Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including Hawaii’s attorney general filing an emergency motion Thursday asking a federal judge to clarify the scope of an injunction he placed on President Donald Trump’s travel ban in March;drought continues to plague much of South Dakota, as ranchers struggle to feed their herds and government steps in to offer relief;new climate-change research predicts increased income inequality in the United States, with poor states in the Southeast and Midwest facing severe economic damage, while richer areas could stand to benefit, and more.

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While activists and lawyers at the table at right offer help and information, Hanadi Al-Haj prays in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport as she waits for her Yemeni mother to arrive from Jordan via Istanbul, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. The Trump administration's travel ban temporarily barring some citizens of six majority-Muslim countries from coming to the United States in now in place. The ban is entering into force because of a Supreme Court opinion this week. The new rules stop people from Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Iran and Libya from getting a visa to the United States unless they have a "bona fide" relationship with a close relative, school or business in the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

**1.) In National news Hawaii’s attorney general filed an emergency motion Thursday asking a federal judge to clarify the scope of an injunction he placed on President Donald Trump’s travel ban in March.

In this Nov. 20, 2016, file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, right, holds a stack of papers as he meets with then President-elect Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

2.) President Donald Trump’s commission on election integrity rolled into motion this week, prompting vice chair of the commission, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, to send letters to all 50 states asking for extensive information on every registered American voter dating back to 2006.

4.) The Port of Portland violated the First Amendment when it barred an environmental group’s ad at the Portland airport: “Welcome to Oregon – Home of the Clearcut,” the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled.

A winter pasture in Bison, S.D., baled early to feed cattle. [photo credit: Christopher Vondracek]

5.) Drought continues to plague much of South Dakota, as ranchers struggle to feed their herds and government steps in to offer relief.

6.) Conservation groups brought a federal complaint Thursday over the tide of raw sewage befouling New York City shorelines thanks to outdated sewer systems.

7.) A federal judge in Indiana issued an injunction against a new state law that would allow judges to alert the parents of minors seeking an abortion, even if the minor has been deemed mature enough by a court to make her own choice.

**8.) In Research news new climate-change research predicts increased income inequality in the United States, with poor states in the Southeast and Midwest facing severe economic damage, while richer areas could stand to benefit.

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