some help from a major sports star these days, writes Kieran Shannon

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Finance Minister Michael Noonan says he expects the US regime under Donald Trump to overhaul its tax system but added that foreign investment here remains strong.

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AT the beginning of a new year most people reflect on the one that has just gone and ponder about what will happen in the months to come. There is little doubt that 2016 has, in global political terms, been a momentous year, one in which certainty was turned on its head.

It was the forgotten people who elected Donald Trump to the most powerful political office in the free world. Irish officials would do well to heed such warnings, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

NEXT week Americans vote in an election with by far the greatest global impact. In 2012, when Obama defeated Romney, 129.1m people voted — 53.6% of those entitled to. If that turnout is repeated, then, and if pre-election polls are of any value, more than 50m Americans will vote for Donald Trump. How many more choose to do so will decide the election and who becomes the world’s most powerful person.

The lead in the polls following the final US presidential debate which point to a victory for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump is helping boost stock markets and demand for riskier assets, a leading market analyst has said.

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has vowed to defend the organisation against attack after his intervention in the US presidential election, writes Dan Buckley

THE problem about agreeing on paper to save the planet is the difficulty of actually getting down to the business of doing it in reality.

Masai Graham’s quip about heart donation has been named as the funniest joke of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival.

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Hilary Clinton, who will be the first female candidate for the White House, has been accused of being too ambitious in her lust for power. How else would she have got this far, asks Jocelyn Noveck

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HILARY CLINTON, the putative Democratic candidate in November’s ’s White House race will be relieved that the FBI has recommended that no criminal charges be brought against her over her use of a private email server while she served as US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Julianna Arroyo and her partner Erika Marrero were walking the parade in uniform when Julianna got down on one knee.

In the wake of the Orlando Shootings, this year’s Pride parades had an extra layer of meaning for those who attended.

In a recent, and excellent, BBC documentary, Inside Obama’s White House, President Obama’s frustration at his inability to make real change to America’s gun laws is obvious and convincing. 

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MIGRATION has shaped our world and is reshaping it today.

There have been renewed calls for Taoiseach Enda Kenny to intervene to secure Cork’s first transatlantic flights after Hilary Clinton urged the White House to block the proposed service.