Many Democrats are sceptical that a socialist could make it the White House, but Bernie Sanders is gaining momentum, writes Joseph Ax

Right now the US democratic primaries are well underway with the first three states having voted.

The election in the US this year comes at a time of crisis for democracy. Elizabeth Drew looks at some of the Democratic candidates.

Cutting-edge animation was paired with the look of an old-fashioned family film for Call Of The Wild, writes Esther McCarthy

A sideways glance at Election 2020.

The race to select a Democratic candidate to depose incumbent president Donald Trump begins in Iowa on Monday. Bette Browne casts an eye over the runners and riders.

Bernie Sanders has said he raised more than $34.5 million in the final three months of last year, with the start of the Democratic presidential primaries looming.

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.

The US has sold itself as the ‘land of opportunity,’ where a hotel bellboy can, by dint of hard graft, become the proprietor of the business.

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,

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is to step down as White House press secretary at the end of the month.

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

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

There has always been tension between the White House and the press corps charged with monitoring the motives and actions of the US president, writes Richard Hogan.

Donald Trump has pledged "strong action today" on immigration, a day after he said he wants to use the military to secure the US-Mexico border until his "big, beautiful wall" is erected.

European Council president Donald Tusk has said 14 member nations have expelled Russian diplomatic staff over the poisoning of an ex-spy in the UK.

Aides included a section in Mr Trump's briefing materials for the Tuesday morning call stating: "DO NOT CONGRATULATE," a senior administration official has said.

The White House tried to swat away criticism that the US is getting nothing in exchange for agreeing to a historic face-to-face summit between president Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Latest: One person has died and another was seriously injured after a chartered train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat struck a refuse truck in Virginia, the White House has confirmed.

US president Donald Trump is "in excellent health", according to a White House doctor who performed a routine medical.

President Donald Trump is set to bring his "America First" agenda to a bastion of globalisation when he attends the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos later this month.

President Donald Trump has delivered a sharp warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, telling him the weapons he is acquiring "are not making you safer. They are putting your regime in grave danger."

Clinton’s new book, ‘What Happened’, is an angry look at her US presidential election loss and is at odds with her ambition to nurture Democrat leaders, says Bette Browne.

Latest: President Donald Trump has offered reassurances to Texans who felt the wrath of Storm Harvey, promising residents during a visit to the state: "We are going to get you back and operating immediately."

Donald Trump's new communications director has exploded smouldering tensions at the White House into a wildfire, angrily daring the US president's chief of staff to deny he was a "leaker" and exposing West Wing backstabbing in language more suited to a gangster movie.

The Republican-led House of Representatives has decisively approved legislation that hits Russia with additional financial sanctions.

Donald Trump has sent out an encouraging message to his son, who had a harrowing day after releasing a chain of emails about his meeting with a Russian lawyer.

The White House has said Donald Trump "has no intention" of sacking the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Our next-door neighbour is in the biggest mess it has been in peacetime... Fergus Finlay says you couldn’t make it up.

President Donald Trump has lashed out in a series of tweets amid a firestorm over the firing of FBI director James Comey, defending the shifting narrative and timeline his administration has offered for the decision.

Bernie Sanders' talk in Dublin has sold out in minutes.

US Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is to come to Ireland in June, it has been announced.

Henry Candy is in no hurry to make the next move with Limato after conditions scuppered any realistic chance he had in the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan on Saturday.

Thousands have rallied across America to attack Republican efforts to repeal Barack Obama's health care law.

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A mentally ill woman has been given a suspended sentence for holding a knife to her mother’s throat in a fit of jealousy after she found out her successful sister was coming home from Canada.

A man arrested over the murder of two nuns at their Mississippi home has confessed to the killings, a sheriff said.

Hillary Clinton’s one-time rival in the White House race, Bernie Sanders, is launching a national movement to help propel progressive candidates into power in the US general election.