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Legal residents holding green cards will now be allowed legal entry into the United States. In an apparent attempt to reach a realistic compromise on President Trump's executive orders concerning immigration from countries compromised by terrorism, Secretary John Kelly from the Department of Homeland Security issued the following statement:

In applying the provisions of the president's executive order, I hereby deem the entry of lawful permanent residents to be in the national interest.

Update: as of 9:30pm ET, Delta said in an advisory that the ground stop has been lifted.

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One week after United Continental was forced to ground its flights for nearly three hours due to a computer failure, on Sunday around 7pm Eastern, Delta Air Lines - the second-largest US airline  - halted all U.S. flights because of another technology glitch.

Can confirm. Stuck on the tarmac at MSP ???? https://t.co/xSOvNIql6U

Submitted by Wayne Madsen via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Although multi-billionaire hedge fund tycoon and international political pot-stirrer George Soros lost big with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the victory of the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom, he stands to lose further ground, politically and financially, as the winds of political change sweep across the globe.

While we remain in the purely abstract, theoretical and hypothetical realm of Trump tax reform - there have been no concrete proposals floated yet, with Trump as recently as a week ago slamming the critical border-adjustment tax, only to full reverse himself on it just a few days later - Bank of America has created a useful matrix taking a deep dive into the potential (and we do underline the word potential, because at this rate Trump may spend much of his first year dealing with immigration reform and Obamacare) implications of Trump's tax reform.

Britain along with the US, France and Australia are about to start war games in the Persian Gulf where they will be simulating a confrontation with Iran. The British Royal Navy will be leading the drill called exercise Unified Trident. The show of force will involve the Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean and Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring,  along with the US warships USS Hopper and USS Mahan, French anti-aircraft frigate FS Forbin, and Australian forces. Sputnik news reports: It will be held off the coast of Bahrain from January 31 to February 2.