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The Council of the European Union has kept restrictions on travel from the U.S. in place even as it lifts them for 15 other countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and China starting tomorrow, July 1. U.S. film and televison producers have been monitoring the situation closely as some…

In the latest travel ban, the White House on Sunday announced that non-citizens would be barred from entering the US if they are coming from Brazil, where COVID-19 cases are exploding. The administration "has determined that the Federative Republic of Brazil is experiencing widespread, ongoing person-to-person…

The UK and Ireland have joined 26 European countries whose foreign nationals are under a US travel ban. The measures were announced today at a White House press briefing on the COVID-19 virus. US citizens in those countries will be allowed back in the US, but anyone else who have been in the restricted spaces…

UPDATED with statement from White House’s Donald Trump Tweet Translator:  The White House has issued a statement that purports to be from President Donald Trump about today’s Supreme Court ruling upholding his third stab at a travel ban. Trump’s initial response to the court ruling: Wow!” By which, White House said…

“Is this going to keep going,” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked wearily after a federal judge ruled to block President Donald Trump’s latest stab at a travel ban  – Travel Ban 3.0, TV news outlets have taken to calling it, to distinguish from Trump’s first and second stabs at a travel ban. Following script closely, the White…

John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight blasting President Donald Trump as the “Bachelor in Paradise of American presidents” over his launch Thursday of a Twitter attack on Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski. Trump’s series of disgusting, indefensible tweets unfortunately overshadowed a development with regard to Trump’s trave…

UPDATED, 9:28 AM: He didn’t take to social media as many expected, but President Donald Trump didn’t wait long to hail a “clear victory” in this morning’s Supreme Court decision to hear arguments on his contentious multi-nation travel ban and lift parts of an injunction against it. Still, the President seems to be…

The morning Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his reason for recusing himself from the FBI probe, an eczema of hate-tweets erupted on @realDonaldTrump about the media and “their agenda of hate,” the latest court-ordered halt to what he likes to call his “TRAVEL BAN&#8221…

A federal judge in Hawaii has issued a restraining order against enforcing key sections of President Donald Trump’s second stab at a travel ban, effectively blocking POTUS’ latest executive order on immigration hours before it was scheduled to take effect at 12:01 AM ET Thursday. U.S. District Court Judge Derrick…

A director and war correspondent covering the Syrian Civil War since the time of the Arab Spring, Marcel Mettelsiefen has seen his reports aired through outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera, making a name for himself with a series of shorts about children coming of age in the war-torn country. In evaluating the…

Raed Saleh, the leader of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Syrian rescue group the White Helmets and subject of Netflix’s Oscar-nominated documentary The White Helmets, will travel to the U.S. for the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26. Saleh’s attendance had been an open question since President Donald Trump’s…

Hala Kamil, whose story is told in Marcel Mettelsiefen’s Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Watani: My Homeland, is now confirmed to attend the Academy Awards on February 26. The news comes amid the limbo status of millions of refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries who have been targeted by President D…