USA

Bush congratulates Biden as Republicans silent on election outcome

Former US President George W Bush said the election outcome was "clear" while Trump refused to concede.

8 November 2020

USA

US voter turnout overseas could soar as ballot demands increase

Many organisations that help US voters say that they are seeing more engagement and more ballot registrations this election cycle. Historically, turnout among Americans abroad has been low despite there being 2.8 million eligible voters.

20 October 2020

USA

US President Trump nominates anti-abortion judge to Supreme Court

Amy Coney Barrett has described abortion as "always immoral". The Republican-dominated Senate is planning to confirm her and the Democrats are powerless to stop it.

26 September 2020

USA

GOP convention: Republicans pitch optimistic future under Trump

On the first day of the Republican convention, Donald Trump's allies issued stark warnings about the election - and made an array of misleading claims.

25 August 2020

USA

Euroviews. Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trump's speech is the tipping point Democrats need ǀ View

Why was Pelosi so angry? Maybe it was the fact that Trump is totally getting away with undermining the election. Or maybe it was all the lying.

6 February 2020

USA

Donald Trump acquitted in Senate impeachment trial

The vote in the US Senate fell largely along partisan lines between Democrats and Republicans.

5 February 2020

USA

How will Super Tuesday decide who faces Donald Trump in US election?

It's Super Tuesday — the biggest day in the Democratic primary calendar, when 14 states vote to decide who will face off against Donald Trump.

3 February 2020

USA

Euroviews. Securing John Bolton's impeachment testimony is only half the battle for Democrats ǀ View

The Senate majority leader is likely to insist on Clinton-era rules limiting Democrats to a one-day deposition. Here's why no one should let that happen.

30 January 2020

USA

Parties see big demographic changes despite overall static split

After a tumultuous decade, the percentage of voters who identify as Republican or Democrat has remained stable, but there are big changes inside the numbers.

19 January 2020

USA

Euroviews. Regardless of who is president in 2020, climate change will be at the bottom of the US agenda ǀ View

A second term for President Trump will entrench the “energy dominance” agenda. A new Democratic administration will likely bring a tour de force of federal executive action on climate policy through US domestic, foreign and trade policy.

9 January 2020

USA

Euroviews. Climate change became a burning issue in the 2010s, but also an opportunity ǀ View

Over the same 10 years that the danger of global warming increased, addressing that danger went from being a political liability to being an economic opportunity.

30 December 2019

USA

Euroviews. There's a simple reason Republican men yell in all the impeachment hearings ǀ View

GOP lawmakers have treated the hearings like Fox New segments, delivering loud, rambling monologues in a deliberate attempt to wear down participants and viewers.

12 December 2019

USA

Euroviews. Even local elections are now about Trump. That's bad for the GOP ǀ View

Races for a seat on the Loudoun County, Va., Board of Supervisors don’t usually attract national media coverage. Juli Briskman changed that on Tuesday. The former government contractor won a seat on the nine-member board in Virginia’s fourth-most populous county. By Wednesday she had appeared on CNN

8 November 2019

USA

Euroviews. Mitt Romney's Trump criticism and House's Syria rebuke show growing cracks in the GOP ǀ View

It’s long been an open secret in Washington that many of the career Republicans who fawn over President Donald Trump in public have nothing good to say about him in private.

22 October 2019

USA

Crowd chants 'send her back' after Trump accused of racism

The crowd at a re-election rally started chanting "send her back" after Trump doubled his attacks on Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar.

18 July 2019

USA

Trump's first GOP presidential challenger emerges

Bill Weld has become the first Republican to challenge Donald Trump for the party's 2020 presidential nomination.

15 February 2019

World News

Watch: Trump announces deal to end US government shutdown

US President Trump announced that a deal has been reached on legislation that would temporarily reopen the US government.

25 January 2019

USA

US government shutdown set to continue as White House talks fail

Donald Trump and congressional party leaders made no progress over resolving a federal shutdown that has left workers unpaid and sites closed.

3 January 2019

USA

What path lies ahead for the US after the midterms?

Democrats and Republicans are each claiming some success after the US midterm elections, but for both parties, serious challenges lie ahead.

7 November 2018

World

Last campaign push before US midterm elections

Just hours to go before the most important elections in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. The midterms will decide who controls the balance in the House of Representatives and the Senate- and will be either a show of support for President Donald Trump, or a repudiation.

5 November 2018