State Department Tells Americans Not to Travel Overseas

The State Department raised its travel alert to Level 4 for the entire world, an unprecedented move aimed at keeping Americans from going overseas as the Trump administration tries to get control of the coronavirus. In a notice Thursday afternoon, the department said Americans who venture abroad may find their travel plans “severely disrupted” and “may be forced to remain outside of the United States for an indefinite timeframe.” Level 4 is the highest advisory in the State Department’s travel alert system and is normally reserved for countries in ‘a state of war such as Yemen and Somalia.-- More...