Trump Signs New Immigration Order: Here’s What We’re Reading

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Here’s what we’re reading today.

1. Administration hopes new immigration ban will end legal challenges

“The new guidelines mark a dramatic departure from Trump’s original ban. They lay out a far more specific national security basis for the order, block the issuance of only new visas, and name just six of the seven countries included in the first executive order, omitting Iraq.”

Washington Post

+1: Trump tells Planned Parenthood its funding can stay if abortion goes – New York Times

+1: Inside Trump’s fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations – Washington Post

+1: Housing Secretary Ben Carson says American slaves were ‘immigrants’ with dreams for their children – Politico

2. Liberals extend military mission in Ukraine by two years

“The Trudeau government is extending Canada’s military deployment in war-ravaged Ukraine by two more years, a training mission that Russia has previously decried as ‘counterproductive and deplorable.’

“It comes as the war in eastern Ukraine between Kiev and Russian-backed separatists has escalated, killing more soldiers and civilians and leaving ceasefire agreements in tatters.”

The Globe and Mail

4. Japan says North Korea just fired four ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan

“Military authorities in South Korea, Japan and the United States all confirmed the launch of four projectiles, which traveled almost 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) towards the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea. One US official said they were intermediate-range missiles.”

CNN

3. Could Ontario Liberals dump Wynne to hold onto Queen’s Park

“Rather than the hoped for hosannas, however, Wynne awoke Saturday to news that disgruntled colleagues may be plotting against her.”

National Post

+1: Kathleen Wynne to call meeting of Ontario mayors to plot strategies for opioid crisis – Toronto Star

5. Digging deep into the only conspiracy Alex Jones doesn’t like

“Deep in the heart of the internet exists a bat-shit theory that annoys the piss out of the Conspiracy King—that he is actually Bill Hicks.”

Vice