Keith Duggan
Washington Correspondent at Irish Times
Washington Correspondent. The Irish Times. From Donegal.
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5 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Keith Duggan
The political climate in Washington will be dominated in the coming days by conflicting narratives over the series of US military strikes on three Iranian nuclear bases ordered by President Donald Trump on Saturday, which have heightened volatility in the Middle East.
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5 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Keith Duggan
The news broke on Saturday evening as a sweltering heat belt settled across the central and eastern sections of the United States. A bombing strike had been launched on Iranian nuclear bunkers. US president Donald Trump would address the nation at ten o’clock that evening. Only a few days earlier, on Wednesday, Trump had been puckish about his intentions towards Iran. “I may do. I may not do it....nobody knows what I am going to do.”Now, the world knew.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Keith Duggan
Sisters Nancy and Maureen greet Linda Ringhouse with hugs and wish her a happy birthday. She laughs if off and says she has no big plans. Wednesday is trivia night in People’s Pub, a restaurant she runs in Bayport, the coastal idyll in a secluded patch of Long Island’s southeastern shore, some 60 miles from Manhattan. She jokes that she’ll have a drink and get the questions wrong. “I’ve asked her many times!” Nancy says, mock scolding.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Keith Duggan
For many Americans, the chance seeing a former US president in the flesh is a once-in-a-lifetime novelty. Those flying on a commercial carrier to Texas this week were quick to record the presence of Joe Biden sitting among them, with requests for selfies happily obliged with. Biden was headed to Galveston to mark the annual Juneteenth celebrations. He made what had for years been a sacrosanct date in African-American history and culture into a federal holiday in 2021.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Keith Duggan
The image caught on the doorbell video was nightmarish: a stranger at the front door, disguised in a ghastly mask. By the time it entered the public domain, the man in the image was seconds away from murdering the occupants of the house, Minnesota state congresswoman and speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. It was the early hours of Saturday morning.
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