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A number of company chief executives, ranging from Starbucks Corp.’s Howard Schultz to Google’s Sundar Pichai, have spoken out about or taken action after President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on refugees. Trump signed a controversial executive order Friday that blocks all refugee entry for 120 days, with an indefinite block on Syrian refugee entry.

WASHINGTON — The legal morass created by President Donald Trump’s immigration order deepened Monday, with the government’s top lawyer instructing Justice Department attorneys not to defend the policy in court. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama administration holdover serving until Trump’s nominee is installed, said in a letter released to reporters late Monday that

SEATTLE — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to invalidate key provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring all refugees and immigration by citizens of seven majority Muslim countries. The lawsuit — the first challenge of Trump’s order to be brought by a state — is backed

WELLINGTON – New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English on Monday said he disagrees with the United States’ entry restrictions on citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries. However, English said he had not made his views known to US President Donald Trump, Radio New Zealand reported. Trump has issued an executive order preventing people from Iran,

WASHINGTON — Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who argued against a proposed ban on Muslim immigration in December 2015, said Monday he supports President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. After a weekend of silence amid national turmoil and confusion, Toomey said in a statement Monday morning: “I

President George W. Bush stayed out of President Barack Obama’s business for the eight years Mr. Obama ruled the country. It took a little more than one week for Mr. Obama to criticize President Donald Trump. Through his spokesman, Mr. Obama said he was “heartened” by all of the anti-Trump protests that have erupted throughout

President Donald Trump’s disapproval ratings spiked over the weekend, making him the first president to receive the highest disapproval ratings within the least amount of time, according to a recent Gallup survey. The presidential approval study, which has been conducted by Gallup since the Truman administration, concluded that more than half the nation was dissatisfied

There are at least thousands of people who don’t believe President Donald Trump could really be behind the executive order that blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations and turns away Syrian refugees fleeing war and destruction. Instead, they’re pointing to a likelier suspect—Trump strategist Stephen Bannon—and want him stopped. RELATED: Trump aides say the immigration