In July, Joshua Payne-Elliott filed a lawsuit against his former employer, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, claiming the Dioceses “illegally interfered with his contractual and employment relationship with Cathedral High School.” Mr. Payne-Elliot is gay and MORE
In a big F U to the Trump administration, New Mexico and Minnesota will join 10 other states “in adopting both of California’s tough rules on tailpipe emissions and zero-emission vehicles.” At this point, more MORE
After revoking California’s ‘tailpipe waiver,’ the Trump administration has threatened to cut-off highway funds to the state unless they “rapidly address a decades-long backlog of state-level pollution control plans.” Andrew Wheeler, the head of the Environmental MORE
Beginning next week, the Trump administration will effectively end “catch and release”practice within immigration enforcement next week. “With some humanitarian and medical exceptions, DHS will no longer be releasing family units from Border Patrol Stations MORE
The Trump administration has reached an accord that could allow the United States to turn away asylum seekers at the U.S. border and send them to El Salvador to seek refuge MORE
Under the Trump administration’s Safer, Affordable, Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule, the Department of Transportation and EPA announced their new policy called, “One National Program Rule,” which grants the federal government sole authority in setting car MORE
That’s right POTUS announced what he will do — not immediately in this tweet, but sometime later…but real soon In a tweet, Trump announced he chose Robert C. O’Brien as his new National Security MORE
Tennessee wants to turn their current Medicaid program into an unprecedented, “limited, block grant–type model;” something that conservatives have dreamed about doing since the program’s inception. Tennessee will have to submit their proposal to the MORE
The Defense Department is no longer moving forward with three border barrier projects in California and Arizona, according to a court filing Monday. The move is reversal of an earlier Pentagon authorization for about 20 MORE
Roee and Adiel Kiviti, a same-sex couple from Maryland, are suing the State Department over its refusal to grant birthright citizenship to their infant daughter, Kessem, who was born via surrogacy in Canada. The fathers MORE
With a few weeks left in the fiscal year, the U.S. budget deficit widened to $1.067 trillion for the first 11 months of the fiscal year, an increase of 19% over this time last year, MORE
he Trump administration on Thursday is expected to complete the legal repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation, which had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and water bodies. MORE
The United States will not give temporary protected immigration status to people from the Bahamas who evacuated after the archipelago was battered by a Category 5 hurricane, the White House said on Wednesday. “The Bahamians MORE
Trump denied that the White House pressured National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) into falsely issuing a statement that National Weather Service (NWS) was wrong in its Hurricane Dorian forecast. He told reporters today: “No MORE
A follow-up to a current News Views article: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can “refuse to consider a request for asylum from anyone who failed to apply for it in another MORE
The Trump administration is preparing to ban flavored e-cigarettes as federal health officials call for restrictions to combat an outbreak of a mysterious lung disease that has sickened hundreds and killed at least six people, MORE
For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, have borne the brunt of the country’s war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division and from Special Operations units deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. MORE
An aid to VP Pence confirmed that he and AG Barr talked at great length about the recent incidents of gun violence and how to curtail them. One of the measures the administration plans to MORE
Confined to a 13-by-7-foot concrete cell for 23 hours a day, Romero — who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia — spent his final days battling the voices in his head. Nearing the end of his MORE
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to announce on Thursday that it intends to sharply curtail the regulation of methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change, according to an industry official with knowledge MORE
California Governor Gavin Newsom and AG Xavier Bacerra announced another laws against the Trump administration “challenging a new rule that allows indefinite detention of migrant children and their families.” “No child deserves to be left MORE
In another incident proving the Trump administration’s incompetency, AG William Barr’s DoJ sent an email to immigration court employees but “included a link to a white nationalist website.” The email provided information on immigration news MORE
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration unveiled a regulation on Wednesday that would allow it to detain indefinitely migrant families who cross the border illegally, replacing a decades-old court agreement that limited how long the government could hold migrant children in custody and mandated the level of care they must receive. MORE
From our friends at DemocraticUnderground comes this apt comparison between sane energy/infrastructure policy and bull-goose looney. No extra credit for figuring out which is which. MORE
A coalition of 29 states and cities on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants. The move could ultimately limit how much leverage MORE