The Republican establishment may hope this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump’s circus-like run for the presidency.

One of nine bikers killed at a shootout outside a Texas restaurant was a Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient whose family members dispute police claims he was in a criminal group.

The soldier who killed three people before committing suicide in an attack on the same Texas military base where more than a dozen people were shot dead in 2009 had shown no recent risks of violence, officials say.

MERCK won a major victory in the battle over its Vioxx painkiller yesterday when a New Jersey state jury found that the drug maker properly warned consumers about the risks of the medication.