He faces a smooth path to winning his party’s nomination, with no serious Democratic rivals

The prosecutor investigating whether former president Donald Trump meddled in the 2020 US election in Georgia has called for “heightened security” as she predicted a decision on potential charges during the summer.

International pressure to cut emissions, risks to supply chains, and a phobia about relying on Chinese producers, is pushing Ireland’s manufacturing to the pin of its proverbial collar.

In advance of its tour dates in Ireland next year, Marjorie Brennan provides a dummy’s guide to the hugely successful musical Hamilton

Pentagon leaks

Earlier this year, the Biden administration ramped up efforts to stop migrants from crossing the US border

DP World Tour success

Many voters back the ex-president despite — or perhaps because of — his alleged crimes. A trial might only entrench that support

Though Mr Syed’s conviction has been reinstated, he will not be taken back into custody

Facing a reckoning

Shares fall by as much as 50%

Is it worth it?The question that abounds this week every year as ministers, their advisers, and civil servants leave our shores for St Patrick’s Day trips abroad.

Our biggest crisis is global warming, yet we do not tackle it with any of the urgency as bailing out the banks

Having arrived in Macroom on the day the first lockdown began, the Woodland String Band were delighted to finally participate in the Co Cork town's St Patrick's Day parade today

Even if Trump Media and its officers face no criminal exposure for the transactions, the optics of borrowing money from potentially unsavoury sources through opaque conduits could cloud Trump’s image as he seeks to recapture the White House in 2024.

Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Investigators said his 22-year-old son, Paul, was shot twice with a shotgun and his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, was shot four or five times with a rifle outside dog kennels on their rural Colleton County property on June 7 2021

If the Sino-American relationship was a card game, one could say America and its longstanding allies have been dealt a good hand, especially in light of China’s growing economic, demographic, and political challenges. But even a good hand can lose if it is badly played.

TikTok ban

In the wake of his violent death, Ann Murphy talks to those who will remember Bishop David O’Connell for his work with the vulnerable and his ‘commitment to justice’

The description of objects are being picked up by US radar which cannot be immediately identified as "unidentified flying objects" is technically correct, but culturally loaded.

When it comes to the US economy, multiple facts are true at once. Those facts often contradict each other.  The unemployment rate can be at a record low like it is now, but workers can still lose their jobs any day.

Green Deal Industrial Plan aims to make it easier for sustainable EU companies to access tax breaks, redirect cash toward clean-tech industries, and relax state aid rules

State of the Union address

We don’t need to draw a tighter line around our international responsibilities to refugees, but we must articulate our policies and communicate with communities asked to welcome them in

Lisa Marie Presley

US general election

The nation that went to the gates of Moscow in the Second World War has become as aggressive as a cuddly cat. But with its decision to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, Germany's 'culture of reticence', particularly with respect to Russia, may soon be a thing of the past

Details of a €50m fund for communities that have "stepped up to the plate" in supporting Ukrainian refugees are to be announced today.

Ford plans to cut up to 3,200 jobs across Europe and move some product development work to the US, Germany's IG Metall union has said, vowing action that would disrupt the carmaker across the continent if the cuts go ahead.

Respondents said that they wanted flight connections between Cork and New York the most

Headline rates already declining after hitting 40-year highs

The first and most obvious rule about flying is not to.

A warmer-than-expected start to winter in large parts of the world that could linger for weeks is easing fears over gas supplies that had been predicted to trigger outages and add to power bills.

A Declaration of Human Responsibilities was published in 1997, but the UN has never adopted it

Her story is one of contempt shown to her by men, frequently on the air, and of her determination not to be deflected from her progress to the top

China’s poor management of Covid-19 and Russia’s war against Ukraine are two global cataclysms beyond our control, creating ripe conditions for a rise in extremist populism, writes Joseph E Stiglitz

Just this week we learned that Elon Musk has announced he will step down as CEO of Twitter, while the tax details of former US president Donald Trump are to be made public

The work of the January 6 committee proves that presidents don’t exist beyond the reach of the law — even if they are powerful and wealthy, writes Timothy L O’Brien

Nearly 200 countries signed an agreement to put humanity on a path to living in harmony with nature, but Ireland is lagging behind 

Move freezes any US assets of those designated and generally bars Americans from dealing financially with them

Slowdown in inflation could give the Federal Reserve cover to start scaling back the size of its interest rate increases

Ireland's 3,300 newest citizens urged to become part of their communities, while never forgetting their past

We should be thankful to anyone who cares for our children, all of our children, throughout the world, in all the ways they need to be cared for