Oprah Winfrey has nothing but praise for the Florida school shooting survivors who have channelled angst into activism, calling them "warriors of the light" and comparing them to civil rights pioneers.

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Donald Trump has lashed out at the FBI saying the agency "missed all of the many signals" sent by the suspect in the Florida school shooting and arguing they are "spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign".

The state which rushed the nation’s toughest gun control measure into law after the Connecticut school shootings is carving out an exemption to make sure film and TV producers can stage running gun battles on Manhattan streets.

British Amateur champion Alan Dunbar thought his place in the 2013 Masters was priceless.

A police raid on the home of the Jewish school shooting suspect turned into a gun battle then a stand-off today.

ALLIED IRISH BANK’S “culture was wrong and we are now setting down new principles for everyone in the bank from boardroom to branches” — the bank’s executive chairman David Hodgkinson told the Annual MacGill Summer School on Thursday.

Police say they have arrested three teenagers in the shooting death of another US teenager near a Detroit high school.

Two MPs who falsely reported a mass kidnapping at a prestigious Taiwanese university to test preparedness in the wake of the US school shooting could face a year in prison, an official said today.

A rookie security guard who survived the Minnesota school shooting rampage described a frenzied scramble to get pupils out of harm’s way – and said a fellow guard saved lives by sacrificing his own.

WHAT a terrible shame that 78 minutes of delightful football had to be marred by just one moment of madness yesterday in Inchigeela.

LEINSTER go into today’s Golfsure Youth Interprovincial Golf Tournament at Lahinch as defending champions but such is the galaxy of talent among the other provinces that a retention of the trophy is by no means certain.

Two teenagers died and 13 were wounded when a 15-year-old boy who was picked on and had talked about shooting classmates opened fire in a high school toilet, officials said.