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Topline President Donald Trump issued a travel ban barring people in 12 countries—primarily from the Middle East and Africa—from visiting the U.S., attributing his proclamation to national security concerns and public safety. Key Facts Trump’s proclamation fully restricts travel from the countries of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Partial travel restrictions have also been placed on Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. The travel restrictions apply to both immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the U.S., according to the proclamation. Trump said he directed members of his Cabinet to identify countries with “deficient” vetting and screening information that warrants “a full or partial suspension on the admission of nationals from those countries.” The proclamation cites visa ...

President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body. In an executive order signed Wednesday, Trump declared that it would jeopardize national security to allow Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “I have determined that the entry of the class of foreign nationals described above is detrimental to the interests of the United States because, in my judgment, Harvard’s conduct has rendered it an unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers,” Trump wrote in the order. It’s a further escalation in the White House’s fight with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. A federal court in Boston blocked the Department of Homeland Security from barring international students at Harvard last week. Trump’s order inv...