Rubio orders freeze of new funding for nearly all U.S. foreign aid programs

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sent an order to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts instructing a pause on “all new obligations of funding, pending a review, for foreign assistance programs funded by or through the Department and USAID.” The message was in line with the executive order President Trump signed on Monday to reevaluate

Federal judge, prosecutors battle over Oath Keepers’ access to Capitol

The federal judge who presided over the seditious conspiracy trial of far-right Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is locked in a battle with Washington, D.C.’s new interim top federal prosecutor over whether Rhodes and his co-defendants should be allowed into Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Capitol following President Trump’s commutation of their sentences.  District Court

Supreme Court to weigh approval for 1st publicly funded religious charter school

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case on whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision invalidating a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a

DOJ limits enforcement of law protecting reproductive health centers

The Trump administration has directed federal prosecutors to limit enforcement of a federal law safeguarding abortion centers, reproductive health centers and pregnancy resource centers, calling the Biden administration’s previous use of longstanding protection “the prototypical example” of weaponization of the federal government.  A new Department Justice memo issued Friday and obtained by CBS News focuses

DOJ limits enforcement of FACE Act violations, pauses abortion-related actions

Federal prosecutors have been directed to limit their enforcement of a federal law that protects abortion centers, reproductive health centers and pregnancy resource centers to violations presenting “extraordinary circumstances” or in instances when death, extreme bodily harm or significant property damage result, according to a new Department of Justice memo issued Friday and obtained by