The data, released by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency today, shows that this was an almost 40% increase on 2017 when 34 Irish people were deported.

The 41st president saw himself merely as a temporary occupant of the Oval Office but his achievements were significant, writes Richard N Haass.

Bayer shares continued their slide yesterday after the company failed to block California’s move to list its weedkiller Roundup as a known carcinogen.

It would be easy to dismiss the withdrawal by the United States from the UN Human Rights Council as a sign of Donald Trump’s petulance, following criticism of his policy of separating migrant families on the Mexican border.

The Boy Scouts in America are getting a name change with the programme for 11 to 17-year-old boys set to become Scouts: BSA from 2019.

Starbucks says it will close more than 8,000 US stores for several hours next month to conduct racial-bias training to its nearly 175,000 workers.

Latest: A federal investigator has said that one person died after a plane with engine failure made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

Inmates armed with homemade knives fought each other for about seven hours over territory and money, leaving seven dead in the worst US prison riot in quarter of a century, officials said.

Latest: Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance will expel seven staff from the Russian mission.

A powerful storm moving out to sea has killed at least seven people and knocked out power to more than two million homes and businesses in coastal areas of the north-east of the US.

North Korea has said it is will only have talks with the US if Washington drops preconditions and demands for showing a willingness to scrap its nuclear programmes.

Thailand and the United States have launched the largest annual joint military exercise in Southeast Asia but played down the presence of a Burmese military officer.

A top Russian diplomat has warned the United States not to meddle in Iran’s affairs as the country is rattled by protests and has said Washington wants to use the unrest to undermine the nuclear agreement with Tehran.

Iran said the United States "has crossed every limit" in international relations by expressing support for the country’s anti-government protesters and said president Donald Trump’s "absurd tweets" have encouraged disruption.

US President Donald Trump has wrapped up a tour of Asia, saying that all countries that trade with the US "know that the rules have changed".

Apart from a brief sojourn to Dublin for a certain ill-fated hurling match, I have spent the past couple of weeks in the US. 

The US Embassy in Russia has announced it will suspend issuing non-immigrant visas in Moscow for eight days from Wednesday and stop issuing visas at its consulates elsewhere in Russia in response to the Russian decision to cap embassy staff.

It is claimed up to 250 million people across the US will watch the first total eclipse span the country, coast to coast, in nearly 100 years.

South Korean and US troops have begun annual drills that come after tensions rose over North Korea's two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month.

LATEST: The USS John S. McCain has docked at Singapore's naval base with "significant damage" to its hull after an early morning collision with an oil tanker as vessels from several nations searched for 10 missing sailors.

China has urged the United States and North Korea to "hit the brakes" on threatening words and work towards a peaceful resolution of a stand-off over Pyongyang's recent missile tests and threats to fire them towards Guam.

Saudi Arabia aims to sell about 5% of state oil company Saudi Aramco in an IPO next year, and stock exchanges from the UK to Japan are vying for what may be the world’s richest IPO.

All players in the Middle East must value diplomacy not conflict, writes Jeffrey D Sachs

The Trump administration is to ban US citizens from travelling to North Korea following the death of university student Otto Warmbier who fell into a coma in a North Korean prison.

Almost €50,000 was paid in expenses to four directors of the country’s science funding agency to attend board and committee meetings last year.