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Candidate Zohran Mamdani voting in the New York mayoral election on Tuesday. Mamdani's manifesto is 'full of failed policies from every failed economy on the planet', writes News Letter columnist Phelim McAleer

Phelim McAleer: Why Mamdani as NY mayor would be a disaster for the Democrats

President Donald Trump and Congress have failed to come to an agreement to keep US government programmes and services running, meaning that the federal government is now in shutdown.

Phelim McAleer: US lawmakers on both sides want government shutdown to drag on

His family and political allies ignored the reality that Joe Biden was too old to do another term as US president

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Explosive book exposes Biden's decline and cover up

President-elect Donald Trump speaks in Washington yesterday (Friday November 13). He targeted evangelicals by being anti abortion. Does Trump have the courage to sit with the leaders of Russia, North Korea and China in the pursuit of peace? (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

John Coulter: Trump reflects a new dawn in Christian influence on politics

The US envoy to Northern Ireland Joe Kennedy III on his last official visit to the province in the role, pictured on the River Lagan, with Belfast Lough in the background. Picture by Ben Lowry taken outside the Marriott hotel on November 13 2024

I understand unionist concerns about trade border, says outgoing envoy Kennedy

Elon Musk posted on X this image about voter ID to suggest the Democrats were cheating. Donald Trump’s claim of widespread election fraud were nonsense, but Northern Ireland showed how Voter ID does reduce the scope for personation

Ben Lowry: Trump poll fraud claims were nonsense but Voter ID cut cheating in NI

Morning View

Editorial: Americans will have to make the best of a poor choice for president

Former President Donald Trump speaks with Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona. Ben Lowry, who was in the audience, thinks that Kamala Harris is not far enough ahead in the polls, although she does have some routes to victory (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Ben Lowry: Harris is getting good polls but I still think data favours Trump

Immigration concerns: Jaime Lamb from Boulder, Nevada at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas said she was supporting his attempt to control the border with Mexico. Jaime is pictured with her daughter, Gian, eight, and son Crewe, nine, at the event at Thomas and Mack Arena on Thursday October 24. Pic by Ben Lowry

Ben Lowry: I watched Donald Trump in Nevada and was reminded why he might win

Trump at the Catholic Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation event in New York on Thursday. The polls underestimated him in both 2016 and 2020 (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Ben Lowry: Why I think Trump is marginal favourite to win the US presidency

Morning View

Editorial: Crushing the right to protest against abortion

The Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference on Friday, Aug 23, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb)

Ben Lowry: Kamala was ahead in White House race but now RFK gives Trump a boost

The then DUP MPs Ian Paisley, Sammy Wilson, the Tory Sir John Hayes MP and Paul Girvan MP, send message of support to Donald Trump from the Houses Parliament in September 2020. Some unionists are pro Trump for tactical reasons while a smaller but significant number of unionists are all-round Trump supporters

Ben Lowry: NI should not expect much from Trump or Kamala Harris

Morning View

Editorial: Biden had to quit race, but doing so late makes it hard for his party

A man in Arizona in a cowboy hat watches the debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump on TV. Ben Lowry was watching in Belfast, terrified that Mr Biden was so mentally fragile he would make some humiliating blunder (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Ben Lowry: I was nervous wreck watching Biden - his decline was clear in Belfast

Morning View

Editorial: US sees sense and passes aid package for Ukraine
News Letter editorial on Monday April 22 2024:
Editorial

Biden's re-election promo banner on Twitter

MP voices doubts on mental capacity of Biden as he confirms bid for second term

US President Joe Biden speaking to the press before boarding Air Force One, as he departed for Northern Ireland, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday. Unionism would be well advised to view all Biden’s speeches as well-written spin designed to placate voters back home in the US, not signal the start of a new campaign for Irish unity. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

John Coulter: After humiliation in Afghanistan, Biden needs foreign policy boost

Morning View

Editorial: Another historic visit to NI by a sitting American president

President Joe Biden

Top US Democrat: We intend to prod DUP towards going back into government

Morning View

Editorial: President Joe Biden should indeed be made aware of the Disappeared

Morning View

Editorial: Schumer seems to back SF view that 'Northern Ireland' is contested

Morning View

Editorial: President Biden welcome in NI, but poses a challenge for unionists

Morning View

Editorial: Biden most welcome in NI, but partisan American interventions are not

U.S. President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Belfast Agreement anniversary unlikely to be marked with visit of US President

Morning View

US envoy will have to prove that he is not biased against unionists

Elon Musk who has admitted a tweet about buying Manchester United was part of a “long-running joke.”

Elon Musk admits he joked about buying Manchester United
Billionaire Elon Musk has admitted a tweet about buying Manchester United was part of a “long-running joke.”
Sports Desk

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald with the bipartisan US congressional delegation, led by senior Democrat Richard Neal, at Leinster House in Dublin yesterday. Photo: Sinn Fein/PA Wire

Pro nationalist, meddling American politicians should be told to get lost

President Donald Trump, who on February 13 was acquitted in his impeachment trial in the US Senate

Joy that President Trump has been cleared in his impeachment trial

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. He still was not conceding defeat (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ben Lowry: The Republican Party now needs to be a check on the radicals in Presi...

Alex Kane: Donald Trump may have lost, but his influence will remain

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Delaware on, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Mr Biden is an Irish nationalist, and rightly proud of his roots says Harry Stephenson, "but his 26 counties of Ireland are now governed by the EU" (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden as US president would be a disaster for the UK

President Donald Trump on stage with Nigel Farage, right, former Brexit Party leader, at a Trump rally in Arizona on Wednesday. Many Brexiteers and unionists will understand the tribal loyalty that many Americans feel to Mr Trump, given that he was a rare supporter of Brexit and now that Joe Biden is echoing Irish nationalist grievances against Britain (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Ben Lowry: Whites in America, like unionists in Northern Ireland, feel increasin...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's conservative nominee to the Supreme Court and Vice President Mike Pence arrive at the Capitol in Washington DC where she met with senators on Tuesday. The Supreme Court is seen behind (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Thanks to Donald Trump the US Supreme Court will reflect majority opinion n Amer...

Some believe the emoji use is linked to the 2016 "pizzagate" conspiracy. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Pizza and cheese emojis are being used on social media by paedophiles - what you...

News Letter editorial

Stormont is already back yet for some reason a US special envoy to Northern Irel...

Letter to the editor

Each day with Donald Trump as US president brings a new outrage and a fresh slew...

President Donald Trump smiles during a meeting with Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The more the glitterati rail at Trump, the bigger he will win

President Donald Trump during a re-election campaign rally, on Monday February 10, 2020, in Manchester, New Hampshire. "The Democrats may have strengthened Donald Trump's prospects of a second term" (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Robin Newton: The positive politics of President Donald Trump contrasts with the...

News Letter editorial

If anything the trial of Trump has boosted his re-election hopes

News Letter editorial

Trump outbursts are ill judged but UK can do nothing about them

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday. Mr Corbyn is so close to the Tories in number of votes that he could easily win another election. Photo: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: Make no mistake '“ Corbyn could easily become PM in a fresh election

COMMENT: The greatest earthquake in US politics since the nation was founded

A close and bitter US presidential election will be decided today

Morning View

An explosive mixture of inequality and arms in the US

Ben Lowry: If the wider world was any guide, this poll would be an earthquake

Ben Lowry: There is a wide choice of candidates so non voters have little right ...

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