Global backlash grows against Trump's immigration order
BAGHDAD/CAIRO A global backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration curbs gathered strength on Sunday as several countries including long-standing American allies criticized the measures as discriminatory and divisive.
How Trump's abrupt immigration ban sowed confusion at airports, agencies
NEW YORK After immigration agents detained two Iraqis on Saturday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, their lawyers and two U.S. lawmakers accompanying them tried to cross into a secure area to consult with the men.
Trump immigration order restricted by more U.S. judges
Federal judges in three states followed one in New York in barring authorities from deporting travelers affected by U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing restrictions on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations.
Green card holders will need additional screening: White House
WASHINGTON U.S. green card holders will require additional screening before they can return to the United States, the White House said on Saturday.
Middle Eastern immigrants to U.S. confront upended lives
WASHINGTON 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 curtailed immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Americans with Iran visas welcome to enter country: foreign minister
DUBAI 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 President Donald Trump.
U.S. Senate finance committee to vote on Rep. Price on Tuesday
WASHINGTON The Republican-majority U.S. Senate Finance Committee will vote on Tuesday on the nomination of Representative Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the panel's chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch, announced on Sunday.
Judge allows travelers who landed with visas to stay in country
NEW YORK 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.
ACLU says to argue for nationwide stay of Trump immigration order
WASHINGTON 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 Trump's new immigration order.
Shooting at Tennessee armory leaves 10 wounded, three still hospitalized
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.
