Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment has said it expects to reduce losses in its burgeoning US operations this year.

The three largest US drug distributors and a major generic-drug manufacturer have agreed to pay more than $250m (€225m) to settle the first federal trial over the companies’ role in fuelling the US opioid epidemic.

"In a personal message to Dot at the end of the recording, he asks her to return to the United States to help with the election campaign"

Latest: One person has died and another was seriously injured after a chartered train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat struck a refuse truck in Virginia, the White House has confirmed.

Brutally cold conditions are expected to envelop the US east coast for most of the weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont.

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Fermoy bowlers Arthur McDonagh and Gary Daly scored a double in the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig in the race for a semi-final place in next month’s King of the Roads.

At least 34,000 gallons of oil have leaked out during a spill off the coast of Kuwait, according to an analysis of satellite imagery.

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After crashing, the plane went down a steep, wooded hill.

Stocks around the world continued their march higher on Monday, and US indexes again hit new highs.

Kyran Fitzgerald says that rather than drain the swamp as he promised in his election campaign, Donald Trump will actually bring more alligators with him next month.

Whatever ties bind the UK together are being severely strained with different regions and industries trying to opt out of a hard Brexit from the European Union, writes Gordon Brown

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Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A racist post about US First Lady Michelle Obama has prompted calls for the director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor to be sacked.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Niagara Falls has become the latest natural wonder to add a zip line, offering thrill-seekers the chance to take an adrenaline-pumping plunge towards churning mist at speeds topping 64kph.

Hillary Clinton was under pressure to do well in Democratic nominating contests in Kentucky and Oregon so she can turn her attention to the general election and the mounting attacks on her by Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Brilliant sunshine and rising temperatures followed the mammoth blizzard that paralysed much of the US east coast.

A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the US East Coast to a standstill today, dumping as much as three feet of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travellers and shutting down Washington and New York City.

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Actress Eve Hewson has told how her American accent has become too convincing for her Irish friends.

Declan O’Donovan beat John Young by almost a bowl in the Tim White Cup final at Rosscarbery.

A man killed by an escort is being investigated for links to the unsolved disappearances or murders of women nationwide, authorities said.

RUSSIA: He’s flown with cranes, petted a polar bear, and tranquilised a tiger. Now Vladimir Putin is ready to face the Downward Dog.

Tiger Woods bounced back from his miserable US Open to shoot his lowest score on the PGA Tour this season with a four-under-par 66 on day one of The Greenbrier Classic.

USA: Two women who took a writing class at Columbia University found that their own stories were better than fiction.

 

Kya deLongchamps is reflective as she looks at an affordable collectible which holds a story — American Depression glass.

USA:  A man who was unhappy with his haircut faces criminal charges after police say he became enraged and threw items around a Connecticut salon.

Over the last few days, images of ’strangely’ shaped Christmas lights began circulating social media sites claiming to be found in Cookstown Co. Tyrone.

Three separate shootings have left four people dead in West Virginia, and state police said they are seeking one suspect in all the shootings.

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Republicans have won control of the US Senate, seizing seats from Democrats in mid-term elections shaped by deep voter discontent with President Barack Obama.

If Republicans win the Senate, it would almost certainly spell the end of immigration reform plans — and dash the hopes of some 50,000 Irish living illegally in the US, writes Bette Browne

Gay and lesbian couples are getting legally married in the south-east of the US for the first time, with the practice crossing into a conservative region that has long stood against same-sex marriage.

America’s Supreme Court cleared the way for an immediate expansion of same-sex marriage by unexpectedly and tersely turning away appeals from five states seeking to prohibit gay and lesbian unions.

Eve Hewson has followed Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong’o into the exclusive Hollywood club of actors tipped for stardom by the acting bible Variety.