US IMMIGRATION authorities are adopting a new hard-line attitude to GAA players travelling to America on weekend passes.

AN Irish couple who were falsely linked with Middle East terrorists and jailed in the US have filed a $101m lawsuit.

A Briton who lost her husband in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York is fighting US authorities who want her to leave the country, it was reported today.

The US immigration service has told agents to inspect baggage belonging to Yemeni citizens for large sums of money, thermos bottles and night-vision goggles, a government official has said.

US president George Bush today called on Congress to remake the government with a terrorist-fighting Department of Homeland Security, warning that ‘‘thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us’’.

A US government probe has been launched into why the FBI and CIA failed to anticipate the September 11 attacks after new details of security lapses emerged today.

US president George Bush said he was ‘‘plenty hot’’ to learn that student visas for two September 11 hijackers were delivered months after they flew planes into New York’s World Trade Centre.

The American government tonight faced embarrassment when a flight school where two of the September 11 hijackers trained received a letter saying they had been approved for visas.

American authorities today revealed they have arrested and deported dozens of young Israelis they suspect were part of a giant spy ring.

A migrant-smuggling boat on a night run from Cuba to the US capsized in rough seas, dumping more than two dozen people in the water, the US Coastguard said.

A migrant smuggling boat on a night run from Cuba capsized in rough seas off the coast of Florida, dumping more than two dozen people in the water.