Trump Bars U.S. Travel for Citizens of 12 Countries

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  President Trump signs a sweeping travel ban and takes fresh aim at Harvard's foreign students.

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  Plus the tricky needle that central bankers have to thread as inflation concerns spike,

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  but the data doesn't add up.

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  The question for central bankers is how quickly are those increases in inflation expectations going to translate into fresh demands for higher wages and then another round of price increases?

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  And gamers worldwide scramble to get their hands on Nintendo's new Switch 2 console.

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  It's Thursday, June 5th.

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  I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  We begin with a trio of actions taken by the White House,

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  starting with President Trump signing a travel ban preventing citizens from 12 countries from traveling to the U.S.

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  The countries are largely in the Middle East and Africa and include Afghanistan,

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  Iran and Yemen.

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  Trump defended the move, saying it followed a State Department security review.

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  Their analysis considered are.

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  The large-scale presence of terrorists,

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  failure to cooperate on visa security, inability to verify travelers' identities,

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  inadequate record-keeping of criminal histories,

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  and persistently high rates of illegal visa overstays and other things.

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  Haiti is the only country in the Western Hemisphere to face a complete ban,

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  which the White House justified on the basis of recent illegal immigration trends.

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