Gerry Adams called on the Irish Government to increase its efforts to "secure a positive resolution" for the undocumented Irish living in the US.

Donald Trump's administration has set new rules for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees, that require a "close" family or business tie to the United States.

European Union and US officials have swapped information about threats involving air travel amid concern that the United States will soon broaden its ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from Europe.

A federal judge has blocked any attempt by the Trump administration to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with US immigration officials.

There is insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump's travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States, according to analysts at the Homeland Security Department's intelligence arm.

President Donald Trump said Barack Obama's health care law covers "very few people" as he minimised the impact of replacing it.

A report by the US Department of Homeland Security claims that President Donald Trump’s wall along the border with Mexico would cost up to $21.6bn and take more than three years to build.

US President Donald Trump's immigration and travel ban made "an awful lot of sense" but probably should have been delayed at least long enough to brief Congress about it, homeland security secretary John Kelly has told politicians.

Donald Trump has hit back after a judge temporarily blocked his travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Donald Trump has hit back after a judge temporarily blocked his travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has ordered a “full review” of American pre-clearance operations in Ireland in response to US President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration clampdown, writes Daniel McConnell and Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has ordered a “full review” of American pre-clearance operations in Ireland in response to US President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration clampdown.

Transport officials are looking to extend US pre-clearance at Irish airports in response to losing exclusivity on the much sought-after service to other European airports in the coming years.

US authorities could soon be snooping on social media posts from would-be immigrants in a new effort to close security gaps in the country’s visa system.

US authorities could soon be snooping on social media posts from would-be immigrants in a new effort to close security gaps in the country's visa system.

Hillary Clinton has apologised for her use of a private email account as US secretary of state.

Wales: The oldest McDonald’s employee in Europe is celebrating his 90th birthday with a party at the restaurant where he works, saying he has no plans to retire just yet.

The increasing sophistication of unmanned drones and the danger that they pose has governments in a tailspin, writes Robert Beckhusen.

Here's what to watch on the TV tonight.

A device, possibly an unmanned aerial drone, was found on the White House grounds during the middle of the night while President Barack Obama and the first lady were in India – but his spokesman said that it posed no threat.

Report finds agency handling disasters lacks co-ordination

I am in Sligo, where life has transposed itself, like it always does, into a scene from ‘The Edwardian Farm’.

US customs and health officials have begun taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries in a stepped-up screening effort meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.

THE Late Late Show is upon us again. On Friday, it will begin its 52nd season. Surely, the show is on its last legs. It is dispiriting. It lost its fire as a forum for national debate long ago, but what really irks are its inane celebrity interviews.

US airport chiefs have launched a major security probe after a 15-year-old boy climbed into a airliner’s wheel well, then flew for five freezing hours from California to Hawaii.

Officials say a 16-year-old boy is “lucky to be alive” and unharmed after flying from California to Hawaii stowed away in a plane’s wheel well, surviving cold temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen.

The US Homeland Security Department is banning all liquids from hand luggage for non-stop flights from the United States to Russia.

Justin Bieber's private jet was so thick with marijuana smoke, the pilots had to wear oxygen masks.

Police have launched an international appeal for evidence against Ian Watkins — with British officers linking up with counterparts across Europe and America.

Reilly spies new source of health funding

A gunman has shot and wounded at least one person at a US Navy Yard in Washington DC.

An internet troll whose grossly offensive Facebook postings included threats to kill 200 US children has been jailed for more than two years after a judge heard how he spread terror in local schools.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year running.

One of three college students arrested in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the US from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa.

A British internet troll has admitted threatening to kill 200 US citizens in Facebook posts which led thousands of children to stay off school.

Bradley Cooper has paid tribute to the victims of the Boston bombings.

The Boston marathon bombs were explosives packed in 6-litre pressure cookers and placed in black duffel bags, according to a source close to the investigation.

When the Bush administration decided to go to war in 2003, David Frum found himself at the centre of a daunting messaging effort. He looks back on the fraught times that followed Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ speech

President Barack Obama says he is "shocked and saddened" by the deadly mass shooting at a Colorado cinema.

The head of compliance at British banking giant HSBC resigned in front of a US Senate subcommittee yesterday after it emerged the bank had exposed the US to billions of dollars worth of money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorist financing.

The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

THE FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al-Qaida threats to small planes just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The FBI and Homeland Security have issued a nationwide warning about al Qaida threats to small planes, just days before the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.