| President Trump's travel ban (reprise) | | Time for a redo. A scaled-back version of President Trump's travel ban to six majority Muslim countries goes into effect at 8 p.m. ET Thursday — the second time the Trump administration has banned travel, but this time around, the limited version has the Supreme Court's blessing for now. Regardless of your views on the ban, you can expect much less chaos this time around as far fewer travelers will be affected under the watered down version. However, without a "bona fide relationship" with a U.S. person or entity, "close" enough relatives — for example, a mother or spouse is close enough but an aunt or fiancée isn't — or a few other specific requirements, travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen will not be allowed in. | | GOP begs Trump: 'Please just stop' on Twitter | | We've seen it before: President Trump feels attacked, so Trump
fires back via Twitter. But as swift as his insults were tapped out on Thursday, the backlash came quickly, too. Trump tweeted crude barbs at MSNBC's Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, including one referencing Brzezinski's face "bleeding" from a face lift. (This wasn't the first time Trump equated women and blood.) In response, Brzezinski tweeted a photo referencing "little hands." Trying to keep things civil, House Speaker Paul Ryan, three GOP senators and a GOP congresswoman condemned Trump's tweets. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska kept it simple: "Please just stop." | | Meanwhile, Americans increasingly see Washington as wilting. A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll found: | | • | 42% of Americans feel "alarmed" by how things are going in The Swamp; | | • | 33% feel "uneasy"; and | | • | just 11% said "excited." | | | Sessions says Justice Department will look at transgender killings | | The LGBTQ community knows this all too well: "With increased visibility comes increased vulnerability." More Americans say they know someone who's transgender, but more trans people are also being attacked — and 14 have been killed so far in 2017. Now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is stepping in. On Thursday, he said he has directed federal authorities to review the rash of recent murders, which have steadily climbed over three years. That appeared to be prompted by a letter from six Democratic lawmakers, who said no federal hate crime prosecutions resulted from transgender murders from 2013 to 2015. | | YouTube stunt turns into manslaughter charge | | A shot fired from a foot a way, a bullet through a book and a family left devastated. YouTube star Monalisa Perez was charged with manslaughter after a YouTube stunt with her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz III went horribly wrong and left the 22-year-old man dead. The setup was dangerous. Ruiz would hold a book in front of his chest and Perez would fire a gun at it. "His idea, not mine," she tweeted. Ruiz assumed the shot wouldn't go through the book because a previous book he'd fired at blocked the bullet, Perez told authorities, but the couple's 3-year-old and baby on the way are now without their father. | | This is a compilation of stories from across USA TODAY. | |
