Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has been accused of scaremongering after he warned hospitals and schools risk running out of food when post-Brexit Irish Sea trade arrangements are fully implemented.

President Donald Trump has been impeached by the US House of Representatives for a historic second time, charged with "incitement of insurrection" over the deadly mob siege of the US Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.

A grace period that limits the level of red tape required to move retail food products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland runs out at the end of March.

THE DUP has claimed Northern Ireland has been "screwed over" by a border in the Irish Sea, with senior MPs hitting out at Boris Johnson and major business groups over trade.

First Minister Arlene Foster has vowed to find a solution to post-Brexit trade difficulties in Northern Ireland.

A decision on next year's budget for public services has failed to make the Stormont Executive's agenda six or seven times, Finance Minister Conor Murphy has said.

DUP MP Ian Paisley has criticised Boris Johnson's comment that empty supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland are down to "teething problems".

The US House of Representatives is rushing ahead towards impeaching Donald Trump for the deadly Capitol attack, taking time only to try to persuade his vice president to push him out first.