USA: A Missouri man named Bud Weisser was taken into custody for trespassing into — of all places — a Budweiser brewery in St Louis.

Donald Trump has been slammed for his “outrageous” behaviour after he appeared to mock a disabled reporter by imitating him.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been accused of attempting to incite a hate campaign, after he claimed he saw people across the river in New Jersey cheering the September 11 attacks — a claim officials strongly deny.

It wouldn’t have been surprising if Shane Duffy’s international debut after four tumultuous years under the microscope would have weighed heavily on the Derry youngster.

Chiquita Brands International, owner of the namesake banana label, agreed to buy Ireland’s Fyffes to create the world’s biggest supplier of the fruit for about €407m.

With weather forecasts firming up to suggest that Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVIII may be spared the sort of intense snowstorms which have struck the New York area twice this month, both the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks arrived to their team hotels in Jersey City on Sunday ahead of a week of scrutiny.

If you believe the cavemen who scream “Mashed potatoes’, “Get in the hole’, “You the man” or “Baba Boey’ are headed for extinction under a new draconian security policy by golf’s tours, think again.

Word of warning: this is a column about the media and the people charged with keeping them at bay.

Giovanni Trapattoni is realistic about his side’s slim chances but that hasn’t stopped him sending out a youthful midfield to take on the might of Spain at Yankee Stadium at 8pm local time tonight (1am Irish time).

The Brightside Tavern in Jersey City is beginning to fill up with supporters of Barack Obama and the city’s long-time mayor, Jerramiah Healy.

I’M so late that the ticket seller at St Peter’s College in Jersey City offers to leave me in for free.

For Cork-born Ron Clifford, Osama Bin Laden’s death only reinforced his quest for justice on behalf of his sister Ruth and niece Juliana, who would have been 14 today. He spoke to John Riordan.

The number of victims of a suspected serial killer on New York's Long Island has doubled in the past week after the discovery of three more corpses along a remote beach highway.

New Jersey appears to have turned its back on Formula One.

THOUGH some of his keenest supporters feared Pádraig Harrington would never return to the major championship winning form of 2007 and 2008 the man himself has insisted throughout a summer of swing changes that he ‘will have the last laugh’.

OFFICIALS are decrying political corruption in New Jersey after more than 40 people, among them rabbis and elected officials, were arrested in an investigation in which some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black- market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.

Several rabbis, three mayors and two state politicians were among more than 40 people arrested when an investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and fake Gucci handbags evolved into a sweeping probe of political corruption in New Jersey.

AUTHORITIES were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odour that stretched across a large part of Manhattan yesterday that prompted officials to suspend some commuter rail services to New York.

American illusionist David Blaine has escaped – again.

Excerpts of a never-before-seen play written by beat legend Jack Kerouac will be published for the first time in the July edition of a US magazine, it emerged today.

A former nurse who claims to have killed more than 40 patients at United States hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to murdering a judge in 1988.

Investigators have found magazines relating to germ warfare at the home of two men arrested soon after the US terror attacks.

A Saudi man who apparently holds a student pilot’s licence has been arrested in Missouri on a bank fraud charge as America’s post-terror attacks investigation pressed ahead.

The CIA believes September 11 hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta met Osama bin Laden’s top commander in 1999, it has emerged.

The CIA believes the September 11 hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta met Osama bin Laden’s top commander in 1999, it emerged today.