Federal judge temporarily lifts Trump’s travel ban
04 February 2017 |
4:43 pm
Airlines began allowing passengers from seven majority-Muslim countries to board flights for the US, after a federal judge in Seattle, Washington, temporarily blocked the administration’s executive action on travellers and refugees issued last week.
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