- The Trump administration is imposing new screening and interviews on travelers coming into the US. American citizens are subject to the searches and interviews. [Link]
- Inmates in an Oregon prison are not given clean dishware. [Link]
- New York will ban vaping in indoor public places. [Link]
- Some of the JFK assassination documents were released. Trump blocked the release of some of the documents. [Link]
- Twitter banned Russia Today and Spudnik News from running ads. [Link]
- The city of Chicago will pay out $44.7 million to a man who was shooting the head by a Chicago police officer. [Link]
- A majority of Republicans favor legalizing marijuana. [Link]
- Trump has declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. [Link]
- Vice President Pence said the US will provide more aid and protection to Christians living in the Middle East. [Link]
- Senator Chris Murphy will introduce a bill to prevent Trump from attacking North Korea without Congressional approval. [Link]
- Peter Van Buren argues mutually assured destruction will prevent war between the US and North Korea. [Link]
- Nick Turse lays out the history of US interventionism in Niger. [Link]
- Trump says China is helping the US in North Korea and Russia is hurting American efforts. [Link]
- The Catalan Parliment will vote on declaring independence. [Link]
- The Iraqi army has announced they are attacking Islamic State targets on the border with Syria. Peshmerga forces are reporting they are being attacked by the Iraqi army as well. [Link]
- Turkey and Iraq say the Kurds freezing their independence referendum isn’t good enough. [Link]
- Tillerson says Assad is on his way out in Syria. [Link]
