Trump administration sued by religious groups over immigration arrests policy

More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship. The lawsuit, filed in

Judge orders HHS, CDC, FDA to restore deleted webpages with health information

CDC staff ordered to stop working with WHO CDC staff told to stop communications with WHO after Trump’s executive order 02:31 Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration to restore webpages and data that had been

U.S. border czar shrugs off Pope Francis’ condemnation of deportations

Rome — President Trump’s U.S. border czar Tom Homan lashed out Tuesday at Pope Francis after the leader of the Catholic Church strongly criticized the mass deportation of migrants that Mr. Trump has initiated in his second term. In an open letter to U.S. Catholic bishops sent Tuesday, the Argentinian pope criticized Mr. Trump’s mass deportation

House GOP to move forward with budget plan as Senate pursues competing proposal

Washington — Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that House Republicans expect to move forward on a budget plan later this week that lays a foundation for approving President Trump’s agenda, though a budget resolution has yet to be released.   “We’ll be rolling out the details of that probably by tonight,” Johnson said at a