Biden arrives in Northern Ireland to mark peace deal anniversary
U.S. President Joe Biden was welcomed to Northern Ireland by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday as he flew in for a brief visit to mark the 25th ...
Kentucky, Tennessee leaders call for tighter gun control after mass shootings
Kentucky and Tennessee political leaders on Tuesday called for tighter controls on guns, including tougher laws preventing people in crisis from accessing firearms, after two mass shootings killed 11 people in ...
Democratic lawmaker wants US Supreme Court Justice Thomas impeached
Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday she wants Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached and his advisers probed after a media report described luxury trips ...
Intel leak has U.S. officials bracing for impact at home and abroad
The U.S. national security community is grappling with the fallout from the release of dozens of secret documents, including the impact on sensitive information-sharing within the government and ties ...
Visits to Ireland by U.S. presidents
John F. Kennedy, June 1963
President John F. Kennedy came to Ireland five months before his assassination for a visit that drew huge crowds wherever he travelled. He later told aides ...
US IRS to hire nearly 30,000 staff over two years with $80 bln in new funds
The US Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve ...
US job growth expected to moderate but remain at brisk pace in March
The US economy likely continued to churn out jobs at a brisk clip in March even though the labor market is losing its luster as Federal Reserve interest rate hikes ...
Americans divided over criminal charges against Trump
The prosecution of former President Donald Trump has evenly divided Americans but appears to have boosted his chances of winning the Republican nomination for the 2024 election, according to a Reuters/...
Biden report on Afghanistan blames Trump for degraded US operations
President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday released a summary of after-action reports on the U.S.’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that laid blame on his predecessor Donald Trump, saying “...
Stormy Daniels says Trump should not go to prison
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the centre of the criminal case against Donald Trump, said she does not think the former president should go to prison if convicted ...
N. Korea: US – S. Korea drills push tension to brink of nuclear war
North Korea accused the U.S. and South Korea of escalating tensions to the brink of nuclear war through their joint military drills, vowing to respond with “offensive action,” state ...
Blinken says U.S. working on ‘wrongful detention’ label for WSJ reporter
The United States is working through a formal process to determine whether a Wall Street Journal reporter’s detention by Russia is “wrongful”, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on ...
Biden to visit Ireland, Northern Ireland next week
US President Joe Biden will visit Ireland and Northern Ireland on April 11-14 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord on one side of the Irish ...
Trump claims election interference is behind criminal charges
A subdued former President Donald Trump lashed out on Tuesday at New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg for bringing criminal charges against him and declared himself the victim of election interference ...
US cannot confirm China collected real-time data from spy balloon
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said it could not confirm reports that China was able to collect real-time data from a spy balloon as it flew over sensitive ...
Trump faces day in court in historic US first
Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, will appear in court on Tuesday and is set to be formally charged, finger-printed and have a mug shot ...
Disney CEO Iger calls DeSantis retaliation ‘anti-business’
Walt Disney Co DIS.N Chief Executive Bob Iger fired back at Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday, saying his apparent retaliation against Disney for taking a position on ...
Leonardo DiCaprio says Malaysian financier planned to donate to Obama’s 2012 campaign
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio told a Washington jury on Monday that Malaysian financier Jho Low revealed his plans to donate up to $30 million to help U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2012 ...
Indicted Trump arrives in New York for his day in court (Update)
Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner for the Republican 2024 nomination, flew into New York City on Monday for an historic court appearance to face charges stemming from a probe into ...
Violent US storms kill at least 32 people
The death toll from a violent storm that whipped up tornadoes in the southern and midwestern regions of the United States rose to at least 32 over the weekend, according to ...
Brittney Griner urges Biden to bring home reporter Gershkovich, accused of spying in Russia
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using “every tool ...
Death toll tops 20 as storm takes aim at eastern US
A violent storm packing high winds and heavy rains ripped through Southern and Midwestern sections of the United States as it headed east on Saturday, leaving at least 22 dead and ...
Twitter makes some of its source code public, promises more
Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, with its owner Elon Musk adding that the entirety of the ...
Tornado pummels central Arkansas, killing at least 2, injuring dozens
A fierce tornado blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas, and neighboring towns on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens as it sheared roofs and walls from many buildings, ...