Trump figured out that the courts won't go along with what looks like a blanket ban on Muslims, so he decided to include some non-Muslim countries, says Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford

"If peaceful protests did nothing, the powerful wouldn't try so hard to silence them."

According to new research, the fertility rate in Flint, Michigan, dropped significantly in 2014 after the city switched to Flint River water, causing lead poisoning. The authors of the working paper, which has not been peer-reviewed yet, argue that the drop was

Amid tensions over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, 51 countries have signed the world’s first legally binding treaty banning nuclear weapons. It prohibits the development, testing and possession of nuclear weapons,