The 'Django Unchained' actor was one of the many A-list stars at the benefit in Los Angeles and when the opportunity came up to spend a day with the former US president, he jumped at the chance.

The Irishman who was among those reportedly being held hostage at the In Amenas oil-field in Algeria on Wednesday is said to be out of harm’s way now and “safe and well.”

A special portrait of Steven Spielberg with Abraham Lincoln on his shoulder, by Dublin artist Mark Baker, will go under the hammer at an auction this weekend to raise funds for the building of a hospice in Wicklow.

President Obama nominated Irish American John Brennan to be the next CIA director on Monday. The son of immigrants from Co. Roscommon, Brennan is not the first person of Irish descent to rise to prominence in the CIA. Here is brief profile of two other Irish Americans who have played an influential role in national security.

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The home of the president of the United States, which was designed by an Irishman, has been valued at almost $300 Million.

Joe Biden, who will be sworn into office on Sunday morning, is becoming one of the most influential vice presidents in US history according to historians and political observers.

President Bill Clinton considers the Northern Ireland Peace Process his greatest foreign policy achievement according to a new radio documentary.

Joe Biden was sworn into office yesterday for his second term as Vice President with his prospects of a 2016 presidential candidate never brighter, according to senior political sources.

The US president was sworn in to his second term in office in Washington DC on Monday and stars who attended and those who watched at home were full of praise for Obama.

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Barack Obama is creating jobs -- in Ireland.

President Obama is to outline his plan for immigration reform at an event in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

On Friday, the Obama administration announced new rules that seek to eliminate any confusion over which organizations with religious objections will be exempt from having to cover contraception costs for their employees.

According to the Huffington Post, employers with religious objections will have to self-certify that they are non-profits with religion as a core part of their mission.

The White House has announced that President Obama will be holding a series of meetings on Tuesday 12 February 2013 in support of his campaign to reform the nation’s immigration system.

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former president John F Kennedy, is one of the names mentioned as a replacement for David Jacobson, as the United States Ambassador to Canada.

A new book about crime boss Whitey Bulger claims his vehement dislike of president Obama helped his neighbor identify the crime boss and tip off the FBI.

Controversy swirled last week over remarks made about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie that he is too fat to be president.

Rush Limbaugh knows why the majority of Americans voted for Barack Obama. It had nothing to do with the public rejecting the Republican platform, Limbaugh believes.

Many claims have been made about President John F. Kennedy over the years, with increasingly salacious stories grabbing the headlines as the years go by. But the latest explosive claims by journalist Bill Deane set a new high bar in dramatic claims about the assassinated former president.

Jubilant conservatives might want to temper their excitement; Politico is reporting that Hillary Clinton plans to give a series of lucrative paid speeches this year.

White House memorabilia, including photos of John F Kennedy’s four day trip to Ireland in 1963, have fetched $18,500 at auction.

There are now fears that the sequester, the mandated cutbacks by the US government in government services, due to start March 1st, could deeply affect St. Patrick’s Day activities both in America and Ireland.

Vice President Joe Biden is happy to take the train home to Delaware, foregoing the expensive flights on Air Force 2 that are the perks of his office in favor of the much more budget friendly Amtrak.

On Thursday evening President Barack Obama issued a proclamation officially announcing the launch of Irish-American Heritage Month, 2013. With ancestral roots in Moneygall, County Offaly, Obama referred to Ireland’s tradition of immigration to the United States, their contribution and inspiration.

President Obama is to appoint a veteran Secret Service official as director of the agency, according to a government source.

A Quinnipiac University national poll found that former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is still the early favorite to win the 2016 presidential election.

After an epic filibuster which Democrats finally voted to end, the Senate confirmed John Brennan to be named as CIA director on Thursday.

Bill Clinton, the man who signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into law, has joined the growing chorus of prominent Americans urging the Supreme Court to overturn it, 17 years after it became law.

Michael Barron, the director of BeLonG To, Ireland’s national service and advocacy organization for LGBT young people, has been invited to the White House for a series of meeting with senior administration officials marking St. Patrick’s Day.

House Republicans released their budget outline on Tuesday to an immediate chorus of criticism that they're conducting class warfare aimed at the poor in order to protect the interests of a small, high-income minority.

Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny will visit several U.S. cities for St. Patrick’s celebrations, culminating with a meeting with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday, March 19. The Obamas will also host their annual St. Patrick’s reception in the White House that evening in honor of Kenny and his wife Fionnula.

Vice President Joe Biden, an Irish American Catholic, will lead the American delegation to the Inaugural mass of Pope Francis I on Tuesday next.

Responding to a report this week that The White House will suspend its famous tours from March through September 30 thanks to the forced spending cuts known as the sequester, real estate titan Donald Trump told the press he is willing to cover the costs himself to keep the tours open for rest of the fiscal year.


It helps to have friends in high places, but it's even more helpful if you're cousins. Just ask Irishman Henry Healy, 28, his cousin is the president of the United States.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is to raise the plight of undocumented illegal immigrants when he meets President Obama on Tuesday.

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