“have you ever seen the President naked?”.

Sebastian Gorka, a White House national security aide whose hardline policy views attracted controversy, has become the latest official to leave Donald Trump's administration.

“Nineteen hyenas and a broken vacuum cleaner control the White House.”

Latest: White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired after less than 10 days in the post.

Newly-appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is threatening to get the FBI involved in a crackdown on leaks from the Trump administration.

SPICER by name and spicey by nature. The departure of Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s loquacious press secretary, has robbed the US president of one of the most high-profile members of his frontline staff. 

This is not a man caught out inflating a reality. This is a man caught out believing nonsense, writes Terry Prone

US President Donald Trump's new communications adviser has said it is time to hit the "reset button".

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has abruptly resigned over President Donald Trump's decision to ask a financier to lead his beleaguered communications team.

Mark Leibovich takes stock of how Washington has — and hasn’t — changed in the time of Trump

President Donald Trump had a second, previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Germany earlier this month.

US president Donald Trump plans to speak with German, French, and Italian officials ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies this week that could expose his sharp differences with world powers on trade and other issues.

Latest: The US has seen chemical weapons activity at a Syrian air base used for a sarin gas attack in April, the Pentagon said.

The White House has issued a warning to Bashar Assad as it claimed "potential" evidence showed Syria was preparing for another chemical weapons attack.

Selfie sticks, a breathalyser test and a copy of the Eighth Amendment are among the items that would help the people of the future understand today’s society, writes Clodagh Finn.

Latest: Witnesses have reported gunshots and explosions at a hotel and casino complex in the Philippines capital, Manila.

Latest: The Queen of England has expressed her "deepest sympathy" to all those affected by the Manchester bomb attack, adding that "the whole nation has been shocked by the death and injury".

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.

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates has spoken publicly for the first time about concerns she brought to the Trump White House on Russia.

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US president Donald Trump has condemned those who deny the Holocaust and pledged to confront anti-Semitism.

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A suspected government chemical attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria has killed dozens of people.

The White House has publicly released the financial disclosures of top officials in the Trump administration.

Congressional investigators have rebuffed former US national security adviser Michael Flynn's offer of cooperation in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

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The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit to pipeline builder TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

World leaders have condemned the bloody terror attack outside the British Houses of Parliament that ended in the deaths of four people and left up to 40 injured.

Boris Johnson is to meet Donald Trump's national security adviser in Washington DC on Tuesday to attempt to draw a line under the diplomatic row sparked by claims Britain spied on the president, it is understood.

Several states seeking to block President Donald Trump's revised travel ban moved forward with court action on Monday just days before it is due to come into force.

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The White House has barred several media outlets from a press conference held by President Trump's Press Secretary, Sean Spicer.

Donald Trump has used his first presidential appearance before the largest gathering of conservative activists in the US to sharply escalate his criticisms of the news media.

Eoin English looks at why it was such a struggle to convince some of the stakeholders that transatlantic flights to and from Cork would be a good deal all round.

Transgender students have lost the US government protection that allowed them to use school toilets and locker rooms matching their gender identities as Donald Trump's administration stepped into a long-simmering national debate.

An Irish Senator is warning that the undocumented Irish in the US are currently in "uncharted waters".

The Kremlin has denied reports of intercepted phone calls between Russian intelligence officials and members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Authorities have lifted an evacuation order for nearly 200,000 California residents who live below the crippled Oroville Dam that threatened to collapse and cause catastrophic flooding.

It has been confirmed President Donald Trump asked his national security advisor to resign.

Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has been "counselled" after she urged people to buy Ivanka Trump products during an interview on Fox News.

The airline planning to launch low-cost transatlantic flights from Cork and Shannon this summer has welcomed comments from the White House backing its expansion to the US.

At least three tornadoes have touched down in southern Louisiana, ripping houses from their foundations, downing electricity lines and leaving 10,000 homes without power.

US President Donald Trump will host Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.