Sentences with phrase «u.s. state bans»

Not a single U.S. state bans hands - free cell phone talking for most adult drivers.

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Hawaii could become the first U.S. state to ban sunscreen products containing toxic chemicals dangerous to coral reefs and ocean life.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision at the beginning of 2015 to accept the case in which a court majority ruled in June that state gay marriage bans are unconstitutional was a likely trigger, Warbelow said.

In the south, Illinois became the first U.S. state to ban the manufacture and sale of products containing microbeads, which will be enacted in 2018.

El Mundo, meanwhile, reported that Trump's ban could help the terrorist rhetoric against the U.S. and the Western world — an opinion also expressed by John McCain, the U.S. republican senator who told CBS News that the travel ban gives the so - called Islamic State «some more propaganda».

Le Monde reported comments from protestors in U.S. airports that the ban wasn't «worthy» of the United States.

Most U.S. states already ban texting by drivers.

The now - repealed U.S. oil export ban dated back to an era of feared fuel shortages after Arab members of OPEC imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for U.S. support of the Israeli military.

«Belarus is on a special «International Traffic in Arms Regulations» list published by the U.S. State Department, of countries with bans or special restrictions,» Roston writes.

A U.S. judge on Thursday granted the state of Hawaii's bid to exempt grandparents and other relatives from President Trump's travel ban.

In the United States, the ban covers nine airlines (Royal Jordanian, EgyptAir, Turkish Airlines, Saudi Arabia Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Qatar Airways, Emirates Air and Etihad Airways) and direct flights to the U.S. from 10 specific airports listed here.

In Washington state, a group of plaintiffs applying for immigrant visas asked U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle — who suspended the first ban — to stop the new order.

And while Hamm is supporting oil - related sanctions on Venezuela, U.S. refiners and Republican Senators from Gulf Coast states are actively lobbying against potential bans.

A Dubai real estate firm building a $ 6 billion golf complex with Donald Trump on Thursday stripped the property of his name and image amid a backlash over the U.S. presidential candidate's proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.

A ban on travel by U.S. passport holders to North Korea will take effect on Sept. 1 and Americans in the country should leave before that date, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

Challengers, including the state of Hawaii and immigrant advocacy organizations, have argued the ban is discriminatory and violates the U.S. Constitution.

Well, although a number of states have stringent concealed carry laws, Illinois was the only state in the nation with such a sweeping ban, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

On Jan. 27, Trump issued an executive order, «Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,» which suspended refugee admission to the U.S. and banned citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from traveling to the United States for the next three months.

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards for such transactions, but a banking ban on legal pot sellers remains intact for now.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China raised with a visiting U.S. trade delegation the issue of a ban by the United States on its companies selling components and software to ZTE Corp for seven years, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing Christie et al vs NCAA et al, the crux of which is whether the state of New Jersey can legalize sports betting in its state, despite a 1992 federal law that banned sports betting everywhere in the U.S. except Nevada.

Also exempted from the ban are cases when a bank underwrites a securities offering, and for trading in U.S. government, state and local bonds.

In a move to boost China's domestic semiconductor industry, the country launched a ¥ 140 billion, state - backed semiconductor investment fund, which was already in progress prior to the U.S. government's ban on ZTE.

The ban, imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, caught the attention of Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott, who supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District on Thursday.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Nine U.S. states and the European Union have passed laws to ban the continual gestation crate confinement of breeding pigs, while many family farmers have been raising pigs without the use of gestation crates for generations.

Nine U.S. states have passed laws to ban the practice and Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey have bills pending that would do the same.

Nine U.S. states and the European Union have passed laws to ban the gestation crate confinement of breeding pigs.

In fact, gestation crates are so cruel they have been banned in nine U.S. states, as well as in the entire European Union.

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters)- A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied Utah's bid to further block legal recognition of about 1,300 same - sex weddings performed after the state's gay marriage ban was briefly lifted by a federal judge in December.

And in December 2010 the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) finally banned the sale, resale, and manufacture of drop - side cribs in the United States.

To a large extent, states are explicitly banned from conducting most types of foreign relations by the U.S. Constitution, unless they get the consent of Congress first:

Career officials at the State Department are circulating a so - called dissent cable, warning the immigration ban could undercut U.S. counterterrorism operations and threaten national security.

The U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the federal ban on state - authorized sports betting outside of Las Vegas, and legislation now before state lawmakers would allow New York's casinos to significantly expand how they take bets.

The ban on people entering the U.S. from six mostly Muslim countries can be applied for now to everyone except people who have a «credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.»

State Sen. John Bonacic, Racing and Wagering Committee Chair, accelerated his push to legalize sports betting in New York by introducing a bill that would allow it, but only at upstate casinos, which hinges on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a lawsuit to overturn the federal ban on sports betting.

While gay marriage advocates have enjoyed the upper hand in the courts since then, the Cincinnati - based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month became the first to rule the other way in upholding state bans on gay marriage.

ALBANY - Top New York Democrats praised the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear a case challenging the state's assault - weapons ban, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling it a «victory for common sense gun control laws.»

The U.S. Supreme Court is granting the Trump administration's request to more strictly enforce its ban on refugees, at least until a federal appeals court weighs in, but leaving in place a lower court order that makes it easier for travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to enter the United States.

Incidentally, the U.S. Constitution also bans what Oregon has done here (and what others in other states have also tried to do.)

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a Second Amendment challenge to a Connecticut law banning many semiautomatic rifles, and also declined to take on New York's SAFE Act — a decision hailed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state AG Eric Schneiderman.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna today condemned fellow Republican Donald Trump for suggesting Muslims should be banned from traveling to the United States.

So insists a collective of elected officials, including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, City Council Immigration Committee Chair Carlos Menchaca, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and numerous other Councilmembers, who issued a letter to New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, urging her to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from New York State courts.

Fresh on the heels of a similar state law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo three weeks ago, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.) announced last week that legislation he introduced to ban the sale of bath salts has been passed out of a key Senate committee.

U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, State Sen. Daniel Squadron and others have called on the city to ban all tourist flights from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, citing safety and quality - of - life concerns.

The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal in one of the cases challenging President Trump's efforts to limit travel to the United States, calling an earlier version of the ban moot because it has expired.

Cuomo over the last several weeks has sought to condemn the three - month ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries to the U.S. and has said the state will offer legal assistance to those who are detained because of Trump's executive order.

New York state's highest court struck a blow Monday for home rule and against fracking, deciding that municipalities can use zoning laws to ban the natural - gas extraction method that has fueled a U.S. energy boom.

Mr. Trump's call to ban Muslims — including U.S. citizens — from entering the United States is just the latest thing he's said to outrage a varying group of racial, ethnic and religious groups.

Cuomo's consideration of legalizing marijuana follows U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» pledge to enforce the federal ban on the drug even in states where it's legal.