The Taoiseach will travel to Washington DC today for a series of engagements as part of the annual St Patrick’s Day programme.

Leo Varadkar was due to travel to New York on Tuesday to attend a meeting at the United Nations headquarters, but cancelled his plans last minute, allowing him to stay in Ireland to deal with the “evolving situation”

The final cost this year of providing direct provision accommodation for asylum seekers will be up to €60m over budget – almost double the original allocation set for 2019.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has defended the €18m cost of providing security for the recent visits of US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, saying “it's worth it”.

More than 460 gardaí have so far being disciplined in relation to the failure to prosecute almost 3,500 juvenile offenders, it has emerged.

US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Ireland next month on behalf of President Donald Trump, the White House has confirmed.

It follows an internal Garda Report showing failings in the management of DNA testing - with a quarter of Gardai taking DNA samples without being properly trained.

President Donald Trump often seems to be caught between his ideological desire to rewrite America’s trade relationship with China and a businessman’s instinct to cut a deal.

US President Donald Trump has cancelled the June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, citing "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement.

US president Donald Trump says the time and place has been set for his historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

Latest: Mike Pence has told Leo Varadkar his partner, Matthew Barrett, would be welcome in his home next year.

If border posts return to Northern Ireland they will be attacked, according to the Taoiseach.

President Donald Trump says arming teachers as a deterrent against school shootings is "up to States".

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side yesterday under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger,

Latest: One person has died and another was seriously injured after a chartered train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat struck a refuse truck in Virginia, the White House has confirmed.

The strength of protests shaking Iran was unclear on Thursday after a week of unrest that killed at least 21 people.

Donald Trump has said media speculation that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will soon leave his job is "fake news".

President Donald Trump said efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons programme would be "front and centre" of his two-day visit to South Korea and he projected optimism that the rising tensions could be calmed.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has warned that any of his players who disrespect the US flag will not play.

A US politician who said on Facebook she hoped Donald Trump would be assassinated has apologised publicly to the president and his family, calling the online posting "a mistake".

President Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as anger over his reaction to race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down.

President Donald Trump insists his support is stronger than ever, despite a report that some Republicans are weighing a 2020 presidential run without him. T

US Vice President Mike Pence has said the future of Europe's Balkan nations is in the West, reaffirming Washington's commitment to the region as Russia works to assert its historical influence there.

Republican congressman Steve Scalise is "in some trouble" after being shot at a baseball field but "he's going to be okay, we hope", Donald Trump said.

US President Donald Trump is to sign an executive order launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the US election system, according to three White House officials.

The Kremlin has denied reports of intercepted phone calls between Russian intelligence officials and members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

It has been confirmed President Donald Trump asked his national security advisor to resign.

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The US senate has confirmed school choice activist Betsy DeVos as education secretary, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie.