They were teenagers when they were sentenced to life in prison in 1984.

In-form Rory McIlroy leads the Irish charge at Pebble Beach this week after his sensational performance saw him win the Canadian Open last week.

A man who set himself on fire outside of the White House yesterday has died from his injuries.

If Nancy Pelosi had listened to her mother she might be a nun today — or more likely a Reverend Mother — but instead she set her sights firmly on politics and is now the most powerful woman in American political history.

When he decided he just wasn't good enough to be a newspaper cartoonist, Jeff Kinney decided he had to find another way to get his illustrations published. It would be the origins of publishing phenomenon, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, he tells Rowena Walsh.

Tonight Tralee hosts a top-of-the-table sellout as Garvey’s Warriors take on Superleague rivals Templeogue. But as someone who went up against Carmelo Anthony in his first game Stateside, played in the famed March Madness in college and the cut-throat Asian continental league where loony owners could fire a teammate at half-time, Jason Killeen will hardly be daunted.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has taken the first major step towards launching a widely anticipated campaign for the presidency.

Sully, service dog to George HW Bush has become somewhat of a viral sensation after a photograph was posted online of him lying next to the former US president's casket.

Marriott says details of up to 500m guests may have been accessed in breach of its reservation database.

The eight-bedroom Maryland House, near Crosshaven, has a games wing and swimming pool. It was once a hotel, says Tommy Barker

Throughout his visit to Ireland, many females rallied to help former slave Frederick Douglass in his campaign for abolition, writes Robert Hume.

Life begins at 80 for two of this year’s Guinness World Record holders, who have excelled at DJing and acrobatics.

The US president’s hard line on deportation and immigration is too late to prevent a major demographic shift to non-whites, who tend to vote for the Democrats, says Bette Browne.

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Indiependence (Aug 3-5) in Mitchelstown has revealed its day-to-day lineup.

Thousands of students across the US are joining in a National School Walkout today on the one month anniversary of the mass shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

His ban arose from a photograph he posed for which was widely shared on social media.

Parents, teachers and students affected by school shootings over the past two decades have met President Donald Trump as the White House sought to show resolve against gun violence.

One person has been shot and wounded near the US National Security Agency's headquarters in Maryland.

Saudi women have been allowed into a sports stadium for the first time to watch a football match between two local teams.

Brutally cold conditions are expected to envelop the US east coast for most of the weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont.

A massive winter storm, dubbed a bomb cyclone, swept from the US East Coast on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possibly record-breaking cold.

LATEST: A gunman has opened fire at a Maryland office park, killing three co-workers and wounding two others, authorities said.

A judge in Hawaii has blocked the latest version of the Trump administration travel ban just hours before it was set to take effect.

Melania Trump has hit back at Donald Trump's first wife for referring to herself as "first lady".

President Donald Trump is heading to Florida to survey the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.

A convicted sex offender accused of murdering two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping centre is expected to plead guilty to the crime that has haunted the area for more than 40 years.

US President Donald Trump has arrived in Houston on his second trip to storm-ravaged Texas in the past week.

Frederick ‘Freddie’ Thompson has lost an application to have a murder charge against him dismissed.

Roger Federer booked his place in the second round of the US Open but serious doubts remain about his fitness after he needed five sets to defeat American teenager Frances Tiafoe.

US President Donald Trump is planning to address the nation on his strategy for the war in Afghanistan. DONALD TRUMP TO ADDRESS NATION ON AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY

US president Donald Trump dug in defiantly in his response to racial violence in Virginia, echoing the position of white nationalists by intensifying his opposition to the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy.

Tributes have been paid to a 22-year-old student who lost his battle for life after a swimming accident in the US.

A man who saved a family of four from drowning last month has revealed the horrific moment when he realised a mum with a toddler in her arms struggling under the water in a treacherous lake.

US cable channel Discovery has agreed to buy Scripps Networks, the No 4 most watched US cable network, for $11.9 (€10bn) in a bet that uniting ownership of cable channels like Animal Planet and HGTV will help the company adapt to the changing television landscape.

It is not known whether the show will air his audition next month.

The complainant says Tomkins' "overpowered" her and she was also too drunk to consent to sex.

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

First Lady Melania Trump has announced that her son, Barron, will attend a private Episcopal school in Maryland beginning this autumn.

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

Judges in Hawaii and Maryland have blocked Donald Trump's revised travel ban from taking effect as scheduled, using the US president's own words as evidence that the order discriminates against Muslims.