Mr Trump, who was impeached twice by the US House but was never convicted in the US Senate, will become the first former president to face criminal charges

CORKMAN Brian O’Donovan has written a book covering the past four years in the US as RTÉ’s Washington correspondent. The book is due out in October and is called Four Years in the Cauldron. It is being published by Penguin Random House Ireland.

Cork TDs are divided as to whether Taoiseach Micheál Martin should make the annual trip to Washington to meet the new President of the United States of America Joe Biden at the White House on St Patrick's Day.

IRELAND'S Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney has said the Biden administration heralds "a start of a change in global politics".

“A moment of hope” are the words of An Taoiseach Micheál Martin as he congratulated Joe Biden on being inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has voiced his "concern and dismay" at events in Washington DC, where pro-Trump protestors stormed the Capitol building.

The US Capitol is in lockdown after protesters breached barricades amid violent clashes between President Donald Trump's supporters and Washington DC police.

US President-elect Joe Biden has stressed the importance of keeping the Irish border open following Brexit. Speaking to reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, he said: "We do not want a guarded border.

County Mayor Mary Linehan Foley has said she was eager to invite President-elect Joe Biden to Cork County in the near future, but said she understood he would most likely have to visit Mayo and Louth first, where he has ancestral connections.

The US presidential election is looking very good for “as Irish as you can get” Democratic candidate Joe Biden, the Taoiseach has said. Micheál Martin admitted he has been “glued” to coverage of the long-running count.

Democrat Joe Biden is now leading President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia. Victory in the state would take him over the 270 threshold of electoral college votes needed to win the White House.

Democrat Joe Biden is now leading President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia. Victory in the state would take him over the 270 threshold of electoral college votes needed to win the White House.

 

Major US television networks ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him.

Major US television networks ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him.

Election officials in several US states have expressed fears about the safety of their workers amid a stream of threats and gatherings of angry protesters outside their doors, spurred by Donald Trump’s claims of a corrupt election.

Some Republicans are breaking with President Donald Trump’s attempts to falsely declare victory in the election and claim without evidence that Democrats are trying to “steal” it from him.

House Democrats have cast blame for their disappointing US election results on their main message, their tactics on the ground, and their leadership under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s team after expectations for major wins came crashing down in Tuesday’s ...

House Democrats have cast blame for their disappointing US election results on their main message, their tactics on the ground, and their leadership under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s team after expectations for major wins came crashing down in Tuesday’s ...

Facebook on Thursday banned a large group called Stop the Steal that supporters of Donald Trump were using to organise protests against the presidential vote count.

Some high-profile Republicans have distanced themselves from Donald Trump’s attempts to falsely declare victory in the election and halt vote counting in Pennsylvania and other states.

Joe Biden’s campaign is expressing optimism at the ultimate result of the election but warning supporters to “stay patient and stay calm” as vote counting continues.

Joe Biden stands on the brink of winning the presidency, needing to clinch just one more battleground state to defeat President Donald Trump.

The US is in limbo as counting goes on in key battleground states after voting in the presidential election, with legal challenges from Donald Trump threatening to block Joe Biden’s apparent march to victory.

The US is in limbo as counting goes on in key battleground states after voting in the presidential election, with legal challenges from Donald Trump threatening to block Joe Biden’s apparent march to victory.

As Donald Trump threatened to sue over what he alleged was a “stolen” election, his supporters in some states gathered to demand counts be stopped – while in others they insisted all ballots be counted.

DONALD Trump has gotten away with blunder after blunder, yet people are still applauding him. These were the damning words of Cathy Tobin from Bandon who cast her vote for Joe Biden this week with a cautious optimism.

The US election has scrambled seats in the House and the Senate but ultimately has left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big changes despite the heated presidential race.

From Ford Model T cars that popped off the assembly line in just 90 minutes to 60-second service for burgers, the United States has long had a reputation for having things done swiftly.

Dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump chanting “Stop the count!” descended on a vote-tallying centre in Detroit on Wednesday, as Americans on both political sides vented their anger and frustration over the undecided presidential contest at ...

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign long maintained there were thousands of new supporters tucked into rural, red pockets of the country who would come out and vote for the president when asked. On election day, there was proof.

Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and dramatically narrowing US President Donald Trump’s pathway to re-election.

Joe Biden won Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats four years ago and narrowing US President Donald Trump’s pathway to re-election.

AN economist at University College Cork has said that Joe Biden is set to win the election as the world waits for the results from the final few states.

Donald Trump continued to question the legitimacy of the US presidential election as rival Joe Biden's campaign claimed the Democrat challenger was on course for the White House.

Scattered protests took place from Washington DC to Washington state in the hours after polls closed in the US elections, but there were no signs of widespread unrest or violence.

Disappointed Democrats are driving towards extending their control of the House of Representatives for two more years but with a potentially shrunken majority as they lost at least seven incumbents and failed to oust any Republican legislators in ...

The fate of the US presidency hangs in the balance as Donald Trump and Joe Biden battle for battleground states that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.

Democrats’ hopes are fading for control of the US Senate, as Republicans repelled an onslaught of challengers and fought to retain their fragile majority.

Democratic expectations of expanding their majority in the House of Representatives appear to be waning as they failed to defeat any Republican incumbents in initial returns.

The battle for power in the Senate has tightened as the Democrats picked up a seat in Colorado, but suffered a setback in Alabama.

US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden handed their fate on Tuesday to voters, who will decide which man will steer the country through the surging pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people, destroyed jobs and reshaped nearly every aspect ...

Federal authorities are monitoring voting in the US and any threats to the election across the country from an operations centre outside Washington DC, run by the cyber-security unit of the Department of Homeland Security.

Americans will head to the ballot box today to decide between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.

Two small New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began.

US President Donald Trump spent the last day of campaigning for the presidential election delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation the poll is rigged.

Donald Trump has cast doubt in advance on Tuesday’s election results, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden went on the offensive on the final full day of campaigning ahead of a vote that could have consequences for the US for years to come.

US President Donald Trump has consistently pointed to tax cuts and regulatory relief as key successes of his first four years in office.

US President Donald Trump has suggested he will fire the country’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election.

US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have one last chance to make their case to voters in critical battleground states ahead of the country going to the polls.