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After arriving, Melania Trump tweeted that she looked forward to making memories in her new home

First Lady moves to White House six months after Trump

The White House has two new occupants as US First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron finally moved in to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Donald Trump • 12 Jun 17

Iranian army soldiers patrol near the parliament building

Iran minister rejects Trump's reaction to attacks

Iran's foreign minister rejected Donald Trump's condolences for deadly attacks in Tehran, calling the US president's words repugnant.

World • 08 Jun 17

President Donald Trump was away in Florida at the time

White House security bolstered after latest threat

The US Secret Service has bolstered security at the White House after a man was arrested after making threats at one its checkpoints, in the latest security incident since Donald Trump became president.

US • 19 Mar 17

Activists rally in support of muslims in the US city of Seattle

Amnesty warning on 'demonising' policies of Trump

US President Donald Trump and other leaders whose policies "demonise" entire groups of people pose a growing danger for the world, Amnesty International has said in its annual report.

News • 22 Feb 17

A UN worker inspects the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria

US criticises Assad over chemical weapons in Syria

The White House has condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime's "defiance" of international norms after United Nations experts found the Syrian army had conducted three chemical weapons attacks against its own people in 2014 and 2015.

News • 23 Oct 16

A record television audience is expected for the debate

Trump and Clinton to go head to head in TV debate

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will face off tonight in the first of the US presidential debates.

News • 26 Sep 16

Barack Obama was speaking in Laos, while at a summit with South East Asia leaders

Trump not qualified to be US president - Obama

Barack Obama has said Republican nominee Donald Trump is unsuitable to be president of the United States.

News • 08 Sep 16

Donald Trump denied Paul Ryan and John McCain support in their re-election bids

Trump says campaign is unified, despite criticism

Republican Donald Trump has insisted that his White House campaign is unified, even as he faced a backlash from some in his party over his criticism of the family of a dead American soldier.

News • 03 Aug 16

Hillary Clinton is the first woman nominee for US president of either of the major political parties

Clinton vows to be president for 'all Americans'

Hillary Clinton has accepted the Democratic Party's White House nomination, casting herself as a tireless champion of the people and rejecting Donald Trump's dark picture of the US.

News • 29 Jul 16

Donald Trump will contest the 8 November election

Trump secures Republican White House nomination

After eliminating 16 party rivals, warring with much of the Republican establishment and provoking controversy at the party convention, Donald Trump has secured the Party's nomination to run for president.

News • 19 Jul 16

The match was diplomatically halved at the 18th

Biden-Kenny clash halved at 18th

US Vice-President Joe Biden has said his career is in better shape than his golf game, as he kept his promise to play a round in Ireland.

News • 23 Jun 16

Hillary Clinton has already turned her attention to the battle with Donald Trump

Clinton meets Sanders after winning DC primary

Hillary Clinton formally concluded the US Democratic presidential race last night with a win in the District of Columbia primary, then turned her focus to uniting the party during a meeting with defeated rival Bernie Sanders.

News • 15 Jun 16

Hillary Clinton: 'Thanks to you, we have reached a milestone'

Clinton clinches Democratic nomination

Hillary Clinton celebrated her triumph as the first woman to lead a major party in a race for the White House, scoring big wins in California and New Jersey to cement her grip on the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

News • 08 Jun 16

Donald Trump said that it was fair to question the judge's impartiality

Trump says judge comments were misconstrued

Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said his comments questioning the impartiality of a Mexican-American judge had been misconstrued as a broad attack on people of Mexican heritage.

World • 08 Jun 16

Emergency services were called to the White House

Arrest after object thrown over White House fence

Authorities temporarily placed the White House on lockdown after someone threw a metal object over the fence around the presidential mansion, officials said.

News • 30 May 16

At one time there were 17 candidates in the Republican field

Race for the White House - the latest surprises

RTÉ's Washington Correspondent Caitríona Perry discusses just how surprising the 2016 Race for the White House continues to be.

News • 04 May 16

Donald Trump's unorthodox candidacy has stirred controversy and shaken the Republican Party at its roots

Trump gets surprise endorsement of key Republican

Republican candidate Donald Trump has won the surprise endorsement of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the most prominent mainstream Republican to get behind the former reality TV star's White House campaign.

News • 26 Feb 16

Virginia McLaurin was born in 1909 in South Carolina

106-year-old woman dances with Obamas

106-year-old Virginia McLaurin has fulfilled her dream of visiting the White House, where she danced with President Obama and his wife Michelle.

News • 22 Feb 16

Voters in the state of Iowa, in both the Republican and Democratic parties, will decide who they want to go on to represent them in the general election

The Road to the White House starts in Iowa

All eyes in the US turn to the state of Iowa this week for the 'First in the Nation' caucus as voters there officially being the process to select the next US president.

News • 01 Feb 16

The heckler said she was shouting for the president to release LGBTQ immigrants from detention and stop deportations

Obama heckled at LGBT White House reception

US President Barack Obama was interrupted by a heckler as he hosted a reception at the White House yesterday to recognise LGBT Pride month.

News • 25 Jun 15

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during previous talks over a deal on Iran's nuclear ambitions

US Senate passes Iran deal review bill

The US Senate has passed a bill giving Congress the right to review any final nuclear deal with Iran, after it overcame intense initial objections from President Barack Obama.

World • 07 May 15

Jeb Bush is considering a run for presidency

Jeb Bush quits posts ahead of possible 2016 run

Potential US Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has resigned from all of his corporate and non-profit board member positions as he explores a run for the White House.

News • 01 Jan 15

The four-member review panel was appointed by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson

Review published after US security breaches

An independent review of the US Secret Service says its needs more staff, better training and a leader from outside to steer an agency that has become too insular.

News • 19 Dec 14

An Iowa man is being held after driving to White House with a gun, ammunition and a knife in his car

Man held after driving to White House with gun

A man has arrested near the White House after driving across the US with a gun and a knife in his car trunk on a self-described mission to go to the executive mansion.

News • 19 Nov 14

Omar Gonzalez managed to make it into the East Room of the White House in September

White House security review reveals blunders

An internal review of the security lapses that allowed an intruder to scale a fence and enter the White House has revealed a string of Secret Service blunders.

News • 14 Nov 14