The exemptions come as the U.S. clamps down on other travel to the country. The administration this week announced new rules for international students that may force many of them to leave the country.
The notice to the U.N. was the first step in a yearlong process that will rely on several factors outside of Trump's control, including cooperation from Congress and the president's Trump's own reelection in November, neither of which are assured.
Trump is linked to the firms and their executives through business deals conducted with his company, as well as through financial support for his 2016 run for president, his inauguration and his 2020 reelection campaign.
Trump's ally, Roger Stone, was convicted of lying to Congress about efforts to get information from WikiLeaks about emails stolen by Russian agents from the head of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Mary Trump's forthcoming tell-all book paints a damning portrait of the president as a textbook narcissist who was scarred by emotional abuse he suffered as a child.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday, shortly after the presidential palace said he had been displaying symptoms associated with the disease.
Index Ventures, Foundation Capital and scooter company Bird said that they did not apply for the Payroll Protection Program, despite being listed as having been approved for millions of dollars of funds.
A White woman who was filmed in May reporting that "an African American man" was threatening her life in Central Park after he asked her to leash her dog will be prosecuted for making a false report, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. said on Monday.
For many businesses, the government's PPP loans offered terms that were too good to pass up. That includes many wealth management firms across the country, according to government data. But whether those firms should have taken those loans is the subject of controversy.
States can require Electoral College voters to back the victor of their state's popular vote, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday, in a major dispute that could have an impact on November's presidential contest.
The publisher of a forthcoming tell-all book about President Donald Trump and his family by his niece Mary Trump on Monday said it was advancing the date of the book's publication by two weeks, to July 14.