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President Trump says a domestic travel ban within the United States is “a possibility” to fight the spread of the coronavirus from Wuhan, China. While answering questions at the White House on Thursday, Trump said he was not ruling out a plan to implement a domestic travel ban to stop state-to-state transmissions of the coronavirus. The exchange went as follows: REPORTER: Are you considering travel restrictions within the United States, such as to Washington State or California? [Emphasis added] TRUMP: We haven’t discussed that yet. Is it a possibility? Yes. If somebody gets a little bit out of control, if...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news - web sites) was shown a "representative sample" Monday of the hundreds of photographs of abuses of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers that have not yet been seen by the US public, a senior defense official said. More than a dozen large, color prints of photographs of abuse taken at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (news - web sites) were shown to Bush in Rumsfeld's office after an hour-long briefing at the Pentagon (news - web sites) on the situation in Iraq, the officials said. "The president's reaction was one of deep...