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.

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.

Incredibly, US president Donald Trump blames mental illness and video games for the El Paso and Ohio killings (Irish Examiner, August 6). His dependence on the gun lobby for financial and electoral support blinds him to the ease which US citizens can obtain lethal guns.

Former US president Barack Obama’s statement following shootings in Ohio and El Paso that left more than 30 people dead, was directed at Americans, but it has far wider relevance.

One of the great challenges of today’s world is trying to see the other’s point of view, to respect positions that are so far from your own considered position that they seem incomprehensible, dangerously uninformed, or just plain stupid. That challenge is exacerbated by the refusal of individuals or societies to change circumstances or behaviour that lead to, or at least facilitate, repeated tragedy.

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.

The two-year-old's arm was draped around her father's neck, suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.

It will be used to build 92km of fencing and improve roads.

A win for Irish Texan Beto O’Rourke in the US midterm elections could reorder politics in America and precipitate Trump’s downfall.

The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church went aisle to aisle looking for victims and shot crying babies at point-blank range, a couple who survived the attack said.

Leo Santa Cruz’s shadow hung over the formal launch for Carl Frampton’s ring return yesterday, but it would be wrong to suggest that the Belfast ‘Jackal’ has a one-track mind in terms of his fighting future.

Riptide Movement are Irish rock’s best kept secret. But not for much longer, predicts Ed Power, as the band release a new album laden with catchy tunes

There are reports of a shooting at a school in the US.

The best I’ve ever felt. Carl Frampton’s first five words after logging in as a featherweight for the first time in his professional life. Amazing what a difference four pounds can make.

Convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks, was transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the Texas border early today.

Your guide to tonight's television.

It ended with Carl Frampton enjoying that most familiar vantage point, the elevated view of his surroundings as trainer Shane McGuigan raised him aloft in victory.

There is little need to shell out any dollars on a historical guide to the city of El Paso. 

While May 2 heralded the end of boxing’s most notorious cold war inside the ring, it was the coming together of two prominent power brokers outside it which ultimately made the fight a reality.

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.

David Keenan was coming home after a night out when this Dundalk taxi driver asked him to sing him a song.

Ten people were killed and five severely injured when a Texas prison bus carrying 15 people skidded off an icy highway overpass and hit a moving freight train yesterday, officials said.

At least 10 people were killed - 8 officers and 2 prisoners - when a bus carrying state prisoners skidded off an icy highway overpass in Texas, slid down an embankment and collided with a passing train.

You would have to go a long way before you find anybody with a bad word to say about Andy Lee.

It was dubbed the worst video game ever made — so bad that Atari buried the million copies made in a landfill deep in the New Mexico desert.

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

British security services tried to frame a Garda sergeant over the murder of two senior police officers from the North to distract attention from their own collusion, an inquiry has heard.

Middleweight Andy Lee has inked a deal to fight Detroit veteran Darryl Cunningham in Washington DC next month.

Barack Obama has been rallying American troops in Texas, exactly two years after he promised to end the Iraq war.

A nine-year-old boy with a massive tumour was whisked from a gang-infested neighbourhood in Mexico by US agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico.

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.

US agents helped make Joaquin Guzman the most powerful drug lord in the world. Aram Roston reports

IN The Man Who Fell To Earth David Bowie is an alien struggling to understand his new surroundings and overshadowed by his past.

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.

Texas police have arrested a man on a charge of attempted murder after he was caught fleeing the scene of a stabbing in his motorised wheelchair.

THE family of Anthony Campbell said it all. They do not expect the killers of the apprentice plumber to be brought to justice.

United States and Argentine authorities were investigating how a stick of dynamite in a college student’s checked luggage ended up on a Houston-bound flight, one of seven security incidents that disrupted US flights in a day.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern last night defended his home town after Dundalk was branded “tough, dour and charmless” in the new Irish edition of the Lonely Planet guidebook.

A Texas man faces execution by lethal injection this evening for the 1993 Christmas Eve killings of a father and two children.