The US Supreme Court has allowed full enforcement of Donald Trump's travel ban affecting residents of six mostly Muslim countries.

Eight candidates for FBI director have been interviewed at Justice Department headquarters as US President Donald Trump suggested a decision on a nominee to replace Director James Comey could be announced within days.

US president Donald Trump's administration is asking a federal appeals court to let his travel ban come into effect while it considers the case.

Eileen Battersby, literary correspondent at The Irish Times, has written a fine debut novel that is peppered with high-cultural references and yet manages to be a thumping good yarn, despite the fact that the first person narrator isn’t altogether likeable.

Delta Air Lines will be handing out refunds and travel vouchers as penance for the latest computer malfunction to knock a major airline off stride.

Siobhan Horgan makes her seventh appearance at a World Championships today but it’ll be her first since 2012 and her maiden attempt at the time-trial, having always done the road race before now.

Ireland’s Nicolas Roche and Dan Martin both preserved their high overall placings in the Vuelta a Espana yesterday and look well poised to strike for the race lead today.

Natalie Prass broke through with a fine debut album that evoked classic ’70s singers. She’s back in Ireland to play at Body&Soul, writes Ed Power.

America’s biggest tobacco companies say they are ready and willing to pass along factual public health information about cigarettes.

She has struggled with anorexia, alcohol and depression, among other dramas. But, like her heroine Dr Kay Scarpetta, bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell has mellowed, she tells Hannah Stephenson.

Irishman Rob Hogan defended his title at the Eastern American Speedgolf Open on Saturday at the Foundry Golf Club in Richmond, Virginia.

Producer Butch Vig, who is reportedly working on the record with Steve Albini, claims the Foo Fighters have been experimenting with new recording techniques and it is well on its way to being completed.

Chris Brown has been accused of submitting "fraudulent" community service records.

Los Angeles prosecutors are asking a judge to order Chris Brown to redo his community service because of significant discrepancies in records submitted to a court.

Matthew E White’s songwriting is informed by his interest in spirituality, says Ed Power

Huddled around a celebratory lunch, the three ladies from Richmond, Virginia, basked in the afterglow of their president’s second inauguration.

Twice, at least, President Barack Obama appeared to breathe in the mile or so of colour and joy that stretched out from his perch on the Capitol Building way off to the Washington Monument.

US President Barack Obama seized on a Republican Senate candidate's controversial remark about rape and pregnancy in an attempt to shore up his support among women.

A judge has ordered a further review of Chris Brown’s community service and travel to determine whether the R&B singer broke the terms of his probation for the beating of then-girlfriend Rihanna.

US President Barack Obama has used the first official rally of his re-election bid to brand Republican rival Mitt Romney as a willing rubber-stamp for failed policies championed by extreme House Republicans.

Coca-Cola Co, the world’s largest soft-drink maker, reported fourth-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates as teas and juices boosted sales in Asia.

Film star Mila Kunis has made good on her promise to a US marine who had been serving in Afghanistan.

US President Barack Obama took the sales pitch for his newly unveiled jobs plan on the road today, venturing out of Washington and into the home turf of one of his top Republican antagonists.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed that Ponferrada, Spain, will host the 2014 Road World Championships.

Hundreds of spectators in the US were left upset when a giant inflatable Rudolph deflated during a parade in Richmond, Virginia.

Stocks posted big gains today after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered reassuring words on the economy and as US growth turned out to be better than expected this spring.

The man dubbed the Granddad Bandit by the FBI and suspected in 25 bank robberies across 13 US states was captured at his home after a lengthy standoff that ended peacefully, authorities said.

Hopes were fading today for four miners missing in a US pit after a massive explosion that killed 25 others.

Twenty-five workers have been killed and at least four are unaccounted for after an explosion rocked a remote coal mine in the US.

A US appeal court upheld the conviction of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in an American court over the September 11 attacks.

A blizzard-like storm has rocked the Mid-Atlantic and North-eastern US states, crippling travel across the region and causing hundreds of thousands of power cuts.

A SOUTH Florida jury has ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million (€202m) to a former smoker, agreeing that the tobacco company’s negligence was the cause of her emphysema.

R&B singer Chris Brown will remove graffiti, pick up rubbish and wash cars as part of his sentence for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

A US judge said Chris Brown must serve five years of probation and perform six months of community labour for beating Rihanna.

A US jury recommended that cigarette maker Philip Morris USA should pay $13.8m (€9.7m) in punitive damages to the daughter of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris was ordered by a Florida jury to pay US$8m (€6.3m) in damages to the widow of a smoker who died of lung cancer in a case that could set a precedent for around 8,000 other state lawsuits.

Republican John McCain’s economic plan “amounts to a full-throated endorsement of George Bush’s policies”, his Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama said today.

THE discovery of a gene associated with severe schizophrenia could lead to improved treatment of those with the mental disorder.

Self-proclaimed underdog Barack Obama won Democratic contests in Louisiana, Washington state and Nebraska early today in a clean sweep of the latest battles in the race to the White House.

IT ISN’T often the temperature becomes the main topic of conversation in the lead-up to a major golf championship but that has been very much the case here over the past few days.

Arrest warrants have been issued for 13 people in connection with the alleged CIA-orchestrated kidnapping of a German citizen in the agency’s extraordinary rendition programme.

A musician, his wife and two young daughters have been found dead in their burning home in Richmond, Virginia, reportedly bound with tape and with their throats slashed.

Wall Street put aside its concerns about rising oil prices today, giving stocks a late rally as investors focused on generally positive economic news.

Far from finding a communist paradise, four American soldiers suspected of deserting to North Korea in the 1960s were forced to live together in a tiny house under constant surveillance, to scrounge for food and study the works of “Great Leader” Kim Il Sung for up to 16 hours a day.