Politics

• Trump Administration Opens Office to Protect Healthcare Workers' Conscience Rights The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) unveiled a new division Thursday to help ensure healthcare workers can do their jobs without being forced to violate their faith. Jan 19, 2018

  

  Trump Administration Opens Office to Protect Healthcare Workers' Conscience Rights
• Government Shutdown Looms if Lawmakers Can't Agree on Spending Bill A government shutdown could be on the way— the first one in more than four years. Jan 19, 2018

  

  Government Shutdown Looms if Lawmakers Can't Agree on Spending Bill
• Bob Dole Receives Congressional Gold Medal Bob Dole received Congress’s highest civilian honor yesterday. Jan 18, 2018

  

  Bob Dole Receives Congressional Gold Medal
• Salvadorans at Risk of Losing Immigration Status Find Support in Churches When German Fernandez learned last week that the Trump administration plans to end temporary protected status for him and around 200,000 other immigrants from El Salvador, it was a nightmare come true. Jan 17, 2018

  Salvadorans at Risk of Losing Immigration Status Find Support in Churches
• Trump’s Alleged ‘S***hole’ Remark Seems to Discomfit Some of His Evangelical Advisers At least three members of the White House’s informal board of evangelical advisers have distanced themselves from President Trump’s alleged reference to “shithole countries” during talks about immigration reform. Jan 15, 2018

  Trump’s Alleged ‘S***hole’ Remark Seems to Discomfit Some of His Evangelical Advisers
• DACA Madness: How a Federal Judge is Violating the Constitution and Federal Law For the third time in this country’s recent history, a Federal Judge has decided that the Executive Branch cannot do its job. Jan 11, 2018

  DACA Madness: How a Federal Judge is Violating the Constitution and Federal Law
• Federal Judge Rules DACA Must be Reinstated A California federal judge has decided the Trump administration must reinstate former President Barack Obama’s DACA program, which granted amnesty to some illegal immigrants. Jan 10, 2018

  Federal Judge Rules DACA Must be Reinstated
• Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Re-nominated as Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom Trump Administration recommends Brownback for the second time after Senate times out. Jan 09, 2018

  Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Re-nominated as Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom
• Recreational Marijuana: When Legal and Beneficial Aren’t Synonymous We live in a day when the laws of our land don’t necessarily represent what is healthy, moral, or wise. Jan 08, 2018

  Recreational Marijuana: When Legal and Beneficial Aren’t Synonymous
• Oprah's Golden Globes Speech Sparks Rumors of Presidential Run Oprah made a big splash at the Golden Globes last night. Her speech upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement was highly praised, and many even encouraged her to run for president. Jan 08, 2018

  Oprah's Golden Globes Speech Sparks Rumors of Presidential Run