The American Civil Liberties Union announced plans to sue the White House over President Biden's new executive order that would close off access to asylum when border numbers surge. Why it matters: The organization signaled its plans to sue even before Biden signed the order, demonstrating how fierce opposition to the move will be. "We intend to sue. A ban on asylum is illegal just as it was when Trump unsuccessfully tried it," Lee Gelernt, who successfully argued a similar challenge...

The U.S. House on Tuesday passed a Republican-led bill that would impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court after its top prosecutor recommended war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The legislation passed in a 247 to 155 vote. Forty-two Democrats crossed party lines to help Republicans pass the bill despite opposition from the White House. The Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, led by Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy, would require mandatory...

President Joe Biden said the 2024 presidential race was now in “uncharted territory” and called Donald Trump a “convicted felon” in harsh remarks at a campaign event on Monday, a signal the historic verdict will soon play center stage on both sides of the campaign trail. “Folks, the campaign entered uncharted territory last week,” Biden said at a reception in Greenwich, Connecticut. “For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the...

Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back on former President Donald Trump's claim that the Department of Justice (DOJ) authorized his assassination during the search of his Mar-a-Lago property, calling Trump's comments "false." Asked by the House Judiciary Committee ranking member Representative Jerry Nadler if Trump was telling the truth about the DOJ, Garland responded, "The allegation is not true." Garland, who appeared before the panel on Tuesday, called Trump's claim "dangerous"...

High-profile school shootings, and the fear they spread, are shaping how architects design the modern American school. The safety features, some required by state law, include measures meant to keep armed perpetrators out and to help first responders.  “The typical challenge is to have the building seem very welcoming and yet at the same point not penetrable,” said Jerry Lammers, principal of Alamo Architects in San Antonio. But he and other architects also embrace open interior...

The United Methodist Church has lost more than 1 million members over new rules on premarital sex and homosexuality. The United Methodist Church in the Ivory Coast in West Africa announced its decision to leave the denomination after delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted 692-51 during the General Conference in Charlotte,...

Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy berated Attorney General Merrick Garland Tuesday over illegal immigrants allegedly murdering Americans under President Joe Biden’s administration. The Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against three red states, including Texas, for enacting laws that empower police to enforce immigration rules. Roy asked Garland during a House Judiciary Committee hearing if Texas has a right to defend itself against illegal immigrants, especially in light of alleged...

Hunter Biden’s attorney told jurors during opening statements at the first son’s trial Tuesday that Biden was in denial about his drug addiction in 2018. Abbe Lowell, who is leading Biden’s defense, argued his client could not be guilty of lying on a federal form about his addiction so that he could purchase a gun because Biden did not consider himself an addict at the time. Prosecutors “left out the word ‘knowingly’” when they detailed Biden’s charges, Lowell said at the start of his...

Former President Donald Trump ripped into President Joe Biden on Monday over his handling of illegal immigration after an illegal immigrant from Venezuela allegedly shot two New York cops.  Trump said that Biden had enabled a wave of crime from illegal immigrants that was endangering the public. His comments came after police said that 19-year-old Bernardo Raul Castro-Mata shot officers Christopher Abreu, and Richard Yarusso after they attempted to question him about a robbery....

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