More than two dozen people, including the trainer of champion Maximum Security, have been charged in what authorities described yesterday as a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster.

A series of 14 ‘State-specific’ guides, providing practical tips and advice to Irish firms seeking to establish business in the USA for the first time, is currently being compiled and published by the American Chamber of Commerce.

The three largest US drug distributors and a major generic-drug manufacturer have agreed to pay more than $250m (€225m) to settle the first federal trial over the companies’ role in fuelling the US opioid epidemic.

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has offered to pay $4bn (€3.6bn) to settle all claims accusing the company of helping fuel the US opioid epidemic, as part of a potentially larger deal involving drugmakers and distributors that could top $20bn.

US Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren went after big tech during the Democratic debate on Tuesday night but brushed off rival Kamala Harris’s challenge to join her in calling for President Donald Trump’s suspension from Twitter.

Harley Davidson is betting on electric motorcycles to attract the next generation of younger and more environmentally conscious riders to reverse declining US sales.

The Democrat debates will see 10 prospective presidential candidates argue why they should receive the nomination to take on Donald Trump. Bette Browne looks at the runners.

Taylor Swift releases her new album Lover tomorrow.

Mike Trout notched another career record with his 42nd homer of the year as the Los Angeles Angels nailed a 5-1 win in their first of two road games against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday.

An Irish mum living in the US has told of her horror at seeing bullet-proof bags in her local back-to-school supplies store.

US president Donald Trump has been boasting about creating manufacturing jobs in states key to his re-election, but an emerging recession in the sector threatens to reverse that trend and imperil his message.

Venus Williams ousted defending champion Kiki Bertens at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati.

Pittsburgh is a city transformed and on the rise. Yet it still finds time to reflect on its fascinating history, writes Joe Leogue.

The greatly-derided craft of writing newspaper headlines is, like all other skills, constrained by the iron rules of science: a fixed line of space cannot accommodate an infinite number of legible characters in a given size and font.

‘National treasure’ is an over-used accolade, but former US president Barack Obama can be forgiven for awarding it to Toni Morrison whose death at 88 ends one of America’s most outstanding literary careers.

Incredibly, US president Donald Trump blames mental illness and video games for the El Paso and Ohio killings (Irish Examiner, August 6). His dependence on the gun lobby for financial and electoral support blinds him to the ease which US citizens can obtain lethal guns.

Former US president Barack Obama’s statement following shootings in Ohio and El Paso that left more than 30 people dead, was directed at Americans, but it has far wider relevance.

One of the great challenges of today’s world is trying to see the other’s point of view, to respect positions that are so far from your own considered position that they seem incomprehensible, dangerously uninformed, or just plain stupid. That challenge is exacerbated by the refusal of individuals or societies to change circumstances or behaviour that lead to, or at least facilitate, repeated tragedy.

A gunman in body armour who opened fire in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people including his sister, officials have said.

Timothy L O’Brien says describing Donald Trump’s racist baiting of four new Democratic congresswomen of different ethnic backgrounds as ‘strategic’ gives him too much credit.

Newly appointed US ambassador to Ireland Edward Crawford has pledged to strengthen the bonds between Ireland and America.

Five Southern US states have signed so-called heartbeat bills prohibiting abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected.

A least 177 male students were sexually abused by an Ohio State University team doctor who died in 2005, according to investigators.

When The National performed at Cork’s Sounds From A Safe Harbour festival in 2017, they were raising the curtains on 18 months of punishing touring. After that, the plan was to lay low and recuperate. What the Ohio five piece certainly hadn’t in mind was recording another album so soon after their career-best Sleep Well Beast.

The appointment of Edward Crawford as the next US Ambassador to Ireland took a step closer yesterday after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve his nomination.

Police are investigating after four people were found dead at an apartment complex in Ohio.

There is something strange about 2018. I think that Yeats had the solution to its understanding. What

America’s friends and allies couldn’t do it. Nor could America’s potential enemies. Neither could his wife, children or White House staff. It took the American people to reign in Donald Trump.

Nearly two years after leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama is set to return to the US political landscape.

A busy junction where an American couple died in an accident last September and where another US couple were injured in a smash in April could be closed permanently, Cork County Council has said.

Even with ample reason to think about what might have been, Paul Azinger prefers to wonder what’s next.

The USPGA Championship has all the trappings of a big celebration this year.

In advance of his show at the 3Arena, the American stand-up tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his role in Breaking Bad and the rise and fall of Kari-Jokie.

Jason Day channeled his inner LeBron James and captured his second PGA Tour event of the season.

Warning signs are to be erected near a junction on the N20 where two US tourists were killed and where two more escaped with their lives in almost identical crashes.

Talks are taking place about safety upgrades at a death-trap junction on the N20 Cork to Limerick road.

A waft of something fishy tickles my nostrils as the automatic doors go their separate ways. It could be salmon…or the calamari?

Donald Trump has accused Democrats of being "un-American" and maybe even treasonous for failing to applaud him during his State of the Union speech.

Doctors have successfully delivered a baby boy whose mother had been fatally shot, police in Ohio said.

A legendary performance on US television helped Samuel T Herring and Future Islands gain their reputation as one of the planet’s most uplifting bands, writes Ed Power.

A man accused of driving into a crowd protesting against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has been indicted on 10 felony counts including first-degree murder.

In an age when we rarely reach for a ballpoint, Kya deLongchamps scripts a little history of that old fashioned Christmas favourite — the fountain pen