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Joe Biden pauses during a campaign speech. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty
Fintan O’Toole: Joe Biden is the US’s mourner-in-chief

Haunted by intimate and public grief, the US president-elect is the most Gothic figure in American politics Mourning becomes Joe Biden. “I have (...)

Preparations continue on stage inside the Curb Event Center ahead of the presidential debate between US president Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA
Trump and Biden to face off in final debate on Thursday night

US president Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden will face off in their second and final debate on Thursday night, with less than two w(...)

Republican senator Lamar Alexander says he will oppose calling more witnesses. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA.
Trump poised to be acquitted as Democrats’ bid to call witnesses falters
  • US
  • January 31, 2020, 08:32

The impeachment trial of Donald Trump looked set to end without hearing witness testimony after a crucial Republican senator said he opposed a motion (...)

A protester stands outside during the impeachment trial of US president Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Senate Democrats make final push for impeachment witnesses
  • US
  • January 30, 2020, 20:13

US Senate Democrats mounted a last-ditch effort to persuade moderate Republican senators to back calling new witnesses, including John Bolton, in Dona(...)

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo arrives at Downing Street ahead of a meeting with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in London on Thursday. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
Ukraine wary of Trump entanglements as it prepares to host Pompeo

Ukrainian leaders are due to meet US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Friday for talks that will be overshadowed by the impeachment trial of presiden(...)

US president Donald Trump with ghis then newly-appointed national security adviser John Bolton in April, 2018. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
Republicans debate calling Bolton as Trump impeachment trial witness
  • US
  • January 28, 2020, 10:08

Donald Trump’s lawyers were set to wrap up their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday, as senators debate whether to call witn(...)

Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during the House of Representatives debate on impeachment. Photograph: House Television via AP
Donald Trump impeached in historic House vote in US

History was made on Wednesday night as Donald Trump became only the third US president to be impeached. The 435-member House of Representatives voted(...)

Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Former Trump adviser warns over Ukraine conspiracy theory

A former adviser to US president Donald Trump has warned members of Congress not to propagate a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in (...)

Lt Col Alexander Vindman testifies before the House intelligence committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, US. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Trump’s Ukraine call was improper, impeachment hearing told

Two US officials who listened in to the July 25th phone call between president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy have told the (...)

US president Donald J. Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the East Room of the White House in Washingto. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA
Fintan O’Toole: How Donald Trump will survive impeachment

Bill Taylor is the interim head of the US embassy to the Ukraine and a key witness at the impeachment inquiry that began public hearings in Washington(...)

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