GERD is still giving us GERD: Officials from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia meet in Addis Ababa today to chew over the environmental impact of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (or GERD, as it’s known). It’s the latest development in shuttle diplomacy on an issue that could have deep, long-term impact on downstream nations — us in particular.

Federal judge pulls the plug on Trump’s third travel ban a day before it was meant to come into effect: A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide ruling on Tuesday that will “prevent the Trump administration from stopping almost all travel to the US indefinitely from most of the countries named in the ban,” the NYT reports. The verdict came one day before the third iteration of the ban was set to take effect, stating that it “‘suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor,’” as it violates the US constitution with its “plain” nationality-based discrimination. The ban targets individuals from Muslim-majority nations.