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Courting trouble: Why pleading ignorance is no longer an option for newly betrothed Rupert Murdoch

With Fox News facing a potentially ruinous $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, the nonagenerian media mogul will have rather more on his mind than his recent engagement

Marion McKeone: Republican hopes get sucked into Trump’s legal quagmire

The Manhattan case concerning $130,000 hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels is the focus of the former US president’s ire, but it may not be as damaging as other criminal investigations in the pipeline

Marion McKeone: Misogyny mob out in force as Nikki Haley gets first in line for White House bid

Trump leads the chorus of condescension as the former UN ambassador declares she is seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidency, but it’s thought Haley could take votes from Ron DeSantis, thus favouring Trump

Opinion: Brazil’s rioters may have renewed the fight on Big Tech’s failings on democracy-damaging disinformation

Dr James Fitzgerald, securities studies expert at DCU, says events in Brasília have been a renewed clarion call for action on the fight against online extremism

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Editorial: GOP infighting symptomatic of a toxic hangover from Trump years

The former US president left a compromised, discredited and factionalised Republican Party in his wake

Marion McKeone: US will continue its dance at the edge of democracy next year

With Trump tilting for the White House again, pursued by three criminal indictments, and the country’s legal pillars crumbling under the weight of right-wing political expediency, it will be more of the same car crash politics in 2023

Marion McKeone: Democracy triumphs in America and abroad, but victory is fragile

A turbulent year draws to a close with a historic White House meeting between US president Joe Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky – sending a message to both Vladimir Putin and the rising tide of opposition from the authoritarian far-right

Editorial: Trump must be held accountable for damage done to American democracy

If this conman and bully is not taken to task for his behaviour, the American political system will be tainted and the office of the president will be permanently scarred

Marion McKeone: The two defamation cases that could spell the end for Fox News

The outcome of the Dominion and SmartMatic lawsuits could finish Rupert Murdoch’s plan to reunite his empire, scupper son Lachlan Murdoch’s chances of succession – and possibly financially decimate the company

Trumps plan expansion at Doonbeg golf resort as losses narrow to €1.6m

The business was hit by Covid, but has since significantly increased its number of staff

Marion McKeone: Number may be up for Trump as Republicans roll into Las Vegas

For the last six years, the former US president ruled the roost at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s leadership conference, but while the consensus there is that Donald Trump is a busted flush, he is still popular with many Republican voters

Lucinda Creighton: Biden confounds his critics while Trump’s comeback plan suffers a blow

With a number of Donald Trump’s picks coming unstuck in the US midterm elections, there are many in the Republican Party who will be hoping that the second coming of Trump has been irreparably damaged

Marion McKeone: Maga brand fails to come up trumps for far-right kingmakers

Predicted historic Republican comeback fails to materialise in midterms

Marion McKeone: Republicans hold the upper hand as parties spend a record $10bn on campaigns

All of the seats in the US House of Representatives and about a third of the Senate seats are up for grabs in the elections, but it remains to be seen if the huge spend by Republicans and Democrats will have any effect on voters

Marion McKeone: American democracy on the brink, Biden reminds voters ahead of mid-terms

With hundreds of Republican candidates still believing the election was stolen, and the fear that the 2024 election results could be reversed by Republicans in swing states, the cliché that the ‘stakes have never been higher’ rings true this time

Lucinda Creighton: US midterm elections could signal a bloody rematch of Biden and Trump

Republicans may well win Congress and the Senate, weakening Joe Biden and emboldening Donald Trump to engage in a contest that will be more vicious and rancorous than the last

Marion McKeone: Trump’s latest scandal-hit candidate deepens divisions betweens Republicans

Former NFL star Herschel Walker not only looks unlikely to win over any wavering Democratic voters, but ongoing revelations about his past behaviour have sparked a revolt among local Republican activists

Trump on trial: the billionaire’s crumbling empire dealt a fresh blow by new legal challenges

The subject of more than 4,000 state and federal cases, hundreds of personal injury, contract, fraud and tax dispute settlements, criminal probes, claims of sexual misconduct, bankruptcies and two impeachments, will Trump finally meet his moment of reckoning?

Marion McKeone: Ravenous Republicans eyeing House majority with slew of extremist candidates

The primaries have ended with hardliners winning out over moderates, setting the scene for bitterly contested midterms in November

Marion McKeone: Biden finally springs for Trump’s throat in an invigorating offensive

The US president’s speech in Philadelphia last Thursday carried the fight to his predecessor, hammering home the theme that American democracy is under attack from far-right elements