US charges Milwaukee judge with obstructing immigration arrest in Trump crackdown
Washington DC, US Reuters US officials arrested a Wisconsin judge on Friday and charged her with helping a man in her court briefly evade immigration authorities in an escalating dispute between President Donald Trump’s administration and local officials over immigration enforcement. In a criminal complaint, the US Justice Department said Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County […]
US Veterans Affairs asks employees to report ‘anti-Christian bias’ for investigation by new taskforce
Washington DC, US AP The US Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing a taskforce to investigate employee reports of alleged anti-Christian bias among their colleagues, part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to infuse its agenda with religious purpose and champion the rights of Christians. VA Secretary Doug Collins this week sent a rare […]
El Salvador’s Bukele says he will not return man the US mistakenly deported
Washington DC, US Reuters El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on Monday he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the US, suggesting doing so would be like smuggling a terrorist into the country, as he met President Donald Trump at the White House. During the Oval Office meeting, multiple members of […]
Trump officials defend use of wartime law to deport migrants
Washington DC, US Reuters Trump administration officials on Sunday defended their use of extraordinary war powers to deport scores of Venezuelan migrants despite a judge blocking the move and Venezuela denying US officials’ assertions that the deportees were gang members. “It’s modern-day warfare, and we are going to continue to fight that and protect American […]
Trump loosens enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to win or retain business in their countries. Trump’s order pauses enforcement of the nearly half-century-old Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), directs Attorney General […]
Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” and urges “bring God back”
Washington DC, US AP President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the US, announcing that he was forming a taskforce led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians. Speaking at a pair of events in Washington surrounding the the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump said the […]
Hundreds of Capitol rioters released from prison after Trump’s sweeping pardon
Washington DC, US Reuters Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the 6th January, 2021, attack on the US Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new President pardoned more than 1,500 people, including some who assaulted police officers. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said 211 people had […]
Trump cabinet: Top level nominees represent an unusual slice of American religious life
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that Trump’s cabinet selection includes everyone from pastors to Catholic converts to one nominee who credits their spiritual rebirth to a book by a Swiss psychiatrist…
SEX ABUSE SCANDAL: US STATES LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS IN WAKE OF PENNSYLVANIA REPORT INTO CATHOLIC CLERGY ABUSE OF CHILDREN
In this in-depth report, JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at how US states have responded to a “bombshell” report from Pennsylvania which detailed the alleged sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of Catholic priests by launching their own investigations…