Chaos, anger as Trump order halts some Muslim immigrants
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States sparked confusion and anger on Saturday after immigrants and refugees were kept off flights and left …
Americans with Iran visas welcome to enter country: foreign minister
DUBAI (Reuters) – Americans who already hold Iranian visas can enter the country, Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday, even though Tehran has vowed to respond in kind to a U.S. ban on visitors from Iran and six other Muslim countries ordered by Pres…
Judge allows travelers who landed with visas to stay in country
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York issued an emergency stay on Saturday that temporarily blocks the U.S. government from sending people out of the country after they have landed at a U.S. airport with valid visas.
Middle Eastern immigrants to U.S. confront upended lives
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Families, students, engineers and doctors from across the Middle East who have made the United States their home on Saturday found themselves potentially uprooting established lives, after President Donald Trump this week curtail…
FBI request for Twitter account data may have overstepped legal guidelines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI appeared to go beyond the scope of existing legal guidance in seeking certain kinds of internet records from Twitter as recently as last year, legal experts said, citing two warrantless surveillance orders the social med…
ACLU says to argue for nationwide stay of Trump immigration order
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union said it would argue in U.S. District Court in New York at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday for a nationwide stay to block deportation of people stranded in U.S. airports because of President Donald Trum…
Shooting at Tennessee armory leaves 10 wounded, three still hospitalized
(Reuters) – A shooting left 10 people wounded in western Tennessee at a party held at a National Guard armory and three of the injured remained hospitalized on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.
Pennsylvania teen at center of Holland Tunnel gun incident dies
HARRISBURG (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania teen has died seven months after she found herself at the center of a purported rescue mission that ended with the arrest of three heavily armed suspects on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel, a coroner said…
California governor to undergo treatment for prostate cancer
(Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown plans to undergo treatment for prostate cancer for the second time in four years, and he has received an excellent prognosis from his doctor, his office said on Saturday.
Trump bars door to refugees, visitors from seven mainly Muslim nations
WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) – Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York on Saturday after President Donald Trump halted the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, sources at…
