Captain America actress Mollie Fitzgerald has been arrested by Kansas police on Tuesday and charged with the second-degree murder of her mother, according to reports.

Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier’s Northern Ireland operations have been sold to US firm Spirit AeroSystems.

Four people have been killed after a gunman opened fire in a bar in Kansas, US authorities have said.

We are the only primates walking exclusively on two legs. Doing so leaves our hands free to make and use tools.

The Republicans have North Dakota in their sights … and have changed the law to win it.

Well that’s good news. Maybe I can relax a little. You see they reckon slacking can be evolutionarily advantageous.

Seven HSE staff travelled to the US, to Kansas, at a cost of €19,000. The trip was to attend a conference at which two of them made a presentation.

Bone-chilling cold has gripped the middle of the US, putting paid to some new year's celebrations and leading to at least two deaths attributed to exposure to the elements.

Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they suspect made a hoax emergency call that resulted in a SWAT police officer fatally shooting a man at the door of his own home in Kansas.

Jason Hawkins has been named as chief executive of Carbery Group, the global food ingredients, flavours, and cheese manufacturer headquartered in Ballineen, Co Cork.

After United cheerfully disposed of Crystal Palace three weeks ago, I warningly noted that José Mourinho was groaning about the forthcoming international break — as we all were. 

CRH is still tipped to win out in its plans to acquire US cement giant Ash Grove but will likely have to pay more than the $3.5bn (€2.98bn) it had planned for it to fend off an 11th-hour from a US rival.

I had an interesting conversation at the farmers’ market recently, writes Louise O’Neill.

Shares in CRH rose 3% after the building-materials giant announced it was to buy a leading US cement manufacturer for $3.5bn (€2.93bn).

Predicting the future is no longer just the domain of fortune tellers and economists.

Donald Trump has told his fellow Republicans they must not go off on their summer holidays without sending him an Obamacare repeal bill to sign.

No matter how embarrassing or unpatriotic the US president becomes, his elected officials have jobs to keep and any dissent would be quickly quashed, says Paul Waldman.

The latest Republican effort to repeal "Obamacare" was fatally wounded in the Senate when two more party senators announced their opposition to legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump.

Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks to Matthew Shaer about why she did it - and the isolation that followed.

Eamon Ryan’s recommended reading list sparks talk of book club

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Witnesses said he grabbed Ben Jacobs and slammed him to the ground after being asked about the Republican health care bill.

Latest: Private Manning later said that she is uncertain where her life will take her after serving seven years in jail.

President Barack Obama granted Ms Manning clemency in his final days in office in January.

Chelsea Manning's Welsh mother has spoken of her pride for the Wikileaks whistleblower before her release from prison.

The man who created the rainbow flag used to represent LGBT rights has died.

The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit to pipeline builder TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

The US Senate has approved the appointment of Donald Trump's nominee Mike Pompeo to run the CIA, despite claims that he has been less than transparent about his positions on torture, surveillance and Russia's election meddling.

If you would like to spend one short day in the Emerald City, tickets for the Dublin dates go on sale from the Bord Gais Energy Theatre on Friday June 30 at 9am.

The world's second-largest credit ratings agency has agreed to pay nearly $864m to settle US government and state claims that it gave inflated assessments to risky mortgage investments in the years leading up to the financial crisis.

A week-old baby girl who went missing after her mother was shot dead has been found alive.

A divided Federal Reserve left its policy rate unchanged for a sixth straight meeting, saying it would wait for more evidence of progress toward its goals while projecting that an increase is still likely by year-end.

The son of a Kansas politician died on a water slide that is billed as the world's largest.

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A police officer was shot and killed in Kansas while searching for a suspect in a drive-by shooting.

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Members of the notorious fundamentalist church arrived in Orlando over the weekend to picket the funerals of the victims of the shooting.

Funerals for some of the 49 victims of the Orlando shooting were held over the weekend with hundreds of mourners in attendence.