About 100 people were arrested and at least 44 were taken to hospital during a weekend college party in Southern California.

JUST about all the people of the United States who were old enough, remember where they were when they heard that John F. Kennedy was shot.

A county coroner has said that some media coverage of suicide is better than none at all.

Richard Fitzpatrick on two powerful men, operating on both sides of the Atlantic, who admired each other’s methods.

SHORTLY after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin allowed a small number of academics to poke around in the previously secret Communist Party and KGB archives.

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover

THE story of how Edward VIII (James D’Arcy) abdicated the English throne for the love of the American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) in 1936 might be a familiar one, but W.E. (16s) offers an unusual perspective, exploring the tale from Simpson’s point of view, and taking into account the fact that while Edward gave up his throne for Wallis, she sacrificed her entire life for him.

Few of the powerful men who helped shape America in the 20th century are as polarizing as J. Edgar Hoover, considering the peaks and valleys of his nearly half-century-long reign as the director of the FBI and his closely guarded private life.

THERE is something of the old school Hollywood celebrity to Leonardo DiCaprio.

GLANCING at Naomi Watts’ curriculum vitae, one could be forgiven for presuming that the 43-year-old actress has a penchant for American political intrigue.

I can’t address last night’s State of the Nation address by the Taoiseach, because it was broadcast too late for this column.

Leonardo DiCaprio couldn’t put on as much weight as he wanted to play J. Edgar Hoover.

Josh Lucas has been cast in Clint Eastwood movie 'J Edgar'.

Leonardo DiCaprio will begin shooting the biopic about J. Edgar Hoover in January.

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play J. Edgar Hoover in an upcoming biopic.

THE US state where Irish teenager Phoebe Prince tragically took her life has introduced new legislation forcing teachers to immediately report any bullying issues to school principles.

Hampton Sides

A glorious modernisation of all those classic gangster films from Warner … honed to perfection by the period detail, the music, the atmosphere and the performances into one of the best films of the year.

BARACK OBAMA’S first test as president came as he was being sworn in. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, got the presidential oath wrong.

ONE week into the US general election race, the polls show a dead heat. But many US presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any.

FORMER FBI director J Edgar Hoover drew up a list of thousands of US citizens he suspected of being disloyal and put forward a plan to have them arrested, newly declassified papers reveal.

Martin Fallon has a right to feel aggrieved.

A CHANCE encounter in 1970 grew into a friendship that became the Deep Throat source that helped bring down Richard Nixon, reporter Bob Woodward wrote in The Washington Post yesterday.

A new top-of-the-range vacuum cleaner from home appliance giant Hoover was labelled a “disaster” today.