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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

Marion McKeone: Formidable Fetterman leads Democrats’ charge as Senate race hots up

The 6’9” Pennsylvanian holds a strong lead over celebrity chat show host Dr Mehmet Oz in the most eye-catching of the midterm contests in the US

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Republicans must stand back and let justice take its course

The GOP’s attack on the American legal system in defence of the conman Donald Trump is threatening the very credibility and standing of the United States itself

Marion McKeone: FBI’s stunning Mar-A-Lago raid puts Trump on the back foot

The former US president is facing explosive allegations that he brought top-secret and classified documents with him to his Palm Beach residence, and may have committed crimes under three different laws

The unforgiven: Liz Cheney’s lonely fight for survival in Wyoming

The congresswoman and daughter of former US vice-president Dick Cheney is all but certain to lose her seat to a Donald Trump-backed opponent in the Republican primary this Tuesday. But in swimming pointedly against the tide of MAGA mania, is she eyeing a much bigger political prize on the horizon?

Marion McKeone: It’s all talk of persecution and fight as the GOP lurches ever further to the right

The CPAC, once a yearly nostalgia-filled gathering for bow-tied elderly Republicans, has thrown its weight behind a Trump 2024 comeback and, with guests like Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban, stated emphatically that moderates have no place in the Republican Party

Marion McKeone: Committee shines a light on Trump’s dark dealings on January 6

Little by little, the evidence has revealed that Donald Trump acted deliberately to provoke the attack on the Capitol, which put his vice-president and many others’ lives in serious danger

Marion McKeone: Bannon’s grandstanding will not be enough to keep him out of jail this time

Donald Trump’s chief strategist failed in his attempt to run out the clock on his criminal trial and is now facing between one month and two years in prison for contempt of Congress – and he is likely to face more serious allegations

Marion McKeone: Trump sweats as his former counsel plays ball with Jan 6 committee

Pat Cipollone’s testimony on Friday about the events of the January 6 riot at the Capitol Building was delivered behind closed doors, but all the indications are that he was a co-operative witness, spelling more bad news for former US president Donald Trump

An aide’s account lifts lid on Trump’s presidential power grab

Last week’s testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson about the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency could be the smoking gun that leads to a criminal prosecution of him