JOHN Mindermann is part of an unusual fraternity. A former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), now 80 and retired in his hometown, San Francisco, he is among the relative handful of law-enforcement officials who have investigated a sitting president of the US.

In June 1967, Arab leaders decided to crush Israel, then the only democracy in that divided region. 

Investigators found more than 800 rounds of ammunition in the car of the man accused of scaling the White House fence and sprinting inside the building, a US prosecutor said today. A machete and two hatchets also were found.

A man jumped over the fence of the White House and made it through the front door before officers managed to apprehend him, just minutes after President Barack Obama had departed.

My column last week, urging Ireland to stand with the Palestinians, drew such a huge and often angry response that I re-read my history.

The stunning suit worn by Jackie Kennedy the day her husband was shot dead in Dallas came from the hands of a Cork-born seamstress, reports Colette Sheridan

Monique Walsh’s (Oct 15) recent letter had no basis in fact.

Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney confront each other on foreign policy early tomorrow morning UK time in a third and final presidential debate, a must-win televised face-off heading into the final two weeks of the deadlocked campaign for the White House.

Ahead of their last debate, Republican contender Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are cramming foreign policy and taking a rare break from swing-state campaigning.

US President Barack Obama is spending a quiet 51st birthday weekend away from re-election campaigning.

Polls suggest President Barack Obama holds only a small, perhaps meaningless, lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney in the race for the White House as he awaits a new jobs report.

David Cameron today issued a stark warning to eurozone leaders that they must put in place proper contingency plans to protect their economies in case Greece drops out of the single currency.

British Prime Minister David Cameron today signalled that world leaders were ready to take action to tackle soaring oil prices.

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to make a historic address to both of the UK's Houses of Parliament as she ventures out of her country for the first time in more than two decades.

David Cameron will today join other world leaders in talks set to be dominated by the deepening crisis over the eurozone.

David Cameron will hold his first face-to-face talks with Francois Hollande today as they join world leaders in the US for a G8 summit set to be dominated by the eurozone crisis.

Europe will do all it takes to keep Greece in the single currency, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has said.

More than two dozen world leaders will join President Barack Obama in an extraordinary weekend of back-to-back summits to tackle Europe's mounting economic woes and solidify plans for winding down the decade-long war in Afghanistan.

The prospect of Greece crashing out of the euro is damaging economies across Europe, including Britain’s, Chancellor George Osborne has warned.

Greece was struggling to form a unity government tonight as EU countries insisted austerity remained the basis of the country’s economic revival.

TO WRITE about Harvey Weinstein is to face, first, the history of past brutalities.

The White House abruptly announced that it had scuttled plans to hold the coming G8 economic summit in Chicago and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland's mountains north of Washington.

Barack Obama will host the G8 summit at his Camp David presidential retreat in the Maryland countryside instead of Chicago as first scheduled, the White House said.

ANY suggestion, as was made in a recent Irish Examiner editorial, that international support for Israel’s existence and right to defend itself “feeds extremism” and, in particular, the extremism that led to the 9/11 attacks is based on a false premise.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said 31 US special forces and seven Afghan soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Wardak province.

The United States was reeling today after Standard & Poor’s lowered the nation’s AAA credit rating for the first time since granting it in 1917.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama turned his 50th birthday into a 2012 campaign fundraising bonanza, buoyed by a hometown crowd after what he called a frustrating period locked in a debt battle with Republicans.

US President Barack Obama celebrates his 50th birthday today just days after reaching a deal with Republicans to avert a catastrophic government debt default.

HACKERS took control of the Twitter account of FoxNews.com’s political news feed and sent several false tweets saying that US President Barack Obama had been shot dead.

A STUNNING 18th-century mansion gifted to the state by a billionaire businessman should be converted into a summer residence for the President, it has been proposed.

US President Barack Obama today told Afghan leaders to do more to rein in rampant corruption and improve their government as he made an unannounced visit to the capital for a firsthand look at the eight-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.

US President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today for a first-hand look at the eight-year-old war he inherited and has dramatically escalated.

WANT to live next door to US President Barack Obama? The colonial mansion next to his Chicago home is now available — for the right price.

The White House is getting ready for its big holiday barbecue and fireworks show.

US President George Bush was today spending Christmas at Camp David for the 12th time.

THE article by Palestinian Delegate-General Dr Hikmat Ajjuri (Irish Examiner, November 12) regarding the origin of Israel and the current state of Israeli-Palestinian relations was not only bitterly partisan and inflammatory, it was riddled with untruths and historical inaccuracies.

President George W Bush today sought to reassure Americans about the cost and scope of the US financial bail-out plan and said that in the long run “our economy will bounce back”.

Europe’s diplomatic shuttle moves to Washington this weekend in a bid to calm financial world markets.

Europe’s diplomatic shuttle moves to Washington this weekend in a bid to calm financial world markets.

US president George Bush’s daughter Jenna shunned the opulence of the White House for her wedding today, opting instead for the family ranch in Texas.

NADAV COHEN (Letters, February 1), in his riposte to your editorial (‘Aggression will not end this insanity’, January 22), states dismissively that only “some lessons can be learned from the success of the Northern peace process”.

US President George Bush was successfully treated for Lyme disease nearly a year ago, the White House announced today.

US President George Bush today said with the right intelligence US and Pakistan governments can take out al Qaida leaders, and would not say whether he would consult first with Pakistan before ordering US forces to act on their own.

The United States is not ruling out military force to free South Korean hostages held by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a senior State Department official said.