The former archbishop of Washington is the most senior church official in modern times to lose his priestly rights. The Vatican said a canonical process had found McCarrick guilty of two charges: soliciting sex during Confession and committing “sins” with minors and adults.
The emergency declaration followed months of intense internal deliberations between the White House Counsel’s Office, Justice Department, Office of Management and Budget, lawmakers and the president.
Funding for the border wall represents a clash between presidential authority and Congress’s power of the purse.
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In a sentencing memo, prosecutors note that sentencing guidelines call for the former Trump campaign chairman to spend 19 to 24 years in prison for tax and bank fraud convictions.
It was only a matter of time before right-wing trolls went after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s love life.
Even though it’s in his hometown, President Trump may find it hard to boot Venezuelan diplomats from the United Nations.
With just five hours till polls opened, an official announcement delayed voting by at least a week.
In cities, the stores trade in economic despair, with many residents saying they are a vital source of cheap staples. But as they cluster in low-income neighborhoods, some see a steep downside.
Self-styled “auditors” roam into suburbs and small towns to test their constitutional rights and see how police react to a camera lens. On Thursday, a security guard shot a YouTube personality near Los Angeles as the confrontation was live-streamed to thousands of followers.
Today’s emotional rhetoric has parallels to another politically volatile period in the early 1990s.
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