Us Judge Halts Executions

More than 160 companies, all but a couple of which are in the technology sector, signed a "friend of the court" brief siding with opponents of Trump's executive order.

A federal court in Hawaii on Wednesday halted Donald Trump's revised executive order temporarily closing US borders to refugees and nationals from six Muslim-majority countries, dealing the president a humiliating fresh defeat.

Judge James Robart wore a bow tie to the hearing, opened with a joke and finished with a thunderclap.

The Trump administration showed no sign Sunday of backing down from an executive order that bans entry to the United States from refugees, migrants and even green-card holders from seven mostly Muslim countries - even as lawmakers from both parties spoke out against the action and federal judges ruled against parts of it.

A US judge halted the scheduled executions of eight inmates in Arkansas on Friday, preventing what would have been the state's first lethal injections in a decade amid controversy over the drugs used.

More than 160 companies, all but a couple of which are in the technology sector, signed a "friend of the court" brief siding with opponents of Trump's executive order.

A federal court in Hawaii on Wednesday halted Donald Trump's revised executive order temporarily closing US borders to refugees and nationals from six Muslim-majority countries, dealing the president a humiliating fresh defeat.

Judge James Robart wore a bow tie to the hearing, opened with a joke and finished with a thunderclap.

The Trump administration showed no sign Sunday of backing down from an executive order that bans entry to the United States from refugees, migrants and even green-card holders from seven mostly Muslim countries - even as lawmakers from both parties spoke out against the action and federal judges ruled against parts of it.

A US judge halted the scheduled executions of eight inmates in Arkansas on Friday, preventing what would have been the state's first lethal injections in a decade amid controversy over the drugs used.