Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories A federal appeals court on Thursday left in place the freeze on President Donald Trump’s revised entry ban, handing the administration another legal setback in its efforts to block the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries. The broad, decisive ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit means the Trump administration still cannot enforce its travel order that the government says is urgently needed for national security. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. In a 10-to-3 decision, the Richmond, Virginia-based court said the president’s power to deny entry into the United States is not absolute and sided with challengers, finding that the travel ban ‘‘in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination.’’ The president’s authority, the court said, ‘‘cannot go unchecked when, as here, the president wields it through an executive edict that stands to cause irreparable harm to individuals across this nation,’’ according to the majority opinion written by Chief Judge Roger Gregory and joined in part by nine colleagues. The 4th Circuit order leaves in place a nationwide injunction issued in March by U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland, who sided with opponents in finding that the ban violates the Constitution by intentionally discriminating against M... Link to the full article to read more