The election results are almost all in and political anoraks have been digesting the information gleaned from the ballot boxes like famished goats.

From Washington to Pyongyang, Paul Manafort may change how the US and its tweeting president are viewed, writes David Eckles Wade.

Catch up on all the headlines this morning...

Donald Trump has spoken to advisers about sacking his attorney general, as he rages against the legal chief's decision to excuse himself from anything to do with the Russia investigation.

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

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has formally withdrawn from consideration for a post in President-elect Donald Trump's administration.

President-elect Donald Trump is connecting with foreign leaders and considering new cabinet prospects as he gathers with his family for a long Thanksgiving weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

President-elect Donald Trump is embarking on the massive undertaking of creating a new administration as a circus-like atmosphere unfolds around his building in Manhattan.

Investment at the landmark Silversprings Hotel in Cork by new owners Clayton/Dalata who acquired it two years ago as part of a nine-hotel €445m acquisition from the Moran Group will top €5 million by next year, while the hotel’s €3.2m reworked two-storey Events Centre, ballroom and business meeting rooms reopens from tomorrow.

THE New York Times revelation that the billionaire Donald Trump, by recording a loss of $916m — $1.4bn (€1.256bn) in today’s terms — in his 1995 tax returns, put himself in a position to legally avoid federal or state taxes for up to 18 years has inflamed opinion.

Republican Donald Trump’s top aides and supporters yesterday downplayed a chaotic week in which the New York businessman was distracted from his core message by personal spats, as a new poll showed him trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton.

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said he believes relations between police and the nation's African-American community are "far worse" than people think.

US riot officers arrested dozens of people in Louisiana’s capital Baton Rouge during protests over the killings of black people by police. 

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is strengthening his top team and refocusing on New York after recent tactical failures raised doubts about his campaign.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted Beyoncé’s half-time performance at Super Bowl 50 as “outrageous” due to its apparent allusions to the Black Lives Matter movement and black power imagery.

The former Central American dictator Manuel Noriega’s case against the makers of video game Call of Duty has come a cropper in a Californian court.

US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have toured the September 11 museum, viewing a memorial wall with photos of victims and a mangled fire truck.

American TV personality Jimmy Fallon took over the Tonight Show last night. It's probably the biggest gig in American television, having run since 1954 - like their Late Late Show, basically.

During the last days of May 1995, two monumental New York Yankee debuts occurred within a week of each other.

TEN years ago, with the rubble of the World Trade Centre still smouldering away after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, prospective visitors to New York wondered whether they should put off their trips, or keep a respectful distance.

With three big hitters in the field, the emergence of a Republican wildcard for the presidential race seems unlikely, writes Patricia Zengerle

Former US President George W. Bush and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be among the dignitaries at a World Trade Centre site ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

FIFA boss Sepp Blatter has been named the 'biggest villain' of the past decade, ahead of figures such as Simon Cowell and Tiger Woods.

FORMER New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he has not ruled out making a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he has not ruled out making a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

SHOULD we be outraged by Alma Lopez’s depictions of the Virgin Mary at UCC?

DESPITE a spate of discouraging economic reports, US President Barack Obama insisted yesterday he is not afraid of the country slipping into a double-dip recession. But at the same time he displayed impatience, saying the pace of the recovery has “got to accelerate”.

Mitt Romney formally declared his candidacy to challenge President Barack Obama in next year’s US election, but the presumed front-runner for the Republican nomination will likely face some big-name competition for his party’s backing.

SARAH PALIN rumbled through Washington on a Harley as she and her family began an East Coast tour yesterday that renewed speculation that the former Alaska governor would join the Republican presidential nomination contest.

MARKING Osama bin Laden’s death where the terrorist inflicted his greatest damage, President Barack Obama soberly laid a wreath yesterday at Ground Zero and declared to the city and the world, “When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.”

Marking Osama bin Laden’s death where the terrorist inflicted his greatest damage, US President Barack Obama soberly laid a wreath at New York’s Ground Zero today and declared to the city and the world: “When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.”

US President Barack Obama says the killing of Osama bin Laden sends a message to the world and the country that "when we say we will never forget, we mean what we say".

IT was like Elvis playing Memphis, or The Beatles back in Liverpool.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s daughter Caroline is likely to get her shoplifting case dismissed with a day of community service after a judge today accepted an offer to resolve it.

AMERICANS — don’t you just love them? Actually, by and large, I do. There’s an ugly snootiness in some quarters in Ireland, and Europe more broadly, towards the US and its citizens which was never quite going to be eradicated by the election of Barack Obama. I have written as much before.

BRITAIN, it seems, is drowning in a vale of tears. One after another, in the run-up to their general election, British politicians are lining up to emote in public. Never before have so many cried so easily, so openly and so often.

We all make mistakes.

CONTROVERSIAL author Jeffrey Archer delivered the keynote address at the Thomas Crosbie Holdings annual business dinner in the company’s South Mall headquarters last night.

LAST week I returned to the classroom as a pupil for the first time in 30 years. I am seeking to obtain a diploma as a chartered director at the IMI. The first module was strategic business direction. The lecturer was Prof Patrick McNamee who is a top MBA teacher at the University of Ulster and an international consultant.

It took Obama’s advert to attract viewers to the baseball world series final. Conor Ryan reports from Washington DC.