At least 7.2 billion people live in countries with travel restrictions as the novel coronavirus pandemic spreads, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center. That’s 93% of the world’s population, Pew said, as most nations have imposed partial or complete border closures to foreign nationals. “The movement of people across borders has come […]
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(CNN) — The Trump administration is expected to announce details Friday on plans to curb non-essential travel on the US-Mexico border in an effort to limit movement amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. The expected action on the southern border appears similar to the one taken on the US […]
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(CNN) — Countries around the world have imposed sweeping travel bans and advisories to stem the spread of coronavirus within their borders and beyond. Canada and the US will close their border to non-essential traffic, US President Donald Trump confirmed on Twitter Wednesday. Nonessential travel to the European Union has been banned for 30 days, the […]
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(CNN) — The Trump administration on Thursday announced an expansion of the travel ban — one of the President’s signature policies, which has been derided by critics as an attempt to ban Muslims from the US — to include six new countries. Immigration restrictions will be imposed on: Nigeria, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar […]
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The Trump administration on Tuesday ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba, banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel in an attempt to cut off cash to the island’s communist government. Cruise travel from the U.S. to Cuba began in May 2016 during President Barack Obama’s opening with […]
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was canceling Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s previously undisclosed trip to war-torn Afghanistan, telling the woman second in line to the presidency that she can’t use a military jet but is welcome to fly commercially if she wants. A U.S. Air Force bus loaded with lawmakers, including Reps. Adam Schiff, […]
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A Yemeni woman has been granted permission by the U.S. to enter the country to see her 2-year-old son who is dying in a California hospital, her backers said Tuesday. Shaima Swileh — whose child suffers from a genetic brain condition — had been barred under the Trump administration’s travel ban from coming to the […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld President Donald Trump’s restriction on travel to the United States from a handful of Muslim countries on Tuesday, giving the White House its first high court victory on the merits of a presidential initiative. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, made it clear that the court […]
