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Resistance grows to Trump's travel ban

9 years 9 months ago
President Donald Trump enters the second week of his presidency facing a growing political backlash -- with protesters in the streets, lawsuits mounting and his own party fracturing over his executive order banning travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority nations.

Trump set to make his Supreme Court pick

9 years 9 months ago
President Donald Trump has settled on his first Supreme Court nominee and is poised to reveal his selection early this week, two officials say, in an announcement that many inside the White House hope could change the subject from a weekend of thundering criticism over the executive order on immigration.

Travel ban hits Ivy League student

9 years 9 months ago
Ali Abdi is a Ph.D. student at Yale University who fears he won't be able to return to the US after Trump's controversial ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.

5-year-old detained at airport

9 years 9 months ago
A mother was separated from her 5-year-old son at Washington Dulles International Airport after President Trump's executive order that banned travel to seven Muslim-majority countries.

Opinion: How can I be a refugee twice?

9 years 9 months ago
When news of Donald Trump's executive order broke on Wednesday, I had just started a new semester of adjunct teaching at Columbia University. I was relieved to put my phone on silent, mentally shelve the news, and face a new classroom. I was back to walking with a cane -- I've had late-stage Lyme disease for years -- and I wondered which joke to lead with first: something that would disarm them about my illness, or something about how their professor might be in an internment camp before their finals. I did neither. I dreaded the end of class, when I'd have to look at my phone again -- wondering which part of my identity would clash with what fresh news update: partially-disabled, chronically ill, Iranian, American, artist, academic, journalist, woman.

Opinion: How can I be a refugee twice?

9 years 9 months ago
When news of Donald Trump's executive order broke on Wednesday, I had just started a new semester of adjunct teaching at Columbia University. I was relieved to put my phone on silent, mentally shelve the news, and face a new classroom. I was back to walking with a cane -- I've had late-stage Lyme disease for years -- and I wondered which joke to lead with first: something that would disarm them about my illness, or something about how their professor might be in an internment camp before their finals. I did neither. I dreaded the end of class, when I'd have to look at my phone again -- wondering which part of my identity would clash with what fresh news update: partially-disabled, chronically ill, Iranian, American, artist, academic, journalist, woman.
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