Real‑time updates on legislation, court rulings, religious freedom cases, and cultural shifts that affect the Church in America.
White House plans order to expand health care options
Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to…
Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom
Posted on Monday, October 9, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued government-wide legal guidance Friday that urges sweeping protection for religious freedom and could impact a series of pending policy decisions involving health care, LGBT rights and even disaster relief.
The FBI’s New U.S. Terrorist Threat: ‘Black Identity Extremists’
Posted on Monday, October 9, 2017
As white supremacists prepared to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, the FBI warned about a new movement that was violent, growing, and racially motivated. Only it wasn’t white supremacists; it was 'black identity extremists.'
Trump unveils new strict 70-point immigration enforcement plan
Posted on Monday, October 9, 2017
Determined to finally solve illegal immigration, the White House submitted a 70-point enforcement plan to Congress Sunday proposing the stiffest reforms ever offered by an administration — including a massive rewrite of the law in order to eliminate…
Tropical depression may strike US coast as hurricane
Posted on Thursday, October 5, 2017
A newly formed tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea could strengthen into a hurricane and move north into the Gulf of Mexico by the weekend, the National Hurricane Center has said.
Russia-Financed Facebook Ads Had Diverse Targets
Posted on Thursday, October 5, 2017
Russia-financed Facebook ads turned over to congressional panels show that Democratic strongholds like California, New York and Maryland were targeted along with the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, according to a Republican official on the House Intelligence…
Trump vows another healthcare vote next year, eyes executive order
Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2017
President Donald Trump, faced with the latest Republican failure to undo Obamacare, pledged on Wednesday to tackle it again next year, suggesting without evidence that he had the votes to pass reform and promising to work with Democrats…
Senate GOP shelves Obamacare repeal
Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Senate leaders on Tuesday canceled plans to vote on an Obamacare repeal this week, marking a third straight failure for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and fellow Republicans who have been unable to fulfill their campaign promise.
