- Trump signs an executive order and a presidential memorandum rolling back regulations on the finical sector. The regulations targeted by the executive action place rules on how retirement saving are invested. [Link]
- A Federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocks the enforcement of Trump’s executive order on immigration. The Trump Administration is seeking an emergency stay of the ruling. [Link]
- The Trump Administration reverses an Obama policy of speeding up deportations for families and children who are in the US illegally. Resources will be focused on having trials to determine whether or not to deport immigrants who in detention centers. [Link]
- 400,000 fewer Americans signed up for Obamacare health insurance on the federal healthcare.gov website in 2017. [Link]
- Over 70 DHS fusion centers exist across the US. The stated purpose of the fusion centers is to collect information on American’s to prevent terrorism. The fusion centers have been ineffective, costly, and violating the constitutional rights of Americans. [Link]
- A student has been denied a chance to prove his innocence by a judge because it would impose psychological trauma on his accuser. [Link]
- A study finds that there has not been an increase in adolescent marijuana use in Colorado since the plant was legalized in 2012. [Link]
- The Ukrainian government is likely responsible for restarting fighting in Ukraine. Ukrainian forces have been fighting with Russian-backed separatist throughout this week. [Link] [Link]
- The US has positioned a destroyer off the coast of Yemen. The USS Cole has arrived in the Bab al-Mandab Strait with the official mission of keeping shipping lanes open. [Link]
- In Yemen, al-Qaeda seized three towns this week. The al-Qaeda victories follow the botched US raid on al-Qaeda last weekend. [Link]
- To prove the success of last weekend’s raid in Yemen, the Pentagon released a video they suggested was valuable intelligence recovered in the raid. The Pentagon took the video down after it was discovered the video has been publically available since 2007. The Pentagon then said the purpose of releasing the video was not to prove the success of the raid. [Link]
