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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Kristi Noem urges sweeping new US travel ban after fatal DC shooting

woman stands at podium with line of people behind her
Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, addresses the media at Minneapolis-St Paul international airport on Sunday. Photograph: Carlos Gonzalez/TNS/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, has advocated for a new travel ban on visitors from an unspecified number of countries following the shooting death in Washington DC of a national guard member by an Afghan national.

Noem posted to X her proposal on Monday night after she said she had spoken with Donald Trump, whose first-term travel ban on seven Muslim countries faced widespread criticism and followed a rocky legal path before it was eventually upheld by the supreme court.

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