Trump-Musk bromance descends into a jaw-dropping feud that is funny, dismal and nauseating
Musk sends barrage of posts criticising the Trump budget Bill during a day his personal wealth fell by an estimated $34 billion
US senate confirms Edward Walsh as ambassador to Ireland
‘Champion golfer’ and Donald Trump’s pick as envoy to Dublin confirmed by a vote of 57 to 38
‘There’s a menace, an edge to life in America that wasn’t there before. And the possibility of dark stuff’
Journalist Edward Luce on his biography of ‘cold war prophet’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the fearful state of the US today, and ‘Lilliputian’ post-Brexit UK
Trump v Harvard: University faces existential battle against opponent that would have once been unimaginable
This week, the Ivy League university finds itself confronting the most serious enmity in its four-century existence
Elon Musk leaves Trump’s club, yet he was never quite part of it
DOGE’s special government employee rides his rocket into the sunset
‘Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum’: Trump’s mood sours over international events
With world stage looking distinctly complex, Trump turned to domestic matters for comfort
Clooney’s timely warning from history about Trump’s authoritarian America
Clear parallels between play about 1950s McCarthyism and how US president is waging war on US news media today
Trump tariffs update: Latest from Ireland and the EU after US president’s 50% threat
European Union is committed to securing trade deal with US that works for all sides, says Sefcovic
Ireland seeks ‘legal clarity’ over Shannon stopover for US deportation flights
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris says flight did not need diplomatic clearance as it was a civil aircraft
Ramaphosa stays calm with golf diplomacy in face of Trump’s latest Oval Office ambush
Blatant piece of theatre was designed to thrill the Maga heartland and fuel the wildest paranoias of what could happen in open-borders USA
Donald Trump pressures Republicans to back his ‘big, beautiful’ tax Bill
Hardline Republicans demand deeper cuts to Medicaid and other social security programmes
Donegal man to be deported from US following driving charge after more than 15 years in Boston
Man (40) with American-born children has been living undocumented after overstaying visa waiver
Trump suggests Vatican could host ‘immediate’ Russia and Ukraine peace talks following his two-hour call with Putin
But Russian leader more circumspect on state television about his conversation with US president
Joe Biden’s reputation was ruined in the morning, revived in the afternoon. It won’t last
News of Biden‘s cancer diagnosis brings temporary civility amid fallout from new book on Democrats’ inaction over his cognitive decline
Donald Trump moves from Middle East opulence to spectre of empty supermarket shelves in US
Growing disquiet over tariffs forcing up prices could lead to hard landing for his acceptance of Qatar’s gift of a $400m jet