Robert Harward has turned down an offer to be President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, the latest blow to the new administration.

Hillary Clinton has been ordered by a US judge to answer questions in writing from a conservative legal advocacy group about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

Donald Trump has blamed the “disgusting” media for a week of distractions at a time when Republicans have urged him to focus on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

They comprise 22% of the US electorate and are decisive, but they do not vote uniformly and while they want a president of belief, he or she does not have to be of their faith, says Jonathan Alter

Having cemented a remarkable triumph as his party’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman, vowed to unite the splintered Republican party, even as he was bitingly dismissive of members who have been critical of his campaign.

The biggest buyer of soured real-estate debt in Europe says disposals of non-performing loans from across the continent’s banks and governments will continue until at least 2021.

The depiction of unity between banks and people is a lie and explains why 40% of US citizens do not have access to credit, as American law professor Mehrsa Baradaran explains to JP O’Malley.

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“If you break it, you own it,” former US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President George W Bush before his invasion of Iraq.

Al Qaeda’s Yemen offshoot could bring down a transatlantic passenger plane at any time, a new book by a former CIA leader has warned.

Hillary Clinton kicks off second run for White House by declaring that ‘Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion’, write Jonathan Allen and John Whitsides

There is public scepticsm about the wisdom of the war in Afghanistan said a British newspaper in recent days, a war in which there was “a lack of clear mission aims”.

Barack Obama says the US would “walk away” from nuclear talks with Iran if there’s no acceptable deal.

President Barack Obama is poised in the next few days to ask Congress for new authority to use US military force against Islamic State (IS) militants.

The US Senate has delivered a damning indictment of CIA practices, accusing the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners beyond legal limits and deceiving the nation that its interrogation techniques saved lives.

Two Kentucky firefighters were seriously injured when the fire truck’s ladder got too close to a power line as they helped college students take part in an ice bucket challenge.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Iraq’s top Shiite leaders to give more government power to political opponents before a Sunni insurgency seizes more control across the country and sweeps away hopes of lasting peace.

The right of people to choose their own governments is running into trouble. The unrest sweeping many nations shows democracy being overwhelmed by despotism and despair, writes Nicholas Wapshott

Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune.

THIS year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war.

THREE days before the Twin Towers came down I remember standing in the plaza at the bottom of the buildings with my old wind-up camera.

A former vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyber-attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities

Actress Eva Longoria has become one of the most influential Latinos in the USA — a Bono for the Hispanic community, writes Andrew Romano

One of Ireland’s Masters contingent this week will be Alan Dunbar, using his exemption as British Amateur champion.

Recent political moves have provided grounds for optimism that the millions of undocumented in the US, including many thousands of young Irish people, may soon become ‘legal’, writes Larry Donnelly

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is leaving leading US TV channel Fox News.

Superstorm Sandy disrupted the US presidential race as President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney both cancelled campaign events.

The trial of Anders Breivik was interrupted briefly today when the brother one of his 77 victims hurled a shoe at the mass killer and yelled, “Go to hell,” before being escorted from the court.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama and former President George W Bush stood in silence yesterday as a church bell rang twice on the precise moment, ten years after the first plane struck the World Trade Center.

FORMER President George W Bush has declined an invitation from President Barack Obama to attend a New York ceremony today to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, Bush’s office said.

THE possibility that US spies located Osama bin Laden with help from detainees who’d been subjected to “enhanced interrogation” techniques seems certain to reopen the debate over practices that many have equated with torture, security experts believe.

The killing of Osama bin Laden is a grim reminder of the outrages that were perpetrated in his and al-Qaida’s name in the US on September 11, 2001.

THE FBI has arrested a 20-year-old Saudi student in Texas suspected of planning a terrorist attack using explosive chemicals.

The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old Saudi student in Texas suspected of planning a terrorist attack using explosive chemicals.

President George W Bush has cancelled a visit to Switzerland amid concerns he could be arrested.

FACING high unemployment and lukewarm public approval, President Barack Obama can take heart from history: At the same point in his presidency 28 years ago, Ronald Reagan was saddled with an approval rating much lower than Obama’s is now. And the unemployment rate then was a full percentage point higher.

POLICE and security agents had to take cover when a driver crashed onto the front lawn of former President George W Bush’s home near Dallas.

FACEBOOK founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010.

Former US president Bill Clinton today outlined an imaginative economic strategy to lift the North from its current economic woes.

FIVE years after the ravaging storm, US President Barack Obama celebrated New Orleans’s revival from Hurricane Katrina and pledged common purpose with residents in the continuing struggle to protect and rebuild the Gulf Coast.