The US president has been condemned for tweeting about conspiracies linking Bill Clinton to the sudden death of Jeffrey Epstein, write John Whitesides

The United States is a world leader in mass shootings. In less than 24 hours, two mass shootings by single individuals, have left dozens of people dead, write Steve Hewitt and Christabelle Sethna.

A suspected gunman accused of an attempted terrorist attack on a mosque in Norway and separately killing his teenage stepsister “will use his right not to explain himself for now” in a detention hearing, his defence lawyer has said.

Despite Donald Trump’s orders, America’s free speech laws mean police are powerless to arrest someone for ranting on social media, says Sarah N Lynch and Mark Hosenball.

A gunman in body armour who opened fire in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people including his sister, officials have said.

It must take a lot to leave your home, young child, maybe even newborn in tow, to walk a thousand miles to a place you’ve heard separates families at its border and uses “outdoor fenced spaces” as “shelter”.

Actor and singer Debbie Reynolds died barely a day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher, with her final words being: “I want to be with Carrie,” writes Francesca Gosling.

It’s an escape route as old and worn as prizefighting itself. Over 300 years of identical journeys to the one Carl Frampton has taken, seeking a new life in the New World.

The NASCAR driver known as "The Outlaw" told a US court that he believes his ex-girlfriend is a trained assassin dispatched on covert missions around the world who once returned to him in a blood-splattered gown.

JAMES Vincent McMorrow thought he would breeze his way to the top. He didn’t and is endlessly grateful.

Irish middleweight Andy Lee has thrown down the gauntlet to Matthew Macklin to face him in 2014.

SEVERAL serious crime investigations could be adversely affected by the decision of deputy state pathologist, Dr Khalid Jaber, to resign.

An explosion inside a confectionery factory in Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juarez has left one person dead and at least 40 injured, with several workers missing.

Police in Mexico have captured an alleged former Sinaloa drug cartel lieutenant accused of being involved in the killings of over 350 people found in mass graves in 2011.

Gene Kelly worked her so hard that her feet bled. It was an apt introduction to the sleazy, sadistic side of Hollywood, Debbie Reynolds tells Dalya Alberge.

Sixty years on, Waiting for Godot is as alluringly mysterious as ever, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler.

Extradited Briton Christopher Tappin’s guilty plea over arms dealing charges is “the beginning of the end” of the family’s ordeal, his wife has said today.

Legendary trainer Emanuel Steward has demanded that boxing chiefs tackle the growing use of performance enhancing drugs in the sports.

Andy Lee’s brave challenge to win the WBC world middleweight title came up short in the early hours of Sunday morning when beaten by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by TKO in the seventh round at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.

While literary aficionados will be celebrating Bloomsday around the world today, middleweight Andy Lee (28-1, 20 KOs) will try to add his own chapter in the tome of Irish boxing history when he challenges Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (45-0-1, 31 KOs) for his WBC title in El Paso, Texas (4am, Sunday morning, Irish time).

The Mexican drug cartels operating with alarming bloodlust around the hinterlands of El Paso, Texas have promised there’ll be a one-day truce on Saturday, June 16.

Forensics tests in Mexico have confirmed that 12 sets of skeletal remains found near the US border are those of girls and women, authorities said.

Limerick's Andy Lee has been handed a WBC middleweight world title shot.

Mexican poet-turned-activist Javier Sicilia set off on a cross-country caravan with hundreds of fellow demonstrators to demand an end to drug-related bloodshed.

A spate of bloody attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, hours before the start of the Mexican Open tennis tournament.

Susana Chavez, a 36-year-old poet and activist who adopted the slogan Not One More Death, was found strangled, mutilated and dumped on a street in the Mexican border city of Juarez, infamous for a series of murders of women – even before drug cartels made it one of the most violent places in the world.

The embattled Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez had its bloodiest year ever with 3,111 people killed in drug violence, an official said.

A mother who waged a two-year battle to bring her daughter’s killer to justice has been shot to death, possibly by the same man suspected of murdering the teenager.

THE Mexican army have discovered several clandestine graves holding at least 20 bodies near a ranch in the northern border state of Chihuahua.

Mexican authorities said four US citizens were shot dead in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

At least 13 youths aged 14 to 20 have been shot dead at a party in Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said today.

A NEWSPAPER’S stunning, front-page editorial of seeming surrender to drug capos has set off a national debate from the presidential palace to Mexico’s equivalent of the water cooler – its ubiquitous town squares.

ALTHOUGH we should learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others, we persist in following the failed tactics of the US in relation to drugs. Our drug problems, which began in Dublin, have gradually spread throughout the country.

An air ambulance crashed shortly after takeoff from a US airport, killing all five people on board.

At least 30 gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation centre in a Mexican border state capital and opened fire, killing 19 men and wounding four people.

Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico

Federal police arrested Mexico’s ’King of Heroin’, a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year, authorities said.

MEXICAN President Felipe Calderon headed to his country’s most violent city yesterday after deadly attacks on US consular staff and their families upped the ante in his battle against drug gangs.

Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorised the border city of Tijuana for several year

WITNESSES have said the attack by armed men who stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students, was prompted by false information.

Fifteen people, including a child, three women and a university professor, have been killed in a single day in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said today.

Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation centre, lined people against a wall and shot 17 dead in a particularly bloody day in Mexico’s relentless drug war. The brazen attack followed the killing of the No. 2 security official in President Felipe Calderon’s home state.

A fight between gangs at a jail in the near-lawless Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez left at least 20 prisoners dead and seven others injured.

CIUDAD Juarez’s police chief has stepped down after criminal gangs made a chilling demand: resign or they would kill one of his officers every two days.