Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in 2015. (AP)
The former archbishop of Washington is the most senior church official in modern times to lose his priestly rights. In a short statement, the Vatican said a canonical process had found McCarrick guilty of two charges: soliciting sex during Confession, and committing “sins” with minors and adults.
A gunman at a warehouse inflicted multiple casualties, including several police officers. The suspect, identified as Gary Martin, 45, was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police, officials said.
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.
It’s unclear whether the most vocal critics of the move will risk the ire of the president’s base by standing up against it.
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.
The last Dollar General store to open before a moratorium took effect in Tulsa. (Shane Bevel for The Post)
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.
Spaceflight changes gene expression and poses radiation hazard but NASA sees no showstoppers as it dreams of a Mars mission
Local officials say they are pressed to maintain secrecy to lure powerful tech companies that wish to avoid controversies and keep details about their operations under wraps.
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