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Trump's Travel Ban Returns

After months of legal wrangling, the president’s executive order targeting travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees will go into partial effect on Thursday night.
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The travel ban is back.

President Trump’s controversial executive order will go into partial effect on Thursday night for the first time since January. The ban imposes broad restrictions on visa travel from six Muslim-majority countries and temporarily suspends U.S. refugee admissions worldwide.

The Trump administration said it will begin enforcing the ban at 8 p.m. ET. The move comes less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed a series of injunctions by lower federal courts blocking the government from imposing the ban’s two key provisions:

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