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

Bernie Sanders' grandson's caused a stir among Ireland football fans after turning up to a campaign rally in a Republic of Ireland jersey.

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.

Along with many question marks about the long-term effects of e-cigarettes, experts are concerned young people will eventually migrate from vaping to smoking. Áilin Quinlan reports.

Elizabeth Warren is now neck and neck with Joe Biden in Democratic primary polls, according to RealClearPolitics.

It was a humid Sunday in June, a quiet afternoon that Pete Buttigieg knew would not remain quiet.

New Hampshire, which has not executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, has become the latest US state to abolish the death penalty when the state senate voted to override the governor's veto.

"Toughness is the thing that they most fear."

Michael Conlan switched to southpaw to hammer out a Madison Square Garden hat-trick in a two-round demolition of David Berna at the iconic New York boxing venue on St Patrick’s Day.

Bryan Cranston is recalling the first time he saw the caskets lying in state and draped in American flags while on set for his latest film, writes Georgia Humphreys.

There’s a famously difficult move in freestyle skiing called a ‘cork’, a fact that particularly tickles Brendan Newby.

Around 100 million people shivered In the United States as temperatures plummeted - with a wind chill close to minus 100F (minus 73.3C) on New Hampshire's Mount Washington meaning it vied for the world's coldest place.

Brutally cold conditions are expected to envelop the US east coast for most of the weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont.

Forecasters in the US warned of sub-zero arctic air and dangerously cold wind chills across much of the country as snow continued to pile up in one city which already has nearly 63ins on the ground.

Big pharma is having a big tobacco moment as litigation over opioids attract star lawyers and a growing list of US states and local governments seeking their own multi-billion payout to deal with costs of a burgeoning US drug epidemic.

US President Donald Trump is to sign an executive order launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the US election system, according to three White House officials.

Trump could do with some help from a major sports star these days, writes Kieran Shannon

Norwegian Air says that it remains fully committed to starting Cork flights to the US in July despite its share price dropping sharply on the back of rising costs for its expanding transatlantic fleet.

Flights from Cork to the US will provide a huge opportunity to attract business tourists to the south-west region, according to Fáilte Ireland.

The annual awards of Cork Business Association — which is celebrating its 60th birthday in 2017— has heard rousing calls for Cork people to embrace what they have in their city if it is to thrive to its full potential.

The world's second-largest credit ratings agency has agreed to pay nearly $864m to settle US government and state claims that it gave inflated assessments to risky mortgage investments in the years leading up to the financial crisis.

Tourism chiefs will aggressively market the Cork and wider region to American and Canadian cities in order to capitalise on the first transatlantic flights this summer.

The airline poised to launch low-cost flights from Ireland to America next summer has confirmed it is considering landing at secondary US airports — each up to 100km from Boston and New York, respectively — to keep costs down.

Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that "millions" voted illegally in the presidential election and said it was rigged even as he prepares to enter the White House.

At the Rockefeller Centre in midtown Manhattan, the resident NBC news station has completed its traditional election night take-over of the ice rink and covered it with a giant map of the states that will light up blue or red as each result is declared.

As we get ready to bid farewell to the Obamas, Peter Slevin wonders what’s next for the First Lady.

Buoyant US presidential contender Hillary Clinton says she is looking past Donald Trump and widening her mission to help fellow Democrats seize the Senate and chip away at the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

A two-year-old New Hampshire girl is recovering at a Boston hospital after her sister, aged seven, accidentally ran over her while starting the family car.

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.

ENGLAND: One of the most important record collections to catalogue the history of music from 800AD until 1700 is to go under the hammer at auction.

US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s campaign has confirmed that her former Democratic rival Bernie Sanders will join her at a New Hampshire event, where he plans to endorse her.

Joe Hill didn’t want to ride on his father’s coat tails as a writer, so he invented a name and went out on his own, says Ed Power

It’s not just Donald Trump. The USA has a long history of jokers, eccentrics, and megalomaniacs running for the top office, from immortals to the king of the world, reports Robert Hume

Hillary Clinton has vowed to make stopping "lone wolf" terrorists a top priority if elected president.

Donald Trump says there are thousands of people living in the United States "sick with hate" and capable of carrying out the sort of massacre that killed at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tore up their presidential campaign schedules after the worst mass shooting in US history.

The sale of Whitegate oil refinery could be announced as early as next week with negotiations believed to be at an advanced stage.