In his new show, Hector O hEochagain covers all sorts of interesting issues on his journey across the US, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick.

A US federal judge has blocked three new abortion restrictions from taking effect in Arkansas, including a measure that opponents say would likely force the state's only surgical abortion clinic to close.

Floodwaters have swamped streets in New Orleans' French Quarter and prompted a tornado warning in the area amid concerns that even worse weather is on the way to Louisiana and other states along the Gulf of Mexico.

After various incarnations, Joan Wasser is now where she wants to be, writes Ed Power.

If you think you saw me getting my hair cut last Saturday afternoon outside Páirc Uí Chaoimh, relax. It wasn’t the heat. That was me.

The critically acclaimed ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ has put confidence tricks back in the spotlight. Robert Hume looks back at some of the most famous scams.

It’s a long road to recovery.

The forecast for the 100th PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club is for birdies in bunches.

Tori Bowie was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Everybody accepts that the accused, and even the convicted, have the right to legal support, writes Terry Prone.

Tens of thousands of US children have been exposed to the bizarre claim that footballs were once produced from the stomach tissue of executed Irish prisoners.

Phil Bryant has said he wants Mississippi to be the "safest place in America for an unborn child".

A nine-year-old boy has shot and wounded his 13-year-old sister after an argument over a video game controller, according to authorities in Mississippi.

It was a case of “I’ll be back” when Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met the Terminator in Texas.

The Taoiseach is to travel to Oklahoma to thank the Choctaw nation for providing relief to Ireland during the Great Famine, more than 170 years after members of the nation of Native Americans donated to those starving 7,000km away here.

Fifty years after Martin Luther King was assassinated, new museums and memorials are highlighting the civil rights movement, writes Isabel Conway, as she travels from Tennessee to Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey is an acclaimed philanthropist, humanitarian, and global television star but she should never become president of the US — simply because she is not a politician.

A brutal winter storm has dumped snow, sleet and freezing rain up the south-east seaboard of the United States, delivering snowy conditions some cities had not seen in decades.

A five-year-old boy from Mississippi called 911 to report that the Grinch was trying to steal Christmas.

US Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has been backed by his fiercest religious allies as he tries to fight back against allegations of sexual misconduct.

Kerry Group shares rose nearly 3% despite management cutting the upper limit of its full-year earnings expectations, writes Geoff Pervical.

The diversion programme for intoxicated drivers that Tiger Woods is expected to enter on Friday is one of several across the US aimed at reducing the number of repeat offenders and backlogs of court cases.

Hurricane Nate is now expected to be a Category 2 hurricane when it makes landfall on the US central Gulf Coast in the coming hours.

After the phenomenal success of ‘One’, Sarah Crossan is back with a new book about the death penalty. Jonathan deBurca Butler meets the award-winning author.

Big pharma is having a big tobacco moment as litigation over opioids attract star lawyers and a growing list of US states and local governments seeking their own multi-billion payout to deal with costs of a burgeoning US drug epidemic.

Here's your morning news bulletin.

A Navy corpsman and 15 Marines were killed when a military plane crashed in rural Mississippi as it was headed from North Carolina to California, a Marine spokesman said.

A US military plane has crashed into a field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people aboard and spreading debris for miles, officials said.

Elizabeth Strout tells Sue Leonard about how she has created a collection of short stories which build on the world inhabited in her last novel by Lucy Barton

“the best moment of my life".

A man who is accused of killing eight people in Mississippi apparently told police he wasn't 'fit to live' as he was arrested.

Here's what you need to know.

The shootings took place at three homes on Saturday night.

A suspect is in custody after eight people were killed in a shooting, including a sheriff's deputy in Mississippi.

At least 14 people have been killed in severe storms rolling across the US.

Latest: At least 10 people have been killed in severe storms rolling across the US.

Myles Garrett was the first overall pick by the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Draft, while three quarterbacks were chosen in the opening 12 selections of a first round.

Two boys have been electrocuted by power lines downed during violent weather in Texas, officials said.

A freight train has crashed into a coach in Biloxi, Mississippi, pushing the bus 300 feet down the tracks and leaving at least four people dead, authorities said.

Here's your evening update.

At least three tornadoes have touched down in southern Louisiana, ripping houses from their foundations, downing electricity lines and leaving 10,000 homes without power.