Judge sides with Catholic employers on worker’s abortions, fertility care

Bismarck, N.D. — More than 9,000 Catholic employers don’t need to abide by federal regulations protecting workers who seek abortions and fertility treatments under a ruling issued this week by a federal judge in North Dakota. Last year, the Catholic Benefits Association and the Bismarck Diocese sued the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying it

Italy’s Meloni to meet Trump with weight of EU anxiety on her shoulders

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was to meet at the White House on Thursday with President Trump, in what her aides have called a high-stakes “commercial peace mission.” European leaders are hoping Italy’s right-wing premier can position herself as a bridge between the Trump administration and the European Union, which Mr. Trump and his top aides

Bernie Channels His Inner Oligarch on ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour. Plus, A PBS Retrospective As the Trump Admin Mulls Funding Cuts.

Private jets for me but not for thee: Bernie Sanders has spent the last several months crisscrossing the country railing against billionaires on a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. Campaign expenditures released Tuesday and reviewed by the Free Beacon show he’s been like a rich man, too. Sanders’s campaign, our Thomas Catenacci reports, “spent $221,723 chartering private