Politics
Clergy seek court order to allow pastoral access to immigrants held at Minneapolis ICE facility
Protestant and Catholic clergy are asking a federal judge to order that they be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump...
Iran war underscores risks of Trump's relentless focus on oil
When President Trump returned to office last year, he launched a crusade to shift the country away from renewable energy, drastically undoing the climate-friendly policies of his Democratic predecessor...
Illinois Lt. Gov Juliana Stratton wins Democratic primary for U.S. Senate
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won Tuesday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, edging out two sitting members of the U.S. House to advance to a November general election against...
Thune ready to move SAVE Act forward in Senate
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is expected Tuesday to take steps to move forward for the long haul to attempt to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America...
CEOs of top airlines demand Congress restore funding to Homeland Security and pay airport workers
The CEOs of the nation's top airline companies, including American, Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a...
U.S. energy secretary directs oil company to restore operations off California
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed a Texas-based oil and gas company Friday to restore operations in waters off southern California that were damaged by a 2015 oil spill,...
White House teases solutions to fertilizer crisis sparked by Iran war
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Friday that a bailout and other fixes under consideration for farmers struggling because of the fertilizer shortage sparked by the joint U.S.-Israel war against...
U.N. commission scolds Trump over 'racist' immigration enforcement surge
A U.N. human rights commission has issued an "urgent action" alert to the Trump administration warning that it has deported too many people, and citing it for "racial profiling...
Virginia's former first lady to run for Congress in newly drawn district
There could be another McAuliffe representing Virginia soon. Source link
Democrats threaten to derail Senate business until Republicans hold public hearings on Iran war
At least a half-dozen Senate Democrats are threatening to force repetitive votes on war powers resolutions and use other tools of the minority party to gum up the works...
