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IMAGE: CNS photo/Zach Gibson, pool via EPABy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Calling a proposed piece of legislation"discriminatory," the head of the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops' Committee on Migration called on the president and Congress to rejecta bill that seeks to drastically cut legal immigration levels in half over a decade and which also would greatly limit the ability of citizens and legal residentsto bring family into the U.S. Other Catholic groups also called for an end to the legislation."Had this discriminatory legislation been in placegenerations ago, many of the very people who built and defended this nationwould have been excluded," said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas,chair of the bishops' migration committee.In a news release late Aug. 2, he criticized the RAISE Actintroduced earlier in the day by Republican Sens. Tom Cotton, of Arkansas,and David Perdue, of Georgia. In addition to cutting legal immigration, the ReformingAmerican Immigration for a Str...
By WASHINGTON(CNS) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called onPresident Donald Trump to ease the "onerous" contraceptive mandate ofthe Department of Health and Human Services under the Affordable Care Act because it violatesreligious freedom.CardinalDaniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said in an op-ed piece in The Hill Aug.3 that the mandate, which requires most employer-offered health insurance programsto cover contraceptive and abortion-inducing drugs and devices, "hastested this country's commitment to a healthy pluralism."CitingTrump's pledge to ease the mandate during a White House signing ceremony May 4 foran executive order promoting free speech and religious liberty, CardinalDiNardo lamented that after three months no steps have yet been taken to erasethe HHS mandate for organizations that object to it for faith reasons.Religiouscharities, schools and pro-life advocacy organizations, the cardinal wrote,could face millions of dollars in fines ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is revealing a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the Trump campaign, The Associated Press has learned....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump once questioned the wisdom of taking vacations. "What's the point?" he asked....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions took new steps Thursday to punish cities he believes are not cooperating with federal immigration agents in a move that was met with bewilderment by local officials who said they did not know why they were being singled out....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's tweets declaring transgender people unwelcome in the armed forces have plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, sparking a flurry of meetings to devise a new policy that could lead to hundreds of service members being discharged....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A fire broke out after midnight Friday in one of the world's tallest residential towers in Dubai, engulfing part of the skyscraper and sending chunks of debris plummeting below....
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump plans a visit to the increasingly conservative state....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Marcus Hutchins, a young British researcher credited with derailing a global cyberattack in May, was arrested for allegedly creating and distributing malicious software designed to collect bank-account passwords, U.S. authorities said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers scattered for their summer recess Thursday, leaving behind a slim record of achievements and a steaming President Donald Trump. The president is angry about what the Republican-led Congress couldn't do - repeal Obamacare - as well as one of the few things it did: approve a Russia sanctions bill he detests....
