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IMAGE: CNS photo/Andrew Gombert, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- With a tie vote June 23, the U.S. SupremeCourt blocked the Obama administration's plan to temporarily protect more than4 million unauthorized immigrants from deportation.The court's4-4 vote leaves in place a lower court injunction blocking the administration'simmigration policy with the one-page opinion stating: "The judgment isaffirmed by an equally divided court."Legal expertshave called it an ambiguous and confusing political and legal decision thatleaves many in a state of limbo. It also puts a lot of attention on the vacantSupreme Court seat that may determine how the case is decided in an appeal.Religious leaders were quick todenounce the court's action as a setback for immigrant families and stressedthe urgency of comprehensive immigration reform.Bishop Oscar Cantu of LasCruces, New Mexico, called the court's decision "a sad ruling" andsaid the president's immigration plan had been "the result of yea...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. John Lewis, who shed blood in Selma for civil rights, sat shoulder to shoulder with fellow Democrats on the House floor as the leader of an extraordinary protest demanding votes on gun control....
DETROIT (AP) -- Volkswagen has agreed to take a series of steps costing about $10.2 billion to settle claims from its unprecedented diesel emissions cheating scandal in the U.S., two people briefed on the matter said Thursday....
DALLAS (AP) -- The arrests this month of two men on charges of groping young girls on planes has raised questions about the safety of minors who fly alone....
HAVANA (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the country's leftist FARC rebels agreed Thursday on a cease-fire and rebel disarmament deal that moves the country to the brink of ending a 52-year war that has left more than 220,000 people dead....
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of gallons of crude oil spilled Thursday from a pipeline and flowed down a ravine in Southern California but did not reach the ocean, officials said....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A judge explained why he found a police driver not guilty in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken on the way to the station: He didn't see any evidence of a crime....
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi commanders are preparing to dislodge Islamic State group fighters from pockets of territory in Fallujah's northern and western neighborhoods where the militants have dug in after largely fleeing their positions in the city center last week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats have ended their 25½-hour sit-in on the chamber's floor that they've been staging to demand votes on gun control....
(Vatican Radio) A commentator for the “Catholic Voices” association in the UK said it’s not just Britons but Catholic too who are split down the middle on the Brexit issue. James Newman, a newly-qualified doctor based in London and part of the Catholic Voices team was speaking to Susy Hodges. His comments came on the eve of Britain’s historic referendum to decide whether the nation leaves or remains in the European Union. Opinion polls in the immediate run-up to the vote had suggested that the ‘Remain’ and ‘Leave’ camps were running neck and neck, with the result too close to call.Listen to the interview with James Newman of the "Catholic Voices" association: Asked whether it will be easy to heal the divisions that the referendum campaign laid bare in British society, Newman says he hopes that happen as he believes “reconciliation” will be needed because “there will be a large number of British vote...
