Three News Stories You Should Read Today – 2/26/2018
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Syria conflict: Putin orders Eastern Ghouta ‘humanitarian pause’
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has ordered a daily pause in the assault by its ally, the Syrian government, on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area.
It will start on Tuesday, and include the creation of a “humanitarian corridor” to allow civilians to leave.
The rebel enclave near Damascus, where 393,000 civilians are trapped, has been under intense bombardment by government forces with Russian support.
More than 550 people have been killed in eight days, a monitoring group says.
The Supreme Court may have just kept DACA on life support for several more months
The judicial battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected 690,000 young unauthorized immigrants from deportation, has just been extended by several months.
On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a highly unusual request from the Trump administration: to skip over the second level of the federal court process (the courts of appeals) by having the Supreme Court consider an order made in January by a California district court judge.
5 things Congress could do on guns
Washington (CNN) The issue of gun control always comes up in Congress after a mass shooting in the US — but there haven’t been any major gun reform laws in more than two decades.
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