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Trump's New Executive Order: 'Biggest Act Country Has Seen'

Making good on what he said he'd do in November

(Newser) - President Trump signed an executive action Monday aimed at "cutting regulations massively for small business." He says it will be the "biggest such act that our country has ever seen." The AP reports that White House officials had called the directive a "one in, two...

MIT Student, a 12-Year-Old: 6 People Affected by Trump Ban
6 People Stranded Around
the World by Trump's Ban
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 30, 2017 8:07 AM CST

6 People Stranded Around the World by Trump's Ban

Including a 12-year-old stuck in Djibouti who will probably be sent back to Yemen

(Newser) - Niki Mossafer Rahmati took a short winter break from her studies at MIT by heading home to Tehran. But as USA Today reports, Rahmati's return trip was dashed by President Trump's executive order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. Her Facebook post documents her scramble once news of...

7 Stars Who Slammed Trump Order at SAG Awards

Show was political right from the start

(Newser) - The Screen Actors Guild Awards happened as protests against President Trump's immigration order were taking place nationwide Sunday—and the awards show itself was political right from the start, with Ashton Kutcher welcoming everyone in the crowd "and everyone in airports that belong in my America." He...

Official Calls Trump Travel Ban a &#39;Massive Success&#39;
Official Calls
Trump Travel Ban 
a 'Massive Success'
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 30, 2017 6:19 AM CST

Official Calls Trump Travel Ban a 'Massive Success'

ACLU smashes fundraising records

(Newser) - President Trump's travel ban on citizens of seven countries continued to cause chaos and protests at airports around the country and around the world Sunday, though an administration official insisted it was a "massive success," Reuters reports. The attorneys general of 15 states denounced the Trump order...

9 Photos That Capture Today's Protests Over Trump's Ban

From Boston to Miami

(Newser) - Day 2 of protests continue at America's international airports, among other places, with those opposed to President Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees making their voices heard. NBC News runs down a number of the places that have seen activity Sunday, from New York City's Battery...

White House Doesn't Blink: 'The Order Remains in Place'

As the attorneys general in 15 states come out against it

(Newser) - US District Court Judge Ann Donnelly issued an injunction barring the government from deporting anyone during an emergency hearing Saturday night in Brooklyn, and her court was not the only one to do so. Reuters reports that judges in three additional states—Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington state—have since followed...

Trump's Travel Ban Has Altered the Oscars

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won't be there, even if an exception is granted

(Newser) - The Iranian director of one of the "12 best films of the 21st century" is up for an Oscar this year, but he won't be attending the Academy Awards, and President Donald Trump's travel ban is why. Asghar Farhadi, an acclaimed director whose film The Salesman was...

Airbnb Offers Its 3M Homes to Stranded Refugees

Lyft takes a stand, too

(Newser) - Uber finds itself persona non grata this weekend, after it kept giving rides —and turned off surge pricing—at JFK Saturday as taxi drivers stopped work to protest President Trump's executive order on refugees and immigration. Its rival finds itself on the other end of the press stick:...

National Security Council Restructured to Include Bannon

While roles of the DNI, chairman of the Joint Chiefs minimized

(Newser) - Amid President Trump's flurry of actions Saturday was some restructuring at the National Security Council. White House chief strategist Steve Bannon now has a permanent seat on the principals committee of the NSC, reports the Washington Post , which notes that "the changes affirm the ascent of Bannon" in...

US Suffers 1st Combat Death of the Trump Era

1 killed in rare American raid in Yemen

(Newser) - A US military service member was killed Sunday during a raid against al-Qaeda militants in central Yemen that also left nearly 30 others dead, including women and children. The loss of the service member is the first-known combat death of a member of the US military under President Trump. The...

Conway: Ban Is &#39;a Small Price to Pay&#39;
Conway: Ban Is
'a Small Price to Pay'
TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Jan 29, 2017 10:59 AM CST

Conway: Ban Is 'a Small Price to Pay'

Trump's order sees some pushback from Republicans

(Newser) - Kellyanne Conway says that a federal judge's emergency order late Saturday temporarily barring the US from deporting people from nations subject to President Trump's travel ban "really doesn't affect the executive order at all." Conway says Trump's order is about "preventing, not detaining"...

Olympic Champ: Queen Made Me a Knight, Trump Made Me an Alien

Mo Farah says he has 'to tell my children that Daddy might not be able to come home'

(Newser) - Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah says President Trump's immigration policy "seems to have made me an alien" and fears he may not be able to return to his US home, reports the AP . Farah is a British citizen who was born in Somalia, one of seven predominantly Muslim...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Deportations

Flurry of activity as courts scramble to figure out executive order

(Newser) - With chaos reigning and scores of travelers being held in the nation's airports in the wake of President Trump's executive order banning travelers from seven countries, a federal judge issued an injunction barring the government from deporting anyone, reports Politico . During an emergency hearing Saturday night in Brooklyn,...

Trump Signs Action to Keep 'Radical Islamic Terrorists' Out

Executive action puts in place 'new vetting measures' for immigrants

(Newser) - Pushing full-speed into international controversies, President Donald Trump on Friday ordered "new vetting measures" to keep "radical Islamic terrorists" out of the United States. Trump traveled to the Pentagon where he joined Defense Secretary James Mattis for the signing of an executive action to bring sweeping changes to...

Trump Speaks With Mexico's President by Phone

But it's not clear whether they smoothed things over

(Newser) - President Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto spoke for an hour by phone Friday amid rising tensions over the US leader's plans for a border wall, administration officials told the AP . Trump and Pena Nieto had been expected to meet in Washington next week, but the Mexican president...

Trump Slams 'Hostile' Media on Hannity

Also calls Madonna 'disgusting,' says he thinks Obama likes him

(Newser) - One night after sitting down for his first one-on-one interview as president with ABC News, Donald Trump granted Sean Hannity the same privilege at the White House Thursday evening, and he offered as many ear-perking nuggets as he had the day before. Still on his radar, per Deadline : the "...

Christo Scraps Project He's Spent $15M on to Protest Trump

Artist had planned to drape 6 miles of fabric over Arkansas River

(Newser) - Shia LaBeouf isn't the only artist protesting President Trump—but in Christo's case, it's the lack of art that will do the talking. The artist famous for installing 7,503 orange "gates" at Central Park in 2005 had planned for some 20 years to drape...

&#39;Opposites Attract&#39;: British PM Meets Trump Today
Britain's May
Has Tricky
Task as She
Meets Trump
the rundown
Jan 27, 2017 6:28 AM CST

Britain's May Has Tricky Task as She Meets Trump

She must forge strong ties with a man disliked in her own country

(Newser) - British Prime Minister Theresa May visits the White House Friday for President Trump's first meeting with an international leader. Previews on what to expect:
  • Their personalities could not be more different, she the "stiff headmistress," he the "great salesman," reports the New York Times . But
...

Here&#39;s How Trump Plans to Pay for the Border Wall
Trump Offers Up
One Idea to Pay
for Border Wall
UPDATED
Jan 26, 2017 3:34 PM CST

Trump Offers Up One Idea to Pay for Border Wall

A 20% tax on imports from Mexico

(Newser) - President Donald Trump may want to pay for his proposed southern border wall by slapping a 20% tax on imports from Mexico, the AP reported Thursday, though Trump's team quickly walked back the idea. White House spokesperson Sean Spicer, speaking to reporters on Air Force One as Trump flew...

Might Conway Become Most Powerful Woman Ever in US Government?


How Conway
Met Trump:
Condo
Meetings
profile
Jan 26, 2017 1:02 PM CST

How Conway Met Trump: Condo Meetings

She hopes to transition from public role to an insider one: profile

(Newser) - Tired of seeing Kellyanne Conway on TV seemingly 24 hours a day? She knows the feeling. "Have I told you how sick I am of me?" reads one of her texts to Newser founder Michael Wolff, who profiles her in the Hollywood Reporter . Conway's official title is now...

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