Sean Whelan

As the campaigns draw to a close, it is all about getting people out to vote as the two US presidential election candidates focus on final rallies in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.

So here it is - at last. Judgement day in American politics. The day "We the People" have their say - irrevocably setting their nation on a new path, much of the rest of the world dragged along in its gravitational pull.

Donald Trump emerged onto the stage of the watch party at Palm Beach just after 2.20am local time, accompanied by his family and closest political

US president-elect Donald Trump has said that Elon Musk and former republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.

We got to see very little of the meeting between President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, in New York this week has sent shockwaves across the United States.

US president-elect Donald Trump has nominated Edward Walsh, the head of a nationwide construction and real estate company to be his ambassador to Ireland.

Donald Trump enters the White House for the second time far more prepared and far more focused than he did in 2017, writes Washington Correspondent Sean Whelan.

While Europe was sleeping, the storm broke over Washington DC. Within hours of being sworn in as the 47th President, Donald Trump kept one of his most contentious electoral promises: he pardoned the 6 January convicts. All of them - apart from 14 who had their cases commuted.

US President Donald Trump has granted presidential pardons to some 1,200 people convicted of offences related to the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.