Democrats will "never" see US president Donald Trump's tax returns, said White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as a new front opened in the confrontation between the administration and Congress.

Sonja Molloy and her family are one of Ireland’s few families of video bloggers, or ‘vloggers’.

Despite the #MeToo movement, Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is likely to be confirmed after a desultory and incomplete investigation, writes Scott Lemieux

Scratch beneath the political permafrost and the frozen vials of Russian urine, set aside a far-from-thawed Cold War, and a Winter Olympics is threatening to break out in Pyeongchang.

Seamus O’Connor will be Ireland’s flag bearer tomorrow morning as the coldest Winter Olympics in decades gets underway with the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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

Conor McGregor became a father, Niall Horan saw his solo career take off, and Saoirse Ronan was an award-winning Ladybird. Those were some of the positives celebwise in 2017, writes Kelly O’Brien.

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation to scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, pledging to "reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citizens".

The new US ambassador to Russia has presented his diplomatic credentials to President Vladimir Putin.

Movies have long had the power to spark tourist trends, but changing viewing habits and increased TV production values mean it’s the small screen that’s now inspiring serious wanderlust, writes Carolyn Moore

Two girls are recovering from a lightning strike after their dog brought help to the site where they injured on a Utah mountain.

A man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who walked into the couple's blood-splattered room that he did it because she laughed at him, the FBI has said.

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

The latest Republican effort to repeal "Obamacare" was fatally wounded in the Senate when two more party senators announced their opposition to legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump.

US president Donald Trump has said the appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegations that his campaign collaborated with Russia to sway the 2016 election is "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history".

Andreea Cristea, 31, was knocked into the river when Khalid Masood drove his rented car into pedestrians.

President Donald Trump's tax plan will amount to "the biggest tax cut" and the "largest tax reform" in US history, according to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Peter Dowdall on the award-winning garden podcast set to land in Salt Lake City around St Patrick’s Day.

Claire O'Sullvan examines where these synthetic drugs are coming from and gets advice for parents on how to talk to teens about them

The HSE has warned that a potentially deadly new designer drug may be in circulation in Cork City.

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As 2017 gets under way, the Irish film industry is looking forward to another stellar year of new productions and international awards.

Sharp divisions over Donald Trump's election as US president have sparked uncertainty about who will participate at his inauguration.

An air ambulance plane taking a heart disease patient to a Utah hospital has crashed and exploded in a car park in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard.

Donald Trump taken aim at "Obamacare" as well as homing in on the FBI's renewed examination of rival Hillary Clinton's emails as the US election campaign enters its final week.

Hillary Clinton is pushing her supporters to cast early ballots in key battleground states in the race for the White House, as Donald Trump tries to make up ground with intensified attacks following the FBI's renewed examination of her email practices.

Donald Trump is taking a break from campaigning to formally open his new hotel in Washington DC, leaving his running mate to visit Utah, which has not backed a Democrat for president for 52 years.

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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.

According to a report in Science News, Europe’s oldest living thing is a tree growing in the Pindus Mountains of Northern Greece.

“I have to be careful what I say now, don’t I?’’, are the words Aidan O’Brien reportedly muttered in the wake of his Caravaggio enjoying no more than a leisurely stroll on the way to winning the Group 1 Phoenix stakes at the Curragh last Sunday.

Caravaggio oozed class as he romped to an impressive, four lengths win in the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

RARELY is a book so engrossing and pacey that it makes me miss my train stop. But such is the case with BBC Newsnight reporter John Sweeney’s first thriller, Cold. 

Ride hailing company Uber has begun a helicopter service in Brazil's biggest city.

Artificial Intelligence is making great strides towards a future where humans are more and more obselete and it's latest challenge is the most important yet - foosball.

Utah political leaders and anti-pornography activists said children’s minds are being corrupted in a world where graphic sexual images are a click away.

Being lonely and socially isolated can increase a person’s risk of heart disease or stroke, new research suggests.