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Trump threatens ‘nuclear’ option over court nominee
- US
- February 1, 2017
Donald Trump is threatening the biggest showdown of his nascent presidency after he urged the Senate’s Republican leader to “go nuclear” if Democrats (...)

Trump picks conservative Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court
- US
- February 1, 2017
US president Donald Trump fulfilled another of his signature election promises by nominating judge Neil Gorsuch, a reliable conservative on a federal(...)

Flanagan raises concerns over immigration ban at White House meeting
- Politics
- February 1, 2017, 06:34
Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan conveyed the concern of the Irish people at Donald Trump’s immigration orders during his meeting with th(...)

White House calls legal officer’s defiance ‘a dereliction of duty’
- US
- January 31, 2017
The acting US attorney general sacked by President Donald Trump was responsible for what was “clearly a dereliction of duty” by defying him on his co(...)

Donald Trump fires acting attorney general for defying travel ban
- US
- January 31, 2017
US president Donald Trump fired the country’s top legal adviser accusing her of betrayal for refusing to enforce his order banning nationals from seve(...)

Government to discuss pre-clearance with US authorities
- US
- January 31, 2017
The Government is to undertake a “complete review” of US immigration facilities at Dublin and Shannon airports in the wake of US president Donald Trum(...)

May calls on US to ‘renew special relationship’ with UK
- Europe
- January 26, 2017, 22:50
British prime minister Theresa May told a Republican retreat in Philadelphia that the US and the UK could not return to “the failed policies of the pa(...)

Mexican president cancels meeting with Donald Trump over wall
- US
- January 26, 2017
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Thursday he had scrapped plans to meet Donald Trump next week after the US president tweeted Mexico shoul(...)

Doer-in-chief Trump takes first steps towards his ‘beautiful’ wall
- US
- January 26, 2017, 01:00
The famous maxim uttered by former US attorney general John Mitchell at the start of Richard Nixon’s presidency, “Watch what we do and not what we say(...)

Trump abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership deal
- Economy
- January 23, 2017, 19:06
President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a trans-Pacific trade agreement and threatened a “very major border tax” on products sold(...)