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US SC upholds travel ban: Conservative justices defer to President Donald Trump's power, liberals dissent with 'profound regret'

The US Supreme Court broke down on partisan lines on Tuesday when it upheld President Donald Trump's ban on travel from mostly Muslim countries in a 5-4 decision.

US Supreme Court upholds Donald Trump's anti-Muslim travel ban, rejects discrimination claim: All you need to know

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld US President Donald Trump's latest version of ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries - but not only those countries - rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority. A dissenting justice said the outcome was a historic mistake.

Hopes rise for US immigration deal on DACA while legal immigrants remain on edge in midterm election year

A leader of US House moderates said Thursday that a tentative deal with conservatives has emerged to help young "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the US as children and later given temporary protections by the Obama government now stay in the U.S. legally. But where does all this leave those who are legally in America and waiting in line?

US Congress races against time to fix contentious US immigration problems - the new tinderbox of American politics

While the US president and his A team on hardline immigration chart their own course, deep fault lines have surfaced within the Republican party on a mind-stretching gamut of issues that have come to define the catchall of immigration policy in the US.

Donald Trump on midterm campaign mode whips up immigration storm; seizes on opponents' glaring social media errors

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett's companies catering only to whites, reveals new study on modern day redlining of America

The analysis is part of Reveal's ongoing coverage of modern-day redlining in America, which found 61 metro area s, from Jacksonville, Florida to Tacoma, Washington, where people of color were significantly more likely to be denied a conventional home loan than their white counterparts.

US Supreme Court poised to uphold Donald Trump's controversial travel ban

In the court's first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, the conservative justices who make up the court's majority seemed unwilling to hem in a president who has invoked national security to justify restrictions on who can or cannot step on U.S. soil.

H1B workers' spouses prepare for strong pushback as H4 work permit faces acid test

Spouses of H1B workers monitoring the perilous situation of work permits - called H4 EAD - say they are “shaken” and “disappointed” by the latest signals from the Donald Trump administration but are also girding for a robust pushback if any change in policy does not factor feedback from spouses of H1B workers.

In H1B haven of California, sharp political divisions on immigration surface as midterm elections loom

Democratic bastion California is seeing more local governments hitting back against state's efforts to resist the Trump administration's immigration crackdown as the midterm elections loom in November. US President Donald Trump has made it clear that he will continue to run on low immigration and border security which catapulted him into the White House in 2016. The Trump administration has confirmed that it hopes to muscle in another "comprehensive" immigration legislation before June which will push for the sharpest cuts to legal immigration and severe pushback against illegal immigration, especially from the country's southern border.

Trump taps TV pundit Larry Kudlow for top economic post

Kudlow is known as a supporter of free markets and has criticized Trump's decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.