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The legal fight over President Donald Trump's refugee ban is likely to turn on whether th... . Rep. David Price speaks out against President Donald Trump's recent executive order on refugees during a press conference on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, in front of Smith Warehouse in Durham, NC.
Trump announced Monday morning he would present his high court pick Tuesday and Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley responded that whoever it is, his party would filibuster the nominee. "This is a stolen seat.
Delta Air Lines, recovering from a weekend technology outage, cancelled more flights Monday but said that the issue has been resolved. The airline said Monday that 110 flights had been cancelled and more could be scrubbed.
The vote will now take place on Tuesday morning, when the committee already was scheduled to convene for a vote on the nomination of Tom Price to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services.  Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the vote was postponed so members could attend a candelight vigil planned for tonight to protest President Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees and foreign nationals from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. The delay comes one day after The Dispatch published a story reporting that despite his denials, OneWest, the company he once served as chief executive officer, repeatedly used "robo-signing."
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate's Homeland Security committee, has asked for an emergency meeting with the agency's secretary, John Kelly. McCaskill, along with six other Democrats who serve on the committee, requested on Monday that Kelly meet with them within 24 hours to explain his role in implementing President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.
Democrats offered legislation and protests Monday to try to force a repeal of President Trump's executive order banning most Syrian refugees and citizens from six other Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Congressional Democrats seek to repeal Trump's refugee travel ban Democrats offered legislation and protests Monday to try to force a repeal of President Trump's executive order banning most Syrian refugees and citizens from six other Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://usat.ly/2jO7Bk1 WASHINGTON - Democrats offered legislation and protests Monday to try to force a repeal of President Trump's executive order banning most Syrian refugees and citizens from six other Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is ... (more)
Protesters shouted down Rhode Island Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse during a community event as they protested his vote in favour of President Donald Trump's nominee for CIA director and pushed him to vote against other nominees. A video of Sunday's event posted by the group Resist Hate RI shows hundreds of people at the event, and the crowd chanting "Just Say No!" and "Obstruct!" while demanding an explanation of his vote for Mike Pompeo as CIA director.
As chaos unfolded at airports across the country on Saturday, it quickly became clear that officials ranging from frontline border patrol agents to high-ranking members of the administration were unprepared for President Donald Trump's travel ban. In Washington, that turmoil translated to a group of state and federal leaders unable to find answers to questions as basic as how many people were being detained at Sea-Tac International Airport.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Monday he plans to ask for a delay on the confirmation vote of Rex Tillerson, President Trump's secretary of state pick, in the wake of the administration's "extreme vetting" immigration executive order and resulting fallout. "Because when he was questioned in committee and asked about a future Muslim ban, [because] we didn't know that it was occurring, he was very mealy-mouthed," Mr. Schumer said of Mr. Tillerson on NBC's "Today" program.
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After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country's principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation. Trump's next steps could strike even closer to home: His administration has drafted an executive order aimed at overhauling the work-visa programs technology companies depend on to hire tens of thousands of employees each year.
On Friday, Jan. 27, President Donald Trump signed an ex... . Protesters assemble at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017 after two Iraqi refugees were detained while trying to enter the country.
There was swift backlash from fellow Republicans, world leaders and thousands of angry Americans. But President Donald Trump again refused to back down.
Standing in sight of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, demonstrators on Sunday packed New York City's Battery Park to demand an end to President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven majority Muslim nations. The big crowd gathered Sunday near the ferries that carry visitors to the statue and the island, the place where 12 million people entered the United States in the golden age of immigration.
SOUTH ORANGE -- Seventeen years after a fire set in a Seton Hall University dorm killed three students, federal lawmakers from New Jersey will announce legislation intended to improve fire safety on college campuses nationwide. U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez will join Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. and Rep. Donald Payne Jr. on the university's South Orange campus to unveil a competitive grant program to enhance awareness among students, faculty and staff of campus evacuation and response plans.
New York City's Kennedy airport became a scene of anguish and desperation Saturday for the families of people detained after arriving in the U.S. from nations subject to President Donald Trump's travel ban. Many flights to the U.S. already were in the air Friday when the president's order barred entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations.
The outrageous and unnecessary Trump executive order on immigration constitutes, among other things, another effort by the new president to denigrate the national security accomplishments of his predecessor and sell us something better. It's not.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee blasted President Donald Trump's executive order banning people from certain Muslim-majority nations as "unjustifiable cruelty," and about 1,000 pro-immigration protesters gathered Saturday at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Attorneys from the ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project said a Somali national was not allowed to enter and two other people were detained at the airport.
After immigration agents detained two Iraqis on Saturday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, their lawyers and two U.S. representatives accompanying them tried to cross into a secure area - and were stopped themselves. A few minutes later, Heidi Nassauer, chief of passenger operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the airport, was called over.