Investigators are looking into whether embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie misused about $2m (€1.5m) in Superstorm Sandy relief funds for an ad campaign that put him in the spotlight in an election year, a politician has said.

Guys your time in the gym may be in vain if this video is anything to go by.

He may have been born in the USA but we’ve claimed him as an Irishman.

Barack Obama visited tornado-devastated Oklahoma, consoling people staggered by the loss of life and property and promising that the US government would be behind them “every step of the way”.

After Hurricane Irene in 2011, a couple of Bruce Springsteen fans were visiting the New Jersey Shore town of Belmar, a defining district of the so-called Irish Riviera.

Election day turnout is high in several storm-ravaged areas in New York and New Jersey, with many voters expressing relief and even elation at being able to vote at all, considering the devastation.

NO MORE STICKS LEFT FOR ROMNEY TO BEAT OBAMA WITH

Life in the US north-eastern states hit by Superstorm Sandy was slowly struggling back to normality for many as bodies of the more than 90 dead continued to be found.

From Rihanna to Holly Willoughby, going without make up is the latest celebrity ruse to hit the headlines. Can Edel Coffey do it for a day?

Chances are, you already have a pretty clear idea of how much a Three Stooges movie starring three present day actors appeals to you.

No longer a hurricane, Irene spent the last of its fury and sloshed its way into Canada early today, inflicting relatively little damage to New York but leaving a trail of treacherous flooding and millions without power along America’s east coast.

The heavens were set to open over Monmouth Park last night, threatening to wash away the chances of Aidan O’Brien’s star Dylan Thomas in this evening’s US$3m Breeders’ Cup Turf at Monmouth Park.