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Trump Signs New Travel Ban Order

Trump Signs New Travel Ban Order

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday, barring travelers from six countries to the United States for three months, and all refugees for four months, after federal appeals judges blocked a similar order from implementation last month. In an attempt to ensure a smoother rollout of the travel ban and protect it […]

Mass Christian Immigration From Iraq Makes Future of Church Uncertain

Mass Christian Immigration From Iraq Makes Future of Church Uncertain

Hind Safaa has returned to her hometown of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq after Islamic State fighters were pushed out of the town. She and her family left the area two years ago due to fears that Islamic State fighters will target them as religious minorities. Safaa was shocked to witness the destruction and ruins brought […]

Iran Minister Hails Oscar-Winning Director for Boycott

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has congratulated filmmaker Asghar Farhadi for his Oscar victory, which he was not present to receive after boycotting the ceremony in protest at U.S. immigration policy. Farhadi’s film The Salesman —which follows a Tehran couple involved in a production of Arthur Miller’s play of the same name— won the […]

9th Circuit Court denies DOJ request to put travel ban appeal on hold

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Department of Justice’s request to pause proceedings on an appeal of President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The court in a filing on Monday said its schedule over the federal government’s appeal of a lower court’s halt on Trump’s travel ban will proceed, with the first […]

Poll Shows Europeans Want Muslim Migration Ban

Poll Shows Europeans Want Muslim Migration Ban

The furor in Europe over U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from seven majority Muslim states has overshadowed what the London policy institute Chatham House calls a “reservoir of public support” on the continent for such measures, based on the findings of its latest poll. The survey of 10,000 people found that support […]

Trump: Immigration System Will Not Be ‘Tool for Terrorism’

Trump: Immigration System Will Not Be ‘Tool for Terrorism’

In his weekly radio address, U.S. President Donald Trump promised that the country’s immigration system will not be used as a ‘tool’ to advance the cause of foreign terrorists. “We will continue to fight to take all necessary and legal action to keep terrorists, radicals and dangerous extremists from ever entering our country,” Trump said. […]

Olympian from N.J. says she was detained by U.S. Customs

Olympian from N.J. says she was detained by U.S. Customs

Olympic bronze medalist and New Jersey native Ibtihaj Muhammad, who made headlines during the summer games in Rio for being the first Olympian to compete for the U.S. while wearing a hijab, says she was recently detained by U.S. Customs officials. In an interview at the MAKERS Conference in California, Muhammad told PopSugar.com she was […]

Muslim-American U.S. Olympian Held By US Customs

The first female Muslim-American to win an Olympic medal for the U.S. was reportedly detained by U.S. Customs officials a few weeks ago. Ibtihaj Muhammad, who was born in New Jersey and competed in the Rio summer games in 2016, was the first ever Olympian competing for the U.S. to wear a hijab during her […]

Donald Trump’s Policies Present Us With a False Choice

Ted Nugent Says the Parkland Survivors 'Have No Soul'

Where complex problems are found, there invariably follows a line of people claiming to have the simplest of solutions. For those worried about Islamist extremism, there’s no shortage of advocates of a ban on Muslims. For those troubled by immigration, there are campaigners calling for borders to be closed. I could go on. In 2016, […]

Can Trump win his fight with the judiciary?

Less than a month in office and Donald Trump is already in a showdown with the judiciary that could go right the way to the Supreme Court. His executive order banning migrants from seven mainly Muslim countries on security grounds has been suspended by a federal appeals court after it ruled that no evidence was […]