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Court says it will issue ruling as soon as possible but matter likely to go to Supreme Court President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning US entry to people from seven Muslim-majority countries came under intense scrutiny on Tuesday from a federal appeals court that questioned...

US president accuses court system of endangering the country after his controversial travel ban is put on hold. President Donald Trump has ramped up his criticism of the US court system, accusing it of putting the country in peril. His comments came hours after a federal...

By Pat Pheifer Star Tribune Mohamed Iye wore a brilliant smile Sunday afternoon at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. In minutes, he would greet his wife and two young daughters. He had not seen them in more than two years. Iye, 66, a Somali-born U.S. citizen who...

By CAITLIN DICKERSON and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN At a sweltering refugee camp on the Kenya-Somalia border, dozens of Somalis who had cleared all the final security and medical checks to enter the United States were told to prepare themselves for a flight to a new life. In...

TEHRAN Iran is to deploy missiles for a Revolutionary Guards exercise Saturday in a show of defiance a day after the United States imposed sanctions over a ballistic missile test launch last weekend. The Guards' Sepahnews website said the manoeuvres in the northeastern province of Semnan...

By Jim Brunner ,Jessica Lee and David Gutman A federal judge in Seattle on Friday ordered a national halt to enforcement of President Trump’s controversial travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The White House vowed to appeal the decision immediately. In a stunning rebuke, a federal...

Legal battles are playing out across the United States as opponents of Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations take their fight to court. The order issued last week temporarily bans travel for people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia,...

By:Massoud Hayoun Japanese Americans remember discrimination they endured during WWII and say they will defend Muslim Americans. Los Angeles, United States - For Japanese and Muslim Americans embracing a growing relationship in the movement to resist what many consider to be President Donald Trump's discriminatory policymaking, history...

By:Leyla Hussein A year ago anti-FGM campaigner Leyla Hussein wrote to her teenage daughter about her hopes for her generation in 2016. She had no idea what was to follow. My dearest Feyrus, Where do I start? I wrote to you a year ago to express my...

Ahmed Abdulkadir’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing. On the other end it's been people stopped at the United States border, people with thwarted travel plans, people totally confused about how the new ban even worked. As the executive director of the Ogaden Somali Community of Alberta, Abdulkadir...