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White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said Sunday that the administration would pursue alternative ways to revive President Trump’s travel and refugee ban that primarily affects travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. “We have equal branches of government in this country. The judiciary is not supreme,” Miller said to ABC’s This Week host George Stephanopoulos….
WASHINGTON — Phil Berg was nervous as he prepared to tell Neil Gorsuch he was gay. AIDS was still in the headlines at the time, the early 1990s, and same-sex marriage was a far-fetched notion. Some of Mr. Berg’s other friends had not reacted well to his news. So he moved with caution, slipping the word “boyfriend”…
U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 25 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally. Officials said the raids targeted known criminals, but they also…
Dominican newspaper El Nacional on Friday printed a photo of Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” in an article about Trump and Israel. ADVERTISEMENT The photo was used side-by-side with a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.It was not immediately clear whether the image of Baldwin was accidental…
President Trump said Friday that he is considering rewriting his executive order temporarily barring refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country, indicating that the administration may try to quickly restore some aspects of the now-frozen travel ban or replace it with other measures. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that…
END CLASS=”STATION” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE HAS-ORG” Rep. Jason Chaffetz speaks during a town hall meeting at Brighton High School on Thursday in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Rick Bowmer/AP U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, faced boos and jeers from Utahns in his home district during a rowdy town hall Thursday night in the…
ANKARA Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied on Friday to swear allegiance to their clerical leaders and reject U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning that he had put the Islamic Republic “on notice”, state TV reported. On the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, marchers including hundreds…
Let’s face it: most of us are more distracted and more frazzled than ever. We are prisoners to our phones: tweeting our every thought, or snapping our every emotion, or Facebooking our every fantasy, feeling or family moment. We scroll, click and swipe our days away, better connected than at any point in humanity —…
The CEOs of the tech industry’s largest brands have been grappling with how to respond to President Trump’s policies that are highly unpopular in Silicon Valley. Their employees and customers have ratcheted up the pressure to take a stand against the new president—and it seems to be working. Here’s why technology companies are at the…
storytext President Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway was unrepentant Thursday night for using her White House position to promote first daughter Ivanka Trump’s fashion brand, despite a backlash from ethics experts and public officials. Her comment to “go buy Ivanka Trump stuff” was made from the White House Thursday morning while talking to Fox News. The…