What the world would look like under President Donald Trump? By Matthew Cooper

More than 10,000 protesters converged on the US capital today to help draw attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and call for legislative action.

The Secret Service response to an armed intruder at the White House was complicated by muted alarms, thick bushes on the lawn, unlocked doors, and an officer physically too small to tackle the intruder.

The Secret Service response to an armed intruder at the White House was complicated by muted alarms, thick bushes on the lawn, unlocked doors and an officer who was physically too small to tackle the intruder, a US Homeland Security Department review has revealed.

WHEN an armed intruder jumped the fence and penetrated deep into the White House, it provided a field day for cartoonists and some members of the House of Representatives - who turned Julia Pierson, the hapless Secret Service director, into a figure of ridicule.

Secret Service director Julia Pierson resigned yesterday in the face of multiple revelations about bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family were being kept safe.

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.

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A Maryland man who dressed up as a woman to fleece intoxicated passengers for more than $200,000 (€150,000) while driving a taxi in Washington DC has pleaded guilty to first-degree felony fraud, according to the United States Attorney’s Office.

A woman driving a black Lexus tried to ram through a White House barricade then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol.

Police say the U.S. Capitol has been put on a security lockdown amid reports of possible shots fired outside the building.

US President Barack Obama called Boston mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick to offer federal assistance in responding to explosions that rocked the end of the Boston Marathon.

US President Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term in office yesterday.

President Barack Obama has told America it must make “hard choices” to reduce the cost of health care and the size of its financial deficit.

US President Barack Obama has been sworn in for a second four-year term.

A man climbed over the White House fence near its western entrance gate and ran towards the presidential residence before he was apprehended by uniformed Secret Service officers, US authorities said.

THE list of Republicans hoping to unseat president Barack Obama next year grew longer yesterday when former senator Rick Santorum announced his intention to elbow his way into an increasingly crowded field of Pennsylvania Avenue aspirants.

BERNARD BROGAN will bewell suited and booted flying out to Washington DC today after being kitted out by Louis Copeland, courtesy of the renowned Dublin tailor and the GPA.

YESTERDAY presidential hopeful Senator David Norris announced that he had engaged media advisers to help him secure a nomination to contest next year’s election.

WITH tempers flaring, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans clashed in an extraordinary live-on-TV summit yesterday over the right prescription for the nation’s broken healthcare system, talking of agreement but holding to long-entrenched positions that leave them far apart.

An Irish theatre company has claimed responsibility for a flash mob that descended on the White House to celebrate Valentines' Day.

Thousands of Americans marched to the US Capitol in Washington DC today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested against the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.

Thousands of Americans marched to the US Capitol in Washington DC today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested against the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.

IT was a tale of two BOs — Barack Obama, President of America, and Bo, the newest addition to his family, a loveable curly-haired pooch.

US President-elect Barack Obama landed in the Washington area today, setting up the final march toward his January 20 inauguration.

WEIGHTY issues like the presidential inauguration and the economic stimulus package are pending, but the first order of business for president-elect Barack Obama’s family is to get settled in Washington quickly to prepare for the start of school for his two daughters.

They danced in the streets, wept, lifted their voices in prayer and brought traffic to a standstill.

EDWARD HORGAN (Letters, August 8) is either naive or disingenuous in complaining about the sentencing of Salim Hamdan by a US military court, claiming he was “sentenced for providing material aid for terrorism” for “simply earning a living working as a driver for a foreign national in a foreign country”.

AN ENTHRALLED South Lawn crowd of more than 9,000 sang Happy Birthday to Pope Benedict XVI yesterday — twice — and President George W Bush said that the first papal White House visit in 29 years was a reminder for Americans to “distinguish between simple right and wrong”.

Pope Benedict XVI said he was “deeply ashamed” of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has rocked the American church.

AGAINST my better judgment, I have started Christmas shopping. Wandering aimlessly around Easons the other day, they seemed to be doing a brisk business in Bush countdown calendars. A variant on the traditional Advent calendar, it enables you to tick off the remaining days until a new US president is elected next November and Dubya leaves the White House in January 2009.

The American White House laid on special touches at President George Bush’s first-ever white-tie state dinner to honour the Queen during her visit to Washington.

More than a foot of rain has washed out highways around the US capital, toppled a 100-year-old elm tree on the White House lawn and caused flooding that closed major government departments and the National Archives, where the Declaration of Independence is kept.

MUCH of the US capital was forced to shut down yesterday after a weekend of heavy rain left washed-out roads and mudslides, blocking key routes in and out of Washington DC and causing widespread damage.

Cindy Sheehan, the American woman who has used her son’s death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested today while protesting outside the White House.

The US Secret Service, which has the job of guarding the president and other dignitaries, now has a new temporary duty – protecting a mother duck and her nine eggs.

President George Bush, head bowed in prayer, today opened an ambitious second term in which he boldly promises to spark democracy in the Middle East and reshape state pension plans.

US President George W Bush made a resounding call for worldwide freedom yesterday but did not mention Iraq once in his second inaugural speech.

FLAG-DRAPED coffins and anti-war chants competed with pomp and circumstance yesterday at the inauguration of President George W Bush along the snow-dusted, barricaded streets of Washington.

In a Washington brimming with pageantry under fortress-like security, US President George Bush looked ahead to his second inauguration, pledging to forge unity in a nation divided by political differences.

Abortion-rights supporters in the US marched in huge numbers, roused in this election year by what they see as an erosion of reproductive freedoms under President George Bush, and foreign policies they say hurt women worldwide.