As Hillary Clinton appears in a new four-part documentary about her life, she speaks about the upcoming US presidential election, her hopes for the future of politics, and the most effective way to bring about change in society.

It’s difficult but not impossible to see this year’s race to the White House becoming a more puerile spectacle than the one that was on show this past week.

Declan Kelly’s international public relations firm Teneo has bought the Co Clare- based Bridge PR — whose accounts include the Shannon Airport-and-heritage-owner Shannon Group, Limerick local authorities, and the Bon Secours private hospital in Cork.

"It's the culture around him. It's his leadership team."

Roger Stone, a long-time friend and ally of US President Donald Trump, has been found guilty of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid.

The Democrat debates will see 10 prospective presidential candidates argue why they should receive the nomination to take on Donald Trump. Bette Browne looks at the runners.

US president Donald Trump has been boasting about creating manufacturing jobs in states key to his re-election, but an emerging recession in the sector threatens to reverse that trend and imperil his message.

The 25 candidates for the party’s presidential nomination have been scoring points off one another, but beating Donald Trump will be a tougher task, says Elizabeth Drew,

Decades ago, traditional governments in the West were the mainstream. Today, they are alone in the woods, wondering where everyone went, say Ismaël Emelien and David Amiel

Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Ireland today to celebrate the 25th anniversary of children's charity Barretstown.

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

Before the Democrats in the US face into battle with Donald Trump, they must first decide whether Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders has a better chance of winning, writes Bette Browne

Let us join forces to block Assange’s extradition from any European country to the US, so that he can travel to Stockholm and give his accusers an opportunity to be heard, writes Yanis Varoufakis

Latest: Robert Mueller said in his report that he could not conclusively determine that Donald Trump had committed criminal obstruction of justice.

US lawmakers waited on Sunday for details of a confidential report into an investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that has cast a pall over Donald Trump’s presidency and raised questions about possible collusion between the Republican’s campaign and Moscow.

Gone are the days in American presidential races when a candidate would rise or fall on policy differences.

The biggest danger we face is not a straightforward revival of fascism, but rather a creeping shift in traditional conservatism towards the extreme populist right, says Michael Burleigh.

Immigration, especially immigration provoked by climate change, is one of the issues of our time. Despite huge efforts, many of them unsuccessful and inhumane, the issue will become more rather than less challenging.

The electorate has the chance to break the Republicans’ lock on government in possibly the most consequential midterm elections in US history, writes Elizabeth Drew AHEAD of this week’s US midterm elections, domestic

Controversial candidates are gaining ground partially because an obsession with singular views and whitewashing away problems is gagging mainstream debate on difficult subjects, writes political correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Take a bow, Ireland. At a moment when so many once reliable societies shy away from the never-ending challenge of sustaining progressive, tolerant, welcoming, largely decent societies, we re-elected a president whose half-century political career has been dedicated to the long and always democratic pursuit of those noble, uplifting ideals.

Scarcely a day passes without ever more extraordinary news from Planet Trump, where the president has been studying the standard of political discourse in the republic and has found it wanting.

The discovery came after a series of glass-filled pipe bombs targeted Hillary Clinton, former president Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats.

The Republicans have North Dakota in their sights … and have changed the law to win it.

Nearly two years after leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama is set to return to the US political landscape.

The US president isn’t a Russian agent. He just can’t countenance any suggestion that he needed the help of Putin’s hackers to beat the Democrats, whom he considers sore losers, says Ramesh Ponnuru

Donald Trump has given yet another below-par performance that will annoy everyone who cares about foreign policy, writes Jonathan Bernstein.

Ever heard the one about the First Lady who went for a walk?

The controversial former FBI director James Comey has said he “feels badly” that Hillary Clinton sees him as the main reason she failed to win the US presidency.

Former FBI director James Comey has voiced his concerns about Donald Trump's leadership and his “zero-tolerance” immigration policy along the US-Mexico border which has seen migrant children separated from their parents.

Europe is planning to redirect hundreds of millions of euro to Ireland in the case of a hard Brexit, EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has confirmed.

It was like the archbishop was coming to visit, writes Daniel McConnell.

The Taoiseach has met Hillary Clinton in Dublin this evening.

The funeral is taking place tomorrow of Kilkenny woman Mary Phelan who campaigned tirelessly to find her missing sister, Jo Jo Dullard.

The histories of governments are in the main chronicles of recklessness and stupidity, redeemed every now and again by moments of genius and sheer good fortune.

Last year, Democrats and Republicans alike agreed that if anyone could bring order to the Trump White House, it was the retired four-star US Marine general. Were they wrong?

Donald Trump is not considering sacking the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, a top White House lawyer said.

Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director fired by the US attorney general, kept personal memos regarding President Donald Trump, according to a source.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are sharply disagreeing with Republicans on the panel who say they do not see any evidence of collusion or coordination between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.