The women who have accused US President Donald Trump of sexual misbehaviour are driven by “fame, money and politics”.

Impasse is an undervalued resource. This is a great time for not getting things done. In our always-on world, inactivity isn’t a value that’s believed in. We know of no usefulness except the doing of things.

Obama aide’s take on how government can help rather than hinder is worthy, says Kyran Fitzgerald.

Sexual allegations are not new in US presidential politics, but Ryle Dwyer notes that Donald Trump has plumbed a new low.

Donald Trump’s claim that former US president Bill Clinton was ‘the worst abuser of women in the history of politics’ shows just how politically ignorant he is, says historian Ryle Dwyer.       

You might have thought that during his recent visit to the UK, US president Barack Obama was solely concerned with convincing British voters that their country would be far better off remaining in the European Union. However, other issues made it on to the agenda in the discussions between the US president and his UK counterpart, David Cameron.

Ray Ryan explores the links between a Canadian astronaut, former US president John F Kennedy, and a boy who grew up to tell tales of Cork City’s northside.

White men dominate the Oscar nominations, despite the success of 12 Years A Slave last year and Selma this year. Why are black people being ignored? asks Louise O’Neill.

The US and Cuba are set for talks about normalisation, a move that comes after half a century of secret diplomatic dialogue and grandstanding, write William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh

A Walk Among the Tombstones ***

For 27,000 Leaving Certificate students, French papers were the morning fare and there were no nasty surprises.

TELEVISION was central in the American home after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a national trauma that unfolded in real time and was suited to the emerging medium.

JUST about all the people of the United States who were old enough, remember where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy was shot.

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of JFK, began her role on November 18 as US Ambassador to Japan. Kennedy starts her high profile job just days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of her father.

Scientists are worried about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and how fast it continues to build without showing any sign of slowing, writes James Warner

Like the former president Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney puts his foot in it more often than not. But don’t write him off, says Jack Shafer

With Mitt Romney now all but assured of winning the Republican nomination, he embarks on one of his critical quests of the campaign: finding a running mate who can help him defeat President Barack Obama.

Mitt Romney, freed of his last serious challenger for the Republican presidential nomination, has unleashed blistering attacks on Barack Obama, assuring a brutal tone for the coming election campaign.

The line is from Casablanca, of course, and that movie was about a time when the world was even crazier than it is now.

ABC News last night said there is no truth to a report that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis believed then US vice-president Lyndon Johnson was involved in the assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy.

Despite his Machiavellian morals, Henry Kissinger’s tale of the Asian nation’s newfound significance is a fascinating read, says TP O’Mahony.

FORTY years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in US conduct of the Vietnam War, the report has come out in its entirety.

Forty years after the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study chronicling deception and misadventure in US conduct of the Vietnam War, the report is being officially released.

A TROVE of John F Kennedy pictures by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, including a rare image of Marilyn Monroe with the president and Robert Kennedy at a Democratic fund-raiser, fetched $151,000 (€114,000) at auction.

BRIAN Cowen’s interview on Tuesday’s Morning Ireland lasted little over nine minutes, but it had enormous reverberations, even though he essentially said nothing. He just fobbed off all the hard questions.

RYAN TUBRIDY signed off on his last show on RTÉ Radio 1 yesterday with the promise of seeing his fans “on the other side”.

NOBODY’S sure just how many people are going to form the crush in the Mall and line the streets of Washington for tomorrow’s inauguration.

THE US president is determined by who wins the Electoral College, which has 538 members apportioned by population in each state and the District of Columbia.

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.

THIS could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt’s girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.

I WENT to university in the USA in September 1963. It was a tremendous culture shock going from Tralee to Davenport, Iowa.

YOU’RE aware that they’re picking presidential candidates in America at the moment.

John F Kennedy had to prove that a Roman Catholic could win in 1960, but the Catholic factor has not been an issue ever since.

A Texas town is up for sale on eBay, a spokeswoman for the popular auction website said today.

THOUGH the poor may always be with us it is difficult to understand why so very many of our fellow citizens remain in its relentless, cross-generational grip.

Lady Bird Johnson, America’s former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon Johnson, has died.

THE much-loved wife of former American president Lyndon Johnson died last night, aged 94.

THE Iraq war has been raging for over four years now.

Martin Fallon has a right to feel aggrieved.

Summing up a year of setbacks, US President George W Bush conceded today that insurgents in Iraq had thwarted his efforts at “establishing security and stability throughout the country”.

US president George Bush has compared the intensifying violence in Iraq to the Tet offensive in Vietnam 38 years ago.

FROM engaging in sexual relations with an intern to letting the Vietnam War escalate, US presidents have been blamed for some egregious errors.