President Trump’s executive order barring refugees and others from seven predominantly Muslim nations further roiled a divided citizenry and immigrant communities here. But his supporters see a campaign promise kept.
A federal appeals court early Sunday rejected a request by Trump officials to immediately restore the travel ban after a Seattle judge blocked it, meaning that refugees and travelers from those seven nations can still enter the United States for now. Above, the daughter of an Iraqi interpreter who helped the U.S. arrived in Boston on Friday on a special visa.
More than 1,000 American diplomats protested Mr. Trump’s executive order. And consumers, meanwhile, lashed out at Uber and Starbucks for their responses to the ban.
2. Mr. Trump also took steps toward loosening regulations on banks and other major financial companies, saying that “so many people, friends of mine that had nice businesses, they can’t borrow money.”
Progress on the president’s cabinet remains limited because of delays with his nominations and their paperwork, as well as Democrats’ slowing some confirmations, sometimes by boycotting committee votes. A huge battle is expected over Mr. Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trump’s nominee to be secretary of education, faces daunting odds after criticism from a wide range of opponents, including two Republican senators. Vice President Mike Pence may have to break a tie in a confirmation vote.
3. But most of Mr. Trump’s national security team is in place.
The former Exxon chief Rex Tillerson won confirmation as secretary of state, with the most votes against a nominee for that position — 43 — in history.
Uproar continues over Mr. Trump’s decision to put his chief political strategist, Stephen Bannon, above, with Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, on the National Security Council, in a role usually reserved for generals
4. Canada mourned the six people killed while praying at a mosque last week in Quebec, immigrants from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Guinea. The suspect is a known right-wing extremist, and the country, long a bastion of multiculturalism, struggled to confront a growing strain of intolerance.
Our special report shows that many terrorist attacks worldwide appear to be “remote-controlled”: ISIS-inspired “lone wolves,” guided by planners in Syria and Iraq via messaging apps.
Separately, an American commando and civilians in Yemen were killed after a chain of mishaps and misjudgments in the first counterterrorism operation authorized by Mr. Trump.
5. Mr. Trump has embraced a deeply suspicious view of Islam that conflates it with terrorist groups, an idea that has long flourished on the far right. And in popular entertainment, too: Witness the villains as the premiere of “24: Legacy” airs on Fox tonight.
In a contrast of tolerance, the White House announced that an Obama administration order that created workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people would remain.
And the Boy Scouts of America said the group would begin accepting members based on the gender listed on their application, while a Texas mayor announced that she’s transgender
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