Trump DOJ appointee Thomas Albus tapped to lead Fulton County search warrant fight

The Justice Department has installed a Missouri-based U.S. prosecutor to head the Trump administration’s election probe in Fulton County, Georgia, according to recent court records, marking the latest instance in which an out-of-state prosecutor has been tasked with a leading role in a politically charged case. The involvement of Thomas Albus, U.S. attorney for the … Read more

Shutdown clock ticks as Schumer, Democrats dig in on DHS funding demands

Senate Democrats aren’t ready to concede in their push for stringent reforms to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and are ready to buck Senate Republicans’ plans to avert a partial shutdown.  Their resistance comes as Senate Republicans and the White House have floated a counteroffer to Democrats’ proposed DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement … Read more

Trump to repeal ruling allowing regulation of planet-heating gases

Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO2 and other greenhouse gases harm health In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters. “President … Read more

Democrats split on shielding Coast Guard, Secret Service as DHS shutdown threat nears

Democrats are split on whether to spare the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other agencies from the possibility of a government shutdown as lawmakers remain gridlocked over Democrats’ demands for funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The lawless, reckless people who are marauding bands wild on our street — to hell with that,” … Read more

New Orleans archbishop meets with survivors of clergy sexual abuse

Series of meetings is mandated by $305m settlement agreement for 600 survivors of decades-long abuse scandal A small number of victims of New Orleans’ Catholic clergy abuse scandal filed into a local church office recently for the first of 10 group meetings with Archbishop Gregory Aymond. The New Orleans archdiocese agreed to the meetings as … Read more