Trump announces travel ban and restrictions on 19 countries set to go into effect Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again banning people from countries his administration deems dangerous from coming to America. The travel ban issued Wednesday is a repeat of an order of his first administration that led to widespread confusion at airports. This version includes Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The Republican president’s first travel ban was issued in 2017 and banned travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. The order was retooled until a version was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.

Trump orders investigation into Biden's actions as president, ratcheting up targeting of predecessor

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is directing his administration to investigate Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and raising questions about his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents. The order Wednesday marks a significant escalation in Trump’s targeting of political adversaries, and it could lay the groundwork for claiming that a range of Biden’s actions were invalid despite the president’s pardon power being enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Biden responded, “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency," adding, "Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

Trump says Putin told him that Russia will respond to Ukrainian attack on airfields

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump says he's spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the Russian leader told him “very strongly” that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields. The conversation played out Wednesday as the deadlock over the war drags on. Trump said in a social media post that his lengthy call with Putin “was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace.” It’s the first time Trump has weighed in on Ukraine’s daring attack inside Russia.  A Russian official characterized the call as “positive and quite productive.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says talks haven't brought a reliable peace and urged more pressure on Russia.

Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO says

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance. That's according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The findings are raising political stakes for the GOP’s signature domestic priority. Senate GOP Leader John Thune said after a meeting with Trump at the White House that they're committed to getting it done. Republican leaders are determined to muscle the package through Congress by Trump's July Fourth deadline. But billionaire Elon Musk is trashing the package, posting “Kill the bill,” and Democrats are piling on their own opposition.

Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get a chance to challenge their removals

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge says the Trump administration must give migrants sent to an El Salvador prison a chance to challenge their removals. U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that the administration has to give people a way to contest their deportations under under an 18th-century wartime law. He said they must also be able to dispute allegations that they are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The ruling is the latest milestone in a monthslong legal saga over the fate of deportees imprisoned at El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center.

A US judge halts the deportation of the Egyptian family of the Boulder firebombing suspect

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the government to immediately halt deportation proceedings against the wife and five children of a man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher said the order Wednesday was urgently needed to ensure the protection of the family's constitutional rights. Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces federal hate crime charges and state charges of attempted murder in the Sunday attack in downtown Boulder. None of his family members has been charged in the attack that injured 15 demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Man charged with supplying explosive chemicals to bomber of Palm Springs fertility clinic

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities say they have arrested a Washington man who provided chemicals to make explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May. Authorities arrested 32-year-old Daniel Park on Tuesday night in New York upon his extradition from Poland. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli say Park sent more then 250 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Guy Edward Bartkus, who bombed the clinic. The chemical compound is an explosive precursor that can be used to make homemade bombs. Park also traveled to Southern California in late January to experiment with explosives with Bartkus, who was killed in the explosion.

Trump promised to welcome more foreign students. Now, they feel targeted on all fronts

Students from around the world say being an international student in American today comes with feelings of fear, anxiety and insecurity that have made them more cautious in their daily lives. To attract the brightest minds to America, President Donald Trump proposed during his campaign he would grant green cards to all foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. But that promise never came to pass. International students have found themselves at the center of an escalating campaign to kick them out or keep them from coming as his administration merges a crackdown on immigration with an effort to reshape higher education.

Measles vaccination rates drop after COVID-19 pandemic in counties across the US

Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data. That includes counties in states that are battling outbreaks this year. The Johns Hopkins University study was published in JAMA this week. It illustrates where more vulnerable communities are located. The results mirror trends established at state and national levels: Routine childhood vaccination rates are dropping. Most of the measles cases in the U.S. this year — 1,088 nationally as of Friday — are in unvaccinated people. Three people have died.

Draisaitl scores in OT, Oilers beat the Panthers in overtime in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Leon Draisaitl scored on the power play in overtime, Stuart Skinner made 29 saves and the Edmonton Oilers erased a multigoal deficit to beat the defending champion Florida Panthers 4-3 in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final rematch. After Tomas Nosek’s penalty for putting the puck over the glass, Draisaitl’s goal 19:29 into OT sent the home fans into a frenzy and made sure the Oilers would not start this series like they did a year ago, when they fell behind three games to none.