Trump’s election has continued a trend in the US of dumbing down political life that has pushed the country down a perilous path, writes Nina Khrushcheva.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as US attorney general and the epicentre of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died aged 78.

A “selfless” senior garda asked friends and colleagues to support two charities instead of organising a dinner to honour his retirement.

A defensive Donald Trump gave Hillary Clinton plenty of fresh material for the next phase of her presidential campaign, choosing to publicly reopen some her most damaging attacks.

A former New York bomb squad detective credited with saving countless children's lives during the Troubles, and hailed by former President Bill Clinton as a symbol for the North's peace process, is the subject of a new documentary.

US President Barack Obama lifted a decades-old arms export embargo for Vietnam during his first visit to the communist country today, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner even as he pushes for better human rights from the one-party state.

Rivals candidates vow to fight on despite Super Tuesday setbacks

Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admitted she and her family paid a State Department staffer with personal funds to maintain a private email server that she used for both personal and government matters while secretary of state.

One cooks bacon with a machine gun — that’s Ted Cruz. 

Lawyers for victims of the September 11 attacks say they have new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia “directly and knowingly” helped the hijackers, including sworn testimony from the so-called 20th hijacker and from three principals of the US government’s two primary probes of the attacks.

Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh was born in Boston but raised in Shrule, Co Mayo.

One of the jewels of Irish tourism, the Adare Manor and Golf Resort, is being put up for sale tomorrow.

Niall Horan is in the club, as is Barack Obama and Angelina Jolie.

The death of former White House press secretary James Brady, who was shot in the head in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has been ruled a murder.

Cork people are long convinced of the county’s delights, but the rest of the world seems stunned that Kimye would consider a honeymoon in the Rebel county.

The US Senate confirmed Janet Yellen as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, elevating an advocate of fighting unemployment and a backer of the central bank’s efforts to spur the economy with low interest rates and massive bond purchases.

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programmes and the internet, has died at the age of 88.

Willow Coyote was not her original name.

Escalating tensions with North Korea will backfire, not only for its neighbours but its citizens who should matter as much, writes Yoon Young-kwan

The Hillary Effect on women’s rights has spread across the globe. But will it last without her at the helm, asks Kathleen Parker

President Barack Obama has asked congressional leaders to convene today at the White House for last-minute talks on a “fiscal cliff” deal that avoids automatic tax increases and broad spending cuts that threaten the economy’s nascent recovery.

President Barack Obama was cutting short his holiday and returning to Washington today as a senior Democrat warned that the US appeared to be heading over the year-end “fiscal cliff” of higher taxes and deep spending cuts that could spin the still-fragile economy back into a recession.

Barack Obama is counting on former President Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen, top supporters, to carry his message. But he also has enlisted an army of A-list performers and public figures – from Lady Gaga to Billie Jean King, from Jay-Z to Crosby, Stills and Nash.

President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney scurried through decisive swing states on Sunday, issuing promises of better days to come while castigating their opponent.

President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney launched a frenzied final weekend of campaigning today seeking an edge in a handful of battleground states that will decide the outcome of a tight presidential race that is going down to the wire.

The superstorm ravaging the US East Coast laid waste to the campaign strategies of President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney with just a week remaining in their intensely close race for the White House.

Saying the gay population has “suffered a history of discrimination”, an appeals court in New York ruled that a US law defining marriage as between a man and a woman is unconstitutional.

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney poked fun at themselves and each other for a charitable cause, two days after attacking each other in their second debate.

The dispute over American health care dominated the presidential race with Republican challenger Mitt Romney altering his stand on President Barack Obama’s signature overhaul of the system, telling voters he would keep several important parts of the law that he has vowed to repeal.

A Nobel prize-winning economist’s clear-eyed analysis of the inequality at the heart of the great recession leaves one eager for more, writes Jack O’Connor

The US saw the best start for stocks in 15 years, as in what was mostly a slow and steady climb, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 3.4% in January and the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 4.4%.

DOROTHY RODHAM, mother of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton’s mother-in-law, has died at the age of 92 after an illness.

President Barack Obama has appealed for public support to push Congress to avert an unprecedented default on America’s national debt as politicians worked on dual tracks to reach an elusive deal.

US lawmakers have voted down a measure giving President Barack Obama the authority to continue the US military action against Libya.

THE Taoiseach appealed to the 40 million Irish-Americans to “follow their president home” in a rousing introduction to Barack Obama’s speech in Dublin’s College Green.

TEARS were shed in pride and jubilation as President Barack Obama enchanted the nation in a powerful outdoor address.

US president Barack Obama took to the stage in Dublin today in front of a crowd of 25,000 claiming he was home.

US President Barack Obama has said the success of the peace process in the North should be a lesson for troubled parts of the world.

Thousands of people are expected to attend an open air concert and address when US President Barack Obama arrives in Ireland today.

US President Barack Obama will visit his ancestral home and follow in the steps of some of his predecessors when he touches down in Ireland tomorrow.